Le prochain Stargate... sans Brad Wright aux commandes ?
Publié : 11 déc. 2022, 18:39
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Pour celles et ceux qui ne seraient toujours pas au courant : deux articles ont été publiés sur GateWorld relativement au futur de la franchise.
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/12/ ... -stargate/
Amazon aurait fait un appel à intérêt auprès de divers scénaristes pour développer de nouvelles séries/films de SF (nouvelles et franchises existantes), dont Stargate. Parmi les personnes qui auraient exprimé leur intérêt pour Stargate à Amazon figurent les créateurs de The Expanse, Mark Fergus et Hawk Ostby.
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/12/ ... -stargate/
Et Brad Wright a semble-t-il répondu à ces rumeurs :
Pour celles et ceux qui ne seraient toujours pas au courant : deux articles ont été publiés sur GateWorld relativement au futur de la franchise.
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/12/ ... -stargate/
Amazon aurait fait un appel à intérêt auprès de divers scénaristes pour développer de nouvelles séries/films de SF (nouvelles et franchises existantes), dont Stargate. Parmi les personnes qui auraient exprimé leur intérêt pour Stargate à Amazon figurent les créateurs de The Expanse, Mark Fergus et Hawk Ostby.
CITATION Amazon’s interest in taking pitches for a new take on Stargate from new creatives is not a surprise, given the fact that since the merger Amazon and MGM have apparently moved on from the pilot script written a couple of years ago by Brad Wright. He co-created Stargate SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe, and was working with MGM on a fourth series when the COVID pandemic shut down global film and television production.
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The volume of rumors currently leaking out of Amazon and MGM suggests that the studios are actively considering where to take Stargate next. And it also looks like, when they do turn the page to the next chapter of the franchise, they intend to go big.
“Amazon has said from the beginning that they were more interested in establishing [Stargate] as a massive franchise,” Stiven said.
So why not bring back Wright to helm the next chapter? Stiven reminded fans that Wright’s was a pilot script written under very different circumstances, for a different set of needs at MGM at that time. Now that MGM is a piece of Amazon’s overall streaming business things are very different — and so the sort of Stargate show that Amazon is looking for is also bound to be different.
“When Brad wrote that script it was appropriate for where MGM was at the time,” she said. “He wrote that script and submitted it prior to the sale, prior to COVID. … It was a completely different world. So what he wrote, and what that series was going to be, was appropriate to that particular setup — that equation. [Today] the variables aren’t just changed, they’re blown apart. … His pilot, that series, was part of an equation that no longer exists.”
Passing on Wright’s series pitch does not necessarily mean a total reboot of the universe, however. It’s still an outstanding question whether a new Stargate TV series, movie, or other project will be set in the existing universe and continue the canon that millions of fans know and love.
What might Amazon and MGM decide is the best way to revive Stargate? The options reportedly being pitched inside the halls of MGM and Amazon run the gamut, including:
(1) Start with a feature film that in turn sets up a new TV series (and Bloomburg recently reported that Amazon plans to spend $1 billion per year on theatrical releases);
(2) Start directly with a series (and, hopefully, not throw out the existing canon);
(3) A reboot of the concept from the ground up.
We don’t know which of the parties currently in the conversation are pitching each of these approaches. But whatever form it takes, a new show would probably up the ante for Stargate’s budget.
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/12/ ... -stargate/
Et Brad Wright a semble-t-il répondu à ces rumeurs :
CITATION Writer and executive producer Brad Wright participated today in an open Q&A session on Reddit. The AMA (“Ask Me Anything”) conversation is part of the r/scifi subreddit’s “30 Days of Stargate” event, sponsored by The Companion and running through mid-December.
In response to fans’ questions Wright acknowledged that Amazon looks to be moving on with Stargate without him. “I am sure MGM and Amazon will do something with the franchise,” he said. “I am less sure if I will have anything to do with it. A few years ago now, MGM reached out to me and asked me to develop a pilot script for a new series, but so much has changed since then, including all of the players. Amazon is probably deciding what to do with Stargate as a tent-pole franchise and that may take some time. I wish them well.”
Recent reports suggested that Amazon might have passed on Wright’s script because they want to make a higher-budget show that turns Stargate into a tent-pole franchise. But Wright pushed back on the notion that his script was too small for the next chapter of the brand.
“I doubt it’s because my script wasn’t ambitious enough, because it was huge!” he said. “But it wasn’t a reinvention of the franchise and that may be what they’re looking for. I don’t know. I’ve not spoken to anyone at Amazon. I’m not keeping secrets. … I don’t think Amazon has decided anything yet.”