{"id":11939,"date":"2010-12-26T07:33:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-26T15:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=11939"},"modified":"2010-12-26T13:23:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-26T21:23:06","slug":"sgu-cancellation-lessens-possibility-of-atlantis-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/sgu-cancellation-lessens-possibility-of-atlantis-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"SGU Cancellation Lessens Possibility of Atlantis Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SGA-S5-Atlantis-above-Earth\"<\/a>In the Christmas Day entry<\/a> in his weblog, executive producer Joseph Mallozzi posted a fan Q&A, what he calls his “mailbag,” that follows up on the recent cancellation of Stargate Universe<\/em> by Syfy and its impact on the rest of the franchise, especially on Stargate Atlantis<\/em>. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m sorry to say but the cancellation puts the brakes on whatever progress the SGA movie had made in the past month, shelving it indefinitely.”<\/p>\n

Mallozzi and writing partner Paul Mullie have already written the script for Stargate: Extinction<\/em>, a story that originally took place soon after the events of “Enemy at the Gate.” The timeline will have to be tweaked just slightly<\/a> to place the events to follow the appearances of Robert Picardo and David Hewlett in the SGU episode “Seizure,”<\/a> which will be aired after SGU returns to Syfy for its last 10 episodes on that network in Spring 2011 (possibly early April).<\/p>\n

Ratings for the first half of Season Two were not sufficient for Syfy to renew the series. “Those early season two ratings were admittedly a downer. The move to Tuesday night was not good for us (and, speaking to the franchise as a whole, the move from summer to fall did us no favors either) and I firmly believe that time-shifted viewing and internet downloads have bled off a significant portion of our younger, tech-savvy audience.<\/p>\n

“Still, we held out hope and, as production continued on season two, positive word from various places gave us hope that the show would come back for, at the very least, a third and final season (much the same way Battlestar<\/em> did). Many of us were shocked by the abruptness of the cancellation decision<\/a>.” <\/p>\n

When asked if another network might pick SGU up for a third season, he replied, “We\u2019re investigating all possible avenues.” All possible avenues, however, are limited. “A new Stargate series isn\u2019t even being considered.” <\/p>\n

As far as what the fans can do to support the franchise, and perhaps bring about the production of Stargate: Extinction<\/em>, Mallozzi suggested, “Letters and emails are nice and all but, at the end of the day, the studio is more likely to look at things like iTune and DVD sales when making a decision.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the Christmas Day entry in his weblog, executive producer Joseph Mallozzi posted a fan Q&A, what he calls his “mailbag,” that follows up on the recent cancellation of Stargate Universe by Syfy and its impact on the rest of the franchise, especially on Stargate Atlantis. “I\u2019m sorry to say but the cancellation puts the … Continue reading “SGU Cancellation Lessens Possibility of Atlantis Movie”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atlantis","category-news","category-universe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11939"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11980,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions\/11980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}