{"id":793,"date":"2000-07-18T19:38:33","date_gmt":"2000-07-18T17:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/?p=793"},"modified":"2015-05-08T11:29:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-08T09:29:00","slug":"scifi-speaks-with-jonathan-frakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/2000\/07\/scifi-speaks-with-jonathan-frakes\/","title":{"rendered":"SciFi Speaks With Jonathan Frakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Joanathan Frakes: on Roswell&#8217;s success and the surprises in store<br \/>\nBy Melissa Perenson<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;ll forever be known as Number One to generations of Star Trek: The Next Generation viewers&#8211;but actor Jonathan Frakes has branched out to other genre franchises. His successful post-Trek directing and producing career now includes the WB&#8217;s Roswell, which returns for its sophomore season this fall. The series explores the angst and antics of three survivors of the Roswell, N.M. crash of &#8217;47. When we last saw local Roswell high-schooler Liz (Shiri Appleby) and aliens Max (Jason Behr), Isabel (Katherine Heigl) and Michael (Brendan Fehr), the group had opened up a Pandora&#8217;s box on the aliens&#8217; past. That&#8217;s something Frakes promises will be explored in more detail this coming season.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, even as Frakes continues as an executive producer on Roswell&#8217;s second season, he&#8217;s readying a genre feature film, Clockstoppers, that he&#8217;ll direct for Paramount. His duties on that film may limit his opportunities to direct future episodes of Roswell (he directed three in the series&#8217; first season). Plus, Frakes is closely following the talks for a tenth Star Trek movie, which he says could be ready by winter 2001.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Were you taken aback by the support Roswell received from the fans at the end of the season, right down to the Tabasco sauce campaign?<\/strong><br \/>\nFrakes: I thought that was great. I wasn&#8217;t surprised, because I know that there&#8217;s been that kind of loyalty about Star Trek, historically, certainly in the original seasons; the original series was picked up partially because of fan support. So I was a cousin to that kind of phenomenon. I must say I was thrilled that that happened for Roswell; that was kind of a treat.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To read the rest of the interview, go <s>here<\/s>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanathan Frakes: on Roswell&#8217;s success and the surprises in store By Melissa Perenson He&#8217;ll forever be known as Number One<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2210,2393,5],"tags":[70,82],"coauthors":[2273],"class_list":["post-793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors-directors","category-jonathan-frakes","category-roswell","tag-interview","tag-jonathan-frakes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28228,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/28228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=793"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crashdown.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}