Eyes Up Front

Michael Weatherly talks to Joe Nazzaro about playing DARK ANGEL’S resident cyber-hacker

“I’m sitting atop a gleaming glass building in Vancouver British Columbia,” announces actor Michael Weatherly, who plays cyber-crusader Logan Cale on the futuristic drama DARK ANGEL. “I’m on the 52nd floor, above the clouds, surrounded by posters of Aquaman, Superman, the Bionic Man and a tiny picture of Jessica Alba.”

Weatherly is wrapping up the first season of DARK ANGEL, which stars Alba as Max, a genetically enhanced super-warrior living in a post-apocalyptic Seattle. Weatherly plays a wheelchair-bound cyber-journalist that uses his underground “Eyes Only” broadcasts to alert the public about corruption within their decaying city.

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If you want a crusader against the evil forces of the future, you could do a lot worse than Dark Angel’s Logan Cale. Steven Eramo spoke to the Eyes Only of actor Michael Weatherly.

The year is 2019, and the once almighty United States has been brought to its knees due to The Pulse, an electromagnetic shockwave that destroyed the world economy by obliterating every computer system in operation. From his high-rise, hi-tech flat Logan Cale, aka Eyes Only, uses his hacking skills to broadcast messages over the TV airwaves. He keeps the citizens of Seattle abreast of everything from criminal activity to government corruption.

Michael Weatherly is the guiding light that illuminates Ian Spelling’s journey through the world of the Dark Angel…

It all goes back to Joe Versus the Volcano. That Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan pairing, via a decidedly circuitous route, ultimately brought Michael Weatherly to his breakout role as Logan Cale, the handsome hero of the newly minted SF hit, Dark Angel. We kid you not.

‘I was going to university in Washington, DC, and I went to see Joe Versus the Volcano at the local theatre,’ Weatherly recalls. ‘I sat through the Matinee show and after it was over, I walked outside and looked up at the sky.

For his much-anticipated television debut, Academy Award-winner James Cameron (”Titanic”, “Terminator 2″) teamed with Emmy Award-winner Charles Eglee (”Murder One”) and created “Dark Angel,” a sci-fi adventure series set in the near future.

Dark Angel stars Jessica Alba (”Never Been Kissed”) as Max, a genetically-enhanced human prototype with attitude to spare. Having escaped her military handlers, she is hunted by them through the underground street life of 21st Century Pacific Northwest. Max is aided in her quest – both to avoid capture and to reunite with her surviving “siblings” – by Logan (Michael Weatherly). Logan, an idealistic computer geek/reporter, battles corruption and the oppressive establishment in this futuristic landscape.