MGM closes $500 million refinancing deal, new productions on the way
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Wednesday - February 8, 2012 |
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There’s no news for fans of the long-running Stargate television series yet, but production studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has just taken a big step forward. The studio, which emerged from bankruptcy at the end of 2010 (story), has just completed a deal to secure $500 million in new financing.
Some of the money will be used to pay off the studio’s remaining debts, but most will go toward the production of new film and television projects. MGM is already in production on a number of high-profile projects co-produced with other studios, including The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey and The Hobbit: There and Back Again (with Warner Bros.) and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (with Paramount Pictures).
Production on the next James Bond movie, Skyfall, is also underway, as are remakes of RoboCop, Carrie, and Poltergeist.
At least one new television series, Vikings, is also in the works (story). MGM also produces Teen Wolf for MTV, which will air its second season this summer.
Co-CEOs Gary Barber and Roger Birnbaum managed to pay off a $325 million term loan in just one year, rather than the five years planned for. The pair told Deadline they plan to grow the studio from this point forward, and the new line of bank credit gives them the cash to do so.
“Not only have we paid off the debt but we have a significant amount of cash on the balance sheet and we now have a full untapped revolving credit facility,” the CEOs said. “The company is now completely unlevered with the ability to explore any opportunities. We have the currency to acquire assets to grow MGM. When we came into the company there were not a lot of project in developments. We started from scratch, and now we have a very interesting slate of pictures. Obviously Bond and The Hobbit led us into this new era. Now that we’ve got more buying power, people may come to us first so we won’t be left at the bottom of the barrel.”
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Aw, I really want the SGA movie. Maybe someone at MGM will think to dust off the idea one of these days.
Sylvia | February 8 @ 9:30 pmThis is encouraging. Perhaps someone from here can “come to us (them)” and propose a re-invigoration of the Stargate franchise. Volunteers?
Pioneering | February 8 @ 9:30 pmWell, we still have a little over two years until the Destiny completes the FTL journey between galaxies, so…
rsanchez1 | February 8 @ 9:42 pmA campaign to get Stargate on their minds isn’t a bad idea. but with the cast and crew spread out it will take time.
Mrja84 | February 8 @ 9:43 pm‘now’ we might be getting somewhere!!
majorsal | February 8 @ 9:47 pmIm not getting my hopes up, some stargate movies would be nice ;). But it’s mgm, so im not counting on them to do anything.
Jackoneill | February 8 @ 10:26 pmNow is the time to remind them of us.
meo3000 | February 8 @ 10:53 pmAs an unemployed studio electronic tech in Los Angeles I am very happy to hear this. Things have been slow. I would like nothing more than to catch a job at the studio which makes Stargate. Maybe they shoot it at Bridge, probably, or maybe in LA. Just as long as they start hiring soonest! I do work in lighting, thus the name.
Lightmaker | February 8 @ 11:23 pmI’ll bet they’re waiting for a milestone anniversary to announce something. I would personally like to see: an SGA movie that gets Atlantis back to Pegasus, an SG-1 movie that reveals the Stargate to the public finally, an SGU movie that concludes the series run and would maybe end on a cliffhanger that would lead to: a combo movie with ALL characters that would finally put the SG-1/SGA/SGU era to a rest and maybe pave the way for a new series (with a different creative team)? I’m sure most of the actors involved in all three shows would be happy to do something for the fans. And honestly, as one of MGM’s big franchises and moneymakers, and as one of the series that put SyFy on the map, would it be too much to ask for just 4 movies to give us closure on all these series? I mean, 4 movies wouldn’t be near what we could really used, but I’d be happy with that if it did more than end on a cliffhanger. Show the franchise some respect. And its not like these things are THAT expensive – I mean, didn’t they make Continuum and Ark of Truth on shoestring budgets? And SyFy could maybe help fund some of it (not likely).
Anyway, That would be my ideal way for things to continue. 4 movies and maybe pave the way for a new series, something different but not as dark or serialized as SGU.
Anyway, its probably not gonna happen but that would be my hope. One last time to see all of these wonderful actors in action. If anything, SGU and Atlantis need better closure than what we got. I’d be fine if we didn’t get SG-1 since Continuum and Ark of Truth sort of serve to close it up but I think if the Stargate is revealed to the public, it should be done via SG-1 and not other series with the original team.
