A new Stargate TV series is in development at MGM, Brad Wright confirmed today. And it will continue the existing television universe that fans know and love from 10 seasons of Stargate SG-1, five seasons of Stargate Atlantis, and two seasons of Stargate Universe.
But the project has obviously suffered some understandable delays, including those caused by the industry shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic.
Wright talked about the project that he and MGM are still working on in today’s “Ask Me Anything” livestreaming Q&A session, hosted by The Companion’s Lawrence Kao. He kicked off the AMA with his answer to the question he knew everyone was going to ask: Is there going to be a new Stargate TV series?
In response Wright confirmed what we knew previously, and what we suspected has happened to the project in 2020:
I just want everybody to know that MGM and I are working on something. It’s just too early to talk about. And it’s partly too early because there is a pandemic going on. And that’s kind of ground a few things to a halt.
But we are working on something. It’s very exciting. It’s something that we have been talking about for a while now. And I love it — I’m excited to have the possibility of making it someday soon. Or someday, period!
I’ll say this much: It exists in the universe that you already know. It’s not a reboot, it’s not a completely new thing. It’s a continuation. And I’ll leave it at that. I’m not allowed to say anything more! I’m sworn to secrecy.
Brad Wright
In the meantime, Wright has also joined The Companion as a contributor and creative consultant. For more from Brad’s keyboard sign up for a free trial subscription now.
In the more than hour-long AMA Wright also answered fan questions about production challenges, revisiting the Aschen, casting his Netflix series Travelers, the cancellation of Firefly, and why it’s almost impossible to shoot an alien planet outdoors in Vancouver today. Naren Shankar (who worked with Wright on The Outer Limits, and today is executive producing The Expanse) showed up to ask Brad if he thinks an anthology series is feasible in today’s TV landscape.
And former Stargate producer and Dark Matter creator Joseph Mallozzi turned up as a surprise guest to ask Brad which episode from his entire career has been the most challenging to produce. (His answer included SG-1‘s “One False Step” and Travelers‘ “17 Minutes” — the latter of which was directed by Amanda Tapping).
Members can watch the full conversation here.
Stick with GateWorld for future updates on new Stargate! We’re hoping that 2021 is the year that the studio can cross these hurdles and announce that a new series is going into production.
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F Yeah!
Looking forward to more definite or detailed news on this project :)
comme disait Jack, c’est là-haut que tout se passe ! Je suis français, et je veux voir cette nouvelle série canon, qui explorera de nouveau les étoiles !
lets just hope MGM doesn’t go bust from not getting money from the new bond movie, or they sell it too someone who will do right by the franchise
WOOHOO!! It’ll be interesting to see how far they’ve advanced. Maybe a quick answer to Destiny?
Of course, another great show to ruin with a bunch of leftist garbage, turning yet another of the greats into something silly and unwatchable.
You are clearly not intellectually or emotionally equipped to understand science fiction.
I imagine he’s under the impression the System Lords, Wraith, Ori etc were the good guys…
Do you think science-fiction is reserved SOLELY for left-wingers and liberals? If so, buddy, I disagree, a liberal. Because that’s the greater tragedy here. The big corporations are SMOTHERING art to the delighted adulations of gullible *** idiots who can’t see their own double standards. For one, you can’t FIND good science-fiction, they write it like it’s ******* fantasy now, that’s what sells the most, and science-fiction should be about humanity, right? The two divisions ARE the problem, but it’s highlighted exactly WHY that is when one side is pontificating and lecturing down to another blaming them as the sole… Read more »
Take your culture war nonsense elsewhere.
You can’t ESCAPE the culture war when too many big Hollywood corporations smothering art, ironically to cheering adulation from stupid *** idiots, wind up treating story and character and continuity as an afterthought to all the checkmarks they can hit. I say that as somebody who’d like a more egalitarian world, but it goes both ways, you know! They wanna write fantasy or superhero, that’s where they should stay, it’s what they want, given the poor writing in most visual science-fiction franchises today. Until we have a major paradigm that reshifts the industry, I want them to stay way from… Read more »
Do a minseries, tie up loose ends while making something new.
We’ve waited almost ten years, I mean c’mon!!
I would love to see the original SG 1 team back or at least a lot of guest appearances. It would be fun to see what would happen if the gate became public knowledge.
Very good news. As long as it’s nothing like Origins.
Thank Apophis, it’s happening.
Maybe they will continue Stargate Infinity? ;]
One element that I hope they heavily incorporate into the new series is history and searching for artifacts, the Daniel Jackson type of stuff. If someone asked me what could possibly be an improvement to SG1, SGA, & SGU, my answer would be to include more episodes about finding artifacts and history of the Ancients, Earth, the Universe in general, Ancient Egypt, the bad guys, good guys, or whatever. That is the only “improvement” that I can think of when it comes to Stargate, and is something that is extremely interesting. Also, I hope the new series takes the visual… Read more »
Please make it possible for Europeans to watch it live, next day or so, not weeks or months after.
