Stargate reboot

[notposting]

By Emmerich/Devlin, movie trilogy planned.

Edit: this is a less a reboot, than a "hey let's follow up our mid 90s Egypt and aliens movie with more of them and pretend the TV shows never happened". The people who made the original movie got the rights back from MGM.

http://www.gateworld.net/news/2014/05/stargates-return-mgm-announces-new-movie-trilogy/

Say goodbye to 17 TV seasons, 2 movies, even books/audiobooks/cartoons worth of character development, world building, and backstory.

 

[PieIsAwesome]

Good.

The series ran its course. Time for something fresh.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPPEE. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE.

 

[Jaskalas]

The TV series were epic.

Any "reboot" movie is automatically disowned unless it proves itself. To do that, it has to know what we loved from the series, and embrace those sci-fi elements. Then somehow present them in a meaningful way in a mere 2-3 hours.

Heh, good luck.

Oh, and no re-casting. Use NEW characters. This is mandatory.

 

[notposting]

Good.

The series ran its course. Time for something fresh.

It's going to continue the story laid down by that non-descript 90s movie featuring Egypt and aliens or something.

They could do fresh without it being SG-1 again, bring in some new writers and show runners, think of new ideas. Feature the SGC. Push SGU again but not with Syfy. Anything.

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPPEE. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE.

You would think the PILES of fans going to conventions that have nothing to do with the movie would make them think better of this...

 

[PieIsAwesome]

It's going to continue the story laid down by that non-descript 90s movie featuring Egypt and aliens or something.

They could do fresh without it being SG-1 again, bring in some new writers and show runners, think of new ideas. Feature the SGC. Push SGU again but not with Syfy. Anything.



You would think the PILES of fans going to conventions that have nothing to do with the movie would make them think better of this...

17 seasons. Let it go.

 

[Eug]

Oh, and no re-casting. Use NEW characters. This is mandatory.

Anyhoo, even though I liked the various series, I hope they reboot based on the story of the movie, and ignore absolutely everything else. And yes, I hope they use some of the same characters, particularly Dr. Jackson.

 

[piasabird]

SG Universe ended horribly. They could start from right at that point as far as I am concerned or maybe a few escape pods make it and they wake up 20 years later or they take over a few of these alien pods and manage to escape to their world in a new universe.

Maybe the machine block AI people will come and rescue them.

 

[postmortemIA]

Original Movie was good, but tv show brought the franchise. If it wasn't for shows, there wouldn't be this reboot. What fans want is some nod to shows, or even better, movie that continues where shows ended.

 

[lupi]

One of the recent continuum episodes had amanda carter listed as director.

 

[T9D]

This was known for a long time now that they are working on a new stargate. I'm excited. I'm open to something new. I don't want to even see anyone from the old cast. They did their things, for a long long time. It was nice while they did it, but now they are old and it's over. I don't want to see anymore of them.

 

[Sable]

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPPEE. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE.

a thousand times this.

 

[mnewsham]

17 seasons. Let it go.

Yeah 17 fairly good seasons. Now the guy who says he HATES those 17 seasons wants to come back and redo everything the way he originally wanted for the 90's movie which while it spawned a fantastic show, was worse than the show by far. I do not think this will be a good thing for the franchise. This guy has never had a box office hit AFAIK.

 

[tommo123]

i just want a new stargate series like SG-1 or Atlantis (not universe though - was crap).

we would have had an Atlantis tv movie if it wasn't for the economy screwing that up

 

[Ruptga]

Yeah 17 fairly good seasons. Now the guy who says he HATES those 17 seasons wants to come back and redo everything the way he originally wanted for the 90's movie which while it spawned a fantastic show, was worse than the show by far. I do not think this will be a good thing for the franchise. This guy has never had a box office hit AFAIK.

Agreed, except that the franchise is dead. They can't ruin SG1, it's already over. What they can do is resurrect a monster, a mockery of the show(s) we enjoyed for years, and if it's successful with the drooling masses they can try to rub it in our faces for years, but we don't have to watch it.

 

[lupi]

Yes this has been known, and I believe posted before.

No SGU didn't suck, just way too monotonous at the beginning. By second half of the second season it was getting pretty interesting and would have last longer if started that way. Although how quickly they turned on cancelling SGA you have to wonder if scifi was just ready to kill off the entire series anyways.

 

[Kadarin]

Yeah 17 fairly good seasons. Now the guy who says he HATES those 17 seasons wants to come back and redo everything the way he originally wanted for the 90's movie which while it spawned a fantastic show, was worse than the show by far. I do not think this will be a good thing for the franchise. This guy has never had a box office hit AFAIK.

Roland Emmerich never had a box office hit? Independence Day did quite well.

 

[Eug]

I don't know what some of you guys are talking about. While I enjoyed the shows, they were way, way, way more cheesy than the original movie, which is actually one of my faves. The shows were almost as cheesy as Farscape at times.

The original movie also did quite well at the box office.

BTW, I like Stargate about 5X better than Independence Day. However, I will say that while I look forward to a Stargate reboot, I'm not sure Roland Emmerich would be my first choice, even though he did the first movie which I liked a lot. He has a tendency toward camp, even when he's not intending it.

 

[tommo123]

seriously? the shows were serious(ish) at times but were funny too.

the movie was great but sg-1 and atlanis trumped it (IMO of course). i loved stargate.

 

[poofyhairguy]

I think as long as the core of Stargate remains (aka a good Sci-Fi that ignores Trek rules that most Sci Fi's follow) I don't mind if this is a reboot.

 

[corwin]

Good sci-fi is good sci-fi, I'll check it out and hope for the best

 

[maniacalpha1-1]

Terminate the reboots and make new series/movies based on the show's continuity.

 

[mnewsham]

Roland Emmerich never had a box office hit? Independence Day did quite well.

I think wikipedia sums up his films pretty well.

 

[Paratus]

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPPEE. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOPE.

 

[slugg]

I think as long as the core of Stargate remains (aka a good Sci-Fi that ignores Trek rules that most Sci Fi's follow) I don't mind if this is a reboot.

Care to explain? I love the entire franchise (so far) and I've always thought that the shows give quite a nod to Star Trek, especially TNG.