darkwing_duck1
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The producers keep saying "we want to do them if/when MGM gets it's act together", but realistically, as more and more time passes, the less likely I see them ever being made.
Has the time passed for any new SG-1/SGA movies?
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Well, I heard that Joe Flannigan said that some people in Britain were willing to give $6 million dollars for the SGA movie, but MGM is holding on to Stargate so they have something of value to give to whoever wants to buy them out.
And in the late 1970s, Tom Baker enouraged fans to put funds into a Doctor Who movie and then had to spend a lot of money refunding the donations.
Films=lawyers. You can't make any SG unless you have have the rights. If MGM owns Stargate, then the only SG-related fiction wil have to be MGM approved, and probably populist.
The SG-1 movie, if done as an epilogue or conclusion to the series might still be doable. In fact, the extra time might help it to convey a sense of closure and life moving on.
However, at this point I would be surprised if an Atlantis got made. And besides, does one need to be done? The finale left no unresolved questions and everything ended nicely.
However, at this point I would be surprised if an Atlantis got made. And besides, does one need to be done? The finale left no unresolved questions and everything ended nicely.
Then there's the plot of the movie is supposed to involve the city returning to the Pegasus galaxy. For what possible reason could that be a good idea? No there isn't one. Atlantis is on Earth, and that is logically where it should stay.
And with a title like Extinction you get the impression that they may finally be doing the Wraith in. I mean come on, that would mean we had three races (Goa'uld, Ori, Wraith) that ruled over their galactic domains unchallenged for thousands of years. Then one day, they met the US military who wiped them each out within a matter of years. Just leave the Wraith as they are, stuck in the Pegasus galaxy with no way of reaching Earth and therefore not an immediate threat. Sure, there's that nagging sense that they could someday upgrade their ships or find a way to Earth but that's a remote chance. There's no need for the Tau'ri to wipe out another supposedly unstoppable galactic superpower.
And with a title like Extinction you get the impression that they may finally be doing the Wraith in. I mean come on, that would mean we had three races (Goa'uld, Ori, Wraith) that ruled over their galactic domains unchallenged for thousands of years. Then one day, they met the US military who wiped them each out within a matter of years. Just leave the Wraith as they are, stuck in the Pegasus galaxy with no way of reaching Earth and therefore not an immediate threat. Sure, there's that nagging sense that they could someday upgrade their ships or find a way to Earth but that's a remote chance. There's no need for the Tau'ri to wipe out another supposedly unstoppable galactic superpower.
I'd like to see what happened to Atlantis itself resolved, but I'm hoping that SGU will wrap that up. An SG-1 movie to close out the franchise (especially if SGU is cancelled) would be a nice way to end this incarnation of Stargate (since remakes of name sf properties like this are inevitable).
(It would have been more appropriate to quote parts of the spoiler section, but I decided to make it easier on myself than trying to do that.)
What about the peoples of the Pegasus Galaxy? Doesn't the Atlantis expedition, and therefore the SGC and the people of Earth, have an obligation to continue the fight against the Wraith? What about their allies, like the Athosians? The Atlantis expedition woke the Wraith early; how could they justify not continuing to aid the peoples subject to Wraith culling? I have a hard time believing that anyone from the expedition (even Woolsey came around!) would quietly let the IOA sweep that responsibility under the rug.
No, IMO, No.
At any rate, they don't have to take Atlantis back to the Pegasus galaxy to accomplish that, and it makes NO sense that the US would give up that kind of asset on Earth.
Now, if they wanted to build some kind of bridge again, and or use ZPMs and fast ships, they could setup a base on a planet, and work at taking down the Wraith. But there is no reason to bring Atlantis back there.
I had thought they had begun filming the SG-1 movie last year for air and release this faill/winter. I'd been wondering what happened to that project. As for the Atlantis film I never really had much interest in "Extinction" for the reasons posted in The Wormhole's post.
I didn't find the Atlantis finale remotely worthy of the title 'finale' and I've been hoping for something more for a long time, now. As a resident GateWorld member, though, I can assure those who don't keep as keen an eye on things that absolutely nothing solid has come up in regard to either movie.
I won't hold my breath waiting for one. I doubt we'll see on for a long long time if ever. The longer it takes the less likely it will happen.
Same, I just don't see this happening anymore to be honest, it's like asking if Firefly or Farscape will get another movie, heh
I think it's a little different, actually. Firefly won't get another movie because its first movie cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $50 million. Farscape won't get another miniseries because it simply isn't popular enough and six years have gone by now since anything other than comics have been churned out.
Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Continuum each cost $7 million, being telefilms/direct-to-DVD and all, and it's been two years, not six, since their release. Plus, the franchise is still alive on the airwaves, something unique among the three. Its ratings have fallen somewhat significantly in the past two years, though.
Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Continuum each cost $7 million, being telefilms/direct-to-DVD and all, and it's been two years, not six, since their release. Plus, the franchise is still alive on the airwaves, something unique among the three. Its ratings have fallen somewhat significantly in the past two years, though.
If the people of Earth want to maintain a presence in the Pegasus galaxy they can either send the Daedalus or some other ship to do regular patrols there or build an Icarus-style base. There is no logical reason to do what is planned for the movie.
And besides, you don't really need a movie to establish that there's a base or starship partols in Pegasus. A throw-away line in SGU could take care of that.
I reckon we'll see Emmerich's Kurt Russel/James Spader-starring Stargate 2 once MGM sells. It'll effectively be a reboot ignoring all but the first film. I'd love to see SG-1 and SGA again, but it's been promised time and again, and it's yet to happen.
I thought the Atlantis finale was the most rushed episode of a TV show I've ever seen. Everything happened so fast that none of it had any impact whatsoever, and the only reason I wasn't furious afterward was that I knew they were doing a movie, and assumed it required Atlantis be on Earth. Minus the movie, the series effectively ended with them seemingly abandoning Pegasus to deal with the shitstorm that Earth-humans created.
I thought the Atlantis finale was the most rushed episode of a TV show I've ever seen. Everything happened so fast that none of it had any impact whatsoever, and the only reason I wasn't furious afterward was that I knew they were doing a movie, and assumed it required Atlantis be on Earth. Minus the movie, the series effectively ended with them seemingly abandoning Pegasus to deal with the shitstorm that Earth-humans created.
I think there is a high probability of a Stargate reboot sometime in the future - ignoring the movie, TV shows, or both. It's a bigger franchise and has more reboot potential than Farscape or Firefly, which were really far more dependent on the particular writers and actors involved.
I would love to see a total reboot of Stargate in the direction I would have preferred it take all along (deal seriously with consequences, forget the simplistic villains, humor is okay but lose the camp).
I would love to see a total reboot of Stargate in the direction I would have preferred it take all along (deal seriously with consequences, forget the simplistic villains, humor is okay but lose the camp).
^^^That way lies madness!
Taking seriously the idea the pyramids were landing pad for alien spaceships is as campy as it gets.
The kinds of villains who operate huge empires really are pretty simple. There aren't really very many subtle, complex motivations for enslaving hordes of people. You could have more complex villains if you skip the galactic empire, but if it isn't about barbaric humans bravely fighting for freedom, is it Stargate?
As for taking consequences seriously, the serious consequence of talking on the radio in the clear is that the enemy overhears the transmissions or even triangulates on the position; the serious consequence of sneaking aboard an enemy spaceship is that the security camera alerts the foe to your presence every step of the way; the serious consequences to an enemy recon or even attack through a stargate means each and every one is even more heavily defended than the stargate command; the serious consequence to the dialing program is that the stargate keeps getting preempted by incoming calls all the time. In other words, you wouldn't have a series, but a movie with an unhappy ending.
Taking seriously the idea the pyramids were landing pad for alien spaceships is as campy as it gets.
The kinds of villains who operate huge empires really are pretty simple. There aren't really very many subtle, complex motivations for enslaving hordes of people. You could have more complex villains if you skip the galactic empire, but if it isn't about barbaric humans bravely fighting for freedom, is it Stargate?
As for taking consequences seriously, the serious consequence of talking on the radio in the clear is that the enemy overhears the transmissions or even triangulates on the position; the serious consequence of sneaking aboard an enemy spaceship is that the security camera alerts the foe to your presence every step of the way; the serious consequences to an enemy recon or even attack through a stargate means each and every one is even more heavily defended than the stargate command; the serious consequence to the dialing program is that the stargate keeps getting preempted by incoming calls all the time. In other words, you wouldn't have a series, but a movie with an unhappy ending.
I would not reboot it...wait until Stargate Universe runs it's course then end the franchise. Continue it with the odd novel but that's about it.
Considering everything I read about the ideas they had for the third SG-1 movie (which may not have been true of course), ie no Vala, an O'Neill centric movie, despite the fact that RDA is far too past it to play the guy (and in my opinion doesnt deserve it for the amount of seasons he phoned it in) I hope it takes a few more years for one to come out. Once that time has passed, hopefully new ideas will be around.
I could not agree more. I like spoilers for a movie that will never be released, that is funny.
Atlantis was a mess when it ended, but it had closure. SG-1 could use another movie for closure, or not. They could always make an other show Stargate: The Next Generation and fill in the wholes.
I could see SG-1 being made one day, but I doubt the Atlantis movie will ever go anywhere.
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