Knights of Bloodsteel

Had this in a Google news alert from the 'National Ledger':

WHEN OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS: David James Elliott expects to be spending the next three weeks enjoying "what I like to think of as a well-deserved vacation" in the Bahamas -- where the actor had barely landed when he got the call for the Sci Fi Channel's April 19 and 20 "Knights of Bloodsteel" event miniseries.

"They said if I wanted to do it, I had to come back immediately. I knew it would be a great opportunity to do something completely different." So the former "Jag" star hopped on a plane. He tells us he's always been into science fiction and fantasy, that "When I was a kid, I was a big 'Conan the Barbaran' fan. I read the Tarzan book and other fantasies. I'm a fan of the genre."

"Bloodsteel" ended up being a massive affair that took two months to shoot. "We were in some incredible, breathtaking locations outside Vancouver, in the Rocky Mountains. The scenery lent itself so well to the piece -- stunning waterfalls deep in this forest … Phenomenal."

His character, he says, "has been savagely wronged, his family annihilated by these goblins and basically horrific barbarians who razed the village where he lived. He has a list of people to take care of -- to seek his revenge -- but then he gets caught up in the quest for this cruicible."

Still, adds the father of 16-year-old Stephanie and 6-year-old Wyatt with wife Nanci Chambers, "What's great about it is, it's a piece my son can watch "

When he completed the shoot, Elliott and family were setting their sites on a Bahamas trip again, when NBC's forthcoming "The Storm" miniseries came his way. That one finished production week before last.