Producer reveals Atlantis movie title
UPDATE: Mallozzi has confirmed the working title for the Atlantis movie. The report below has been updated accordingly.
The Stargate Atlantis movie now has a finished script and a working title, executive producer and co-writer Joseph Mallozzi reported on his blog this week. Mallozzi teased fans that the movie title may be revealed over the weekend.
Today, this photo surfaced — at his dogs’ Twitter account, of all places!
The photo shows the on-screen title page of Stargate: Extinction. It’s the working title of the film, written by Mallozzi and Paul Mullie, who served as executive producers and show runners on the last two years of the television series.
The title is consistent with last year’s direct-to-DVD SG-1 movies, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum — though it’s possible the studio may wish to keep “Atlantis” in the title to distinguish between the SG-1 and Atlantis films.
“It’s the working title,” Mallozzi added, “but I kind of like it because a) it’s story appropriate, b) a dynamic title, and most importantly c) not ‘Dark Gambit.’”
Stay tuned to GateWorld as the first Atlantis movie continues its way through the production pipe! Read more about it in GateWorld’s Movie guide.
(Thanks to Quade and Carrie for the tip!)
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I agree that it should be Stargate Atlantis Extinction an hope that is what they will do in the finished product. As others have pointed out, I am not watching SGU in part due to the cancellation of SGA BUT mainly I’m not interested in that type of show, based on what I have read and seen, an I wouldn’t have watched even if SGA had not been cancelled, I’m sorry I just don’t like it. An I agree with atlantis4ever I am fan of SGA not the franchise in general.
Dumbledore | May 18 @ 6:08 am@ Atlantis Rocks
Nikst | May 18 @ 7:19 amSo basically its guilty until proven innocent, but you’re not even going to let them try to prove that they are innocent. Well we can be sure of one thing, you are not jury-material =)
@Nikst ok your point being?:
Atlantis Rocks | May 18 @ 8:02 amIf you are a SGU fan judging that the new show will be awesome, this is solely based on info provided by TPTB and interviews and teasers, therefore there is NO proven facts that its gonna be awesome!!!. This is just the opposite of other fans basing there opinions on the same info solely provided by the TPTB, interviews an teasers that its gonna b bad,again therefore there is NO proven facts that its gonna be bad! It hasn’t aired yet BOTH groups are making assumptions are they not? Why is one way correct and fine and the other not?.TakeSGU out of the picture,average people judge what they watch or wont watch based on info,teasers, interviews.At the pictures a trailer comes on you either think ” that looks good, I’ll check it out or I’ll give that a miss” SO YOU ARE basing your decision on something that’s not been aired,NO?.Since TV was invented & people started going to the pictures some have always based what they want to watch on marketing, trailer,ads interviews and reviews etc,this can produce positive AND negative opinions. How may times have you sat there with your remote control channel hopping stopping on the synopsis reading it and thinking “sounds good or sounds bad”. You may well pass on something that’s good because the synopsis didn’t appeal. This type of thing happens in all walks of life, from a critic reviewing a show on the stage, to a restaurant.SO again I don’t understand why so many people seem to think its odd that some fans don’t want to watch the show based on what they have read or seen about it, its actually quite normal.
I NEVER said that I thought it was going to be awesome, it might suck! But I am going to give it a chance. There goes 2/3 of your argumentation out the window. And sorry but you CANT say “TakeSGU out of the picture” because that’s the whole point, it is in the picture, and that’s the biggest, from your point of view it might be the only reason, reason you should give it a chance. You like Atlantis? Did you like SG1? I don’t know why somebody would like just one and not the other. So based on the look at one pilot of SGU and THEN tell the creators to go f themselves if you still don’t like it. I have not, as you seem to think, made up my mind about SGU, I’m not sure that its going to be great or even ok, but I’m going to give it a shot. I can see what you all are saying about it looking like its going to be another BattleStar Galactica and dark and so on, but I am at least going to watch the pilot and then decide if I like it or not.
Nikst | May 18 @ 8:25 am@Nikst we will just have to agree to disagree.
Atlantis Rocks | May 18 @ 8:52 am@ Atlantis Rocks
Nikst | May 18 @ 9:38 amI guess will have to. But I have a feeling you will eventually take a sneak peek at SGU, sooner or later YOU WILL =D
@Nikst With due respect, DON’T presume to to think you know what I will or wont do, coz really your barking up the wrong tree, those that do know me would tell you, when my mind is made up, its made up.
Each to his or her own, I’ll wait for the SGA movie, as for me thats what “I’m interested in” if it doesnt happen, I will follow the actors in there careers!
Atlantis Rocks | May 18 @ 10:23 ammmm SGA Extinction are they trying to say this is it?? i hope not, well its about time we get some news on this and i hope they get all of the actors on this movie!!! because i have only heard they have three signed on….
mrs john sheppard | May 18 @ 12:14 pm@Atlantis Rocks Hmm, do I really need to spell it out for you? Ok: IT WAS A JOKE! Man your easy to piss of aren’t you? That’s one thing I’ve learned. Whatever, let’s just drop the discussion. You hate SGU, even though you haven’t seen the show, and I am going to give it a chance. You’ve made up your mind, I haven’t. The end.
