New Stargate Series 'In Talks'

[ZariusTwo]

The Stargate franchise ran for more than a decade with three live action series and a few movies (and a web series) along the way. But after being mothballed the past few years, it sounds like we’re closer than ever to actually getting the ‘Gate back online.

We already knew former producer Brad Wright, who helped shape the franchise across the runs of Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, had been working on a pitch for a new Stargate show the past year or so with studio MGM. But Hollywood is notoriously slow right up until it’s not, and we haven’t had much news lately. But we can take solace that things are, apparently, still chugging along behind the scenes.

As flagged by Gateworld, fellow producer Joseph Mallozzi has teased on Twitter and Reddit that talks are “progressing” toward getting the project off the ground (which is always better news than "dead") — and even offered up some details for fans wondering what shape the project might take. For one, Mallozzi made it pretty clear the pitch being developed by Wright is set within the existing continuity they spent several years building across the prior shows. He added fans would see plenty of “familiar faces” if the series moves forward. So all those adventures of SG-1, the alien races, the former characters, the world-building, the Destiny out trucking across the universe — all those things would presumably still be in the canon.



Specifically, Mallozzi noted that fans would get “answers” to the big cliffhanger ending that wrapped the franchise proper, with the final season of Stargate: Universe closing out with the ship jumping off into parts unknown.

He also addressed the question of where the potential project might air, if it eventually makes it to screen. It sounds like that’s still one of the big unknowns with the project, with Mallozzi adding fans would need to subscribe or tune in to whichever streaming service or network pulls the trigger (if one eventually does).

With so many properties being mined, revived and rebooted these days — from a new Battlestar Galactica coming to Peacock, to a full slate of Star Trek shows on CBS All Access — it’s wild to think SG-1 has been effectively dormant for nine years, ever since the cancellation of Universe in 2011 (aside from the limited 2018 web series Stargate Origins). It’s a massive franchise with a literal portal to limitless options — and you’d have to think it’s only a matter of time before someone locks that seventh chevron again.

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[Andrew NDB]

Yes, please. Make this happen.

[Musashi]

...Indeed.

[Galactus]

I wouldn't mind the old writers and producers back but the franchise desperately needs new blood. I'm one of the ten or so people that liked Stargate Universe but my issue with it wasn't that it was too different but that it still relied on the same recycled plots that the previous two shows wore out just filtered through a dark and gritty style. The second season was better for bringing in a few new people.

[neatoman]

>INB4 animated comedy

[ZariusTwo]

Originally Posted by neatoman

>INB4 animated comedy

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Galactus

I wouldn't mind the old writers and producers back but the franchise desperately needs new blood. I'm one of the ten or so people that liked Stargate Universe but my issue with it wasn't that it was too different but that it still relied on the same recycled plots that the previous two shows wore out just filtered through a dark and gritty style. The second season was better for bringing in a few new people.

Stargate Universe was radically different from the shows before it. It didn't even have aliens.

[Galactus]

No aliens?

I think you're forgetting the Blue aliens which stalked Destiny for two seasons.



Or the Ursini from season 2



Also did anyone ever notice that the opening episodes of Stargate Universe and Atlantis are pretty much the same? No really.

The Rising has the crew embark an expedition to a far off place of which they may never return. They get there and a hologram says that it's a city that is also a space ship but it's running out of power so they assemble an SG team to go off world to look for something to power it. In the end it turns out the city/ship has a fail safe when it runs out of power so that it rises to the surface thus fixing their problem.

Air, Darkness and Light have the crew embark an an expedition to a far off place which they may never return. They get there and a holographic display tells them it's a space ship the size of a city but it's also broken and running out of power. They assemble an away team to go off world to look for something to fix the ship. In the end it turns out the ship has a fail safe when it runs out of power so that it recharges in a star.

Also notice that the the premise for the Atlantis Season 1 mid season 2 parter is pretty much the same as Universe's season 1 closer and opener. In the The Storm and They Eye a less advanced but aggressive militaristic force The Genai gate to Atlantis and take it over during a massive storm endangering the city.

