{"id":727,"date":"2006-12-22T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2006-12-22T07:14:20","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T15:14:20","slug":"mgm-planning-ongoing-sg1-movies-no-season-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/mgm-planning-ongoing-sg1-movies-no-season-11\/","title":{"rendered":"MGM planning ongoing SG1 movies, no Season 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gateworld.net\/news\/2006\/12\/studio_planning_on-going_isg-1i_.shtml\">GateWorld.net reports today<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main_body\"><\/span><span id=\"intelliTXT\"><em>Stargate<\/em> owner <strong>Metro Goldwyn Meyer<\/strong> is planning an <strong>on-going <em>Stargate SG-1<\/em> movie franchise<\/strong>, a production source tells GateWorld. MGM and the show&#8217;s Vancouver-based producers are <strong>no longer pursuing an eleventh season<\/strong> for the hit television series, which was cancelled by U.S. broadcaster SCI FI Channel in August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The cast of <em>Stargate SG-1<\/em> has now signed on for the first film, though an exact list of confirmed actors is not yet available. The film begins shooting <strong>April 15<\/strong> in Vancouver, followed by a <strong>June 1<\/strong> start date for the second movie, according to a new <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.tv.ign.com\/articles\/751\/751455p1.html\">IGN interview<\/a> with actor Michael Shanks.<\/p>\n<p>Though perhaps a disappointment to fans rallying for an eleventh season at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.savestargatesg1.com\/\">SaveStargateSG1.com<\/a>, the news does offer a silver lining: should DVD sales justify the plans to make an on-going series of movies, the adventures of SG-1 will continue.<\/p>\n<p>The studio was previously exploring its options for an alternate way to finance and distribute Season Eleven in the U.S., calling <em>Stargate<\/em> its most important franchise second only to James Bond.<\/p>\n<p>The producers announced in October that two SG-1 movies, likely direct-to-DVD, had been greenlit. The first will serve as the climax of the Ori story line, according to executive producer Brad Wright. It will be written by executive producer Robert C. Cooper. The second film will be written by Wright, and is said to deal with <strong>time travel<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The studio is targetting a fall 2007 release for both films \u00e2\u20ac\u201d just a few months after <em>Stargate SG-1<\/em> ends its historic, 10-year run on cable television.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"main_body\"><\/span><span id=\"intelliTXT\">They hope for <strong>at least one new SG-1 movie each year<\/strong> thereafter, a source tells GateWorld.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GateWorld.net reports today: Stargate owner Metro Goldwyn Meyer is planning an on-going Stargate SG-1 movie franchise, a production source tells GateWorld. MGM and the show&#8217;s Vancouver-based producers are no longer pursuing an eleventh season for the hit television series, which was cancelled by U.S. broadcaster SCI FI Channel in August. The cast of Stargate SG-1 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/mgm-planning-ongoing-sg1-movies-no-season-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;MGM planning ongoing SG1 movies, no Season 11&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}