Though Stargate Universe was cancelled midway through its second season (the last 10 episodes will air in the Spring), executive producer Brad Wright thinks there’s a chance that the story could continue. Wright contends that, “We haven’t given up on finishing the story we started.”
Wright was traveling when the cancellation news came down from Syfy and is now looking for a way to continue the series in some form. Wright tells Chicago Now’s Curt Wagner that he and MGM, the studio that owns the rights to the Stargate franchise, are discussing several possible options. He said, “It’s heartening to see so many people upset about Syfy’s cancellation of the show but it’s important to remember that their license fee represented only a portion of our total budget.”
While this is positive news, its a long way from the show being saved. Based on what Wright has said, it would seem that a substantial portion of the SGU budget comes from other sources like DVD sales. A possible option could be to do direct-to-DVD movies but then, fans are still waiting for a Stargate Atlantis movie. The series could be sold to another channel but that’s always a tough sell.
What do you think? Would you like to see Stargate Universe continue in some form — as a DVD movie, online short videos, comics, or novels? Or, would you rather see one of the other shows in the franchise return in some way?
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These TV companies need to realise that times are moving on, especially considering the technology that the majority of the world has now. The target audience of these kind of genres are no longer sitting watching their TV’s instead it is far more suitable to fit in an episode via streaming over the internet,, that way no1 has to fit their lives around a scheduel and can watch when they feel they have the time. Just because audiences are moving away from TV doesn’t mean you cant take change the medium in which you communicate the story…. its just like… Read more »
If Stargate Universe is cancelled I will have no reason to subscribe to it. It has become a stupid channel over the last while. Scyfi officially sucks now.
I hope they continue the series in other channel, SyFy is so stupid for doing this and keep airing such dumb things like ghost hunters!.
Millions of peoples see the series around the world!, the world do not finished in USA borders.
I dont wanna a movie, if they can make it keep running in other channel or DVD go on, i gonna to see like many persons in LatinAmerica, Europe, Asia.
greetins from Argentina.
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When I first heard that a third Stargate series was in the works, there was excitement; when I understood the premise of its storyline, there was horror. I refused to watch this pretentious upstart of a TV show that had the gall to carry the same name as my beloved SG1 and Atlantis. It took six months of my roommate (who’s not such a big fan of sci-fi) reminding me of a promise to watch it (which I made under duress because I couldn’t believe he hadn’t seen Lord of the Rings; seriously? Seriously??) before I finally did. And it… Read more »
PLEASE BRING THE SHOW BACK. ONE OF THE FEW GOOD SHOWS LEFT ON TV.
COME ON BRING SGU BACK AND DONT GIVE UP ON IT I BEEN WATCHING THIS LAST SEASON IT ROCKS AND NEEDS TO BE CONTINUED ON SYFY OR ANY OTHER NETWORK OR ON DVD THIS SERIES WAS A SLOW STARTER BUT VERY WELL ILLISTRATED IN THE ISSUES THAT THE CREW OF DESTINY FACED AS WELL AS HOW THE SERIES HAS EMERGED AND GROWN TO A MUCH MORE FACINATING STORY LINE THEY HAVE TO SAVE IT
I agree – I would love to see this show picked up by someone like netflix! I am so disappointed by this cancellation.
Lets just hope somehow it survives for at least a couple more seasons. Although they do need to stop focusing on those friggen communication stones as a episode plot for once. Otherwise im loving the show.
Matt W, the acting in SG Universe is of a much higher calibre than Atlantis and SG1, the story has awesome potential. It does lack the “Wheres this Stargate going to take me” feel though. I always did love new worlds with amazing/bad things to see.
i say bring back stargate atlantis if they had the money to make universes they should have been able to keep atlantis on air instead of a really crap show like universes which lets face it bad acting and bad story telling…it would be good to see sg1 restarted but sg1 hasnt been the same since anderson left why would they choose to film a movie instead of a new season when you can only get money from DVD sales when a new season would bring in money from the TV and then the DVD when it is released and… Read more »
While it would be awesome for another network to pickup SGU, I don’t think SGU needs a network at all. Internet television is quite large these days, I don’t even have cable television anymore now that services like Hulu.com give me shows on my time with less commercials (same goes for many people I know in fact). If SGU keeps pumping out episodes and keeps putting them on Hulu.com and/or similar websites (even on stargate.mgm.com?), all the fans will continue to watch. I’ll be purchasing all the DVDs of SGU to add to my Stargate collection as I’m sure many… Read more »
The network that picks this up will be the winner. Critical mass has been achieved, the characters have been developed and that “awkward” interaction between actors is gone and replaced with a smoother more comfortable interaction which only comes with time. the stage has been set with recent plot developments that paves the way for a MINIMUM of five more seasons with a descent team of writers. The audience is built in, people have invested emotionally in the show and it’s an established franchise. The alternative is to try yet another branch of the Stargate “Universe” (no pun intended) from… Read more »
Stargate has been such a staple in television for so long!! They must keep it alive. They were just building into such a great story line, to cancel it now would be a foolish move. SYFY has fallen zoo short on quality TV show, now littered with hundreds of re-run, horribly bad movies, and Wrestling…. Theres no reason to watch that channel now that they’ve taken away Battlestar, Caprica, and Stargate.
Another network should really take on in keeping this iconic flame alive, and if not Stargate movies have always been amazing continuations.
We Need Stargate
I think it’s important to remember that the original SG1 series didn’t start on SCI-FI (the predecessor to the ridiculously spelled SYFY) network. It started on SHOWTIME, which is why the producers of that show had breathing room to make the show their way. Maybe its worth exploring going back to SHOWTIME or another network that won’t impose the same restrictions that broadcast networks impose on their programs. I heard HBO is slated to release a sci-fi show. Anyone ever hear of LOST? No one even knew that was a sci-fi show until it was too late and they already… Read more »
I’d love to support the show in any way it could be kept going. Heck, they need to open a website and see if they can sell subscriptions, then show it on netflix or by mailing DVD’s.