‘Stargate: SG1′ and ‘Stargate: Atlantis’ Movies on Hold
This entire year has been filled with talk of the impending Stargate: SG1 and Stargate: Atlantis films (the latter titled Stargate: Extinction). At one point sources indicated the SG1 movie would start filming before the year was out, and at another that both movies might be filmed back to back.
Stargate fans will be disappointed to here both movies are now on hold.
Stargate Universe executive producer Robert C. Cooper told Sci Fi Wire:
“We’re ready to go,” Cooper said “We’re just waiting for the right opportunity. We want to be successful with it. The studio wants to be successful, and we really don’t want to proceed with something in the wrong climate, which I think financially it is right now.”
He also confirmed that the Atlantis movie takes place shortly after the end of season five and that the SG-1 movie takes place sometime in between when the SG-1 movies left off and when Stargate Universe begins.”
That is, if and when they happen.
In the meantime, Stargate fans will have to make do with Stargate Universe which kicks off Friday October 2, 2009 at 9pm.
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August 14th, 2009 at 1:25 am
I was just wondering about the SG1 movie yesterday, I guess this answers my questions. Bummer
August 14th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Bummer’s the word.
August 14th, 2009 at 2:59 am
Gutted! Was so looking 4ward to them!
August 14th, 2009 at 3:29 am
Oh that’s just horrendous. After Continuum being so incredibly awesome I want more. Please please please say **** the economy and just make em!
August 30th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
I hope the stargate Atlantis and SG1 movies make it. They were both great shows, I wonder why there is any kind of problem, seeing how popular they are ,not to mention the countless awards they both have won. Why did Atlantis get cancelled anyway, SCI-FI still plays Atlantis and SG1 episodes everday and night.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
The economy is a convenient lie being used by this bunch. Sci Fi movies in Wide release this summer have done a smashing business. Something else is behind this delay and per usual us fans just have to wait and wait and wait. We should stop supporting these people at NBC/SyFY and Universal. How stupid do they think we are?
Meanwhile back at the SyFy farm the ever so stupid “Warehouse 13″ is just rolling in the ratings. Can’t believe it. I really can’t. Must be a bunch of 8 to 10 year olds watching this remake of “Friday the 13th the Series”.
I’m happy that BBC is finally releasing more SCI FI to America. Torchwood, Being Human and several more are coming are way. It is nice to know that someone will always be there to fill the gap when American TV lets us down, as they always do.
October 14th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
I hope they have both movies come soon like 2010 if its like 2012-13 before they come out they are going to lose a lot of fans. And how can they say that the new movie childen of the gods is even new, i dont see any difference. Its just the first and second episode all over again.
lets all hope that they make more then just 2 more movies out of this. they can do so much with it.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:46 am
All the above are quite right. I live in England, but I am a bag fan of Atlantis, mainly because of its clever scripts (it has far fewer duff episodes than most sci-fi series) and the writers’ shrewd sense of the messy nature of reality (turning loveable Carson into Josef Mengele in the ‘Michael’ episode, for instance). Which is why I suspect it was cancelled. Too clever for its own good.
I am pretty aggreived at the cancellation of the movie. Economic downturn, my foot! Why can’t they just be honest with us, for once?
I have a dismal feeling we will never see the film at all. Pity MGM doesn’t flog the franchise to someone who will actually want to continue with this intelligent, funny and supremely well acted series. Bah, humbug!!!
October 28th, 2009 at 2:34 pm
A Stargate movie on dvd is not something one buys out of the blue when one sees it lying in a store.
A Stargate movie on dvd is bought by people who are actually a fan of the series or at least more or less familiar with it.
All this crap about economic influences holding back the production of the new SG-movies is just a big load of blah if you ask me.
Fans will buy the movies wether there is a (supposed) financial crisis or not.
Judging by the comments I’ve read about the previous direct-to-dvd Stargate movies being a huge success, any new Stargate movie should reach a similarly succesful position, probably even more so as the worldwide Stargate fanbase just keeps on growing and growing.
So SyFy please cut the crap and give us today our daily Stargate!
