As we told you back in January, Stargate Universe co-creator Brad Wright is working hard at finding a way to finish the story of Destiny and her reluctant crew (story). He’s been in talks with MGM about continuing the story in some form, though all the major players have been pretty quiet about those discussions behind closed doors. So where do things stand today?
Fortunately, SGU fans have executive producer Joseph Mallozzi’s blog to let us know that those conversations are still progressing. He revealed last month that the door was pretty much closed on a third season someplace other than Syfy Channel. That doesn’t leave a lot of other possibilities: a wrap-up movie, a series of movies, a mini-series, online webisodes, or cocktail napkin doodles posted on YouTube with the producers doing all the character voices, augmented with special effects from Mark Savela.
This week Mallozzi helped clarify the picture a bit, while fans continue to wait for some announcement from the studio.
“Hopefully, by the time [the season finale, ‘Gauntlet’] airs, we’ll have definite word on a potential movie or two,” he said.
“If it’s a go and fans can look forward to a proper end to Destiny‘s mission, then ‘Gauntlet’ will certainly set the stage for a grand conclusion. If, on the other hand, things don’t pan out and ‘Gauntlet’ does turn out to be the bittersweet finale, fans will be thrilled, touched, heartbroken — and left to wonder what could have been.”
The studio has had past success with the DVD and Blu-ray releases of Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Continuum, two SG-1 movies that followed the show’s cancellation. The home media market has changed radically since those two were shot in 2007 and released in 2008. MGM may be crunching the numbers to see if it can give a potential series of SGU films a decent budget and still turn a profit from the combination of media sales, online digital downloads, TV broadcast licensing, and the many international markets where Stargate is popular.
Wright and his team have certainly demonstrated over the years that they have the ability to make a modest production budget look like a feature film on the small screen. And in our humble opinion, MGM will need to commit to paying off this story — and make at least one Atlantis film — to keep Stargate‘s existing fan base and win back some disenfranchised viewers.
Stargate Universe returns with its final 10 episodes on Syfy next Monday, March 7 at 10 p.m. (E/P)! That’s a new day and a new time, so set your Tivo and mark your calendar.
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This sucks. I mean, I'm hopeful we get ANYTHING, but there is NO WAY that this story could be summarized in 1 or 2 movies. Terrible. We can't find ANY network willing to at least give it like a 6 or 7 part mini-series AND THEN a movie??
sigh.
I guess they could build on the idea you brought up in a podcast, that the destiny and seed ships have basically reached the vicinity of their destination and were waiting for the crew. Rather then us just getting lucky. Could be why the ships AI is 'working' them so hard to get them up to speed. Really hope this comes to pass, would preorder on Amazon now!
Great. Let's charge forward and make a "movie or two" about a show, story and characters that barely made 1.5 seasons before it was canned for bad ratings. And lets just flush a movie for a show that was still going strong after 5 seasons, or the movie for a show that ran for 10. Yeah. This makes perfect sense. :/
SG-1 movie please, enough said
Why do I keep coming here after getting these "tweets" and get excited? SG(whatever) is dead. Thanks to the writers, enough said
Someone has said in one of these comment threads that the guilt for things with SGU ending and turning out the way it did wasn't only on SyFy but on showrunners as well.And I tend to agree.They must have known due to "fantastic" ratings that there was a "quite" strong possibility of the show being canned and this being the last season.And they still refused to take notice of that,and/or count that in.So the fact that they still refused to make,at least a contingency plan,just in case they don't get renewed for another season and make an alter-ending with the other,alter one being the series ending,closing up the story..tells me something.And what it tells me isn't anything good about them.
@ipfnd i tend to agree, i just wanted to say if there is going to be any movie made it better be SG-1
the same way SG1 and Atlantis movies were promised... I won't hold my breathe
Be nice if BW tried harder to get an Atlantis and Sg1 movie made. Better yet a 6th season to Atlantis. Though the chance of that happening is 0% unfortunately. :-( A fitting end to SGU is the Destiny crashing into a star.
this is so NOT what i wanted to hear, they still don't get it, we want to see SGA/SG-1 movies not an SGU movie.so angry right now, all they care about is their precious SGU. I for one will not watch the movie if they ever make it.