Browncoat1984 | February 9 @ 2:00 amAnd STILL people think the SGA and SG1 movies could happen. Its absurd!
The Tenth Doctor | February 9 @ 3:52 am@Browncoat1984, a movie combining the stars for all three series would be horrible, the three series are seperate and should be kept that way. But, hopefully there is some more Atlantis, and possibly SGU, as Atlantis was left with the a horrible ending, and after 5 seasons you expect a little more.
narim | February 9 @ 6:16 amNew Stargate will probably come out at the same time as those Farscape webisodes that they promised us five years ago.
rambosmurf | February 9 @ 7:09 amMaybe there’s hope…
Alan | February 9 @ 1:02 pmThe most I’d expect from this is a movie, whether it be SGU or SGA I don’t know. I’d love if that meant SGU could be picked up again next year, but that’s unlikely in the extreme. It really is a pity this didn’t happen last year, as SGU was shaping up to be right up there with some of the best of SG-1.
Daedalus | February 9 @ 1:28 pmI don’t think the SGA and SG-1 movies have a cat in hell’s chance of getting made. Too much time has passed, actors are doing other projects and the sets have all been destroyed, add to this the fact that the direct to DVD market is still pretty shoddy, I doubt that makes any SG-1/SGA film a no-brainer financially.
I’ll hope for an SGU TV movie or another series, but I doubt either of those will come for several years, if ever.
talyn2k1 | February 9 @ 1:52 pmMGM is just funneling all that money into Skyline (new 007 movie) because Skyline’s box office returns will be ten times that of both the SG1 movies combined. Its a business decision, Stargate is dead and not coming back anytime soon.
The Admiral | February 9 @ 2:00 pmI don’t like being a Doubting Thomas, but after all this time, (and the fact the actors have had to move on to other projects) I can see them going down the same road as James Bond, Batman and Star Trek. – Complete concept reboot, setting the gates discovery in the “present”.
Bond and The Hobbit are solid franchises that have made money on the big screen. If and when Stargate returns, it will need to be able to carry that level of promise. Now is not that time I am afraid.
Thunderbird 2 | February 9 @ 4:00 pmI’m amazed that people still think the canceled movies are going to come out. I’d love for it to happen–but it’s not going to. Move on, folks. Stargate is done.
skittles | February 9 @ 6:55 pm@rsanchez1
Technically it was 2010 when Destiny went into FTL so closer to one year.
Make it happen MGM. (Though there’s the obvious concern with RC’s availability).
Kanten | February 9 @ 8:20 pmMGM sucks for not doing a Stargate movie before now, but I think, they’re making one. It’s better to spend money on a sure thing, than waste twenty million on something that you’d need to spend another ten to advertise. But if they’re making a movie, it’d had better cost no more than twelve million, be in 3D, and deal with the Ancients, the Asurans, alternate universe, the return of the Ori, and Ba’al being manipulated by Anubis. Space battles, lots and lots of space battles.
Coremae | February 10 @ 12:12 amI Have just got done reading your comments on the star-gate universe. i wanted to know why they cant finish the seasons off to get them back to earth….Are they going to be bringing it back out to finish the saga in the near future.
rodney | February 10 @ 3:10 amI would like them to entertain the idea of trying Stargate out on a tight budget.
hithere | February 10 @ 8:38 amI thought they had secured this months ago? Either way, I wouldn’t expect any new Stargate any time soon. Spyglass are apparently not interested in the franchise.
Jenks | February 10 @ 12:06 pmThis was great news. As i make my way through season 8 (lil ahead of the rewatch) I keep wishing and thinking of “new” Stargate, and now it looks not so glim. Doent look hopeful… But doesnt look impossible either. Only the future can tell. But Im keeping my fingers crossed for new Stargate, Boy wont that be the day!!! Id even watch it on Cable TV (instead of the net) just to help its ratings!!!
acey916 | February 10 @ 10:08 pmi don’t think it’s too late to do anything stargate tv franchise related, but it should be done very soon or it will be!
not a reboot, but just do one final movie/mini series to tie up the current tv franchise.
if i were mgm, though, i’d do the most with sga and sg1, with a much smaller amount of sgu. (just enough to tie up the sgu storyline, but not have it the main story.) even though sgu was the series with the biggest cliffhanger, it’s also the one that hurt the franchise’s reputation. stick with what’s popular and sells first and foremost.
