They manage to muster up enough power for one, final short range jump, putting them within range of a subspace anomaly they detected. The plan is to use the wormhole drive to execute a series of jumps to Pegasus – however, the drive burns out partway through their journey, stranding them in the Triangulum Galaxy, some 300 000 light years from home. John, in turn, pays a visit to Area 51 and, again under the heavy protests of the IOA, springs his buddy, Todd. Woolsey gets the band back together, transporting John and Ronon up from the hospital emergency room where they are getting fixed up following a bar room brawl (an opportunity to write in the scar actor Jason Momoa had received at the time). McKay realizes – the city will self-destruct unless it returns to the Pegasus galaxy. Too late they realize that the Ancients put a failsafe in place in the event Atlantis was moved. Unfortunately, when the gate is finally brought back online, Zelenka reports a build up of energy in the capacitors. Woolsey and McKay, for instance, point out that they still have a responsibility to the people of the Pegasus galaxy. We learn that the gate has been offline since its return to Earth but, under pressure from the IOA, the decision is made to bring it back online, have it supersede the Earth gate, and make it a permanent lunar base.
The bottom fell out of the dvd market, the script was shelved and, well, here we are today.Īs I already mentioned in past entries, the movie would have opened on a shot that revealed Atlantis’s new home on the lunar surface. Sadly, we never got the go-ahead and, although we did end up eventually writing the script for the Atlantis movie (Stargate: Extinction), in hindsight, that window of opportunity at the end of the show’s sixth season was our last, best shot at seeing it made. We just needed the go-ahead sooner than later in order to make sure we had all the actors on board. Given the green light, we could roll right into production on the heels of Enemy at the Gate. It was a brilliant plan which I, in turn, proposed it to the decision-makers. His idea was to add an extra month to the production schedule during which we would shoot the sixth season opening two-parter that, in the event the show wasn’t picked up, could become a direct-to-dvd feature.
A sixth season? A wrap-up movie? Robert Cooper suggested we hedge our bets by preparing for both. Late in Atlantis’s fifth year, when we were working on the final few scripts of the season, we had no way of knowing what the future held. Looking back over my 11+ years with the Stargate franchise, I have one giant regret – the missed opportunity of bringing you that Atlantis movie.
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