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The Triangle, an epic, six-hour miniseries co-produced by SCI FI Channel, Electric Entertainment, and Bad Hat Harry Productions, aired over three nights in December 2005.

Set against the mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle, this SCI FI Channel Original Miniseries event focuses on a disparate group of professionals, brought together to investigate the dangerous truths behind one of the greatest legends of our time.

Spoiler Warning: Plot details and/or information about the ending follow. If you wish to enjoy the work first, stop reading here and return at another time.

Billionaire Eric Benirall (Sam Neill) is losing his cargo ships, and their crews, at a frightening pace—and now, he wants answers. His bemused, handpicked team of subject-specific experts include lead skeptic and tabloid journalist Howard Thomas (Eric Stoltz), ocean resource engineer Emily Patterson (Catherine Bell), scientist/adventurer Bruce Gellar (Michael Rodgers) and psychic Stan Latham (Bruce Davison). Pulled together with the promise of unlimited funding for their research and the chance for once-in-a-lifetime riches, the team sets out to solve this most daunting of anomalies.

When a jetliner disappears over the Triangle, bizarre, unexplainable occurrences begin to affect each member of Benirall's team. When the government takes an alarming interest in their work, the crew is drawn into something far more dangerous than they had believed possible. A research expedition with the promise of riches soon becomes a frantic, head-turning ride through the unstoppable force that is The Triangle.

The miniseries was executive produced by Hollywood's genre standouts Bryan Singer (X-Men, Superman Returns), Dean Devlin (Independence Day), and Rockne S. O'Bannon (Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars). O'Bannon wrote the screenplay from an original story by Singer and Devlin, and Craig Baxley (Kingdom Hospital, Storm of the Century) directed.

The SCI FI Channel air date: December 5, 2005.

The Cast

• Sam Neill (Jurassic Park) stars as Eric Benirall, a shipping tycoon who has lost numerous ships and lives in the Bermuda Triangle. Benerall is the architect of this expedition. He brings the team together by making them an offer they can't refuse but are his intentions all that they appear?
• Eric Stoltz (Pulp Fiction, Mask) plays Howard Thomas, a reporter for a supermarket tabloid, and no stranger to the legend of the Bermuda Triangle. In the course of writing up endless crackpot theories and interviewing every dubious source for his articles, Howard has become a hardcore cynic and walking encyclopedia of fringe knowledge. He is courted by Benirall to be the team's "ultimate arbiter," applying his experience with debunking the "paranormal" as a litmus test for the rest of the team's theories. With a young daughter and a hefty alimony tab, his personal life might be in even worse shape than his professional life.
• Catherine Bell (JAG, Bruce Almighty) plays Emily Patterson, a deep ocean resource engineer who has recently been fired from an offshore drilling company for not backing off of safety concerns that would have shut down their operations. She is a smart woman with strong convictions but, despite her multiple degrees and expert knowledge of oceanography, among other subjects, it's financial need that drives her to accept Benirall's farfetched proposal.
• Bruce Davison (X-Men) plays Stan Latham, a man with genuine psychic abilities, who has been reduced to hawking self-promotional tapes at New Age fairs to make money. Low-key but emotional, Stan is attuned to an entire invisible world of clues to the Triangle's origins, and his intuition complements the rest of the team's scientific approach to discovery.
• Michael Rodgers (Auto Focus) appears as Bruce Gellar, a thrill-seeking, often reckless, professor of meteorology of questionable moral fiber. He initially joins the team purely for the money, looking for the fastest and easiest way to get to the $5 million payoff. He has a childlike enthusiasm for discovery and his passion for the task at hand quickly sets in.
• Lou Diamond Phillips (Courage Under Fire, Stand and Deliver) plays Meeno Paloma, the sole survivor of a Triangle event that killed the crews of two ships. Meeno returns from his ordeal to a loving family that is not quite as he remembers it. Confronted with a son he doesn't remember and smaller details that aren't as they should be, Meeno is increasingly tormented with the possibility that either his memory has been damaged, or he's somehow rejoined a world where he doesn't belong.

External Links

• Official Site