Courtesy of TNT
Producer Dean Devlin is talking about his return to the Stargate franchise in a new interview with the Portland Business Journal. Devlin will produce a trilogy of new Stargate films for MGM, alongside original Stargate director Roland Emmerich.
Devlin began by explaining how MGM came into possession of the franchise.
“We did the original Stargate as an independent movie. It was a surprise success. Shortly before the movie came out, the financiers who were frightened the movie might not do well sold the film to MGM. When the film came out, it was a hit and spawned TV shows.
“Of all the projects I’ve ever done, Stargate is the only one from the beginning intended to be a trilogy,” Devlin continued. “We always wanted to do parts two and three, but the thinking was they didn’t want to do anything other than the TV series. So literally for 20 years I’ve been chasing this project.”
“Twenty years later, we can’t really do part two,” he said. “We have to start over from the beginning. So let’s reboot the series, put in all the things we couldn’t the first time, and set it up properly.”
Devlin doesn’t just have feature films to his credit. He also spent four years on TNT’s drama Leverage. He also directed the first episode of the cable network’s upcoming fantasy series The Librarians.
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YEha first comment.
BUt hey whta are they thinking about a whole new reboot... that's just flawed and full of mistakes i can see from here. So they can't continue fully from the first movie but thanks to the alternate n parellel universes they can still continue of the first movie. While i'm waiting for these movies i still think that a new reboot back to tell the original story is a bad idea. Telling the story of finding the gate sounds good but wouldn't it be better to tell the story of the rebellion that sealed the gate in the first place>
Hopefully it will be a new story. It would be pretty boring to just remake the first movie.
How about no? You let the show go, and someone else ran with it. As a fan of the franchise, to me the original movie is a very small portion of the story. Everything I like about Stargate came form the tv shows and related media. I have no interest in a reboot, or whatever he plans, because he's made it very clear that his Stargate is nothing like the TV show.
Noooooooooooooooooo! I had desperately hoped they would at least only do new movies, and not try to redo the series in the spirit of the first movie. This, for a Tok'ra lover, is really a worst case scenario for Stargate's future :(
Sorry but I won't pay to watch these movies as a complete reboot. It was bad enough when I thought he was going to pick up where the first movie left off. But now he wants to rediscover the gates? The train has already gone off the cliff and he's the only one that thinks he still on the tracks. I'll watch the movie (there won't be more than one because the others will be canceled after the epic fail of the first) on Netflix out of curiosity but I am sure it will be painful.
None of this is a surprise to me.
Bad Robot Productions has made a fortune for Paramount / Viacom with the Abrams Star Trek. Its trite, lacks depth, but works as cheap popcorn action Sci Fi. - Made a ton at the box office.
Seeing this example, MGM clearly feel that the only real option with Stargate is to do something similar. As a result Emmerich and Devlin are doing the film franchise they wanted to. It probably will make a ludicrous amount of money, but tell its own story and be po faced and lack any sense of depth or meaning.
I have the same attitude to this as I do the Abrams Trek. Its not aimed at us, its aimed at those who don't care that Amanda Tapping brilliantly played Colonel Carter, and aren't interested in what a Jaffa is. Hopefully they will enjoy it, or (like Star Trek) the new films will generate even greater interest in the tv shows. I have ten years of SG1 and two of Atlantis I enjoy. That's good enough for me. Maybe one day there will be another Stargate tv series, once this "Un-boot" itself is history.
I have very little interest in this too. I agree with Thunderbird above, Star Trek is my life, I grew up with it, loved all the movies and series, all that is except for the JJ movies. Don't get me wrong, it's nice to have something new Star Trek to see, but there are so many problems with the JJ movies and the fact that 40 years of the original Star Trek universe is ignored just doesn't sit well with me. I've said this before here and I'll say it again, I think Stargate fans are going to get to see what us Star Trek fans feel like in regards to the new movies...
At least the Star Trek reboot used a clever plot device to leave intact the original series and movies as part of an "alternate time line". Even the new X-Men found a way to incorporate the original X-Men into their rebooted universe. I would hope that any new Stargate project wouldn't invalidate the shows that preceded it, but I'm highly doubtful.
so this starting over from the beginning feels like we're going to be watching an episode of sg1 or atlantis, about a people that discover they have a gate and everything that happens because of it.
i just can't see how any of this will be *really* different than what we'd get from an episode of sg1 or atlantis... well, other than no beloved sg1 and atlantis characters that we fell in love with...
17 seasons of tv stargate and two movies, and there were a LOT of stories told. there's still a lot TO be told, but i have a feeling the emmerich/devlin movies aren't going to be as original as they want it to be. it'll be very hard to surpass what sg1, atlantis, and sgu accomplished and told.
good luck, emmerich and devlin. please handle with care.
Man that sucks. Remake. Thats annoying. Continue the series or the story after the series not new movies with the same story. I dont understand remakes now a days.