In a totally different direction of my usual gaming news reports (haha! *points and laughs at Sony*), I've just read something very interesting and very awesome on Gateworld.net!

It seems that Dean Devlin, creator of the original 1994 Stargate movie (independent of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, mind you), has successfully penned an agreement with MGM to finish the original idea he had for the movie. It's been well known amongst Stargate fans that the original movie was only the first of a trilogy that MGM never went for. MGM, instead, went and worked with Showtime to start the extremely successful Stargate SG-1. (But, like I said, SG-1 is technically another storyline entirely... based off of, but entirely different from the movie.)

Anyway, MGM was afraid that finishing the original movie trilogy would interfere with the young new series. But, obviously, the series isn't young anymore! (Nor does it seem to be slacking off in viewers, in spite of what I think is a terrible reiteration of the 8 year "false god" story.) MGM, being the publisher they are, now thinks that the movie trilogy could co-exist with the series without any impact. (Meaning... being the money-mongers publishing companies are, it's now safe enough for them to think about doing the trilogy, since it doesn't seem like they'll lose money anymore.)

That's all well and good, I thought. But the actors are 12 years older! (He made mention that the original actors would "absolutely" be involved again. That means Kurt Russell and James Spader, heh.) He answered that question with an interesting bit of news... "Stargate 2" was written to take place 12 years after "Stargate 1", in the first place. It's actually perfect timing that they've waited this long. The actors will have aged exactly as the script required.

In a way, after reading the articles, the Stargate movie seems rather like Uru. It was a movie that nobody wanted to publish. But the writers were able to fund themselves and eventually got MGM to release the movie. After it hit the bigscreen, MGM disagreed with the planned sequels and, instead, released their own version. (Myst 4, anyone?) Some people loved the spin-off series... some people hated it. Nobody else but MGM could make a sequel movie because they owned the rights. But now, after the original creators have been pushed out of the picture for so long, they're finally picked back up because someone thinks it could be successful after all.

Except, in this case, it's still the same publisher... which is both good and bad.

Anyway... Stargate movie sequels!