Category: Atlantis

Executive producer Joseph Mallozzi is featured in a video at the MGM official website, telling about how sad it is to end the five years of Stargate Atlantis. In this brief video interview, he talks about some of the cast: David Hewlett, Jason Momoa, Rachel Luttrell, and Jewel Staite. Visit MGM to view.

Stargate Atlantis executive producer and writer Joseph Mallozzi has been answering questions about the first Stargate Atlantis movie that is to pick up where events left off in the series finale “Enemy at the Gate”. His most recent update indicates that they will most likely not film the movie until the fall.

“There was initial talk of a summer shoot but, given the tight scheduling, fall looks more likely,” Mallozzi stated in his March 11 weblog entry.

Back in February, following up on the controversial rumor that the first Atlantis movie had been shelved indefinitely, Mallozzi wrote plainly when accused of playing coy, “No. My way of telling you whether or not there will or won’t be a Stargate movie would be to tell you whether or not there will or won’t be a Stargate movie. Sneaky, no?”

For a while, the rumor died down, but was just recently fueled by an interview with Rachel Luttrell that was posted by Gateworld (the actual interview date isn’t known). She said, “None of us really know what’s going on and if it happens, great! Last I heard was that they were just going to kind of see how things played out in terms of viewership with Universe and potentially viewership with the SG-1 films that they have already shot. There are a lot of ‘ifs’ in place. And if it was going to happen I would be surprised if it happened this year. So there you go!”

Showing how things can change from one day to the next, Mallozzi updated fans on March 11, “SGU’s performance has no connection to the Atlantis movie. If it did, then that would mean we wouldn’t be shooting the movie until 2010 since there is talk of SGU premiering in the fall.”

Right now, Mallozzi and writing and production partner Paul Mullie have a detailed outline for the movie’s script. They are aiming to have the first draft of the script completed by next month.

So, it looks like all is on track for the production of the first Atlantis movie. Mallozzi appears to want to ease every fan’s mind that there will be a movie. MGM has green-lit it and the script is being written. They haven’t drawn up contracts yet, but obviously, they do plan to approach the actors. He told About.com, “We picked a window where the cast should be available. It’s just a matter at that point of trying to work out a deal with them, with the individual actors.”

The official MGM website has posted a new video titled “Mallozzi’s Memories” in which executive producer and co-showrunner Joseph Mallozzi shares his favorite moments during the five years of Stargate Atlantis.

Mallozzi said that he’ll be sad that he won’t be writing for certain characters again…”until the movie, of course.”

MGM has posted a new video featuring Rachel Luttrell as she says thank you to the fans of Stargate Atlantis for all of their support over the years.

The video closes on set as Luttrell wraps her final scene for the show. It was quite an emotional moment that was caught on film.

Stargate Atlantis will return to Sci Fi in a made-for-television movie that is being written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie and will be directed by Andy Mikita. Luttrell and her costars are expected to be returning to the sets this summer for filming.

Stargate Universe creative consultant John Scalzi has posted in his blog the list of this year’s nominees for the Nebula Awards, which he described as “one of the two big awards in SF (the other, of course, being the Hugo).”

On the list in the “Scripts” category are:

• The Dark Knight – Nolan, Jonathan; Nolan, Christopher, Goyer, David S. (Warner Bros., Jul08)
• WALL-E” Screenplay – Andrew Stanton, Jim Reardon, Original story by Andrew Stanton, Pete Docter (Walt Disney June 2008)
• The Shrine – Wright, Brad (Stargate Atlantis, Aug08)

Scalzi concludes, “Congratulations to all the nominees — we’ll find out who won at Nebula Weekend, April 24-26, 2009, in Los Angeles, California.”

And Solutions would also like to say “congratulations” to Mr. Wright!

MGM has posted another video taken from the 100th Episode/Wrap Party for Stargate Atlantis where Joe Flanigan, David Hewlett, Jason Momoa, Paul McGillion, and Robert C. Cooper share their thoughts on what makes the show a success.

This might seem a rather odd type of video to create and post at this time in that it is featuring a show that has been canceled, but it’s kind of comforting as well, since we know that Stargate Atlantis will continue in telemovie format. We’re still awaiting more information—including a title—concerning the first SGA movie that is due to be filmed this summer.

Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie have been busy writing scripts for Stargate Universe, but as soon as their work is done, they’ll be turning their attention to the movie’s script, which they hope will be complete by April. Andy Mikita has been slated to direct the movie, which is presently set to premiere on the Sci Fi Channel first and then be distributed on DVD. As far as an air date is concerned, we’re not sure, but we had heard that Sci Fi wanted to show it during the mid-season break of Universe, which is due to make a fall premiere (the current talk is that SGU will premiere on October 2 at 9 PM with a two-hour opener).