Seven years after Stargate left the airwaves the man who co-created the shows’ fictional television universe is optimistic about where the franchise might go in the future.
Brad Wright appeared on stage this morning at the Gatecon fan convention in Vancouver, chatting with fans and answering questions for more than an hour. A couple of times the subject turned from reminiscing to where Stargate is at now.
“I’m very happy to be able to say that MGM has a nice renewed interest in the franchise,” Wright said to fans. “And we have started talking again.”
Fans have lobbied the studio to bring back a live-action Stargate production for years, reaching a crescendo this spring with an ongoing campaign calling for a new, in-canon series — one set in the universe established by Wright and fellow series creators Jonathan Glassner (Stargate SG-1) and Robert C. Cooper (Atlantis and SGU).
Wright spoke to fans at Gatecon: The Invasion on Saturday morning.
“It’s not that we’re going to be making a series any time soon,” he said. “It’s just that they now acknowledge the existence of this thing they have in their library that did very well for them — and could again, potentially.
“So they want to keep it alive. They know it needs to be kept alive. It is a powerful franchise for them.”
That renewed attention to the Stargate franchise on the part of MGM will extend to a number of different things, perhaps including more releases of composer Joel Goldsmith’s beautiful score for the three Stargate series (which was the topic of the question that elicited Brad’s comments). But he is also hopeful that it may mean “also going forward with something else, at some point.”
After chatting on stage with Stargate’s veteran director Martin Wood, Wright made his exit — leaving fans with another word of hope for new projects down the road.
“Keep coming back to Stargate,” he said. “Because, fingers crossed, it will continue in the future.”
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SG-1 was an outstanding project for the first 7 years – explore the galaxy, against a nebulous enemy, discovering and interacting with other world populations which are based on specific earth cultures and histories. The ORI line of the last few years was a bit of a stretch and fell into the oh-so-tired and tiring “good gods” vs “evil gods” with earth caught in the middle. Still some of what made its first years good (exploring and dealing with ancient civilizations) was there, and, even without Jack and General Hammond (huge losses, to be sure) the new additions to the… Read more »
Big, big dissapoiment! no news! this was it for me! even if they say yes to new stuff. i am off. better watch overvill and stuff that is available. by, by
@Capt C
SGU is scifi history. It is different in tone and pace, but it is an integral part of the franchise, and one of the best scifi stories ever brought to TV.
Without the economic crisis, it would not have been cancelled, and together with the also cancelled DVD movies, it would have lifted the franchise to a whole new level.
I liked SG1 a lot but Atlantis was a a lot better, it was upbeat funny, Just a real joy to watch, Really you could fly Atlantis from earth and return it from whee it came and reboot the series. I would watch it every week for the next 20yrs+++
Boo, Paul, and yeah!….what Nekomajin said! SGU was a truly worthy follow-up – I wept when it was cancelled. Although I DO agree with Paul about SG-Atlantis. It never did much for me.
I would like to see a series where the Stargate has gone public. In the beginning of SGU we saw some interesting stuff with the Trust/Lucian Alliance, and their ballsy espionage on Earth/Earth projects. The end of SG1 witnessed a huge power vacuum left in the Milky Way which must set an interesting stage for the SG universe ten years later. I would like to see Earth perspective as well as Non-Earth. And can we scale up? Like Earth could have most of its military in a space force made up of Daedalus class ships… Maybe some Imperialist themes?? Earth… Read more »
SGU still has the potential to be the best SyFy show on any platform ever. Movies, TV, Streaming, whatever, just forget the comic books and get it on a screen! It has legs still and an obvious opening to the cliffhanger ending. It’s easily the Stargate franchise platform to resolve every hanging tidbit on all the shows. They come out of suspended animation, reconnect with Stargate Command years later and get all the answers to every hangnail that’s bugging everyone about every series. A giant streamathon to reacquaint anyone, old lovers and new viewers alike in every show. Let’s get… Read more »
A ***fourth*** show? There have been five already: SG-1, Infinity, Atlantis, Universe, and Origins. Whatever one may think of each one’s quality, they were all undeniably shows.
In any case, Origins was godawful. If MGM wants to keep the franchise going, they need to do a better job of it.
Well Brad created three, so it would be a fourth created by him.
Infinity and Origins are also categorically different forms of productions. And he was involved in neither.
Any new series has to be a continuation of SG1 seasons 1 through 8 ie The Next Generation. So no more Wraith or Ori. The enemy has to be the Goa’uld. The setting will probably be offworld for the series growth factor, which wouldn’t make sense storywise having a Stargate program on Earth under Cheyenne Mountain as then you wouldn’t be able to call in air support through the stargate–I noticed SG1 showed the Alpha Site having a runway. Let’s suppose the stargate really existed for a moment. Wouldn’t the air force/US military develop a fighter plane or something that… Read more »
“Well Brad created three, so it would be a fourth created by him. Infinity and Origins are also categorically different forms of productions. And he was involved in neither.”
Irrelevant. They are both shows, regardless of the format who created them.
“The enemy has to be the Goa’uld.”
No. Absolutely not. The Goa’uld are played out at this point.
Please bring back SGA!
I think it makes most sense to have a main story set in present day with new characters and villains…. BUT to leave the door open to do SG-1/SGA/SGU stories, including stories about the Goa’uld even if they’re flashbacks or something.
MGM can you please bring back Stargate sg1 and origins was awful.
Honestly, I preferred SG1 over everything else. I did enjoy the 1994 movie ft. Kurt Russell and James Spader, but it just stuck with me more. Just… the recasting, that’s sad, man. I like Vala and Cam a whole lot, trust me — but you know, with all the things Jack, Daniel, Sam and Teal’c had been through, it’s tough to look past that and not see them interact with each after. + Jonas Quinn was a great character as well. I don’t understand why people didn’t like him. Yeah, he joined SG1 in Daniel’s place for over a year.… Read more »
Just bring back SG1, Jack O’Neil,Col. Carter
Daniel, ) Tilk ) And with the original actors!
New actors won’t do it!
We need Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Chris George, Michael Shanks at least, to start off with!
BRING BACK SGI!