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

[arlessiar.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't get too upset about this - Joe Mallozzi is still talking about the SGA movie in his blog, and he also announced weeks ago that a few but not all of the sets would be destroyed. They wanted to destroy the village set and other not vital sets (they simply need the free space for the new series (not that I support that show) and will probably not use these sets anymore anyway). I'm sure they'll keep most parts of the big Atlantis main set. Don't think this means that there'll be no movie. Don't worry too much, folks, at least not yet.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

First, cute icon :)
Yes, found the SOlutions blog entry clarifying the set stuff after I posted (but after I went to work, darn). Alas, I really don't read all of JM's blog.

[arlessiar.livejournal.com]

Thanks. :)

Saw your new entry about this. JM mentioned the whole thing again in his blog today as many people obviously commented on it in their rage yesterday. He explained which sets were destroyed and which not.
I still read the JM blog even though I really dislike JM, but I think I'll stop reading it soon as I only read it for SGA news and pics and not for the oh so NOT exciting life and opinions of JM himself.