just my opinion.
majorsal | February 10 @ 10:17 pmI don’t believe that some people still entertain the idea of sg1 and sga movies.It ain’t happening,deal with it already.Dvd market is pretty much dead,so to do smthn like that stargate tv franchise would need to have feature potential and the fact is,it simply doesn’t now.And as time goes by it’ll have even less..if that’s even possible.The actors are too old and frankly aren’t of the caliber for that.(not that they’re bad)
Jim | February 10 @ 11:47 pmAnything that has any chance whatsoever is some low budget sgu tv movie to finish the story,but even that is highly unlikely.
MGM has been perfectly clear about their intentions,or lack thereof for Stargate,what don’t you understand about that?
I like to think that stargate will come back and come back big. A big screen movie would be my preferred choice. I know it’s highly unlikely to ever happen but there are times when I watch episodes like The Lost City and think “I’d love to see this in the cinema”.
It worked for Star Trek back in 1979. 10 years after the cancelation of the original series, it sparked a long running series of films. Admittedly they ranged from good (Wrath of Khan) to pretty poor (The final Frontier).
The 3 things that really need to be addressed in the stargate franchise are the stargate program going public and the worlds reaction, a full on wraith attack on earth would be cool but more importantly WTF is wormhole drive?
But in whatever form stargate returns in (if it ever does) it had better not include time travel. If it does then i’ll be forced to build my own time machine and send a killer cyborg back to kill them before they could ever write the episode.
Crispyduck | February 11 @ 10:55 amTheres an article on AirlockAlpha (i think it was that site) that had a brief quote from one of the SGU writers blogs that said they chose 3 years for the FTL jump for this exact reason. Hobbit, Bond and another big budget movie (possibly StarWars?) would be in theaters and MGM would have some more cash. The writers didn’t say that they expected any of the cash to go to SGU, but it would give them the opportunity to do so.
I just checked on AlphaAirlock and couldn’t find the article – I didn’t look too hard. But where ever it was, they also predicted the end of the Syfy channel around that same 3 year mark.
I’m optimistically keeping my fingers crossed, it seems like it is going according to plan.
Cay | February 11 @ 11:30 pmFirst of all,I’m glad to see MGM back on it’s feet. I can’t understand why everybody feels the need to rehash old movies with remakes. Surely the creative gene has not gone the way of the Dinosaur. I believe MGM owes it to the Stargate world to make at least one final epic movie that involves the Stargate going public. Imagine the Corporate world, The SGC & the combined Military forces of the planet in an all out Sci-Fi epic. You could even have the Destiny rock up at the end to save the day. To be honest, I doubt you could have kept it a secret for that long anyway. Needs to be done.
Craggles | February 12 @ 4:43 amThis could even reboot the concept for a future series. MGM, Stargate rocks. Make it happen.
“I’m not too crazy about this ‘don’t call us we’ll call you’ policy
DennisNL | February 12 @ 8:26 amSG fans (who often use the revival of Trek as a sliver of hope for Spyglass/MGM to do the same for Stargate) usually forget that it was a very large swell of interest from Trek fans, certain media institutions/events, and behind-the-scenes creators/stars that got Paramount to take the risk in the late 70’s to revive Star Trek. And to a much smaller scale, Trek was re-revived in 2009, via that same formula…
Sadly, I haven’t seen such a move or movement towards a SG revival/restart, to my knowledge. I think it would take a huge fan and media uproar, along with strong voices from the likes of RDA, Devlin, or even Wright (if he gets his head back in the damn game, that is) to even get MGM to harbor a *thought* of getting the series green-lit for a small movie or mini-series at this point in time. Again, I don’t see that happening—but, I wouldn’t mind being surprised… (*fingers and toes crossed*)
medegno51 | February 12 @ 12:47 pmI am positive that someone at MGM is thinking about Stargate now that they have money. I doubt they will do any sort of continuation of the TV shows.
