Richard Dean Anderson will be on Stargate Universe
UPDATE: We’ve confirmed that Michael Shanks and Amanda Tapping are not shooting Stargate Universe on Monday. The story below has been updated.
He led SG-1 through the gate for eight seasons, and helped launch Stargate Atlantis five years ago. Now Richard Dean Anderson is set to bring Jack O’Neill back to Stargate with what sounds like multiple appearances on Stargate Universe.
“Rick is doing episodes of Universe,” series co-creator Brad Wright told GateWorld exclusively today. “He was just here yesterday shooting an episode of Universe with us. So that relationship is always on-going, and it’s good to have him back.”
The show’s fifth episode is currently filming, and is likely one in which Anderson will appear. It’s not clear yet whether this is “Earth” — which was previously indicated to be sixth for the season, and had a hint of O’Neill’s return in the casting documents — or the episode we currently have listed as fifth, “Water.” “Earth” certainly makes more sense.
Will Anderson help kick off the show by also appearing in the first episode, as he and Michael Shanks (“Daniel Jackson”) did with Atlantis?
Later the same day (today), former Stargate SG-1 co-star Gary Jones (“Walter Harriman”) appeared on stage at Creation Entertainment’s official Stargate convention in Vancouver, and told fans that he is appearing in an episode of SGU with Anderson. He noted that General O’Neill will have been promoted to 3-star general for the episode they filmed together.
Jones didn’t specify which episode it was, but he also noted that he (Jones) was asked to appear in the SGU premiere, “Air.” So, if you’re keeping score at home, Jones should appear in “Air” and Anderson is likely for “Earth” — while Anderson is possible for “Air” and/or Jones is possible for “Earth.”
Confused? Stick with GateWorld this week and through the weekend for more news from the Vancouver Stargate convention! Stargate Universe is now filming for a fall premiere on SCI FI Channel in the U.S.
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Fantastic News! Thank you so much GateWorld, Brad Wright, and especially, Richard Dean Anderson! :)
Morjana | April 3 @ 4:06 am*dances*
YAY!(:
caramelmonkey | April 3 @ 4:15 amI was gonna watch SGU anyway, but now I’m SOOO gonna watch it. x)
Egle01 | April 3 @ 8:05 amI am so glad to hear that SGU will not be as “stand-alone” as they claimed it would be. VERY excited. Would love to see crossovers from Atlantis as well.
alteran1 | April 3 @ 8:23 amIs not fair!!! >:(
Kanetsidohi | April 3 @ 9:23 amI’m not watching SGU anyway.
Horay!!!
TwiceBorn | April 3 @ 12:28 pmYEAH!!!!! fantastic news Richard Dean anderson as Jack ‘O neill is back. Wow such good news. Hope they will ask him to do more in Universe. I agree Brad its good to have him back.
Jazz | April 3 @ 12:36 pmWay to go guys.
gotta calm down a bit, for all we know, he might just walk by with a cup of coffe and say hi…. We saw this happen with several of the stars in cameos…
retiredat44 | April 3 @ 3:29 pmI’m excited… I wasn’t too thrilled about the existing cast choices, except for LDP, but I’m always willing to try new sci-fi. RDA is just icing on the cake. Literally! ;-)
I don’t know who said it, but 5 years is an amazing run time for a sci-fi show. SGA was sucessful in that it thrived as long as it did, despite the low ratings.
I’m looking forward to to start of SGU!
CJ | April 3 @ 4:13 pmIn my perfect world…The show would be called Startgate: O’Neil. And it revolve around the character of General O’neil. Maybe later on after a few episodes perhaps Daniel Jackson may show up with Teal’c. And they’ll say “Hey, let’s go see what Carter’s up too back at Atlantis”. And they would all go say “Whatsup” to Shephard.
macgyver | April 3 @ 5:21 pmCool. That definitely adds to the appeal of SGU for me.
QuinnMallory | April 3 @ 6:22 pmThats lame. In my perfect world I would be right there with O’neil apart of the team…… with everyone else of course….. oh ya and after watching the trailer for SGU i dont think i will need anymore incentive to watch the show. it looks pretty intense. But they should at least have Rodney or Carter or both of them figure out the address for the ship. or maybe even Jackson could figure it out somehow….. excellent!
MacGruber | April 3 @ 10:29 pmLet hope he put in a descent performance unlike his other appearences in the last few years, which has been less than stellar.
knowles2 | April 4 @ 8:23 amGreat news!
ulkesh47 | April 5 @ 5:31 pmMake it easier on all of us and just bring back SG1 and SGA .. we really don’t need SGU. I believe that the cast in the other two originals were the backbone of the franchise and SCIFI messed up when they dumped them. They really don’t care about their viewing audience. I am waiting for the movies to be released and hope there will be more to follow. With all the original cast of both shows. You can watch re-runs only so many times. I would really like to know the “truth” of the “why” they dropped the two shows and went for the new boring-apparent one SGU.
alumplus | April 5 @ 7:15 pmGet a grip people. As much as I like RDA, I do not like the tactics being played out, to “Entice” people to watch SGU. The producers got the message loud and clear, what the people wanted. If you look at the original “concept” of Universe, it not the same as now. Cast has changed, ages have changed, played charachter profiles have changed. now they are pulling in tactics like bringing in cameos. So if they feel like the episodes are tanking out, they’ll do a “meanwhile at SGC” and bring in a couple of cameos again, to reel us poor fish in.. Gosh, this is pathetic. (Yeah, I’m bitter about SGA being canned, if anyone didn’t notice)
US06154 | April 6 @ 9:29 amRDA: “I was up there doing a snippet of a scene with Robert Carlyle and I’ll be going back March 17 for another scene in part 2 of the two-hour” and he continues.. “So I’ll make a few slim appearances in the first half-dozen episodes, or so. Again, details are sketchy..”
So is this what we crave now? Slim appearences and Scene Snippets.. Aaaahchooo.. what? I sneezed, and missed his cameo? Pretty Slim pickins for Stargate Fans.. Almost like throwing a well gnawed bone, to stray dogs..
US06154 | April 6 @ 3:13 pm