November 17th, 2009 at 2:48 pm
this totally sucks! i was soo looking forward 2 these new movies…especially since universe sucks ass! who cares if the economies gone into the crapper…ur fans r still out there and if its really THAT big of a deal then just make the movie better 2 attract more people!!! i totally agree with Rainier (post above me)about his views and everything. also since universe sucks stargate fans need some REAL stargate 2 make their lives less miserable!
November 17th, 2009 at 2:54 pm
i think the real reason that the sg-1 movie is on hold is because they producers/writers r making RDA loose some of those pounds he packed on…i mean they cant have a wedding (carter/o’neill) with him looking like he does…thats my view on y they put the sg-1 movie on hold…as 4 atlantis in a timeline im guessing that they want the sg-1 movie 2 happen b4 the atlantis one…so they can say that gen. o’neill and col. carter are on their honeymoon
thats my views on y the movies r on hold. IM DYING HERE…I NEED THOSE MOVIES SO RDA HURRY UP AND LOOSE THAT WEIGHT SO CARTER DOESNT DUMP U AND GO BACK 2 THAT LOSER WHO SHE ALMOST MARRIED WHO I REFUSE 2 ACKNOWLEDGE EVER EXISTED!
November 28th, 2009 at 8:45 am
f##k stargate !!! ive bought everything to do with the sg1 and atlantis programs . im sick of waiting on the movies and mean while were stuck with universe . its sh#t like realy crap i know that cause ive fell asleep watchin 1 of them and id never have fell asleep watchn sg1 or atlantis tv and movies . do us all a favor and cancell universe its crap . but in protest im not buyn the dvds of the new movies im just gona upload them and watch them online for free . were all sick of waitn upload it for free people cost these f##kers cash and mabye they will think twise about f##kn us about next time .
December 6th, 2009 at 9:13 am
Hey guys,
i’m really sad what they did with the sg-franchise.
i can assure everyone that millions of sg fans worldwide are furious over this crappy turn syfy has called for.
please come over to http://www.sgusucks.com and express your doubts and your anger. sign our petition, it’s worth it.
thx for reading!!
December 31st, 2009 at 7:26 pm
better still ….. start the 11th season
January 8th, 2010 at 7:41 pm
Atlantis is 100 times better than the original, i could never get past the horrible acting and the retarded looking black dude with that thing on his forehead.Bring back Atlantis!
January 21st, 2010 at 12:48 pm
Come on, get to work! WE WANT SGA FILM!!!!
January 21st, 2010 at 10:10 pm
SOOOOOOOOOOOO disappointed that Atlantis was taken off air. That was the best show. Avidly awaiting movies. Don’t you realise that the whole world loves Stargate Atlantis??????
Stargate Universe is boring and dull, and the cast definitely do not make any impression!
January 24th, 2010 at 3:01 pm
“It is nice to know that someone will always be there to fill the gap when American TV lets us down, as they always do”
Are you insane?
I’m British, and ill be the first to admit that US Sci-Fi is light years ahead of the shit we make over here.
Dr Who is clearly written by the mentally retarded and the less said about torchwood the better.
PS: best Sci-Fi ever made was firefly. People who cancelled that show need to be given the death penalty.
February 8th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Totally agreed with James about Firefly. Some people in big business with the power to kill or keep shows that bring in “big bucks” have no appreciation for potiential/unique shows and the fans who believes in them. All hands up for Joss Whedon who’s a fabulous and a genius of Sci-Fi creator for Buffy, Serenity and firefly. Somewhere along the way these corporate people lose sight of the plot and became no better than money grabbing greedy bastards with eyes aiming at the top ratings, behaving just like the trading investors in US and damn the little people… they need to sort out their prinicples.
February 15th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
That line about not making the movie now due to the economy is crap. Yeah I might understand that if we were talking about buying houses or cars but a $20 DVD, a 10 year old could afford that. They need to give the fans what they want soon want or people will lose interest and it will be too late.
March 7th, 2010 at 10:00 pm
I love sg-1 and sga and I have to agree I believe why is at a terrible start but I’ve been waiting for these movies and if they don’t come out soon the fan base for these shows will completely disappear. How can you even think about not making these dvds and continue sgu? It doesn’t need work it needs to be put on hold make the movies. Sgu sucks and the talk about lack of financial to make this films is bs. Every person I know would buy these films but I can’t even get anyone to watch sgu make the f%$#ing movies!
