Stargate Atlantis sets destroyed
Oct. 2nd, 2008 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wraithfodderhttp://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.
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Date: 2008-10-02 02:38 pm (UTC)When the show was canceled, they quickly started striking the sets. I think Sci Fi wanted it down before they announced the cancelation, because they're utter bastards and wanted to make it even more difficult for a revival to happen. Too bad for them one of TPTB and Ben Browder told fans directly. [hearts Ben]
But a lot of the major pieces were put into storage, in case they revived the show. When they did the miniseries, those pieces were pulled out and used, but I think they had to recreate some things, such as Moya's hallways.
I'm wondering if they're keeping some of the major sets (even if it's in pieces), like they kept the SGC set after SG-1 was canceled because it could be used in SGA, SG-1 movies, etc.