Robert Carlyle on Stargate Universe, Take Two

[wraithfodder]

Hmm, yanked this off Mallozzi's blog tonight (12/15/2008) ... "As some of you may have heard, the wonderfully talented Robert Carlyle has signed on to join the crew of the Destiny in the upcoming Stargate: Universe series. The award-winning actor - Begbie from Trainspotting to some, Hamish Macbeth to others - will be playing the role of Dr. David Rush, the ship’s brilliant Machiavellian scientist. I see a lot of myself in Rush and, next to yours truly of course, I can’t imagine anyone better for the part. Contrary to initial reports, the Rush character is not the leader of the unplanned expedition. That honor falls to Colonel Everett Young. For now. But things could have a way of changing on board a ship manned by a disparate group with very different agendas…

hmm, hmmm, uh....

Somehow a character which is a lot of Joe Mallozzi DOES NOT inspire me to watch..

Comments

[tavabean.livejournal.com]

I get the feeling that, rather than it being too expensive to produce SGA and SGU, it was too expensive to produce SGU in the manner in which Wright and Cooper planned, and have to worry about funding Atlantis at the same time. I would just bet, that if you factor in Carlyle's salary, in addition to the other actors salaries, new sets and CGI, it will be more expensive than a 6th season of Atlantis.
They just didn't want Atlantis anymore and it was kicked to the curb. Saying the SGA actor's salaries were the cause is obviously a misstatement.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

That's scary, cuz I was thinking about that earlier today. I would hazard a guess that Carlyle would cost as much if not more than Flanigan... of course, the rest of the cast on SGU may work for peanuts (or Loonies) ;) while David Hewlett was probably worth a pretty penny. I do think that $$$ definitely came into the whole mess. I think fans would have accepted the cancellation a LOT better had Skiffy, etc. not been there less than 24 hours crowing about the marvelous new SGU show that we're all going to enjoy so much. Sigh.