What i would expect would be a movie reboot in the vain of what they did with Star Trek.
mulderc | February 12 @ 5:36 pmwell we should all have our fingers crossed for a sga movie >:D but being realistic, i doubt it will happen. :(
iamsgaforever | February 12 @ 8:09 pmsg1/atlantis/sgu aren’t *that* old as to be out of date, especially for the actors and fans.
majorsal | February 12 @ 11:14 pm@mulderc-
“I am positive that someone at MGM is thinking about Stargate now that they have money. I doubt they will do any sort of continuation of the TV shows.”
That would be really, REALLY sad… but I get the feeling you are right.
@majorsal-
“sg1/atlantis/sgu aren’t *that* old as to be out of date, especially for the actors and fans.”
No, they’re not ‘out of date’; but as I said, I think SG needs some major acting names like Carlyle or Na, along with a super push from a well-known (respected?) runner, to even convince Spyglass/MGM to advance the moolah for bringing back our version of Stargate before it *really* gets old.
And, as far as the fans go: We really don’t have quite the pedigree- *passion*, yes, but not the pedigree- of a fanbase similar to Trek’s at this moment in time. We would need fans who are well-known NASA and/or university-type engineers… clamor from writers like Peter A. David and Frank Darabont… and media institutions like Starlog Magazine or Canada’s SPACE channel all in our ‘base’, to even get somebody’s attention to go our way over at the new MGM. Not IMPOSSIBLE, but it will be very hard, nowadays.
medegno51 | February 13 @ 1:12 amNo Stargate yet ?? Gee why are we not surprised.. How about some GOOD Stargate news GW ?? When was the last time you’ve posted some GOOD Stargate news .. For example.. The Grammy Awards on 2/12/12 just used TWO count em TWO ACTUAL Stargates with ancient symbols and everything at the Grammy Awards! SG fans would look at that as good news, but they have to find that out at Save Future Stargate Travel… A group of good folks working around the clock to reopen the gate .. Just sayin’ .. Isn’t it about time for some GOOD Stargate News ??… Thanks, J.S.
themaingmaster | February 13 @ 2:53 pmAs great as this news is I highly doubt they will do anything with any of the past Stargate series. SG-1 is too old, SGA has been too long and the stars have moved on and they dismantled the set of SGU so that is pretty hopeless as well.
If anything they may start a new series of Stargate to appease the fans at best.
johnysmackahoe | February 15 @ 3:49 amHere’s an idea. Why not have future episodes searche for the original stargates. Call it: Stargate: UniOri
In the first of these episodes Daniel Jackson undergoes an archealogical expedition where he uncovers evidence of a mysterious long gone race far older than the Ancients. Futhermore (through several episodes) he eventually uncovers evidence that indicates the Ancients from 50 million years ago often worshipped a far older race. It was this old race, not the Ancients, who were the true original Stargate builders. An important reference he discovers from some Ancient text is what he theorizes to be a gate address in an older stargate dialect representing the home address of the old race. The episodes explores Daniel’s visit to this very distant and theoretical stargate address.
When he gets there – he is more than shocked by what he sees right away. The strange world appeared to be harboring not one stargate, but thousands of weird looking stargates erected all over its entire barren landscape. He also notices in the sky that this very old forgotten world appears to be shrouded deep within the bowels of a huge gamma ray cloud left over from the Big Bang.
This old world was here just shortly after the Big Bang. Back then the small condensed universe only had blue super giant hydrogen stars within only a few protogalaxies. The stars then were thousands bigger than our sun and possessed incredible powerful force fields. Somehow the civilization that once lived here had to learn how to survive the intense force fields of the time and stabilize their sun. The fruits of their labor enabled them to gain knowledge of how to not only travel between stars but also how to spread the seed of life onto hundreds of other worlds within their small universe. Since then the universe has greatly expanded and the hundreds of worlds with life has in turn multiplied into a quintillion new worlds with life. This old race was noted in the ancient text to be nicknamed as the ‘Uni-Ori’ where they were worshipped as the ‘universal origin’ species of all life in the known universe.
Upon closer inspection of the stargates the SG team observes that one of the unusual stargates was actually a series of linked stargates bundled together. In his cultural studies on the planet Daniel recalls references of a type of stargate that really is not a stargate. Instead what this god-like race built was a weird device they called ‘a great conscious mapping machine interface’ (CMMI). So instead of transporting you to another world – the CMMI’s middle stargate would trap the content of your physical body in a suspended state while the outer stargate in the CMMI series duplicates and transfers the contents of your memories into an energy entity it creates. Both Daniel and Sam quickly realize that this must be how an Ancient can ‘transcend’.