Nikst | May 18 @ 2:17 pmOh look at me I hate SGU. Sorry to say it this way but you SGU bashers are attention whores. No need to pollute all news bits with your complaints, we read them 100 times already. They’d post a Stargate cake receipe on this site and you’d find a way to bash SGU. We get you, OK? Now please let us appreciate good news when it comes in. Thank you.
I’m glad they’re working on the movie and hopefully it will get produced quickly. The more Stargate the happier I am. Since Atlantis is on Earth, me thinks Extinction refers to our planet/species. That or the bad Asgards are killing all humans in the Pegasus galaxy since Atlantis is gone to get rid of the Wraith. Hopefully we’ll get more details soon!
danito | May 18 @ 4:31 pmWhy do people hate SGU so much? Let me ask you a couple questions.
1. Do you like SG1, and if you do how can you like SGA there different in so many levels, the acting in SG1 is far better.
2. How many people didnt like when SGA came out, were you guys the same way agianst SGA as you are on SGU?
3. How many are you still upset that SG1 and SGA got cancelled? If you are try not to take your anger out on SGU, it maybe good and it maybe not.
In MY opinion, SGU, it looks interesting, I’m not saying it looks awesome, but interesting. Some good actors have join, and some new ones.
To me, SG1 is better than SGA, the reason is simple the orginial is always going to be better. For example, look at star wars the orginial first three rocked, the next three not so much. As long as SGU lives up the the humor and story telling as SG1/SGA Ill watch.
sramir2 | May 18 @ 5:07 pmOh and im sorry I forgot this classic quotes from SG1:
Col. Samantha Carter: General.
sramir2 | May 18 @ 5:10 pmBrigadier General Jack O’Neill: Colonel. We’ve all met.
Dr. Daniel Jackson: Yes, actually we know each other’s life stories.
Brigadier General Jack O’Neill: That snippiness?
Dr. Daniel Jackson: Is that a word?
@ sramir2
The acting better in SG1? Well you cant say that in general. The guy who plays Rodney McCay, David Hewlett, in Atlantis beats pretty much anybody on SG1 as far as the acting goes. The only one I like better is Richard Dean Anderson, and Michael Shanks.
But Shanks and Hewlett are both right there, doing an even battle. The only reason I like SG1 more is because of Richard Dean Anderson, Jack O’Neill is the best! SG1 without him was never even close to being as good as it was with him. By the way, I’m not a SGU hater =)
As far as acting is concerned SGU has allot more power under the hood. The thing is, when Atlantis started I thought that they will never have a character that can match Jack O’Neill, and they didn’t, but they had Rodney, and he was awesome, but in a different way. And who’s to say that SGU won’t have awesome characters, not the same, but still awesome.
Nikst | May 18 @ 5:46 pmStargate Atlantis: Extinction?
Say those words out loud, it sounds terrible. Hopefully it’ll just be Stargate: Extinction
stevearm | May 18 @ 6:03 pm@sramir2
First all NO NOT REALLY a SG1 fan its ok, saw some eps,I AM SGA fan, every ep, love the Show, Sheppard is WAY better than O’Neill IMO. Just because you like one part of the franchise DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU AUTOMATICALLY LIKE THE OTHER BITS! I’m not a puppy dog led around by a collar a fed bones, so WHY the assumptions that I have 2 like SGU! Just because its got Stargate in the title?!
Sramir2 YES in your opinion there are some good actors, in mind there are NOT personally I don’t like Robert Carlyle SO WHY WATCH A SHOW with a actor you don’t care for, IMO I loved the 2nd set of Star Wars films almost as much as the first. Wasn’t around last time when SG1 was axed, didn’t mind as I was mainly into SGA an at the end of the day SG1 did have 10 seasons again this is IMO. If people choose for what ever reason NOT to like SGU so what!! its there choice. ME I think it looks horrible a BSG clone at best a bad Sci Fi prog at worse. AND I HATED BSG!
All I want is A SGA film or ideally the show back as 1 film here an there ” maybe” does not replace a weekly show!
Joycelm2 | May 18 @ 6:07 pmZero interest in universe. All I care about is the atlantis movie. Anyone who gets bent about that can just impotently sit there and deal.
Imitation Tofu | May 18 @ 7:10 pmI liked SGA quite a bit better than SG1, although it was good too.
Sylvia | May 18 @ 10:31 pmIn terms of acting, most all the lead characters on both shows were quite talented, although I am most appreciative of Joe Flanigan’s acting skills.
