Stargate Atlantis sets destroyed

[wraithfodder]

Thanks Brad :(


http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/story.html?id=abec6209-6c7b-42e1-be65-2ea36946819d

excerpt from Oct 2 2008 article

BRIDGE CONTRACT: Heavy machines are smashing the Stargate Atlantis TV series' set in Bridge Studios' 40,000-square-foot effects stage. That's the largest of eight movie-shooting facilities in almost constant use on the six-hectare complex at Boundary-off-Second Avenue, Burnaby. The studio's website claims it's the largest in North America.

But Bridge Studios general manager Ron Hryniuk -- say Her-nik -- isn't sorry to say goodbye to a show that produced some 100 episodes on six of his sound stages, as well as twice that number for the predecessor Stargate SG-1 series. That's because the SCI FI Channel and MGM Television recently announced the launch of a new "science faction" series called Stargate Universe.

"Its great news. Fantastic," Hryniuk said of a show that will premiere as a two-hour movie on SCI FI and become a weekly one-hour series next summer.

In a press release Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis co-creators Brad Wright and Robert Cooper said Stargate Universe "will break new ground in relationships between mostly young and desperate explorers, thrust together and far from home."

**This sucks***

UPDATE: See next post - http://wraithfodder.livejournal.com/249781.html - for update. NOT all sets, PHew phew phew.

Comments

[cat-77.livejournal.com]

Pretty much everyone else has already said it, but how the hell are they supposed to do a movie without a set? And didn't they originally say they were looking in to doing more than one? Wouldn't you think there would be the possibility of reusing one of the existing sets, if for cost reasons if nothing else? Even for SG: Crapfest?

Theory: They are attempting to destroy any hint of Teh Gay to make sure their new show is Super Het. Come on, they tried to make SGA a het-fest and failed miserably, maybe they honestly think this is the only way to destroy The Curse of the Why-Does-Everything-We-Write-Become-Slash? Because otherwise, I've got nothing other than them just being asses, which is still a distinct possibility.

[obsessed1o1.livejournal.com]

Ha!The Curse of the Why-Does-Everything-We-Write-Become-Slash? *cracks up* So true