Bermuda Triangle - Gateway to Another Time
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| German title | Bermuda Triangle - Gateway to Another Time |
| Original title | The triangle |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 244 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Craig R. Baxley |
| script | Bryan Singer , Dean Devlin , Rockne S. O'Bannon |
| production | Bryan Singer, Dean Devlin, Alex Garcia , Rockne S. O'Bannon |
| music | Joseph LoDuca |
| camera | David Connell |
| cut | Sonny Baskin |
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Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time (original title The Triangle ) is an American - British mystery thriller by Craig R. Baxley , which was created as a miniseries for the SciFi Channel and deals with the myth of the Bermuda Triangle . The main roles are played by Eric Stoltz , Catherine Bell , Lou Diamond Phillips , Bruce Davison and Michael E. Rodgers as well as Sam Neill and Lisa Brenner .
The script was written by Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin and contains three episodes in one season.
action
Billionaire Eric Benerall wants to find out what the disappearance of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle is all about . Therefore, he puts together a team that is supposed to go there by ship. Among them are the skeptical tabloid journalist Howard Gregory Thomas, the engineer and deep-sea expert Emily Meredith Patterson, the cool scientist Bruce Geller and the parapsychologist Stan Lathem. Benerall made them an offer so financially irresistible that none of them could refuse. Together they should find answers to questions that many people have been asking for a long time. Benerall is also worried about his brother, who disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle, which the billionaire has no peace of mind.
After Emily, Bruce, Howard, and Stan's submarine sank, they discover a secret military base. The four are captured, but then released on a beach. All four hallucinations accumulate in the following periods . They try to do research with the means at their disposal that will take them one step forward. But neither Stan and Howard's illegal investigations nor Emily and Bruce's laboratory tests get them any further. During their investigations, the four discover a crashed airliner, but without discovering a trace of the passengers on board. They can only track down a 6-year-old girl in a compartment of the plane, who looks like an old woman within a few hours, but shows an age-appropriate mental development. Slowly the group begins to doubt their own sanity.
They also meet the Greenpeace activist Meeno Paloma, who leads his very own, personally motivated fight against the demons that have plagued him since his fatal contact with the Bermuda Triangle. Paloma is the only survivor of a ship that disappeared in the Bermuda Triangle. Ghostly figures, corpses that are disappearing, alternative realities and conspiracy theories abound in this place. On his return home, Paloma found himself in a reality where he no longer recognized his wife, as did his alleged child.
Then, however, they take the findings of the former scientist Karl Sheedy, who has speculated about what could be responsible for the events in the Bermuda Triangle, a step further. It seems more than likely that the incidents so far only herald a much larger calamity. The world's existence seems threatened. Nothing helps, you have to go back to the place from which the disaster will take its course in order to perhaps prevent it after all. Bruce is pretty sure by now that massive magnetic currents are coming out of the area and causing space-time distortions. As further investigations are prohibited by the US Navy, the four other ways have to find an obvious cover-up of the events in the Bermuda Triangle. They find evidence that a Navy experiment may have caused a time rift, which explains the disappearance of ships in the area. When Bruce learns that the Navy is planning to reverse the rift, Bruce is confident that those efforts will be disastrous.
Who will survive to tell the story of another timeline? And in fact Howard Thomas manages to travel back in time, where he desperately tries to stop the events that have occurred. As a result, the Bermuda Triangle is completely eliminated and a timeline in which it no longer exists.
production
Filming, budget
It is a production by Bad Hat Harry Productions in cooperation with the BBC as well as Electric Entertainment and Uncharted Territory GmbH. The film was shot in Cape Town and in the Western Cape Province in South Africa as well as on the Seven Mile Bridge , which lies between the islands of Vaca Key in the city of Marathon and Bahia Honda in Florida , and within the island chain of the Florida Keys . The film was also shot in the Waterfront Studios in Cape Town.
