Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin planning to make Stargate reboot

[Undomesticated Equine]

This was announced yesterday on SG facebook fan page. From the quick look at the comments most fans were not that much into it and were pissed of that the movie would ignore tv series and start from scratch. In my case i am looking forward to see what will they do. So any thoughts on the reboot?
http://www.deadline.com/2014/05/mgm-warner-bros-reboot-stargate/

 

[Tony2077]

if its like universe i don't think i will like it and without the iconic actors it just won't be the same

 

[lacktheknack]

It needs Teal'c and Sam Carter, at least. ;___;

Also, as a dedicated Roland Emerich anti-fan...

 

[Vault101]

oooooohhhh yeeeeeeeeah

that don't sound good....

I man to say Emmerich comes across as a mediocre film maker in geneal...though I guess independance day had its charm

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

 

[Auberon]

O'Neil with one L isn't exactly the most engaging Colonel Jack. I don't mind rebooting the movie, and most Stargate fans probably just ignore this upcoming trilogy, or treat it as alternate universe.

...am I too optimistic about this whole deal?

 

[Soviet Heavy]

Can we get Ben Browder to come back and play his character on the later SG1 seasons? He was fun, because he was essentially a fanboy who got to run the Stargate program.

 

[Zontar]

Oh great, the guy who made the weakest part of the whole franchise and openly hates the thing it has become (even though that's the only reason it has any fans and didn't fall into just being an obscure 90s film no one remembered) is now getting that trilogy reboot he's been wanted the past 10 years.

This is a sad day. Now Babylon 5 seems to be the biggest science fiction franchise to have escaped this, and as much as I love it that's a huge step down.

Why couldn't we just get a Stargate Extinction done, the demand was always there for a tv-movie budget which tied up the lose ends of Atlantis, and what about that unnamed tv-movie that was supposed to tie up the loose ends of the whole franchise and have the program made public? So there isn't enough demand for 2 tv-movies based on the biggest sci-fi shows that ever aired in the US, yet there is for making a $200 million reboot? Does not compute.

 

[Frezzato]

I suspect I'm alone in this, but back when the original Stargate preview was in theaters, and they showed monsters that looked like Anubis, I was so psyched because I thought the bad guys were actual dog-headed men. You know, like freaks of nature. I thought it was brilliant because I assumed that the director was implying the reason deities like Anubis and Horus showed up in hieroglyphics was because there really were terrifying hybrid man/animal monsters in ancient Egypt. I think my idea was validated later on when The Mummy Returns came out.

Needless to say, I was disappointed when I finally saw Stargate.

 

[Cabisco]

I loved stargate, I am very much in favour of more of it.

Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

I must admit so am I, makes me wonder what'll next be on the list (or what the hell is left)

 

[Zontar]

I loved stargate, I am very much in favour of more of it.

Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

I must admit so am I, makes me wonder what'll next be on the list (or what the hell is left)

The franchise stopped 3 years ago, that's the fasted I can recall a reboot happening. Hulk took 5 years, Spider-Man took 5 years, and Star Trek took 4 years. This is cutting it pretty close for fastest reboot ever.

 

[Thaluikhain]

The franchise stopped 3 years ago, that's the fasted I can recall a reboot happening. Hulk took 5 years, Spider-Man took 5 years, and Star Trek took 4 years. This is cutting it pretty close for fastest reboot ever.

Oh, great, you've made it sound like a challenge...

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I loved stargate, I am very much in favour of more of it.

Honestly, I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner.

I must admit so am I, makes me wonder what'll next be on the list (or what the hell is left)

Well we know they're rebooting Lethal Weapon and Mad Max. We still have Indiana Jones, Predator, Hellraiser, Chucky, Candyman, Gremlins, Hostel, Saw and Resident Evil to go through. And that's off the top of my head.

 

[Trek1701a]

Didn't say whether they would continue from where the movie left off or to completely reboot the whole thing. I know Devlin had said previously that where the series had taken the aliens (goa'uld for tv) was not where he wanted it to go, which if you watch closely at the end of the film when Ra gets killed you can see that. I'm not totally against the idea, but they need to be respectful of the TV series, not so much for continuity, but more for that it happened and it will be in people's minds and certainly not make fun of it.

 

[Xeorm]

Ugh. The people that made the awful part of the series want another go? I find myself not caring at all.

 

[Creedsareevil]

Stargate Universe had its moment of zen when that episode hit. That one, the one where the crew finds out the ship got split and a copy of it with a copy of the crew got send back in time....

Instantly, SGU got what it needed: a truly intriguing plot. A Menacing, intelligent enemy force. A mystery of the kind people can care about: What happened to the civilisation that sprung from the time dispalced destiny crew? What led to their demise? Just how deep is their cellar and how many bodys does it fit?


