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

[iolandasblog.livejournal.com]

You just can't imagine how p***ed I am.

I am just sitting in Vernon, BC, flied here yesterday. Its my first time in Canada and my first time outside Europe at all. The idea of getting here grew out of my wish to visit a filming site of a show I love. During the time I prepared this stay here (a colleague told me about a job training I am now attending, I rented a car to go to Vancouver in 2 weeks, got a hotel there etc.pp.) they cancelled Atlantis and now the sets were destroyed YESTERDAY?

Is there any possibility how this can get worse? Oh, yes, they might tell, that there won't be any movie at all anymore and that SGU also didn't make it.

Byebye beautiful.


And now I try to not think about this too much. Because I don't want to ruin my stay here.