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Devlin Announces Plans for Stargate Sequels
July 20, 2006
Producer-writer Dean Devlin confirmed today at the San Diego Comic-Con that he is in talks with MGM Studios to shoot parts two and three to his original 1994 sci-fi film Stargate, which starred Kurt Russell and James Spader.
Devlin, speaking to the Comic-Con crowd about his next production, the World War I pilot drama Flyboys, said he has signed a multi-picture deal with MGM and wants the completion of his originally envisioned "Stargate" trilogy to be considered for those slots.
"I'd want the films to stay on track for what the original three were planned to be," said Devlin. "I'd want to let the series stand on their own."
Stargate, a project that no one believed in – according to Devlin, has become an international sensation following successful SCI FI Channel series "SG-1" and "Atlantis." Devlin told attendees that watching what the "Stargate" phenomenon had become has been a great experience – likening it to a dream that had 'come to life, left his head, walked across the street, got married and had children.' You can't help but be proud of that."
"We've always envisioned it as a trilogy," Devlin added later when talking directly to the press about the sequels. "'Stargate' was also supposed to be the first part of three. We had written all three, not the script, but the story, when we did the first one and due to the nature of how that film got made, and how MGM has changed so many times, and their commitment to doing the series, they've been very reluctant to do the movie. Well, under this new regime we've been in discussions with them and basically said, 'Look, one doesn't have to hurt the other. The series is doing great. Fans love the series, so much that it got a sequel. They may even be doing a third spinoff they're talking about. So it's alive, well and in good shape. But it would be great to finish telling the story we set out to tell 12 years ago.
So would he get Kurt Russell and James Spader back? He said, "Absolutely." Roland Emmerich? "Roland would absolutely be involved in it, whether or not he directs it will really depends on how much money I raise to make the picture." (laughs) "'Stargate' started as a story that Roland wrote in college called 'Necropol: City of the Dead', which was about a space ship buried underneath the Great Pyramid of Egypt. I had been working on, separately, without ever knowing, this thing I always called 'Lawrence of Arabia on Another Planet.' And when we met, he pitched me Necropol, and I told him mine, and I said how can we turn these into one story and our conceptual artist suggested, he said, 'Well, you know what's used a lot in science fiction and literature, but not that much in movies is the idea of the transporter. You see it in 'Star Trek' and a little bit in 'The Fly', but it's really a common device in literature but not used properly in movies. And that became the link, the Stargate became the link between his script and my script.
Devlin talked more about the story throughout the three films. "Our first movie was only trying to tap into Egyptian mythology. The second was to move into other mythologies. Then the third was to realize that all mythologies are actually tied together with a common thread that we haven't recognized before. So if you make it through all three, hopefully we're tying up all kinds of mysteries on our planet that makes one cohesive story. My hope is that the series could live as beginning when the third movie ends."
[url]http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15537[/url]
Devlin Announces Plans for Stargate Sequels
July 20, 2006
Producer-writer Dean Devlin confirmed today at the San Diego Comic-Con that he is in talks with MGM Studios to shoot parts two and three to his original 1994 sci-fi film Stargate, which starred Kurt Russell and James Spader.
Devlin, speaking to the Comic-Con crowd about his next production, the World War I pilot drama Flyboys, said he has signed a multi-picture deal with MGM and wants the completion of his originally envisioned "Stargate" trilogy to be considered for those slots.
"I'd want the films to stay on track for what the original three were planned to be," said Devlin. "I'd want to let the series stand on their own."
Stargate, a project that no one believed in – according to Devlin, has become an international sensation following successful SCI FI Channel series "SG-1" and "Atlantis." Devlin told attendees that watching what the "Stargate" phenomenon had become has been a great experience – likening it to a dream that had 'come to life, left his head, walked across the street, got married and had children.' You can't help but be proud of that."