Up until that episode that changed the whole game, SGU felt like the crackpots that ruined BSG with the religious BULLshit just switched settings to continue their religious bullshit.


SGU's Premise was poisoned well from the start. At the timepoint at which the destiny crew got stranded, Earth already had knowledge and a working prototpe of the wormhole drive. You know the drive that whooped atlantis over to earth in a heartbeat with pinpoint precision to boot....

They tried to derive drama where there was none to be gotten. The Crew was never truly stranded as far as established lore goes. The communication stones only emphasized all the bad points. "dude fucking another dudes wife because reasons" is not why i switch on a sci fi show.

The excursions to earth and the RIDICULOUS "lucian alliance isa threat now plot line" screwed SGU over right from the first episode.
The lucian alliance. The dudes using go a uld tech. The tech that got whooped by the ori easily... who i nturn were at least competently threatened by earth's asgard gear.... you know those uber beams...

They really wanted to sell the lucian alliance asa threat.

God i was so happy when that garbage got thrown out of the airlock. The time-Split crew arc really made this series better. Charachters got better, the overall abrasive assholelery got toned waaay down and we had the afore mentioned new history to explore. And all original. Much room to coem up with new stuff.


But alas, after FINALLY finding a solid footing, the show gets canclled by the network assholes.
+ they left us with such a bittersweet cliffhanger ending. That sendoff episode showed what SGU could have been from the start, if not for the BSG crackpot band ruining it.


As for the reboot/sequel movie: meh. I can not possibly be satisfied with movies after having had a whole universe for so long. fck that.

 

[Veylon]

If they reboot all the way back to the book [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0140268421/?tag=stackoverfl08-20] this may have a chance. It's a strange, touching, bizarre novel. If it's a lazy cash-in of the show, not so much. The original series would be very tough to top.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Stargate Universe had its moment of zen when that episode hit. That one, the one where the crew finds out the ship got split and a copy of it with a copy of the crew got send back in time....

Instantly, SGU got what it needed: a truly intriguing plot. A Menacing, intelligent enemy force. A mystery of the kind people can care about: What happened to the civilisation that sprung from the time dispalced destiny crew? What led to their demise? Just how deep is their cellar and how many bodys does it fit?


Up until that episode that changed the whole game, SGU felt like the crackpots that ruined BSG with the religious BULLshit just switched settings to continue their religious bullshit.


SGU's Premise was poisoned well from the start. At the timepoint at which the destiny crew got stranded, Earth already had knowledge and a working prototpe of the wormhole drive. You know the drive that whooped atlantis over to earth in a heartbeat with pinpoint precision to boot....

They tried to derive drama where there was none to be gotten. The Crew was never truly stranded as far as established lore goes. The communication stones only emphasized all the bad points. "dude fucking another dudes wife because reasons" is not why i switch on a sci fi show.

The excursions to earth and the RIDICULOUS "lucian alliance isa threat now plot line" screwed SGU over right from the first episode.
The lucian alliance. The dudes using go a uld tech. The tech that got whooped by the ori easily... who i nturn were at least competently threatened by earth's asgard gear.... you know those uber beams...

They really wanted to sell the lucian alliance asa threat.

God i was so happy when that garbage got thrown out of the airlock. The time-Split crew arc really made this series better. Charachters got better, the overall abrasive assholelery got toned waaay down and we had the afore mentioned new history to explore. And all original. Much room to coem up with new stuff.


But alas, after FINALLY finding a solid footing, the show gets canclled by the network assholes.
+ they left us with such a bittersweet cliffhanger ending. That sendoff episode showed what SGU could have been from the start, if not for the BSG crackpot band ruining it.


As for the reboot/sequel movie: meh. I can not possibly be satisfied with movies after having had a whole universe for so long. fck that.

Eh, I thought it lost it at the first episode...that thing with the door that has to be shut, but the button that shuts it is on the other side. And they've got zillions of remote control things flying around. Or long poles, or objects to throw, or lengths of rope to pull to release weights or whatever. And the ship is crewed almost entirely by supposed geniuses.

But nah, have to make it a big heroic sacrifice.

 

[Creedsareevil]

Well, if we measure by logic errors, we could throw our TV's out.....

 

[FPLOON]

The franchise stopped 3 years ago, that's the fasted I can recall a reboot happening. Hulk took 5 years, Spider-Man took 5 years, and Star Trek took 4 years. This is cutting it pretty close for fastest reboot ever.

Oh, great, you've made it sound like a challenge...

Well, in that case... Who's up for an Eureka reboot in movie trilogy form starting in 2015?!

OT: So... we barely got a proper Stargate conclusion... and now, we getting a movie reboot?

Whatever... Maybe it will be that wake up call to try to conclude it "better", I guess...