Future episodes may not have to deal with the original SG1 team but may instead spring up new SG teams that examine in greater the trail of this remarkable god-like race from eons ago.
Founder | February 15 @ 5:05 pmWhy not make a final SGA movie that ties up all the lose ends. With the wraith and everything back in the Pegasus Galaxy. And then make a new series of Stargate with a new SG team. I love SGA and won’t give up hope for one last movie.
TommyBoy | February 16 @ 11:05 amAnd i think Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett, Jason Momoa, Ratchel Lutrell, Paul Mcgillion, Jewel Staite and the rest of the crew will agree to make one final SGA movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKUPckmFAzI Go to 9:30 and listen what he says.
TommyBoy | February 16 @ 12:07 pmCancel Teen Wolf, cancel Vikings, rehire Brad Wright & Robert C. Cooper, grrenlight the SGA movie, and finsh Stargate Universe properly!!!
Billz | February 16 @ 6:11 pm@Acet916 – If watching the episodes on the web doesn’t count on the ratings then why watch it on the web!!! Every year the ratings go down… some are genuinley not watching… and if its because some are going to the web to watch it then its your own faults that the Stargate francise is dying!!!!!!! You always hear of t.v. programs going off air because the ratings arn’t good enough!!!
I really do hope that the Stargate francise comes back!! And all of those that have commented saying its “dead” “its not coming back” go to hell we dont need no negativity around here!!! Stargate SG-1 is the longest running Sci-Fi and as a francise is getting almost as big as Star Trek!! So lets keep positive and keep our dreams alive!!!
And @Browncoat1984 i’m loving the idea of a Stargates SG-1 where they tell the world about the Stargate… that would be awesome!! and they bring all 3 casts in SG-U returns home after their 5 years seeding galaxies…. Atlantis still sat in the Pacific (just for the time being…. obviously) perfect…. Atlantis to carry on as movies and i’d hope they continue SG-U as a series….
@Founder – just no, no is all i have to say…. it makes no sence… its not believeable.
Basically my message is lets keep the Gate open (well reopen it first… but when it is open lets keep it that way!) Stargate can get bigger than what it is if we keep it alive!! Maybe even give Star Trek a run for its money =D And i love Star Trek and it can do more if it needed too!! ALOT more…. and so can Stargate!!!!!!!!
spikester1990 | February 17 @ 8:51 amMaybe MGM can make more money on these movies and series they are making and maybe do a new series of stargate witha new SG-team. But most of all i want them to do a SGA movie or perhaps a mini serie so we get a proper ending of the great stargate serie.
TommyBoy | February 17 @ 12:52 pmThat’s positive news. I’d love to see a new stargate tv series more than another film. Drag it out a bit more! Who knows… one season could lead to two! They can’t let the franchise die!
Delton | February 17 @ 11:39 pmWhile they’re at it, maybe they can pick up Legend of the Seeker. I don’t know why another network hasn’t picked up this amazing show. That, along with a new Stargate series, would be the perfect way to ensure sci-fi fans are truly happy.
sammykewl | February 19 @ 2:06 am@ medegno51
How can you compare a franchise that’s lasted for 17 seasons with a failed show that lasted only 3 seasons. Thing is, it makes sense to bring back Stargate. It didn’t make sense to bring back Star Trek back then.
Evilslayer | February 20 @ 5:29 ami am glad MGM is getting back on their feet financially .i want the stargate series to continue on too . a fan above said it would be 2 years before Destiny reaches the next Galaxy .by then the current vampire and horrow shows will have run their course . for stargate to return we need a executive at the top to want the show back and who is willing to “make it so ” as Picard said on ST/NG . then we will see a re-birth of the Stagate series . SGU would have worked if the show had people from Atlantis and SG-1 running the show along with Dr. Rush .it took a long wait for the Star Trek fans to get a new series , hopefully our wait will not be as long .
asgard6198 | February 21 @ 3:49 am@Evilslayer
‘Twould seem that history did not agree with you.
Different fan base, different media scales, different era…
Still, I agree with you that SG should be brought back in some way or the other. But based on current news, I simply can’t envision a scenario where such a wish would be granted.
medegno51 | February 21 @ 4:16 amDoes anyone actually really think that Stargate is even on the radar right now?