March 18th, 2010 at 3:56 pm
I just f** hate sci-fi,and all those that are responicibile for cancelled the SG-1 and SGA.I Wish they life depends on me one day….i would revange….
March 20th, 2010 at 10:10 am
They need to bring back SGA the actors and storyline were so great I can’t believe they took it off the air and now are holding back from filming the movies.
April 10th, 2010 at 11:20 am
Seriously they say that there are financially problems and then they are produsing SGU seriously!!! The SGU are crap. insted of the SGU they sould have put the money in to SGA season 6 !!!
April 14th, 2010 at 4:37 am
I agree with you James, they need to get back to what we know and love so much witch is
- Make SG1 Movies
- Season 6 SGA
- SGA Movie
maybe we should make a petition ?
BTW James, Stargate is made in not a US production, it’s made in Canada, Vancouver
April 14th, 2010 at 4:43 am
and petition there is …
Go sign it up !
http://www.petitionspot.com/petitions/SaveSGA/
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-stargate-atlantis.html
April 17th, 2010 at 6:18 pm
Um…I don’t know, you know? I mean I have a very nice complete box set with seasons 1-10 and Ark of Truth and Continuum in it. It looks very nice on my shelf, being all complete as it is…and the latter two titles rounded off the two major SG-1 arcs…i.e. The Goa’uld and The Ori. Everything has a beginning and an end, folks. And as much as I love the guy…RDA looked both fat and completely uninterested in his appearances in SG-U. Seems he’s enjoying his well deserved retirement. I’d rather keep my memories of him as he was….and my complete DVD box set allows me to do that whenever I like.
Besides (and believe me when I say I HATED episodes 1-10), episodes 11-13 of SG-U have been very good indeed. It’s like…Stargate is dead….LONG LIVE STARGATE! You know?
Nah, this is one petition I won’t sign. Actually, no, I will sign it…for Atlantis. That is something I would like to see a movie of.
April 27th, 2010 at 12:37 am
Sign’d both petitions to save Stargate Atlantis – and republished the petitionspot link on my Facebook.
I liked SG1; I loved Atlantis – I think it was the 1st spin off series I’ve ever liked better than the original.
As for SGU… I’ve tried… my wife has tried… my kids have tried… we can’t do it… if Universe is all MGM is going to do… then we are done with the Stargate franchise.
May 9th, 2010 at 7:40 am
MGM chairperson Mary Parent is driving the company down the toilet. Since she took over the company as ceo she has canned any progress with the SG franchise. She is using the model of ‘lure and hook’.
Basically the ‘lure and hook’ model means that movies/series end on a cliff note also know as, dangling some cheese to fans and make them fell hungry. In SGA this is seen as, yes their will be movie, so lets can the sucess of a series at the peak of its appearence.
Then comses the hook: in this case their has been NO information on the status of the move or series yet money is spent on SGU to widen target audience!!! Good one Mary, great buisness model.
Untill MGM pull their finger out and tell their fans where SGA move and series is at i will no longer see any MGM movies.
I encourage SGA fans to do the same.
BOYCOT all MGM movies!
May 11th, 2010 at 2:14 am
Having been a long time fan of many franchises including the Stargate franchise, try being a Star Trek fan – they went over 10 years between the end of the TV series and the first movie and another 5 years before TNG was created.
I have yet to see many of the SGU episodes so am not going to comment on the quality of the show, however making movies, even if they are direct to DVD costs lots of money, especially with the special effects that SG uses. Since MGM and a number of other studios are running in the red by a large margin, we need to accept that they just have things on hold, rather than shelving them altogether.
Just this Aussie’s 2 cents worth.
May 17th, 2010 at 6:42 am
WE NEED MORE ATLANTIS! I have been waiting for the Atlantis movie for a long time, and I’m getting tired of the feeble excuses from MGM, and I’m also getting tired of SGU, it’s not as good as SGA, and usually you aim for improvement over time, but it’s just gotten worse as time goes by. I think that they should cancel SGU and put the money not into a SGA movie, but bring back the show instead. They had an amazing cast, and wonderful story lines, the show actually managed to be better than firefly in some ways (mostly becuase it actually ran for more than half a year), and it managed to have a bit of romance, but not over the top. Whenever I see anything like romance in SGU, it’s eather not very realistic, or it’s really stupid and makes me turn it off. SGA was special in that the writers knew when and how to approach any inevitable attraction between people, and not make it look like some hollywood thing, but make it sweet and real. I’m sad that MGM thinks that it’s acceptable to do this to us, and I’m seriously considering going around my school and city, getting people to sign a petition, and sending it to MGM, and hoping that they’ll take it to heart, and smarten up.
