Posted on 06/12/2007 6:26:39 PM PDT by 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."
The wraith are among the best alien villains ever.
One rumor I’ve heard is that it’s going to be about “the Ancients”—but no telling, I guess.
GIVE THOR HIS OWN SHOW!!!
Stargate meets Battlestar Gallactica? ;-`
He hit the nail on the head. I loved one of the earlier episodes where Amanda Tapping asked how Jack had McGuyvered something like that.
Pssst.. Want to see some Asgard on Asgard porn?????
Now that would be cool.....
I agree..
It would be nice if some kind of BSG spin-off occured.
(Then again, I’m also waiting for the X-Files 2012 climax... I wonder if *that* will ever happen!)
They'll all nuts!!!
My 5-year-old is a Goa’uld. There’s really no other explanation for him. He reads Greek, levitates, and uses mind control on his little brothers.
My teenagers (who have seen through Season 8) say these Ori are bad news, but I don’t see how they could be worse than Pat.
As it turns out, President Bush has a lot in common with the moonbats.
But really, I think they had one thread one time were both Presidents Bush were responsible for the destruction of Atlantis and the incarnated in this life to make up for it but then decided not to, or something.
Time dilation effects Fur Shur.
I blame Bush for allowing all of the Jaffa be able to come down on the planet.. What is Bush doing about protecting planet Earth???
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