Beyond Loch Ness Interview(2008)

Beyond Loch Ness

Former CHARMED star Brian Krause stars in the upcoming SCI FI Channel original movie BEYOND LOCH NESS, describing his character is a cross between Indiana Jones and an obsessive Loch Ness monster hunter. Krause plays James Murphy, the son of a cryptozoologist killed by the legendary creature. "I follow in his footsteps, wanting to stop this animal from killing more people," Krause said. "I have made it my personal mission to take this thing out. So I'm a bit of a rogue character, not very happy, no family, no anything. I'm just focused and driven on taking care of this thing." Krause said that he filmed much of the movie on a lake in Vancouver, Canada, and shared most of his scenes with co-stars Carrie Genzel (Flash Gordon) and Niall Matter (Eureka). "Niall has a boat and takes me all over, and Carrie, who plays his mother, gets in on the mix when he runs into some trouble throughout the show," Krause said. "As far as the special effects, there were a lot of those scenes were I didn't even see the monster. It was a lot of wide shots, pretending it was there, and then they just kind of laid it in." The iconic monster was created with a mix of computer- generated imagery and actual mechanical creatures on set. "A few times, I guess, they had puppets and whatever, but it's basically a computer-generated creature, where we really had no idea what it would look like," Krause said. "The guys that handled it, I had faith that they'd create something along the line of what all science fiction fans would be pleased with, because the creature has so much lore wrapped around its name." BEYOND LOCH NESS, which also stars Don S. Davis of Stargate SG-1, premieres Jan. 5 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

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