May 18th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Big big fan of Stargate Atlantis, sorry to see it go. Out of all the 100’s of scifi shows I’ve watch, it was by far the best. I will especially miss seeing Jewel Staite, she can come down to Australia and make a movie anytime, soooo cute.
May 21st, 2010 at 2:02 pm
I doubt that MGM is going to bring back SGA even if we get every fan to sign the petitions that are going around the people responsible for ending it should be lined up and shot or sent to G-bay, As for SG-1 i liked it alot but I think they have gone as far as you can go with the TV show maybe there is one more movie they can churn out but it was never they same once RDA left the team.
I have been watching SGU just because there is no other Stargate shows to watch but in no way does it compare to SG-1 or SGA they almost never go to other planets and they can’t even control the ship yet it has aired 17 episodes and you can sum up all thats happend in 2 words “Fu**ing nothing” how could they replace SGA with this crap they could have done 3 or 4 more seasons of SGA, the wraith were the best enemy with heaps more story lines and they could have done much more with the seaching the city, Lets hope they bring it back for at least one more season or get off there ass and make the movie.
Just this Aussie fans Opinion.
June 15th, 2010 at 8:24 am
principle photography for the next two stargate movies, being filmed back to back began here in Vancouver several weeks ago. Sorry I don’t know which of the two is being shot first. My friends who work on the set are not familiar with the shows and are unfortunately not big scifi geeks so haven’t been able to pass along any valuable spoilers thus far. Even so they are under NDA.
But it’s still good news that filming has started. I was a bit surprised cause I had read just the week before that production was delayed due to the economy.
SGU is finally beginning to get interesting. hopefully they can maintain this new momentum into the next season.
June 17th, 2010 at 5:43 am
I too miss Atlantis. I can’t believe they scrapped it for SGU, god that show is boring. I’ve given it a go and I’m sorry but it is just utter CRAP. There really needs to be a movie to at least give Atlantis the finish it deserves, not a quickie ending with it floating around San Francisco Bay. Too many unfinished story lines. Honestly, I hope SGU gets the flick before they air season 2.
Another Aussie fan.
June 17th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Its such a shame about SGA. I totally agree with Eammon, there could have been a lot more story lines especially with the wraith. SG1 i will admit was quite good. But in my honest opinion SGA was by far the best, but now we’re stuck with SGU and its quite boring, 20 episodes now and basically nothing. But seriously, as Eammon said, people need to get off their ass and either make more SGA seasons, heck 2 or 3 maybe even 4, or at least a damn movie done for crying out loud.
June 29th, 2010 at 12:54 am
I loved both SG-1 and Atlantis. Was very disappointed when they ended. Sorry also that money was wasted making SGU. It seems they rushed to finish SGA to begin SGU which was a mistake. I found SGU a mixture of Drama+Battle Star type filming. Very disappointing. Toomany nose-up-close shots! There’s no cohesion between characters or teamwork like the others. Too much in-fighting and deceit going on.
June 30th, 2010 at 9:58 pm
The reason all this hold on SG-1 and Atlantis movies is simple and idiotic, The powers at the NBC/SY-FY studios,find that there is more money in boring us with reality shows cuz they are cheap to produce,have you noticed the amount they are throwing at us,here are just a few, Ghost Hunter,(crap)Ghost Hunter International(more crap)Smarter then a 5th grader ,American Idol, Dancing with 2 left feet,I can go on but you get my drift,these shows are cheap to make,So we the true fans of creative writing and entertainment are stuck with crap,when these shows come on I switch and go to the cooking channel, at least I learn some recipes, or go to history channel and when they show me reality shows I go to science Channel or NG, or news.They would make more money if they showed good movies or series of something ,it’s like the writers at NBC/SY-FY have lost the ability to be creative or they hire boring individuals to write, some one is laffing all the way to the bank and it’s the jerk who pitched this realty crap on the studios, if they only knew the buying and viewing public,We’d have the movies made and a great show to bootAnd your killing us with Stargate Universe,…
July 16th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
Hey guys,
I just wish the bs rhetoric by wright, mallozzi and co would cut it with the nonsense about economic downturn.
