Wow, Stargate gets the reboot

[wraithfodder]

Yup, it's finally happening.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/mgm-warner-bros-launching-stargate-708044 reports that Roland Emmerich, who directed and co-wrote the original film with Dean Devlin, will direct and Devlin will produce.

I get the feeling the reboot will be totally recast, skew younger. I'd love to see the SG-1/Atlantis folk in it, but am not holding out any hope....

But one can dream of cameos...

Comments

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

Oi, enough with the reboots, already. The original Stargate was just fine as it was. Hollywood needs to learn how to use its imagination again :/

[seticat.livejournal.com]

I read a couple of the 'Stargate' books by Bill McCay that came out in 2000 [ a year after the movie] and if I recall correctly, they were sanctioned by Roland Emmerich. Absolutely no resemblance to the Stargate we know today [the writer made a lot of cannon changes all on his own]. The story line takes up where Abydos was freed and goes from there.

Just not my cup of tea.

[sholio]

Oh dear. One thing that makes me trepidatious about this is that I know the Emmerich-Devlin team hated the Stargate series, and most of the reasons why they hated it were reasons why I liked it (not that I can remember specifics now, but they disliked the way the show expanded the universe/characters/etc), so not only is it getting rebooted, but it's getting rebooted by people who are probably not going to reboot it in a way I'll like. :P

Meh.

On the other hand, it'll be interesting to see what they actually do. I can't see watching it in the theater, but maybe DVD ... or just lurk on people's reactions and see what they think.

[timespirt.livejournal.com]

Well, they said the original movie was supposed to have sequels. I doubt they will invite any of our guys since I remember someone was bitter that MGM made the TV series' instead of the movie sequels that he said would not in any way touch on the TV series. It wasn't the direction he had for his vision or some such nonsense.

At least we get something and maybe it will get them to throw us a bone later on for a series movie? We can always hope.

[penfold-x.livejournal.com]

Stargate cannot possibly be 20 years old. I DENY IT

[writerjc.livejournal.com]

I seem to vaguely recall hearing somewhere that Independence Day was supposed to maybe possibly have been a follow up to Stargate.

[tavabean.livejournal.com]

So much dislike for this, so much.......I have no words for how disgusted I am at this turn of events.

[a-pilgrim-soul.livejournal.com]

Emmerich hates the TV-verse with a burning passion and has been very vocal about it. There is precisely zero chance of any of the TV characters being so much as referenced let alone appearing because as far as Emmerich is concerned the TV shows never happened.

As a fan all you can do is just look at the TV-verse and the movie-verse as two completely separate entities. Its the best way to preserve one's sanity.

[jya-bd-cp-ttgb.livejournal.com]

*is sitting in the corner, quietly beating head against the wall* Movie verse is a really bad Road Not Taken that our boys and girls, thank Gods and Asguards, never fell into. *continues hoping to beat the lie into self by the time the movies actually come out*

[anjak-j.livejournal.com]

I've always separated my love of the series and the film as that of two separate entities. I've always wanted to see what Emmerich and Devlin wanted to do with the films as a series, and thus I am happy that something is to be developed along these lines.

However, as an SG1-verse fan, I do not wish the series or its characters to be brought into it at all. I'm well aware of Emmerich and Devlin's opinion of the series and I think it would be deeply hypocritical of them to cash in on the love there is for those characters after reviling the show for so long. (I mean, you could even say these new films do that because if it weren't for the success of the shows, they probably wouldn't be getting the chance to do this.)

[immertreu.livejournal.com]

Well...I like the movie, I love the series, but I don't like the novels by Bill McKay.

Right now I can't imagine anyone other than James Spader and Kurt Russell / Michael Shanks and Richard Dean Anderson as Daniel and Jack, so I guess I'm curious but not overly enthusiastic about this development.