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'Taken' Preps For Fall Start - From the Sci-Fi Channel Website
Production will commence in Vancouver in September on 'Taken', Steven Spielberg's original miniseries for The SCI FI Channel, the network announced. The 10-part, 20-hour saga--from producer Spielberg, SCI FI and DreamWorks Television--chronicles the 50-year history of alien abductions.
'Taken' will star Steve Burton, Julie Benz (Angel) and Joel Gretsch (The Legend of Bagger Vance), with additional cast members to be announced in the coming weeks. Leslie Bohem wrote and will executive produce the miniseries with Steve Beers.
The miniseries will interweave the stories of three families and their experiences with UFO abductions. Burton will play Randall Keys, a World War II fighter pilot who encounters strange lights in the night sky while on a mission over Germany. Benz will play Kate Keys, Randall's wife, who is forced to raise their son alone as Randall struggles to cope with his abduction experience. Gretsch will play Owen Jones, an unscrupulous Army officer who sees the Roswell crash as an opportunity to jump-start his career. 'Taken' is scheduled to air during the fourth quarter of 2002.
