Stargate news, kinda.

[arduinna]

(the cake is a lie, but I wanted the chevron)

In completely puzzling news, Roland Emmerich is hoping to do a Stargate movie reboot/sequel, as a trilogy of movies. As far as I can tell from other articles, he plans to completely ignore the almost 15 years' worth of existing tv canon, and just go back to what he had in 1994.

I mean, I liked the movie a lot! But seriously, at this point the tv universe has completely eclipsed it, and I have no idea how he could do a trilogy without pulling in some kind of "and it turns out Ra wasn't alone after all", which kinda brings you right to the Goa'uld as presented in Stargate SG-1, so... the hell?

Also, hey, go Hollywood on this drive to originality. This reboot notion came along with the sequel for Independence Day, for its 20-year anniversary.

ETA, unrelatedly, cesperanza's cunning plan to get people posting is ridiculously effective. I'm sitting in a living room with therienne and mollyamory, and about half an hour ago all the tv-watching and chatter ended as we realized that whoops, it was 11, and time to start writing our posts for the day. So now there's nothing but typing and time-checks going on. Heh.

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[sholio]

I've heard that the original creators absolutely hated SG-1 and thought that it violated all their ideas for what the characters were like and how the series was supposed to go, so they've been wanting to reboot it for years. Which I've always found slightly ridiculous, because yes, the TV series is silly, but it's not as if the original movie is grand high literature. ;P

That said, I can't even imagine how weird this is going to be. I expect to mainly ignore it. But who knows, maybe it'll be really great and breathe new life into the fandom.