Interesting. They want to reboot the original movie as part of a trilogy. Wonder if we’ll ever see a TV show again.
All hail the Sun God!
He sure is a fun god!
Ra! Ra! Ra!
It seems natural enough, I suppose, given how much better the TV show was than the original movie. They know they can do better.
I’ll be cautiously optimistic. I loved the series and saw every episode.
I liked the series at first but O’Neill’s lame wisecracks and constant “Whoa, say that again in English” bit got tiresome enough to put me off it.
So if the lead actor is a dumb pretty-boy type… pass.
I’m getting a bit tired of reboots. I enjoyed the Stargate movie and at least five of the television series, but, come on, let’s get some original content out there.
I liked Stargate for the most part but it was very formulaic which got tiring. Then again, it was of an era where shows didn’t expect viewers to watch every episode so it’s understandable.
The concept of a Stargate is fun enough that I’ll pay attention to a reboot. But I definitely don’t want to see the same character archetypes. No experienced but damaged soldier with the heart of gold. No brilliant archaeologist with the crazy alien theories that turns out to be right allowing him to understand every world the crew encounters immediately upon exiting the gate. No super intelligent hot girl with the astrophysics degree who can solve every problem with techno-babble. And no super alien warrior who changes allegiances in 5 seconds and becomes your super ally.
That being said, better written characters and a tight story that deviates from the expected formula could be the basis for an entertaining reboot.
It’s a great story as is, I’m not sure how much reimagining it needs. If they make great casting choices I’ll be happy with it. I suppose the original story suffered a bit from the same problem Star Trek suffered. By the end of the series the USAF had really awesome technology so they had to come up with more and more powerful enemies and pretty soon we were duking it out with god-like entities across the galaxy while everyone on earth was still living with current day technology.
Looking at IMDB, Emmerich doesn’t have a very good record at making anything other than B movies. In fact, he’s made a lot of crap. If he’s in on this, the whole thing’s screwed.
Or, they could do this. Except the guy playing Mitchell is Cory Monteith and is dead now.
The original movie had so much promise to be a really amazing sci-fi master piece. Until it turned into AnActionMoivie_002334233. Which is to bad really.
I also like Stargate Universe at least near the end I did, it was getting much better.
It was always a character driven show, so I suppose if you don’t like the characters it might not be worth it. The sci-fi action was pretty good though, and they consulted scientists. Obviously they weren’t going for hardcore sci-fi. The language thing they decided pretty early on to screw it. They couldn’t have the genius linguist spending a few years working out the local language every episode, so they just joked that hopefully the audience wouldn’t notice. 
Some of the later space battles were pretty epic.
It was also one of the few shows that treated firearms realistically. They even had decent muzzle and trigger discipline, which was pretty amazing.
Yeah, they had a pretty good relationship with the military. Not too many shows get that.
I suppose that as with most things, setting is extremely important.
I don’t remember the movie being particularly an action movie. Any action in it is drowned out, in my memory, by memories of the really not very good at all science fiction. Turning it into an action movie would have improved it.
I enjoyed all the Stargates, from the movie though all the series. I guess i’m easily amused. My wife liked it too.
The thing that bugged me the most, especially in the movie, was admittedly necessary for the action scenes and plot elements: the fact that these advanced aliens didn’t have any weapons that could take out a few hundred people in one pop. Nope, just energy blasts that usually missed, and even when they hit, weren’t even always fatal. Sheesh!
But, that’s fiction for ya.
The problem with Stargate was that the writers of the series left too many things dangling and dropped interesting stories in favor of some real crappy ones (***Urgo ***anybody?
Not certain if the reboot will follow the path of the television series or go for the Stargate novels which were continuations of the feature film.
They explain that in the show.
I can’t hear it at work so in case O’Neill doesn’t say it in this clip, basically the Jaffa have weapons of fear; Stargate SG-1 has weapons of war.
No hating on Urgo. 
I read one of the novels. Not good. But of course Sam ends up naked.