The film had a budget of $ 22 million.
background
Bruce Davison worked with producer Bryan Singer on the comic book version X-Men and later with Dean Devlin on the adventure film The Quest - The Curse of Judas Goblet . Lisa Brenner, who plays Lou Diamond Phillips' wife on the series, has been married to Devlin since 2003. Former star Charles Martin Smithm, who can be seen in a supporting role, appeared in American Graffiti in 1973 and in the 1987 cinema classic The Untouchables .
Dean Devlin said in an interview that there were 800 digital effects in the miniseries, created by the same Academy Award-winning team that created the special effects in the 1996 film Independence Day .
The Bermuda Triangle , also known as the Devil's Triangle, is a sea area in the Atlantic North of the Caribbean lying roughly between South Florida , Puerto Rico and Bermuda . As a result of actual or supposed ship and aircraft disasters, there was a mysterious reputation that ships or planes were disappearing there. An inspiration for authors, which led to sometimes bizarre attempts at explanations and was also reflected in numerous films.
synchronization
The film was edited by the dubbing company Cinephon Filmproduktions GmbH in Berlin; Ulli Kinalzik was responsible for the script and the dialogue .
reception
Publication, success
The science fiction miniseries was released on December 5, 2005 in the United States and on May 22, 2007 in Germany as direct-to-DVD , published by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment.
In 2006 it was released in Spain, Australia, Israel, the United Kingdom, Hungary and Finland (DVD premiere), in Italy, Japan, Sweden and France and in June 2008 in the Netherlands. The series was also released in Bulgaria, Brazil, Greece, Portugal, Serbia, Russia and Turkey. The long title in the US is Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin Presents The Triangle .
When it was first broadcast in 2005, the series achieved ratings records for the SciFi channel and has received various awards.
criticism
TV Spielfilm was of the opinion: "As soon as it becomes clear that there is more to it than just missing ships, the TV film turns into an insanely gripping thriller." Conclusion: "It really gets going after a few miles."
Prisma spoke of a “tense, well-played two-part TV series”. Although "the script by Dean Devlin [...] and Rockne S. O'Bannon [...] is not always logical", it does "not detract from the tension". The "successful visual effects" were highlighted.
On the Horror.com site it was read that the tension never let up, which is a testament to the talent of director Craig R. Baxley. Even the opening sequence is impressive and presents a successful, gripping and chilled scene that is just a prelude to a rapid thrill ride in the style of TV thrillers like Surface and The X-Files .
Also Sci-Fi Movie Page praised the opening sequence, but spoke of a disappointing end. Still, The Triangle offers some really interesting sci-fi ideas along the way that sci-fi fans might find fascinating. It's just a shame that these ideas are never developed further, which is surprising since Bryan Singer and Dean Devlin were involved in projects such as Superman Returns , X-Men and Independence Day .
Awards
- 2006: Saturn Award in the "Best TV Presentation" category
- 2006: Primetime Emmy Award in the "Outstanding Special Effects" category
- 2006: Nomination for a Saturn Award for Sam Neill and Catherine Bell in the category "Best Supporting Actor on TV"
- 2006: Nomination for the Primetime Emmy in the category "Outstanding Main Title Design"
- 2006: Nomination for the Artios Award of the Casting Society of America in the category "Best Casting for a Miniseries" (Janet Gilmore, Megan McConnell)
- 2006: Nomination for the Golden Reel Award of the Motion Picture Sound Editors in the category "Best sound editing of a long musical number for television" (Jason Ruder, Music Director)
- 2006: Nomination for the OFTA Television Award of the Online Film & Television Association in the category "Best Miniseries"
Web links
- Bermuda Triangle - gateway to another time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bermuda Triangle - Gateway to Another Time in the online movie database
- Bermuda triangle - gateway to another world sS fernsehserien.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time in the German Synchronized File
- ↑ Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time Fig. DVD case
- ↑ Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time sS tvspielfilm.de. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ↑ Bermuda Triangle - Gate to Another Time see prisma.de. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ↑ The Triangle sS horror.com (English). Retrieved August 14, 2018.
- ↑ The Triangle sS scifimoviepage.com (English). Retrieved August 14, 2018.
