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

[lysambre.livejournal.com]

I read some of the comments after reading you post, and although at first my reaction was : So that means the movie's off too then ? (points at self : see the look of non-surprise, and yet utter disappointment), now I see that they may (may, not sure, but may) have kept the main part of Atlantis (as in maybe the gate room and some of the labs ? The inside of a puddljumper ? of a Wraith hive ?), so there might still be hope for a movie.

Nevertheless, the way the whole SGA affair has been treated by TPTB has been nothing short of insulting and heartbreaking since the first announcement. There are ways to tell your fans that you're cancelling a show without repeatedly hitting them in the face at the same time. I'm terribly disappointed at them.

Thank you though, you get all the complaining without batting an eye because you're willing to be the bad news bearer, so here are some hugs for you {{{HUGS}}}.