Remember Stargate? I think you do. It starred Kurt Russell and James Spader, way back in 1994, and spawned a slightly successful TV series. And another slightly successful TV series. And a bad cartoon series. That first series has now been running for 10 years.
So it is with much amusement that I read that Dean Devlin, Kurt Russell and James Spader are all interested in making a second and possibly third movie following on from the original movie. Most entertainingly, it'll be set 12 years after the original and yet somehow, according to Devlin, "We would just continue the mythology of the movie and finish that out. I think the series could still live at the end of the third sequel. So we're going to try to not tread on their stories."
Right. Can't really see how that one's going to work.
All the same, I'll probably watch it when it comes out. Sounds like it might be a laugh...
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August 23, 2006: Stargate SG-1 may have been cancelled, but producer Robert C Cooper has vowed to keep the programme going somehow, potentially as a movie.
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July 21, 2006 | Reply
Wonder if they'd get Jaye Davidson back as well?
July 21, 2006 | Reply
Dunno. Doubt it. Davidson has given up acting and is now a fashion assistant in London somewhere.
Plus it's hard to convince everyone you're an eternally youthful boy when you're 38 in real life. S'pose they could nerd Polyfilla?¢‚Äû¬¢ round that (the effects of the A-bomb or something) but it's a leap, I reckon.
July 21, 2006 | Reply
I love LOVED the first Stargate film. But this idea is barmy. Please James, you don't NEED to do this...
July 21, 2006 | Reply
He's been hanging around with Shatner for too long. It's getting into his brain.
I loved the first Stargate, too. In particular, I always loved the fact the Great Pyramids turned out to be the galactic equivalent of an NCR car park in the world of Stargate..
Went to it with the smartest person I've ever known. "What did you think of it?" I asked afterwards. "It was about Vietnam," she said. Took me three years to work out what she was on about. But then I am a bit slow.
July 21, 2006 | Reply
Roger Ebert's Stargate review:
"Assignment: Conceive of the weirdest plot you can think of, and reduce it as quickly as possible to action movie cliches. If possible, include sun god Ra, and make sure something gets blowed up real good."
Which sums it up pretty well.
July 21, 2006 | Reply
I love Roger Ebert. He's always got something good and reasonably accurate to say. His podcasts aren't as interesting as Mark Kermode's, but they're still good to listen to.
July 23, 2006 | Reply
I thought Stargate was awful, but then again, I saw it on one of those tiny seat-back screens on a plane. The Pyramids ended up about the size of Dairylea triangles.
July 23, 2006 | Reply
I had the same thing with Lost in Space. The massive efforts of virtually all of Soho's post production houses were all for nothing on a three inch square Virgin Atlantic screen. Plus it was rubbish anyway.
July 23, 2006 | Reply
No, you're both right: Lost in Space and Stargate are both awful.