TV Squad pointed me to this Multichannel News article about the business behind STARGATE SG-1, which is shooting it’s 200th episode…and is the springboard for a LAW & ORDER/CSI/STAR TREK-esque franchise for MGM and SciFi Channel. Already, the studio is planning a second spin-off series (in addition to STARGATE ATLANTIS) and a feature film. What nobody mentions in the article (or anywhere else) is how much of STARGATE’s enormous revenue is going to Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin, the writer/producers/creators behind the original 1994 movie that inspired the TV series.
That’s ironic, since I’ve read that Dean Devlin is pretty unhappy with the course SG-1 took compared to the movie.
Mom, is that a wormhole to hell?
Another shout-out to Lee Goldberg who seems to find this stuff faster than anybody; I don’t know how he does it. Anyway, for the full story check out Michael