What brought back Star Trek? Huge response among the fanbase. What made the Farscape mini possible? A huge response among the fanbase. What has the Stargate fanbase done? Pretty much nothing, at least that I’ve heard of. Too many of the fans that gave the fanbase strength jumped ship when SGU came around. There has been lots of whining about it, but no real action. And right now, it wouldn’t matter if there was action. The timing would just be bad to try to make it happen. SGA’s cast has moved on. SGU’s cast has not only moved on but has already started to pretend that SGU never happened.
It will be at least a few more years before there would be any chance. And realistically, after what happened with SGU tearing the fanbase apart, it’s not very likely that if it did come back, it would resemble anything like the past Stargate shows. They would need to reboot. And reboots take time. Let it sleep for now. Wait for the right person to come along to reboot it. When you try to force a reboot before it’s time, it rarely goes well.
mythos | February 25 @ 12:37 ammedegno51 and mythos ,
asgard6198 | February 25 @ 3:15 pmthe events surrounding Star Trek and its 12 year wait for fans I lived through . both of you seem to have only read versions of history written by critics who hated the show . the 3rd year of star trek was not very good and the ratings eventually killed the show. SGU followed on the heels of atlantis and sg-1 . i never said the original characters would be available for or want to be in any sequel . i just stated what happened , robert cooper developed a soap opera series with people starnded on a ancient starship and he would not and did not do anything to change the story lines to make the show more like stargate sg-1 .I stand by what I said ! in the end when all of the vampire and werwolf and mid-evil shows fall out of favor we MIGHT see a return of the stargate series maybe in a movie form like the new star trek movie . i myself have moved on to newer shows ans re-watching older tv series from the past . I liked stargate and the following sag-1 and atlantis , i never really like the story line of sgu . Destiny was a AWESOME Spacship built by the Ancients and that was where the show should have spent more time on in my opinion and less on “marital affairs”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
STRANDED ON
asgard6198 | February 25 @ 3:17 pmYou are all telling it like it is basically.Yes the fans jump ship instead of whining about it all right,but sticking with it.Those guys were surfing the web and no one can deny that they started making changes in season 2.You don’t leave something you’d loved for 15 years after bad half of a season,or even 1 season..you stick with it and try to make it better,by criticizing and even whining in this case.But that’s me.
Also yes,nobody is gonna make those movies,or the show now..it will take time..probably a long time.
And yes they definitely should at some point bring it back.
Does anybody think that the movies,or the show..specifically SGU should/should have looked like that Prometheus teaser trailer? That was my first thought,lol! http://youtu.be/r-EZC5zn2F
Jim | February 25 @ 4:37 pmMaybe this link’ll work. http://youtu.be/r-EZC5zn2F
Jim | February 25 @ 4:44 pm@asgard6198:
Lemme just set a few facts in front of ya.
I, too, am old enough to have had the living privilege of seeing the original broadcasts in Newark, NJ on WNBC, *and* the subsequent syndicated broadcasts of same, on WPIX thereafter…
And, as a very, VERY, long-in-the-tooth fan of Star Trek, I don’t take kindly to the assumption that I must’ve “hated the show” (ala “written by critics”, so you wrote) to put forth the fact that pedigree of the Trek fanbase– at the time of the huge push for a re-start of the series in the mid to late 70′s– is much better than the current fanbase of Stargate as it stands today. SG may have another Bjo a’lurkin’ abouts, but I have not seen her/him come forward here and made themselves known to us, as of yet.
I am a huge fan of Stargate as well, but my current home fanbase of SG is just not on the par of Trek’s base as it existed then. That’s no slight to my Gate pals; just an honest appraisal of our current landscape, as far as MGM’s future Stargate plans seems to be.
We NEED the type of fanbase/media/creators that Trek had to restart this thing again, is all I’m sayin’…
medegno51 | February 25 @ 7:07 pmmedegno51,
asgard6198 | February 27 @ 12:32 pmit seems that you are to sensetive about star trek ! I stand by what i said . when someone at MGM wants stargate back it will be back and not until then ” those are the facts and NO i do not watch only ONE TV series .
i miss the stargate series and i do hope that someday it will return and why if MY saying that offends you , that baffles me ?
