I don't know. I think Laurence Fishburne and Sharon Stone would do well as Teal'c and Carter respectively
Yes, i've thought about this for awhile
Apparently even some of the SG-1 cast has thought about this making some jokes in the past.
MGM and Warner Brothers to Reboot "Stargate"
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I don't know. I think Laurence Fishburne and Sharon Stone would do well as Teal'c and Carter respectively
Yes, i've thought about this for awhile
Apparently even some of the SG-1 cast has thought about this making some jokes in the past.
The nudity was mandated by Showtime who wanted the show to be adult. For the most part that wasn't really enforced too much, though I'm told that the occasional swear word does show up in the first two seasons. However, Showtime was adamant about a nude scene in the pilot. No one on the production staff was particularly comfortable with it, indeed it was always Brad Wright's intention that SG-1 be family friendly. The nude scene was removed in the director's cut DVD of the pilot which was released five years ago.I would hope not. I remember watching the SG1 pilot on DVD, after only having seen it on normal TV. I quickly started wondering what the hell was going onI'm definately glad that the weird, unneeded nudity didn't really go past that one episode. It was distracting, and I still have no idea why they did that besides just "because we can".
Well, their backstories work better with the developed continuity of SG-1 than they would at the start of a reboot continuity. I guess, theoretically there could be a military officer named Cameron Mitchell, but aside from having the same name he'd pretty much be a completely different character than the one Ben Browder played. Vala, I just can't see how you could work her into something that has no connection to the TV continuity.
I don't know. I think Laurence Fishburne and Sharon Stone would do well as Teal'c and Carter respectively
Yes, i've thought about this for awhile
Apparently even some of the SG-1 cast has thought about this making some jokes in the past.
Chris Judge and Laurence Fishburne do look a lot alike. Regardless of if they're bald or have hair.
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Lol Tealc was just a bad worf rip off.
Samatha carter was horrid. Her character introduced all the worst of SG1.
Endless technobabble and deuxmachina type crap, the cheezy galactic politics etc.
Seriously stargate is probably one of my favorite sci fis.
However the show became a parody of itself.
Stargate is at its hart a military science fiction, combined with conspiracy fiction,, and anthropology.
The anthropological element I think is the strongest part connecting the conspiracy and the military aspect of it.
If I were making the movies, Id take them away from the canadian forests, even the desert itself.
Bring the movies to the indian jungle. Tie em in with the indo europeans.
keep the anthropological element in their, dont dumb down the cultural aspect, at its heart stargate should have culture.
Also the jungle is great for creating a survival element, where everything can kill you.
Samatha carter was horrid. Her character introduced all the worst of SG1.
Endless technobabble and deuxmachina type crap, the cheezy galactic politics etc.
Seriously stargate is probably one of my favorite sci fis.
However the show became a parody of itself.
Stargate is at its hart a military science fiction, combined with conspiracy fiction,, and anthropology.
The anthropological element I think is the strongest part connecting the conspiracy and the military aspect of it.
If I were making the movies, Id take them away from the canadian forests, even the desert itself.
Bring the movies to the indian jungle. Tie em in with the indo europeans.
keep the anthropological element in their, dont dumb down the cultural aspect, at its heart stargate should have culture.
Also the jungle is great for creating a survival element, where everything can kill you.
Because the people driving this want to use their own IPR rather than pay someone else?
^Right. To a studio, it makes more sense to try to make money from a property they already own, one that has name recognition and a built-in audience, than something they have to pay to acquire and that's largely unknown.
Although that doesn't explain why MGM suddenly thinks it's a good idea to give the property back to Devlin and Emmerich, who did one mediocre movie about it a long time ago, than to stick with the long-running and popular TV incarnation of the franchise.
Although that doesn't explain why MGM suddenly thinks it's a good idea to give the property back to Devlin and Emmerich, who did one mediocre movie about it a long time ago, than to stick with the long-running and popular TV incarnation of the franchise.
What 2 Stargate movies? The straight to DVD stuff? Are you actually trying to compare a straight to DVD product with an A list big budget Hollywood movie?
You over estimate Star Trek and underestimate Hollywood's ability to turn out a hit movie based on an existing property.
It's also really silly to judge a movie as "going to be a total failure" when you don't even know anything about the actual movie. Heck, we don't even have a title yet, nevermind a script, budget, cast, or director.
You over estimate Star Trek and underestimate Hollywood's ability to turn out a hit movie based on an existing property.
It's also really silly to judge a movie as "going to be a total failure" when you don't even know anything about the actual movie. Heck, we don't even have a title yet, nevermind a script, budget, cast, or director.
You need to study your entertainment history more. Countless franchise relaunches have, in fact, succeeded in bringing new audiences. Doing anything in a new medium will automatically bring new audiences, because not everyone who watches TV goes to movies, not everyone who goes to movies reads books, etc. Heck, it's a given that a tentpole feature film will have much wider exposure than a cable television show. Not to mention that there are always going to be people who were too young to be aware of the original iteration, and who will come to a revival as if it were a totally new property. (There were a number of fans of Smallville who had no idea, in its early seasons, that it was an adaptation of Superman. They weren't familiar enough with Superman to recognize the names Clark Kent and Lex Luthor, but they still discovered and watched the show, because the whole point was to rework the premise for a new and different audience.)
Really, most of the works of fiction that human beings have ever told down through the millennia have been retellings of pre-existing stories. Virtually every play Shakespeare ever wrote was a reboot of an earlier play or myth or an adaptation of a historical event. It's only in the past few centuries that telling original stories has caught on. (The whole reason novels were called that was because newly created -- "novel" -- stories were a distinct and unusual thing at the time.)
That must be why they made plans for two more. The only reason they didn't get made was because of MGM's financial problems from a few years back. Well, combined with SGU's mediocre ratings finishing the franchise off by the time those troubles were overcome.
For some reason, reading this, especially the words anthropological and cultural, I flashed on Chakotay and his heritage with the Rubber Tree People. Probably not exactly what you have in mind though!!!!!
I could be wrong but I don't think Emmerich ever lost the movie rights.
Since I've only seen the feature film and a few episodes (vastly preferring the feature film), I look forward to another big screen outing.
Yeah Atlantis was only canceled because they thought they would make more money with a DVD movie than with a 6th season.
^^^ I thought it was canceled to redirect budget over towards the brand-new SGU series at the time.
For what it's worth, no series on the SciFi Channel/Syfy has ever run for more than five seasons on that network. (SG1 had five seasons on Showtime and five on SciFi.) Some shows have had a single production season spread out across two years, so that their total runs were longer than five years, but still had only five production seasons in all (Eureka is the best example here). It seems to be an absolute limit for them, though perhaps not by design. So I'm not sure they would've given SGA a sixth season in any case.
As I recall, it was never actually made clear to the public why Atlantis was cancelled. SyFy claimed it was the producers who wanted to end it, the producers say SyFy wouldn't agree to fund two Stargate programs and chose SGU over continuing Atlantis.
Also worth considering, a sixth season for Atlantis was planned out.
Also worth considering, a sixth season for Atlantis was planned out.
I thought it was agreed on that Atlantis could continue in movie form because that was more money and the SG-1 storyline was finishing up. So Universe got green lit, Atlantis ended so they could do movies.
Either way it wasn't because the first two SG-1 movies didn't make money.
And either way I never see these reboot or whatever sequels ever being made.
Either way it wasn't because the first two SG-1 movies didn't make money.
And either way I never see these reboot or whatever sequels ever being made.
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