"We've always envisioned it as a trilogy," Devlin added later when talking directly to the press about the sequels. "'Stargate' was also supposed to be the first part of three. We had written all three, not the script, but the story, when we did the first one and due to the nature of how that film got made, and how MGM has changed so many times, and their commitment to doing the series, they've been very reluctant to do the movie. Well, under this new regime we've been in discussions with them and basically said, 'Look, one doesn't have to hurt the other. The series is doing great. Fans love the series, so much that it got a sequel. They may even be doing a third spinoff they're talking about. So it's alive, well and in good shape. But it would be great to finish telling the story we set out to tell 12 years ago.
So would he get Kurt Russell and James Spader back? He said, "Absolutely." Roland Emmerich? "Roland would absolutely be involved in it, whether or not he directs it will really depends on how much money I raise to make the picture." (laughs) "'Stargate' started as a story that Roland wrote in college called 'Necropol: City of the Dead', which was about a space ship buried underneath the Great Pyramid of Egypt. I had been working on, separately, without ever knowing, this thing I always called 'Lawrence of Arabia on Another Planet.' And when we met, he pitched me Necropol, and I told him mine, and I said how can we turn these into one story and our conceptual artist suggested, he said, 'Well, you know what's used a lot in science fiction and literature, but not that much in movies is the idea of the transporter. You see it in 'Star Trek' and a little bit in 'The Fly', but it's really a common device in literature but not used properly in movies. And that became the link, the Stargate became the link between his script and my script.
Devlin talked more about the story throughout the three films. "Our first movie was only trying to tap into Egyptian mythology. The second was to move into other mythologies. Then the third was to realize that all mythologies are actually tied together with a common thread that we haven't recognized before. So if you make it through all three, hopefully we're tying up all kinds of mysteries on our planet that makes one cohesive story. My hope is that the series could live as beginning when the third movie ends."
[url]http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15537[/url]
Comments
[B]It would be great to see another two good movies as sequels to the first, but I wonder how they'd work with the series. Ignore it? Take it into account? [/B][/QUOTE]
the key here is "GOOD" i'd LOVE to see this if the movies are up to the same quality as Stargate... but it could prove devastating if they turn out to be as good as say.. Highlander 2
Anyway, I'm all for it. What I wonder about is if SG1 and Stargate Classic can actually be accepted by the masses at the same time. They're entirely different universes at this point, sharing little to nothing beyond the Stargate itself. Their base plots are similar and they share assorted elements between them, but the similarity ends at the visuals. And yes, they did originally intend on a trilogy, but SG1 wandered into the scene and became a hit.
If it succeeds, what we'll have on our hands will be a landmark in scifi: Two distinctly different versions of the same story running parallel one another in different universes. What does this mean? The rest of the genre is wide open for a similar attempt. Think of the potential "fuck canon" message that could be instilled in trekkies around the globe!
Also, these movies won't have the Ori, so that's already something in their favour.
Worf
I read lots of shitty reviews of the movie, but loved it myself.. it was a lot better than the series imho..
Can't wait! :D
the movie however, i loved.
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Redo Babylon 5!!!!!
[B]Redo Babylon 5!!!!! [/B][/QUOTE]
BLASPHEMY!!!
[B]OMG YES! Hell you could use the same voices with animated series.
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Redo Babylon 5!!!!! [/B][/QUOTE]
You can only redo something that downright sucked or wasn't that good to begin with. You can't redo something that was perfect ;) You'd be undoing it.
I'm all in favour of continuing the movies. The original is just great. Although I do enjoy the series also.
I also have reservations about Roland Emmerich coming back to direct. He did a fine job with the first film. But I feel that as a director he caters for the US audience only. Everything he does is just so pro-USA, so gung-ho it gets kinda sickening. America saves the world every time and screw everybody else. For me that style just ruined Indepence Day and to a degree The Day after Tomorrow. Yeah ok there is an element of this attitude in SG1 but its less in your face.
Having Kurt Russel and James Spader back will be good though. Plus some of the others who showed up in SG1 too, that would be cool.