LEVENS: I’ve consulted with a lot of NASA experts, yes. That’s it.”ĪX: Did you talk with NASA at all about the project? They said, “He is looking for something like this,” and I pitched it to him, and he was like, “Oh, my God.” The whole pitch, when he heard it, he was like, “We’re doing this. LEVENS: We were put together by our agents and the studio. And then coming across this sort of secret narrative – secret stories have always intrigued me, so …ĪX: How did you hook up with your fellow ASCENSION executive producer Jason Blum? Every kid who loves science fiction dreams of spaceships. PHILIP LEVENS: I would say it’s a combination. Did you find out about Orion and think, “Oh, what would happen if this had gone forward,” or were you already percolating the idea and then came across Orion? Kennedy’s regime, but abandoned when the president was afraid of what would happen if it was weaponized. There’s also something major happening that most of the ship’s crew don’t know about, but that the audience finds out at the end of the first night.Įxecutive producer/show runner Philip Levens talks about the origins and influences of ASCENSION, which was originally created by Adrian Cruz.ĪSSIGNMENT X: You’ve said that ASCENSION is based partially on Orion, a real program that was begun during John F. But there’s a big shakeup when the ship’s first murder occurs. New captain William Derringer (Brian Van Holt) achieved his post by heroism rather than succession, which is a bit of a shakeup to the ship’s order his wife Viondra (Tricia Helfer) is determined to help him maintain his rank. The people aboard Ascension are still very much trapped in the morals and styles of the Sixties, along with a hierarchic society, pre-arranged marriages (the better to manipulate the genes of the new generation) and other constricting issues. No one has had contact with Earth since shortly after launch and consequently doesn’t know if the world even exists any more. The inhabitants of Ascension, now in their fiftieth year of space travel, are halfway to the nearest habitable planet the older voyagers who are alive now will be very old if they survive to reach their destination. In Syfy’s six-hour, three-night event ASCENSION, which concludes Wednesday December 17, the eponymous spacecraft launched from Earth back in 1963 as a secret project meant to save the human race from nuclear war. Ellie O'Brien as Christa Valis in ASCENSION | ©2014 Syfy/Jan Thijs
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