DVD sales have never been stronger, and neither has hollywood in the last 5 years. This year alone has seen avatar hit the 700,000 million dollar mark.
The real truth or combination there of is this.
MGM are $3.7billion in debt, everything is on hold apart from tv shows, which is paid for by individual networks such as sci fi. Therefore SCI FI is responsible for footing the cost of these two movie productions. The other point is, they cancelled Atlantis and the new dire offspring that was created called 90210 in space, sorry SGU drama and more drama and nothing drama in space. Has taken their minds over. Until this dreadful show is cancelled or removed from the tv screens, they simply wont make anything with SG-1 or Atlantis. The fact that their new inbred SGU show is so bad, should prove it’s whole point.
The racket mr mallozzi and the other clown wright have been making regarding Atlantis, pretty much ensures the jig is up completely for Atlantis.
“We hated this series, we hated the characters, all wooden still faced super heroes who if they ever got anything wrong could cure it in an episode. It was a dreadful show and we are thankful we had it cancelled so we could work on our new project to take the franchise forward” = mallozzi.
Yes you have taken it so far forward it doesnt even belong to franchise. You slap a gate in it, have a few guest appearances from rda and a few of the others to try and validate it and then you think you can call it stargate. Your really sadly mistaken.
Nevertheless, Stargate Atlantis is pretty much now dead, it won’t be resurrected ever. It’s not a show they want to do it was wright and cooper who persuaded sci fi to cancel the show, not at sci fi behest unlike sg-1. I guess what comes around goes around. Since they wanted the 11th season, they did this to sci fi after the 5th season, pedantic? its the entertainment industry where crapping over one another is a common everyday occurance.
However there are few rumours that Cooper reckons we could see SG-1 Evolution be shot this fall (2010) with a release date early next year on syfy channel (USA Only) with dvd sales likely around March / April on Bluray (2011)
July 19th, 2010 at 1:28 pm
well as i said a month ago, both the movies ARE in production now, despite what some of you may have read to the contrary. I have a couple of friends who work on the production and have have been for almost 2 months now. I’m not sure what stage the production, I’ll have to ask them. I didn’t realize this matter was so clouded in mystery.
However if they have been filming for 2 months now then perhaps a release before the end of the year is still possible. Though I’d guess early 2011 would seem more realistic.
As for SGU, though it’s hard to deny the series has been very slow the last 2 episodes of the season were quite good and if they can maintain that pace from this point on I think the show may eventually take off.
I feel in an attempt to add an element of believable human drama to the situation and to attract a larger female audience they may have moved too far to the other extreme. Eventually I think they will find their sweet spot.
Why do sci-fi productions keep trying to do this in the first place is beyond me. It seems to be the new trend. You don’t see chick movies like Sex and the City trying to expand their male audience do you?
July 21st, 2010 at 3:40 pm
If they’d have been filming for the past 2 months, on any of the movies, this information would have leaked to the masses by now. Not so much the filming but MGM suddenly reversing their decision to take these movies off hold indefinitely stage.
I just can’t see what you say about these movies being in production believable, as I said there would have been a lot of recent hype. It’s been squarely dead for a while.
If it is true, then why as Mr Mallozzi even this past month denied such rumours as flights of fancy?
I am not saying they won’t be made, but from a franchise as big as this (almost) as big as Trek and this information would have been everywhere.
Can you point me to a credible source at the studios or someone at MGM who can confirm this? If not its mere speculation and dangerous to post stuff like this.
July 21st, 2010 at 3:44 pm
Sorry, I forgot to add this to my post above
Jeff you say this “But it’s still good news that filming has started. I was a bit surprised cause I had read just the week before that production was delayed due to the economy.”
Why would you be surprised? SG-1’s movie was put on hold early 2008, and Atlantis which was supposed to have been greenlit before SG-1 and given production status, was removed by MGM and their fanciful lies of a downturn in economy with dvd sales.
I really am sorry, but I really do find it had to believe that these movies are currently being shot, since there is no credible evidence of this and the fact TPTB keep dying anything is being made, and they are still in limbo.
