Originally posted by Oma-1
Sorry to quote my own post, but I just caught up to speed and read the articles on GW's homepage and the links at the bottom of them and realised I had got completely the wrong end of the stick.
What are MGM thinking??????????????
Am I seeing money making at it's evil best? I was under the impression that BW & RCC had been in talks with MGM for a movie, and now we're finding out they're in talks with Devlin to complete his trilogy.
But what about our SG-1 movie??????
There is such a thing as wringing a franchise dry, and it seems to me that this is what MGM are doing. Devlin would never have been given the opportunity to contiue his trilogy based on the original movie if it had not been for the series. Is there enough room for 2 more of his movies as well as a 3rd Stargate Show, and a movie to introduce it??????
Devlin must feel he's running out of time to get his movies made and be pushing like hell.
I also think the timing of this stinks. MGM must be crazy. Surely they owe more to the SG-1 franchise, run by BW and RCC than to Devlin. They bought the rights off Devlin a very long time ago.
The only saving grace I can see is that Devlin says his movies won't interfere with our Stargate universe and are supposed to be set before S1 begins. But even having said that, I don't see how MGM can do both things at the same time.
And I will not be a happy camper if they put Devlin's movies ahead of BW/RCC's.
What are MGM thinking??????????????
Am I seeing money making at it's evil best? I was under the impression that BW & RCC had been in talks with MGM for a movie, and now we're finding out they're in talks with Devlin to complete his trilogy.
But what about our SG-1 movie??????
There is such a thing as wringing a franchise dry, and it seems to me that this is what MGM are doing. Devlin would never have been given the opportunity to contiue his trilogy based on the original movie if it had not been for the series. Is there enough room for 2 more of his movies as well as a 3rd Stargate Show, and a movie to introduce it??????
Devlin must feel he's running out of time to get his movies made and be pushing like hell.
I also think the timing of this stinks. MGM must be crazy. Surely they owe more to the SG-1 franchise, run by BW and RCC than to Devlin. They bought the rights off Devlin a very long time ago.
The only saving grace I can see is that Devlin says his movies won't interfere with our Stargate universe and are supposed to be set before S1 begins. But even having said that, I don't see how MGM can do both things at the same time.
And I will not be a happy camper if they put Devlin's movies ahead of BW/RCC's.
I also didn't care much for Kurt Russell as Jack O'Neill
I like the way RDA plays him as a man with soul, heart and kindness and who has a sense of humor.
With the edition of the characters of Teal'c and Samantha Carter (who in my book gave Jack O'Neill a reason to live by falling in love with her) along with Daniel Jackson to make an unstopable team that travels the stars makes for exellant viewing.
I wonder just how many DVD's of the original Stargate movie were bought just because of interest in the series??? I know that I'm one of them.
Perhaps that would give MGM a reason to say no to Devlin and go with BW and RCC to make a Stargate movie.
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