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

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

I will believe it when I see it

I also wonder how JM's vendetta against JF will fit in all this given Sheppard's vital role in SGA.....

I find Cooper's 'economic downturn' kind of hilarious given they obviously had the $$$ to do SGU........

[sheafrotherdon.livejournal.com]

I don't believe a word of it. SGU has $1 million more *per episode* than they had for SGA. That's a movie right there.

[cimmerdeux.livejournal.com]

I'm confused; Cooper's written the scripts for both movies? But JM said on his blog that he and Paul were commissioned and wrote the script for the SGA movie and that they were to 'produce' it (which I found odd, since where were JM and PM going to get enough money to produce anything?)

I still would so love to hear that someone else has taken on the SGA movie.

[immertreu.livejournal.com]

You have got to be kidding me... Why can't these people make up their minds??

It's always about money, but I'm sure if they really wanted, they could make both (!) movies - easily.

[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.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I hope the actors find more work and then TPTB have to work around the actors' schedules!

Ha! With the way they treat them? I bet that if the actor was unavailable, they would just cut him out of the movie. After all, they are convinced that the actors don't add much to the success of the franchise *snorts*

[chensuu.livejournal.com]

I thought Mallozzi said he wrote the Atlantis movie and now suddenly Cooper did? Of course I might be wrong but either way it sounds like more lies to placate the masses to me.

No-movie

[domjohn.livejournal.com]

How can they tell us they don't have money to produce the movie after telling us at comic con 2009 how big the budget they got for SGU?
How can they tell us they are waiting the good moment to lauch the movie when in August 08 they declared it was the good moment for SGA to move to this format? At this time they knew all about DVD market. Now this same market is too bad. It would seem SGA sold 100.000 in one first week.
All of this sound like big lie.
If I listen well it would not be their fault.
It will be so hard to regain the viewers trust.
You're right when we read the new cast comments LAME.
I watched the trailer and I saw the means obtained but nothing original. And they pull the plug for this.
Money don't make the success as the spec effects.
It's not what I want to find in the stargate show and too spec effect hide more often the lacks of the plots or scripts.
BOO.

Atlantis film?

[(Anonymous)]

I dont think it is a concidence that Robert Cooper has made this comment about the "proposed" films just before the fans meet at the next convension in August.

I honestly belive that the Stargate franchise has never had any intension of making an Atlantis film but they didnt want a backlash against their new project "Universe" so they told fans there would be a film to try to keep us happy in the hope that we would like Universe so much that we wouldnt bother too much about the Atlantis cancellation. When I really think about it - look at the name of the Atlantis film - "Extinction". I think that sums it up for Atlantis. Talk about disrespecting the fans. I think that the "suits" forget that we are the people who keep up the viewing figures and buy the merchandise. Shame on you Stargate for treating us this way its just not right...

deciphering

[(Anonymous)]

2nd paragraph:
"We're just waiting for the right opportunity."

What does that mean?

And the longer they wait...isn't it more likely they start losing the current fan base that would be purchasing the DVD?

[djlmarks.livejournal.com]

GODDAMMIT! What stoopid suit at Sy "this no longer means Science Fiction" Fy chooses to ignore it's key audience??