"L Alpert"  wrote in
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> 
> "Mark Nobles"  wrote in message 
> news:010920081356311100%cmn-nospam{at}comcast.net...
>>L Alpert  wrote:
>>
>>> "curmudgeon" 
wrote in message
>>> news:NeadnXJkc-ms3y3VnZ2dnUVZ_r3inZ2d{at}bresnan.com...
>>> > Just how many different (?) spin offs to the original
>>> > Stargate TV series are there out there ?
>>> > It must be me, because they all look and sound the same to
>>> > me. If this TV series is so popular, than why no big screen 
>>> > blockbuster
>>> > movie based upon it.
>>> > It worked so well for the Star Trek TV franchise.
>>> > Come to think of it, why no paperback book spin offs, again
>>> > it worked so well for both the Star Trek TV series and big
>>> > screen movies.
>>> >
>>> There was a movie made called "Stargate" in '94.
>>>
>>> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/
>>>
>>>
>> Not related to the TV franchise in any way, though there are
>> some minor
>> coincidences in character names and setting.
> 
> And method of travel.  I'm not sure to the timing of all of
> this, but there are too many coincidences for me to say that one
> has nothing to do with the other. 
> 
The series is based on the movie, obviously. Significant changes 
were made to the O'Neill character, becaues it's difficult to 
sustain an ongoing show with the main character wanting to commit 
suicide (plus, Richard Dean Answerson refused to play such a 
depressing character).

Marks just being pissy because the guy who produced the movie 
didn't keep the TV rights, and didn't much like the TV show.

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