In the Lucian Alliance takeover arc a less advanced but agressive militaristic force gate to Destiny and take it over during a time the ship is caught in a pulsar endangering the ship.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by Galactus

No aliens?

I think you're forgetting the Blue aliens which stalked Destiny for two seasons.

Oh right, forgot about them. But you know what I mean... the whole "I wonder what race/civilization of aliens we're going to encounter on our trip through the Stargate this week!" It's never that at all. It's mostly survival.

[Galactus]

Yeah I get what you mean.

Stargate started off with a certain commitment to realism that aliens would likely not look remotely human which is why the 'alien' societies they encountered were actually humans that were descendants of abducted ancient humans. That all conveniently spoke English. Several seasons in we started to Star Trek-style get aliens with bumpy foreheads and the like.

The premise of Universe meant that this couldn't do that. It was already stretching credibility that three galaxies were already populated with humans although I do think they were quite clever with the Novans in Season 2 and their even greater commitment to 'realism' meant that aliens would be a bit more...well alien.

I may be in a minority but I wouldn't mind a wrap up of Universe. If whatever new series is set in the same continuity giving us some kind of closure on the Destiny crew would be something.

[Andrew NDB]

I really wish they'd done the direct to video movies they promised. As I recall there was a big wrapup for SG-1 where it is made public about the program on Earth. Also an Atlantis movie called "Extinction" to wrap up that. These were in active pre-production. When those floundered they pitched one big movie that would wrap up SG-1, Atlantis, AND Universe but they passed on it.

As is, I was always curious about what the ship in Universe was going to encounter beyond the edge of the universe. There were some interesting teases.

[Musashi]

Originally Posted by Galactus

I wouldn't mind the old writers and producers back but the franchise desperately needs new blood. I'm one of the ten or so people that liked Stargate Universe but my issue with it wasn't that it was too different but that it still relied on the same recycled plots that the previous two shows wore out just filtered through a dark and gritty style. The second season was better for bringing in a few new people.

I agree that they did that, but think it actually worked quite well. Compared, that is, to how Star Trek: Voyager often failed to present standard Next Generation stories in a fresh way, for example. Maybe they could find another fresh way of presenting the "standard" Stargate situations - Gate malfunctions, new technology they don't yet know how to use safely, alternate realities, time travel etc - for today.

I just finished watching Stargate all the way through for the first time, having caught the occasional episode back then - Despite already knowing it would happen, I still found myself disappointed when Universe just stopped like that. Really hope it gets some kind of conclusion in any new show.

[Andrew NDB]

For years I refused to watch Universe's season 2 finale because I knew how it would end. I finally watched it a few months back because it was on Amazon Prime or something.

Angeringly disappointing. It represents exactly why I hate getting invested in shows that haven't gotten "their legs" yet.

[Musashi]

Originally Posted by Andrew NDB

I really wish they'd done the direct to video movies they promised. As I recall there was a big wrapup for SG-1 where it is made public about the program on Earth. Also an Atlantis movie called "Extinction" to wrap up that. These were in active pre-production. When those floundered they pitched one big movie that would wrap up SG-1, Atlantis, AND Universe but they passed on it.

As is, I was always curious about what the ship in Universe was going to encounter beyond the edge of the universe. There were some interesting teases.

Yeah, apparently the third SG-1 movie was called Revolution and would have featured O'Neill far more than Continuum did. Both that and Extinction were written and ready to go into pre-production when the plug was pulled.

Curious about Dr Rush's eagerness to stay aboard Destiny in Universe. He has no indication that the ship is even more than a fraction of the way through its mission - Remember, as originally planned, an Ancient crew was meant to join it and presumably periodically maintain it - Maybe various crews were meant to go back and forth over the millions of years, bringing replacement parts with them. So perhaps the mission had no set end point. Rush would very likely spend his whole life aboard a disintegrating ship, and end up none the wiser about the signal.

It's pretty obvious what it is, anyway. It reads We are sorry for the inconvenience.

[Musashi]

Yeah, I put off watching the last couple of episodes for a few days, for that reason. Although I didn't know specifically how it was going to end, I knew it wasn't going to be a proper conclusion.