In his most recent entry to his personal web blog, executive producer Joseph Mallozzi talks about the possibilities for the up and coming Stargate Atlantis movie.

When we were breaking Enemy at the Gate, we saw it as a very special episode, not because it would be our series finale (at the time, we were somewhat optimistic that we would get that sixth season pick-up), but because it was going to be our 100th episode. For that reason, it turned out to be a little different from past finales, less a cliffhanger and more of a coming full-circle that featured the star of the series: the city of Atlantis.

It was also intended to be the launching point for a very interesting early season 6 scenarios:

With Atlantis back on Earth, why the hell would the I.O.A. ever let it go? And if it remained, which, by all indications seemed likely, what would become of its occupants, especially Ronon and Teyla?

Also, with a permanent station in the Milky Way, wouldn‘t Atlantis, logically, cease to be a launch point for gate travel and, instead, become a research center for Ancient technology? Well, I guess you’ll never know the answer to these questions…

What should of been the opening parter to the sixth season of Stargate Atlantis, will now be the basis for the first Atlantis movie in which a few loose ends will be tied up. The movie will allow for us to tell our story on a much bigger, visual effects-laden, character centred canvas.

Keep checking back to the Starate Archive for all the latest on the up and coming Stargate Atlantis Movie.

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With the final ever episode of Stargate Atlantis airing last night in the United States of America, and with global airings due over the next few weeks it really is the end of an era for Stargate Atlantis.

Although the show will carry on in movie form with the first Atlantis movie airing sometime during the course of 2009, it really does feel like the end of an era for both the show and the cast.

Watch the 100th episode stargate atlantis wrap party video clip.

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With the final ever episode of Stargate Atlantis fast approaching the Stargate Archive can exclusively bring to you the final spoiler information for this momentous occasion in the history of the Stargate Franchise.

Stargate Atlantis will end its 5 year run on its 100th Episode with the episode entitled ‘Enemy At The Gate’, however all is not lost the show will continue on in movie format with the first of hopefully many Atlantis movies in 2009.

If you would like to spoil yourself or just tease yourself regarding the shows last ever episode you can now exclusively hear at the Stargate Archive.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE EXCLUSIVE SPOILER INFORMATION FOR ENEMY AT THE GATE

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Many fans will know that Stargate Atlantis was cancelled a few months ago with the show ending with its momentous 100th episode at the end of its current fifth season.

Fans around the world have been left feeling outraged that such a popular Sci Fi classic has been cancelled the official reasons behind the shows cancelation are increasing operating costs.

However interesting new news has come to light regarding the popularity of Stargate Atlantis among illegal file sharers.

Stargate Atlantis ranked in 6th place for the most illegally downloaded television show during the course of 2008. More people downloaded the show from illegal sources than watched it on American television and other television channels globally.

Complaints have arisen from New Zealand, European and even Canadian television studios regarding the long wait between shows airing in the United States and then making their way globally to various regions.

This trend has led to the inevitable rise in illegal downloads by loyal fans wanting to know what is happening now instead of waiting several months before the episode airs in their regions.

The Stargate Archive does not indorse the contents of this Editorial article, and has as such been published for informative purposes only.

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This editorial post has now been updated to reflect the official news source this article is based on. The Stargate Archive Team would like to apologise to anyone who has felt upset by the contents of this editorial article. It has been published for informative purposes only and is not officially endorsed by the Stargate Archive Team.

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‘Infection’ saw the crew of Stargate Atlantis facing one of their most challenging disasters to date as they found themselves trapped on a diseased and disintegrating Wraith Hive.

“We didn’t want to tip the hat straight away, we wanted to discover that along the course of the episode,” explains director Andy Mikita, of the ship’s condition. “So we tried to keep it fairly ambiguous in terms of the look of the ship – we did a couple of subtle things just in-camera. We played with gamma levels a little bit just to give it a little bit less color, and so from a visual cue for the audience that was probably the only thing that we did just to provide a little bit of something doesn’t seem exactly like every other Wraith ship.”

For season five, the ‘Wraith set’ – housing the series’ standing Hive set – had been moved from the production’s annex at Norco to the show’s home at Bridge Studios. Moving the set had allowed the design and construction departments to make some changes to the internal layout of the Hive, and give the series directors a bit more leeway for shooting.

“We changed the layout quite a bit,” says Mikita. “It was always intentionally ambiguous in terms of the layout – we wanted to make it feel pretty big as much as possible, given that it’s always in a small studio. When we set it back up at Bridge, we had a little bit more space to deal with so we just tried to open it up. We provided some physically larger spaces where we could put in some set pieces to help divide the areas up. That worked really well, it gave us a little more elbow room from a working perspective, more room to move the camera around and to stage things ¬– it wasn’t so much just these little hallways here and there. The construction guys did a good, sensible layout that allowed for the most amount of flexibility. And with shows like ‘Infection’ it was good, because there was so much to do in there. Five or six days out of the seven would have been done out of that set, so having a little bit of extra room really made a big difference. And it’s such a modular environment as well, it’s pretty easy to move set pieces around to create new environments.”

One of the scariest aspects of the episode was the concept of a starving Wraith – though perversely, this time the terror didn’t come from its feeding hand… but the fact that the creature could no longer use it.

Says Mikita, “We also have a couple of run-ins with monster-like creatures that are partially developed Wraith drones that, because they don’t have their feeding hand any more, have resorted to eating the old-fashioned way! So they’re attacking and feeding on people as though they are animals.”

These scenes required the director to strike a careful balance between showing what had happened to the attacked personnel, and making sure the action was appropriate for Stargate Atlantis’ timeslot.

“It’s got to be acceptable for family viewing,” Mikita explains, “so we try to use common sense with respect to how graphic we get. Sometimes we’ll shoot things a little bit more graphic and if we decide it’s too much there’s always options to cut back. But with this one, that very first attack, we thought just the shock value of having this creature suddenly appear in the lens and then we cut away to an arm quivering on the ground and a wide shot of him being pulled around the corner – you sort of get the idea that it wasn’t a good thing and the bad guy won,” he laughs. “Then we come across some shredded body parts that’s mostly just torn clothes and blood on the ground so we get a sense of it. Everything else is played off the actors’ looks.”

For Mikita, though, ‘Infection’ was a particularly difficult episode to film. The problem wasn’t in the episode itself, but from the announcement that was made while the episode was being filmed – that Stargate Atlantis had not been renewed for a sixth season, and its 100th episode would be its last.

“It made an enormous impact,” Mikita explained. “I won’t lie to you. It made a huge impact on everybody, though more for the cast than the crew, because at the same time the show was cancelled it was also announced that we could look forward to Stargate Universe. So for the crew it was sort of exciting and sad at the same time, because this chapter was closing but the next one is about to begin.”

News article courtesy of the official Stargate Website

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