July 28th, 2010 at 3:29 pm
I am so exited about Stargate extinction, huge Stargate fans here in South Africa. We cannot wait anymore!!
Hope that both SG1 and Atlantis don’t get put on “hold” for too LONG!!!
July 28th, 2010 at 3:50 pm
man it SUCKS that we have to wait so long for the two movies to come out especially Stargate Atlantis. 5 Seasons was too little for such an AWESOME show!! Lets just hope that the movie does the show justice!! Oh and I agree that Atlantis definately needs a way better ending!!
Please can they STOP wasting money making a CRAP show like Stargate Universe!! That show is like really, really, REALLY BORING!!!
For the love of God, please just CANCEL it!!
I’m sorry but that show has a lot to live up to and frankly I don’t see and feel that they are just hurting themselves and us as as loyal SG1 and SGA fans!!
Anyways, I wish Stargate Atlantis could go on forever:-)
Hope we see some Movies coming out soon!!
August 3rd, 2010 at 1:16 pm
The stargate universe is a copy of bsg battlestar galactica.
i dont say its bad, but too much drama makes us sg fans missing the funny parts…
August 7th, 2010 at 4:06 am
I will always support SG1 and Stargate Atlantis. No trash talk here about either show…because they gave me what no series ever could…. a great escape from the daily pressures of life. Movies serve the same purpose and for any SG1 or SGA movie that follows that simple rule…make me forget about the bills, the job, the terrible state of the economy and just give me a glimpse of what could be, what can be, and what will be. Forever SG1 and SGA fan. Looking back RDA was better to watch than Ben Browder it just farscapes me how the producers saw any talent in the guy. Sorry Ben but your ad lib lines in Farscape has no place in the gate universe. Speaking of SGU… notice how they think we’ll watch the show if they slap of a few double D girls on the show and expect us to be captivated by jiggly jiggly? Another insult to the intelligence of science fiction fans. SGU is pointless. Thank god for DVD’s lots of replay value there Stargate fans. Me and my wife are wearing them out every day.
August 12th, 2010 at 6:09 am
I am also a HUGE Stargate fan and a even bigger of Stargate Atlantis and I am really sad that there is not at least a 6th Season!!!
I cannot wait 4 the Stargate Atlantis Movie and I think it will be AWESOME!! I totally agree that SGU is POINTLESS and that it should be CANCELLED!!!
I especially love the music in Stargate Atlantis and so I was just wondering if anybody out there knows what name of the classical music that Mr Woolsey plays at the end of the 3rd episode called BROKEN TIES in Saeson 5 is?
Looked 4 the name but cannot seem 2 find it anywhere.
HELP:-)
August 14th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
It was Joel Goldsmith
you might enjoy this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ostmot-zVDs
I have to say the only scifi shows that had any wit, intelligence and humor were SG1 and SGA with BSG following a close 3rd.
SGU has no clearly defined bad guys..when you do that kind of theme of “everyone” or “anyone” could be a bad guy…boring. I really miss the predictability of the unpredictable theme in SG1 and SGA.
I was watching the scifi channel today and saw a show that obviously borrowed from SG1, SGA. It was so bad, I couldn’t watch it after 10 minutes. It had a double arch sort of stargate to travel through time then a team dressed in some kind of outdated army uniforms came out on the other end in a forest…familiar yes but gosh the fantastic 4 were the only ones I wanted to see pop out on the other side, not some B rated actors with subpar acting skills. By the Fab 4 I mean Teal, Oneal, Jack, and Carter.
Well at least I have 10 seasons to watch on DVD. That should keep me happy for awhile.
August 14th, 2010 at 5:17 pm
They killed off Atlantis too soon with the promise of a movie .. so do the darn movie ! After well over 10 years as a supported of Stargate it’s about time they listened to us and kept it going.
Even my kids keep asking, when is the Atlantis movie coming ?
Get on with it, the demand is obviously there and “you promised”!
Re SGU, it certainly aint an SG1 or Atlantis …. so if the producers think it’s going to last if Atlantis only made 5 seasons, they’ve got another thing coming.
Movie, movie, movie NOW !
August 15th, 2010 at 4:50 am
@Paul
When you were speaking of the fab 4, I think you meant to say…
Teal’c, O’Neill, Jackson and Carter.
