Here was what ran through my mind when I read the news article.
Why would MGM pay to use characters they don’t own like Mitchell, Vala, ect and reboot to “Star Gate Command”? They own the rights to Jack O’Neill and Daniel Jackson outright since they are from the original movie. Thinking about it, wouldn’t it be cheaper and more practical if MGM was going to retool series anyway, base the next series on the movies?
No continuity messes. No copy-rights to contend with. Big movie screen name to ‘Based on the screen play by” to push it. Until you can get these new movies out either for the big screen or for TV syndicate or do a mini for Sci Fi with the series you do have. Then when you reboot the series, reboot it completely with the characters MGM owns outright and find two new unknown young hunks to revise the roles of Dr. Daniel Jackson and Jack O’Neill.
Odds are Sci Fi has some sort of non-compete in place in US markets for 2-5 years. (It’s a guess on the time period it’s the standard language in ours). It’s probably going to take MGM that long to decide either way about doing the movies and get this cable network up and running.
If I was a MGM executive I know one option I might be exploring very carefully depending on how contracts might be set up.
Why would MGM pay to use characters they don’t own like Mitchell, Vala, ect and reboot to “Star Gate Command”? They own the rights to Jack O’Neill and Daniel Jackson outright since they are from the original movie. Thinking about it, wouldn’t it be cheaper and more practical if MGM was going to retool series anyway, base the next series on the movies?
No continuity messes. No copy-rights to contend with. Big movie screen name to ‘Based on the screen play by” to push it. Until you can get these new movies out either for the big screen or for TV syndicate or do a mini for Sci Fi with the series you do have. Then when you reboot the series, reboot it completely with the characters MGM owns outright and find two new unknown young hunks to revise the roles of Dr. Daniel Jackson and Jack O’Neill.
Odds are Sci Fi has some sort of non-compete in place in US markets for 2-5 years. (It’s a guess on the time period it’s the standard language in ours). It’s probably going to take MGM that long to decide either way about doing the movies and get this cable network up and running.
If I was a MGM executive I know one option I might be exploring very carefully depending on how contracts might be set up.
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