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 04:03 pm (UTC)What I don't get is the attitude - I understand that TPTB/crew/people involved in the making in general are happy with the start of a new series, because it means they have a job for the next couple of years *cough*or less*cough*.
But how can a normal human being not be sad, or at least a little bit melancholy, when a show they worked for is over after 5 years? :-(
So either they really hated SGA, or they don't talk about their real feelings (maybe no unhappy thoughts should stain the SGU PR or whatever), and instead come across as cold and unfeeling. Either way, I don't get it. Gah.