I get the impression that they need to sell the franchise to someone or let someone that does shows cheaper to do it. Amazon netflix etc. Having a team so old must be holding back the fx and pushing up the wages .
If they are reviving firefly of all things, Stargate is a no-brainer. It’s going to happen folks. It’s just a matter of when. I hope it’s a full season and not a truncated 8-12 episode season. But anything is better than nothing at this point.
I hope so too, but “truncated” is the norm now. It’s the only thing worse about tv shows these days, other than having a series you love cancelled before they finish the story the right way. And that’s my fear about a new Stargate…they may do both. Truncated and cut off at a bad spot. Let’s hope for better though.
Where’s the link to the Q&A video?
Here you go, Bob! I’ve added the link to the story — thanks for spotting the oversight.
I want more Stargate. But, I don’t want “Wokegate” and that’s what we’ll get if it’s rebooted any time soon. Look what they did to Star Trek. Discovery and Picard suck.
Yeah, and it’s not like there’s anything wrong with making it topical, but they sacrifice the writing at the altar of woke and just want to beat you over the head with everything that’s wrong today.
FFS… please dont make a ‘woke’ version… PLEASE!!!!
super yeahh
[email protected] What made the first franchise amazing was that sense of wonder. I feel like there wasn’t enough of that in Atlantis and Universe. The first few seasons of SG1 were cheesy but you felt like you were an explorer when you watched. I mean for real , how did they construct the pyramids. We could have had help from aliens. What the one gentleman is calling liberal garbage was the moral of the story. We could use more people who cared about such things in this world where we are divided and have ignorant people who want strife. I… Read more »
Startgate :D
Alita: Battle Angel needs a sequel as well
Jeez!!..why are they not getting this done now?..they already have the idea of Stargate! An idea that works?…Story lines can’t be hard and cast is easy!!!..Remember, O’neill had a clone and the lad who does Macgyver ”reboot” might be good?…Tealc is over 100 so could come back?…They rescued others from planets who could be in the team?..
And although SG Universe was to serious, it could come in handy for more exploration, also Atlantis.
My work is done!!…ha
Time for more SGU plenty to expand on.
I very much agree.
IMO the two most important requirements for a successful return of Stargate are…
1, We the fans give it a chance. It won’t be what we hope it will be and if we hate too hard too soon it won’t survive and we’ll find ourselves regretting it a few years later. I personally was not a fan of SGU until it was gone.
2, If you have to….Don’t ram “social issues” down our throats. Be subtle like SG1, Star Trek TOS or Next Gen. It worked.
As someone who’s been devastated by what they’ve done to Star Trek and Star Wars, I’m not too keen to just “settle.” If the alternative is the story dies, fine then, so be it. I get trying to regulate the passion so it doesn’t become toxic, but the inverse is you can become too blinded and rationalize the flaws the final product has. With how horrible the world is today, I don’t see how they can’t go woke, and not in a smart, well-written way either, in a hamfisted “we’re going to beat you over the head with this” sorta… Read more »
I’m probably gonna get hate for saying this but I hope the new series will be more adult than the others and will have a bit more nudity, explicit content, sex. I’m not asking for porn or game of thrones, even. Just bring it up a notch. Surely some fans will agree with me on this, but I know the producers would never go for it.
Kind of vague about the specifics. There’s sleazy and there’s serious, you don’t need sexualized elements to keep interest– at least not the kind of interest this series needs to cultivate lol. Nudity did happen occasionally, a lot of alien stuff was pretty sensual and sex was heavily implied between folks in just SG1 alone. I’m kind of confused why there’s even a need to put any amount of emphasis given you already have what you want. Pretty sure there’s certain search engines or sites that could satisfy what you want infinitely more than a SG setting.
So looking forward to some more Stargate 1! We watch them from the beginning over and over and each time see something or gather info which we missed. So happy!
I’m actually very nervous about this. I’m serious, I have major anxiety. With all the destruction to lore and continuity for Star Trek and Star Wars I’ve had to endure in recent years, and how it’s left me feeling very unhappy that for all my investment, they’ve moved on without me, Stargate has been my boon, and yet it’s all too easy to see it falling prey to the same hubris that destroyed those verses and stripped them down for mass profitably mainstream appeal at the expense of the lore, the art, the detail, the intelligence, the fun, and the… Read more »
He should stick to wrapping up Universe and Atlantis with movies with computerised visual re-aging, and allow the original Stargate movies to be completed, as an alternative SG universe somewhere. They are the SG creator’s vision. Which allows the SG movie universe characters to do special cross over episodes into a new series of Brad’s, even in their current ages without re-aging, as sometime in the future of the movies. Gives him the ability to write about saving reality from collapsing of parallel universes into one crunch or something, maybe from a terrorist who believes that because there are multiple… Read more »
They just need to go forward in time to after earth’s apocalypse, and then rediscover Atlantis, and the Stargates, and all of the technology out there. This discovery is what I love seeing.
I don’t understand how the episode One False Step could be so challenging. Not much happened. Pretty straightforward.