@Joycelm2
Hey, calm down first.(paraphrase here: did they get the dounuts, and you made sure they are kispy kremes ) I didnt say that you were ‘I’m not a puppy dog led around by a collar a fed bones’(actually thats a pretty good line anyway). And aslo about Robert Carlye I really don’t know who he even is, and if hes not your kind of actor, OK find by me. I never watch BSG so I don’t care I LOVE the universe of Stargate, I love the,’snippiness’, of the show. . I’m not saying that SGU will be good, I hope it is and if it is not I will yell, and cuss Sci Fi and the people who made it. But guess what ‘the man’ decided it was time for SGA.
@Nikst
Your right on David Hewlett hes awesome. but, Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Michael Shanks, Chris Judge, and Don S. Davis(I HATED that he Died:( ) had great chemistry togehter. While the characters of SGA didn’t always feel right. Their OK actors, but they didn’t feel right(maybe cause they were only together for 5 ****ing years). The only character that I really didn’t like was Rachel Luttrell(BUT SHE IS A HOTTIE!!!!)
Next Quote:
Prior: We are beacons on the road to enlightenment.
sramir2 | May 18 @ 10:34 pmCameron Mitchell: No, you’re dark-side intergalactic encyclopedia salesmen. Unfortunately, the home office hasn’t been quite upfront with you.
Dr. Daniel Jackson, Ph.D.: Nice work on the metaphor.
Cameron Mitchell: Thank you.
I never said that SGA is bad, but what I am saying is this, they seem almost just to throw things from SG1 into SGA. Like the asgard I think the only reason they put them in there was to relieve the tension between them and us.
@Nikst
the acting is on par with each other. but SG1 just seem to follow better. Both had there downfalls in acting, and both had their upsides to.
Classic Quote:
Jack O’Neill: If we want to find out who’s behind this, we have to do what the Asgard do.
sramir2 | May 18 @ 10:42 pmDaniel: You mean bluff?
Jack O’Neill: Yep. We just need to do it without revealing what we know.
Daniel: Which is nothing.
Jack O’Neill: Right. But they don’t know we know nothing.
Imitation Tofu, I’m with you here, couldnt give a toss about SGU an couldnt give a toss that others think its terrible I’m not watching it ITS JUST PLAIN SIMPLE, I’M NOT INTERESTED IN IT, SO BLOODY WELL GET OVER IT, OR IGNORE ME.
Its just SGA I’m interested in full stop! an the working the title of the film its self feels me with dread Extinction? After all this time couldnt JM have come up with a better working title, I mean they must have known that people would start to see the bad side of that name, or maybe not.
Extinction of what the whole thing, the final nail in the coffin of SGA or just the Wraith or Asgard etc.. STUPID working title IMO, just fuelled an already VERY HEATED debate Well DONE JM & TPTB. This whole thing sucks, it just sucks.
@ Joycelm2 your right 1 movie now an again DOES NOT make up the lost of the show. Considering we have NO idea if the actors have been approached or there is the money people in place, as I heard on another forum that MGM are in trouble financially? An if JF isnt available or doesnt want to do it, then that will be it for me, I will switch off for good and just follow other stuff they all do! They either get them ALL back or nothing IMO
shepsgirl4ever | May 19 @ 3:23 amthe name Extinction is good, if they play it right. do you really think they would make a movie without having the orginal cast? if they did that it would be horrible, in every which wat possible. and Stop yelling. the only thing i was doing was voicing my opinion. some of you people need to calm down. Good for you that you don’t like SGU.
anybody have a clue what the third SG1 movie will be named? all i really know is that it will be about Jack O’niell and that every person is signed execpt for chris judge. they don’t want cluadia black and thats good for me.
sramir2 | May 19 @ 3:48 pmits all about sga. im not interested in watching universe. i just like sga becuase of the humor, bickering between john and mckay and other stuff. as for the sga movie we all know that JF has not been approached yet what the heck is TPTB waiting for?
mrs john sheppard | May 19 @ 4:00 pmhey all u guys said the same thing about atlantis when it started, “oh its gonna suck and im not gonna watch it” now look at u. u all like it, and ur giving sgu the boot before it even airs.
hbkcjk | May 19 @ 5:14 pmI don’t like it when people say “I hate it just because” and it’s true that people can like all the shows: SG-1, SGA and the future SGU, too.
On the other hand, to bash people who have objective reasons not to watch SGU, that’s very much not okay either.
I for one have no intention to watch SGU, because I dislike Robert Carlyle, I hate the “darker tone” and BSG/ST:V likeness (I hated BSG) and the characters are simply eye-rolling (a senator’s daughter in space? really?). I watched the trailers, I read the interviews and the more I learn about it, the more I dislike it. The thing is, I did approach it objectively – what I’ve seen so far turned me off.
But I’m very much excited about the SGA movie and I hope that they will film it this year! It’ll be awesome to see the team back together – at least I hope that it’ll be a team-driven movie, not a wannabe space romance á la Brain Storm.
katikatnik | May 20 @ 4:10 am