Stargate Atlantis: Should, MIght, Maybe...

[wraithfodder]

Ah, SciFiWire posted this article today.... highlighted the relevant portions.

NEW SG-1, Atlantis films due, just not yet

Stargate Universe executive producer Robert C. Cooper has written scripts for a new potential Stargate SG-1 movie and a Stargate Atlantis film, but said it might be a while before they get a green light.

 

"We're ready to go," Cooper said in an exclusive interview over the weekend in Pasadena, Calif., where he was promoting SGU at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. "We're just waiting for the right opportunity," he said. "We want to be successful with it. The studio wants to be successful, and we really don't want to proceed with something in the wrong climate, which I think financially it is right now."

Two previous SG-1 straight-to-DVD movies, Continuum and The Ark of Truth, sold well, but the current economic downturn makes DVD premieres less lucrative than they were in the past.

"It's tough, because we were very successful with the first two SG-1 movies," Cooper said. "Since then, the economics have changed a little bit. DVDs aren't selling the same way they were when we released those even just a year, and a year and a half ago."

A new compilation of Stargate Atlantis episodes, Fans' Choice, just dropped on Blu-ray on Aug. 4, featuring the pilot "Rising" and an extended cut of "Enemy at the Gate." That won't help Cooper mount a new production.

"That, obviously, is already produced," Cooper said. "Putting it on DVD or Blu-ray is not the same as the investment it would take to start from scratch."

Should the two DVD films be made, they would follow previous entries in having independent storylines that would not affect the upcoming Syfy original series SGU. "They would stand alone," Cooper said. "The Atlantis one takes place shortly after the end of season five. The SG-1, I think, takes place sometime in an intermediary period between when the SG-1 movies left off and when Universe began."

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Basically, they're saying not much, nothing we already didn't know. It's sorta bizarre that Cooper goes "I think" about a movie. I mean, they're in the position to know the most about the movies as they're writing them! *headdesk* I"m not holding out much for an SGA movie. I hope the actors find more work and then TPTB have to work around the actors' schedules!

Comments

[lysambre.livejournal.com]

We're just waiting for the right opportunity," he said. "We want to be successful with it. The studio wants to be successful, and we really don't want to proceed with something in the wrong climate

He says the bad climate is financial, I say they never imagined that so many SGA fans would actually decide to cut all string with them. They pompously announced a year ago that we would "get over it" as has always been done in the past. So far yes, some have, but many have not, and those are lost customers. Assume your bad decisions Mr Cooper instead of blaming it on the financial situation.

If the financial climate was so bad, they would not have put $20 millions more than in SGA5 to produce the new show. By making it so expensive to begin with, and being is such a "bad financial climate" they are essentially telling everyone : enjoy this one, it won't last long.

I think Cooper is trying to appease the fans, but they might very well be too far gone.
He says he's writing the script, but wasn't Malozzi doing that ? Trouble in paradize ? Trying to appease the many who can't stand Malozzi ? (Sorry, but my life got so much better after I stopped reading his blog, I can only assume it happened to others).

As far as I'm concerned they can keep their SGA movie and I really hope all the actors find great jobs that keep them really really busy, in fact too busy to have time to do a "potential maybe eventual if all turns right" movie.

And someone reminds Mr Cooper than in ten years it'll be too late to pretend the action is happening just at the end of the last horrible season, the actors will have aged ten years :p.

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

".........they never imagined that so many SGA fans would actually decide to cut all string with them..."

Exactly!!!
They thought we were the mindless minions who would immediately redirect to their new project.........
I think not.