August 15th, 2010 at 3:36 pm
Hey Just want to send a short thank you to Paul 4 the Broken ties video, really thoughtful of you:-)
Anyways we all know who you were refering to when you talked about the Fab 4 and they will always, always stay that way.
Thanx agin:-)
August 18th, 2010 at 5:30 am
yeah cant wait 4 new movies.rda needs 2 loose wait and hope they show the warp drive of atlantis that they developed in the last ep of atlantis.
August 27th, 2010 at 6:38 am
So is there going to be a game on stargate there shod be
August 27th, 2010 at 10:14 pm
This is a huge disappointment!! Especially with how horrible of a show Universe is. I guess I will have to wait to get my Stargate Fix. to bad.
September 1st, 2010 at 3:05 am
Having been a huge fan since day 1, I have to say that I loved all the characters and all the episodes of both SG1 and SGA. I own both series on DVD and have watched them from start to finish at least 5 times BUT I would not spend a cent on the SGU Dvd’s, watching them once is more than enough – Having said that, it’s now time to cut the crap (SGU) AND GET ON WITH MAKING THE MOVIES!
September 1st, 2010 at 6:32 pm
I knew this was gonna happen as soon as stargate universe came out and they basically gave up on the game. The new shit series cost to much, so now they can’t afford to make the real money makers (Sga Sg-1 films)
There Guarenteed hits, so long as they dont film em like this battlestar galactica crap.
I love Stargate, but stick to what your good at.
September 2nd, 2010 at 1:25 am
I am a BIG fan of both SG1 and SGA!!!
Stargate Universe quite frankly SUCKS ASS!!! I mean really has Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper completly LOST the plot:-(
No one really cares for SGU and would rather stick pins in their eyes than to sit through 45 min and watch that BULL CRAP!!!
Two WordS: CANCEL SGU!!!
Can’t wait 4 SGA movie.
September 3rd, 2010 at 7:21 am
Amen to that Eliza. We can all agree that SGU leaves much to be desired. I don’t believe Cooper and Wright are listening to the audience anymore. They both have made a brave but perilious attempt trying to spin the spin. The chemistry between the cast members on SG1 and SGA are unmistakably driven with passion for the creating the gateworld. SGU is unmistakably driven by boring cast members going through the motions of lines without any passion. Most of the people posting here could do a better job then any of those SGU actors without any formal training.
It doesn’t take a genius to understand you have to spend money to make money. If MGM spends the money on just one SG1 or SGA movie, it would be the blockbuster SciFi of the year. But I’m not sure MGM has anyone capable of doing the math correctly, add in merchandising, DVD sales etc.
Die already and move on. Go out with a blast with some Movies not some watered down, budgeted down series that well frankly has some pretty low viewership. And to think they cancelled the SG1 and SGA shows for a lot less viewers. As Andy said above, stick to what your good at. In MBA school they taught us to stick to your core compentencies (e.g. SG1 and SGA). Cooper and Wright have definitely stepped outside their core competencies with SGU.
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:24 am
latest scifi talk interview, has Shanks publicly stating that the new SG-1 movie has been greenlit and is in production.
It will be Oneill concentric
Vala will not be appearing
“it will be old school sg-1 type movie”
Shooting will begin this fall – shanks. (AUG 2010)
The rest of the cast members are being recalled.
Also to add a bit more speculation to this, IMDB pro, confirms Shanks is currently making a movie. Quite what that movie is,
is anyone’s guess.
RDA just finished shooting a movie recently.
The only doubt would be Chris Judge who is hell bent on getting
his own show on air, I think with Showtime or HBO.
This is quite a departure from earlier in the year when everyone was quoting shanks as saying “its been too long, and I can’t see them being able to get the cast members lined up for another shoot, because they are all on different projects.” Thats if even said that at all. You all know the hype and BS syfy spout.
So if this is true then shooting will officially begin in the fall. I just find it rather suspect. You can listen to shanks’ interview on scifi talks.
Mallozi quizzed later, says the following (not on the audio interview, it was on his blog)
When SG-1 and Atlantis is greenlit, the shooting order would be
SG-1 gets preference, and will shoot first, and that will happen in either the summer, or during the break for season 3.(season 3? it will be lucky to survive season 2 lol). It’s possible we’ll shoot after SGU goes to air in the fall.
