"Reboot "Stargate" into SF Movie Trilogy." Topic

"STARGATE is getting a remake, but now the official info is that MGM, Warner Bros. and original director Roland Emmerich will team together to reboot the movie in a form of a trilogy! Planned for 2017 the new STARGATE will bring new adventures to the expansive universe which also served as the inspiration for STARGATE TV shows later on. As you know, the story centres around a monumental gate which serves as the portal to other worlds and dimensions inhabited by exotic cultures. The 1994. movie was set in an Ancient Egypt inspired world."
From Hollywood Spy.

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Armand

Love the TV series(es), but the movie was on the "meh" side, and made little logical sense (why mine with brute-force hand tools when you have powerful energy-generating equipment that can blast through or melt away rock?).

The series eventually managed to move away from this, and even introduce plausible science for a number of series tropes, or made fun of them outright. One standout is the episode where a wormhole is inadvertently opened to a gate under the influence of a black hole, resulting not only in a global threat but an intelligent demonstration of the effects of gravity on the relative passage of time. Brilliant.

But the credit for that sort of thing goes to the series' writers, not the original film. The series was a case of turning a possible turkey into a science fiction feast. Not sure that the blockbuster mentality of Hollywood (and especially Emmerich) can do the same thing.

I agree with Parzival, the movie was indeed meh. I just watched it a couple days ago. MRS Bunkermeister and I are watching SG-1 on DVD and are up to season 7. Much better than the movie. I was hoping more for a continuation of the TV show universe rather than a 'Reboot' as such. We don't need the original teams, but just give us that universe with the original players long retired.

Mike Bunkermiester Creek
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How many times can they remake movies/TV series, and still be viable?

A shame the writers/producers can't come up with any new ideas………………….

They can, but no one watches them.

I'm of the opposite opinion. I thought the movie was fantastic, still do. I saw nothing in the story that was contradictory.

I stopped watching the TV show after the first season when it turned into another Star Trek clone. You know, visit new worlds, have a adventure, all aliens are human and speak English, etc.

I have the feeling Hollywood is running out of ideas…..

Cheers,
JohnG

I loved the film. Did not like the show – the grand scale just did not work in the studio and how many times can you shoot in British Columbia anyway? I hated the most what they did to the characters…oh well.

Anyway, I think the concept was strong and certainly if done right could spark a whole new event.

I liked the movie. Liked the TV series, too. It did start to follow a formula, which got stale. A new movie could follow SG-2, or SG-3. Yeah, I'm pretty sure there was more than one team. Would have been nice if the series had followed a few of the others (throw in something off the wall, like SG-6 gets wiped out on Planet G039) Not that I have anything against SG-6, I'm sure they were very fine folks.

I really liked the episode where someone was making a movie about alien stargates, and SG-1 is sent to investigate.

I stopped watching the TV show after the first season when it turned into another Star Trek clone. You know, visit new worlds, have a adventure, all aliens are human and speak English, etc.

You should have stuck with it. They begin to play with the classic ST tropes, breaking out of them in new ways. Also, as the series progresses it becomes increasingly original and intelligent, and sustains a strong run even to the end. There are down moments, but overall the whole thing offers some of the best recent SF on TV.

By the way, iirc, early on they explain that the stargate itself acts as to create a "universal translator" effect on those who travel through it. Thus everyone they encounter appears to speak English because the stargates "reset" the brain to understand spoken alien languages as English. At this point Jack probably says, "Daniel!"
"Yes, Jack?"
"I don't care!"

Plus, Stargate SG1 quite possibly boasts the funniest comedy episode I have ever seen on TV, of any show, ever. Fans of the show know the episode. I won't spoil it by even stating the title, but you pretty much have to watch the entire series run to see it and get all the jokes. It makes fun of everything and everyone on the series, including producers, writers, actors, plots, tropes… you name it, it gets skewered. And then it ends with a quote from Asimov about the value and power of science fiction. Awesome.

So why not use the writers and other talent that made the TV series work? I agree that SG-1 is mostly good stuff on a lot of levels. It's one of the very few TV series I have watched all episodes in since Star Trek the OS….

I am one of those people who loved the movie, and read the novels that were issued as sequels. I would love to see a sequel to the original Stargate movie.

I also enjoyed Stargate SG1, but for different reasons. IMO it peaked at season five, the finale for which was excellent. I enjoyed seasons nine and ten, but felt they could have pushed the envelope a bit more, taken more risks, rather than pandering to the fans e.g: have T'ealc and Carter as recurring walk on characters, show how other SG teams worked, showed more foul ups etc, but I realise YMMV.

I also like Stargate Atlantis, which got better as it progressed.

I'm also one of those people who loved Stargate Universe, because if for no other reason it had Robert Carlyle in it.

So bring it on, but let it be a new take on the universe.

I enjoyed the movie and the tv series based on it. My favorite was SG Atlantis. Least favorite was the one that followed it.

I enjoyed the movie and the series.

Amicalement
Armand

I thought the movie had some good ideas but totally dropped the ball on execution. Fortunately the show came along and picked up that ball, improved on the play and ultimately became one of the best genre shows on TV. The writers kept track of EVERYTHING and you rarely ran into that Star Trek problem where they come up with a genius solution for something then by the next episode they've forgotten about it – not so in SG-1, where characters would regularly refer back to previous episodes and solutions. So yeah, count me in with Parzival & Co :)

in SG-1, where characters would regularly refer back to previous episodes and solutions

Yep. I remember watching one early episode which (quite incidentally) ended with the SG-1 characters basically in possession of a Go'Auld spaceship. That wasn't the thrust of the story, and they really didn't seem to make anything big of the fact that what had just happened did essentially give them the ship. So I said to my wife when it was over, "I wonder if they'll remember they have a ship now." Sure enough, next episode begins, and it's all about the ship. They do this a lot on the series, even going back several episodes to bring back characters and events and the ramifications of these. Some things do get dropped (Jack's baby never got addressed, AFAIK, and Cassandra faded from the scene a little quickly), but over all even little things and actions would pop up again.

But the show was also great about poking fun of this trope as well, particularly with one "Previously on Stargate SG-1" that had me going, "Wait, what now?" right before they revealed the joke.