STAR WARS success in 1977 re-opended the door for science fiction space shows .
those are just more of a few past facts .
thank you GATEWORLD for being there for fans like me and all of the other fans who write in .
asgard6198 | February 27 @ 12:34 pm@medegno51 Word,man. I am not your age and I don’t mean that in a bad way,but I’ll tell ya’…not only every sci-fi fan,but every pop-culture aficionado knows very well that there is a difference..and yes,probably a huge one between the Star Trek fans then and Stargate fans now. Those are the facts and you are absolutely right.And mind you,I am not as big of a Star Trek fan,but I know that.
Jim | February 27 @ 6:55 pmNot that I don’t like it,far from it..I’m the Next Gen…generation.
@asgard6198:
“it seems that you are to sensitive about star trek ! I stand by what i said . when someone at MGM wants stargate back it will be back and not until then ” those are the facts and NO i do not watch only ONE TV series .
Methinks I- and most fans here on this thread- have already stated the ‘MGM will do what it does when it wants to do it’ pulp line here ad infinitum, so…
“i miss the stargate series and i do hope that someday it will return and why if MY saying that offends you , that baffles me ?”
Hmm… must be that Bizarro universe thingy a’goin’ on here… I’ve been saying things like, “I agree with you that SG should be brought back in some way or the other” and comments akin to this for some time now along this thread. You, asgard6198, now baffles *me*..!
@Jim:
You’re right on the money. Being from differing fan bases/generations, is not a disqualifying factor in seeing what the true facts are/were in certain times of a sci-fi fan’s life. The simple fact, again, is this: our SG fans and creators, right at *this* moment, is just not up to par with THAT era of Trek fans/creators.
I’ve only been writing all this to express my frustrations that it *can be*, if certain creators, runners, and fans of the franchise get their collected energies together and show MGM- as a solid group- what they’re obviously missing.
medegno51 | February 29 @ 8:01 amagain thank you gateworld .
asgard6198 | March 3 @ 11:44 amhi darren and all of the other stargate fans ,
asgard6198 | March 8 @ 2:54 ami posted a comment that was criticised and more or less shrugged off . my comment concerned what was involved in bringing a cancelled TV series back and what it would take to do so . I followed gene roddenbery’s struggle year after year and read all of the articles concerning any news of a new star trek movie on the horizon.
again i still think my comment was right on . yesterday i purchased the Doctor who movie and on the DVD in the special features section is a FULL DETAILED interview with a Excetutive Producer name Phillip Segal .
in this interview he explains what it took to get the Doctor Who movie made in 1996 which was 7 years after the series was cancelled .
if anyone wants to see what it takes to get a stargate movie made you should watch this interview which parallels the what gene roddenberry went through to get the start trek made in 1979 . phillip segal’s interview explains WHY the time is NOT right for any stargate movie now .
I hope that “in time” as i said a excetutive producer at the top of some movie studio or network will want stargate back . only then will we see stargate again .
i am passing this along for fans who so desperately want the series back and in TIME it MIGHT be back . thank you darren .
hi again darren and other stargate fans,
asgard6198 | March 9 @ 9:01 amin the above article i posted i forgot to say that “phillip segals interview is very simlilar to the recent efforts the producers of stargate universe had with MGM ” .
i did not mean phillip segal said anything about stargate universe in his interview.
mr.segal only spoke about the difficultry he had in getting the Doctor Who movie made in 1996.
if any fan gets the chance to watch the interview i believe they will see that the people at the top are the ones who make it happen . as was said in field of dreams “if you build it they will come ” they being the people in charge .
i am as frustated as everyone about sgu’s cancellation , maybe in the future someone at BBC America will want the series back .
thank you darren
Just like everyone else I would love to see a movie, or season to finally conclude SGU. As much money that has been wasted on SyFy origional movies about huge snakes, insects, and natural disasters that werent even good enough to be straight to DVD movies. I dont really see why coming up with the money for something like this would be a problem? Get rid of 5 SyFy origional movies that is gonna tank anyways and there you go. As for a new series…
A new Stargate series would be nice, I gotta be honest though, SGU took so long to go from mundane to kinda interesting most people lost interest before it got going. A new Stargate series would be a goldmine if they took some real time to make it work, and not just come up with something and slap the stargate name on it.
jasonm1975 | April 1 @ 3:41 am