If Atlantis is greenlit before SG-1 then we’ll make an SGU movie, which would have priority over Atlantis. SGU -> Atlantis and then SG-1.
If both movies are greenlit at the same time, then it will be SG-1 -> then later Atlantis. If SGU is cancelled it won’t make any difference to the time frame of shooting these movies.
It’s quite disturbing they are even considering an SGU movie even ahead of Atlantis in the pecking order.
Anyhoo, fingers crossed SG-1 has been greenlit and that the shanks interview is factual (i have no reason to believe it isn’t.)
September 3rd, 2010 at 10:37 am
Also one bit of tidbit information.
Mallozzi is getting desperate, remember when he called all the Atlantis characters, squared jawed super heroes?
Well now that SGU has really flopped, he admitted there will be a sort of cross over (not really a cross over) in episode 15 season 2. It will feature 2 cast members from Stargate Atlantis. We are looking at it, and it shouldn’t make too much of a difference to the Atlantis movie, because we can re-edit the script at the beginning to allow for it.
Just goes to show, how low this clown is prepared to go, I mean cmon SGU sucks, we don’t want Atlantis cast members to try and prop up a show that was ultimately responsible for Atlantis’ cancellation. Talk about adding insult to injury.
SG-1 cast couldn’t lift SGU, it was insult to those SG-1 actors to even be associated with it, I would have thought. But now to get 2 Atlantis cast members in for some cameo appearances..it just shear desperation.
I know I won’t be watching it, and the movie had better not make allusions to that cross over(not a cross over pe se according to mallozzi)in an SGU episode.
Sorry Mallozzi, Wright and co need to move on.
jeff : As for SGU, though it’s hard to deny the series has been very slow the last 2 episodes of the season were quite good and if they can maintain that pace from this point on I think the show may eventually take off.
I am sorry, but the actors are clueless twerps, who wouldn’t know how to act if they went through acting school. Seriously they are just terrible actors, they have zero chemistry, did i mention they have no acting ability? The show is dull, its crap and full on drama, drama, drama. The last 2 episodes where still dire crap trap from them. Maintain what pace? no matter what they do with this show, the jig is over, regardless of the second season. As for it taking off, I hope it does too straight of our tv screens.
You put garbage in, you get garbage out. Mark my words, the writing is on the wall for this show. Game over even before the mid season hiatus.
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:15 am
Thanks Jason I’m psyched.. I can’t wait. It’s a long time overdue. I could care less about MGM’s financial woes (that only means they didn’t manage their money correctly in the first place). Right now is the best time to make a SG1/SGA movie that has such a large following. Especially right now when the economy is bad, people need their escape from reality. SG1 and SGA provided that escape…I really do miss it. The Stargate simply is and will always be the best prop in hollywood..bar none.
SGU is perverting that prop.
September 3rd, 2010 at 11:29 am
Thing is, ironically, its not MGM footing the bill for either movie, its the syfy channel.
They maintain rights to both shows, even through cancellation. They secured both new movies to appear exclusively on their channel when made. They even put the production order in.
In my opinion, I don’t buy it’s MGM stalling, I reckon it’s down to the SyFy channel and the Bridge Studio’s. I think it’s fair to say they are hell bent on trying to turn a flop into a hit that they can’t see the tree’s for the forest.
SyFy was responsible for the production costs entirely for SG-1 and later Atlantis. When a network orders a show, they are responsible for its costs. Since this is a straight to DVD sales as opposed to a regular movie, and since SyFy still holds the rights, it’s down to them to order MGM to make these movies.
Whether MGM has any money or not, would not make any difference to the these movies productions because they are paid for directly by SyFy, NBC and Universal.
NBC announced last year they had cut over over 500,000$ from their budget for last fall. They barely have anything left, from the cancellations they made to some of their shows. I guess thats the real real reason why SyFy where told to change names, so they where not forced into a corner, with no money.
So at the end of the day, its SyFy, NBC and Universal who would ultimately foot the bill for these movies, so I have zero idea why they where talking about MGM having no money, its completely and utterly irrelevant, since they aren’t putting the money in, in the first place.
They are responsible for merchandising and dealing directly with DVD sales. Apparently MGM is now up for auction.