Third Stargate Show Developing?

Scifi Wire ^ | 06/12/07 | Melissa J. Perenson

[KevinDavis]

Robert C. Cooper, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he's developing a third series with the working title Stargate Universe, but remained mum on details. (The project has not yet been picked up by any network, including SCI FI Channel.)

"It's being developed," Cooper said in an interview on the Vancouver, Canada, set of the two series. "Not a lot to say at the moment, other than it's ... not the characters from SG-1 or Atlantis. It's a completely third entity. The third series is born of the mythology that's been established."

SG-1 will draw to a close after 10 seasons with the episode titled "Unending," airing June 22. Atlantis is currently finishing up its third season and will return with a fourth season later this year.

Cooper added that the proposed third series will take place in the present day. "One thing that we think contributes to the success of [all of] the series and the concept behind the series is that it takes place in the here and now. ... It's about us and our age of people dealing with fantastic things, like Stargates and wormholes and aliens. And then there's an identifiable quality to the people in the show. It's not like an antiseptic version of humanity sometime 500 years in the future. [SG-1's] Jack O'Neill [Richard Dean Anderson] was a guy who everybody could relate to, and his reactions to the more fantastic elements of the series were the reactions the average Joe on the street might have."

SG-1 and Atlantis executive producer Paul Mullie added: "It's all top secret."

Either that, added fellow executive producer Joseph Mallozzi, or "it just hasn't been written yet. I'm not sure which."

[RabidBartender]

"It was actually the pilot episode and it was actually Sam telling Daniel that they had to "McGyver" some super computers to come up with their own version of the DHD."

And right after she said that, the camera showed Anderson, who just raised an eyebrow at the reference. Hilarious.

[RabidBartender]

"Then there was that race from the episode 2010 that wiped out the G’ould, did the Ori get them?"

I think in a later season, SG-1 gave them (the Aschen) the coordinates to the black hole planet from Season 1.

Good question about the Nox though - they haven't been back since the 1st season, have they?

[RabidBartender]

"That probaly explain everything from canceling SG1 to show Wrestling on SciFi.."

On the positive side, however, Chaka (the Unas) is set to face off against Ba'al in a cage match next week.

[RabidBartender]

Hmmmm. (Spoilers at links)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate:_The_Ark_of_Truth

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate:_Continuum