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Fringe Is Almost Done
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:51 pm
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Joshua Jackson told SCI FI Wire that he has about a week of filming left on his Fox SF pilot Fringe, created by J.J. Abrams.
"We're actually almost finished," Jackson said in an interview earlier this week. "We have about a week and a half left."
The two-hour pilot revolves around a female FBI agent (Anna Tory) who confronts paranormal activity and tries to stop the spread of unexplained phenomena. Jackson plays Peter Bishop, a high-school dropout and misfit with a high IQ, who teams up with Tory's character.
"It's the science side of science fiction, so it takes the physical world that we live in and then sort of goes just past that edge," Jackson said.
But Jackson avoided comparing the proposed series with another Fox show, The X-Files, despite the obvious similarities. "The X-Files are slightly outside the rest of our experience," he said. "Fringe takes the world that we all live in and says, 'All right, so what you know about this cup you don't actually know, because if you look at it from over here, it's something entirely different.' And that will be the thrust of the show: that the physical world that we live in, without the addition of any magic or any supernatural, is far more than we all see it as being."
Jackson was enthusiastic about the pilot, which was written by Abrams' longtime collaborators, Transformers writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci. "It's an incredibly, incredibly dense two-hour pilot, the likes of which you don't [see in TV]," he said. "Well, frankly, you don't see it in film either, but you really don't see it in television. It's really, really layered to give you the possibility for just about anything to happen from here on out. So that got me into it."
Jackson added that his character isn't the type normally seen on television. "Usually, if you're smart, you are inert," he said. "And if you are capable, you are a moron. Well, this character is a smart, capable person. He puts the two together, which is unfortunately not often the case. You hire the lunkhead guy to go do the stuff, and the guy with the glasses to go figure the stuff out."
Jackson added that the show will go beyond the expected. "If you can dream it, we can do it on Fringe, because nothing is taboo," he said. "Is there is any semblanc
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