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Chevron Nine Locked: Stargate Universe
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Stargate Universe
The working title of the third Stargate television series has been unveiled! The series currently exists in the form of a one-page treatment of the story and characters, with the title Stargate Universe, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld exclusively.
The new series has been conceived to be "a completely separate, third entity," Cooper said in an interview -- "much more so than Atlantis was. Atlantis was much more of a spin-off seires of SG-1 and was sort of born out of SG-1."
Like many of the producers ideas, Cooper said, the idea for Stargate Universe was originally conceived as a stand-alone movie. "When we originally were sitting around talking about this we were trying to come up with ideas for a Stargate feature -- not an SG-1 feature or an Atlantis feature, but a feature that would fit into the Stargate franchise that we feel we have created," Cooper said. "We were thinking, 'How do we create a third arm to the franchise that is very connective and that fans will feel is born out of the material that has come before, but at the same time is very much something that stands alone?'
"When it became clear that a third series was a more realistic possibility at this point from the studio's standpoint, we figured out how to tweak that idea and give it a little more legs than it would have had as a one-off story. We always, in the back of our minds even in coming up with that concept, felt that it could launch a third series. ... But now that idea has become the core idea for the new show."
Stargate Universe will not be set in a different era, Cooper confirmed, neither as a prequel nor in the far future of the Stargate program.
"I'm not a big fan of prequels," he said. "I don't think that really works, and I don't really understand people who do think that works. One of the things that we love about Stargate is that is us -- it's our military, it's our scientists, it's our people -- and we're going out into the galaxy and the universe to discover all the wonders that are out there, and dealing with our own limitations versus things that are far more advanced than us.
"That's identifiable. It's what we deal with every day, in terms of medicine and science and astrophysics. We're just babies in all that. And we would always want to maintain that in anything that is Stargate-related."
In spite of being quite distinct in identity from SG-1 and Atlantis, the new series will be unmistakably Stargate. "It certainly plays into the mythology that has been pre-established," Cooper said. "But it doesn't directly relate to anything that has been in either series."
Cooper and executive producer Brad Wright plan to turn more attention to the new show's pilot script after wrapping principal photography on the two Stargate SG-1 movies, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum this June.
Talk here about the third Stargate series coming in 2008.
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The rumors last summer mentioned the feature film/third series launch concept as starting off with the public disclosure of the Stargate program, I wonder if that's been maintained with this concept, or if they went in a differetn direction...
EDIT- Gateowlrd has more info on the series:
The working concept for the third Stargate television series includes the Stargate's ninth chevron, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told fans today. Cooper appeared on stage in front of 500 fans at Creation's Official Stargate SG-1 / Stargate Atlantis Convention in Vancouver, British Columbia.
"It plays a major factor in the third series," Cooper said in response to a fan's question about the significance of the ninth chevron. "So that question is answered!"
Fans have long wondered why the ninth and final chevron was created by the Ancients, since normal gate addresses only utilize seven of them. The eighth chevron adds an extra distance calculation, allowing the team to establish a stable wormhole to a Stargate in another galaxy. It was first used in SG-1 Season Two's "The Fifth Race."
Cooper also said that the third series "is very active in development. MGM is currently putting financing together. The goal is to have it out in the marketplace in early 2008, which means that we have to start writing very soon. The hold-up has really been the movies -- Brad and I are busy. When we are done with Continuum and Ark of Truth we're going to turn our attention to that pretty seriously."
Whatever form the series takes, viewers can definitely expect the same familiar from that has made the franchise a 10-year-old success. "There will be a Stargate, and a team on adventures," Cooper said. "I can tell you what it won't be, which is it really won't be as much of a spin-off of SG-1 as Atlantis was. And it won't be a spin-off of Atlantis. It's going to be a third arm of the franchise that will really stand alone and I think be an entirely new flavor from what we've done before."
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Wow! I read the news on GateWorld this morning, I think is shaping up to be really awesome!
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Hopefully it'll be a good followup from SG-1, and hopefully they'll do some crossover with Atlantis.
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I'm excited for this, it sounds really interesting. They talk about how they want to stick with the current idea of the military operating the gate in the current day, so I'm curious if this show will be run out of Cheyenne Mountain(opening up the possibility of Beau Bridges and others from SG-1 showing up occasionally) or if it'll be somewhere else.
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As much of a Stargate fan I am, I think this is over kill. Don't you think it should stop when it is on top? Stargate SG-1 had ten strong years, and without it on Friday Night Sci-Fi as support, I can only see Atlantis going two more years at max. With this third series, I hope the producers know what they are doing.
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This osunds cool. I'm looking foreward to it.
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MasterP posted:
As much of a Stargate fan I am, I think this is over kill. Don't you think it should stop when it is on top? Stargate SG-1 had ten strong years, and without it on Friday Night Sci-Fi as support, I can only see Atlantis going two more years at max. With this third series, I hope the producers know what they are doing.
I think that Atlantis has a good three or four years left in it. Hell, Stargate probably shouldn't have lasted the ten that it did, and it's largely been ten good seasons.
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SG-1 could have easily gone on for at least 1 more season (I could fill in a whole season with just plotlines that could use a following up on), if not two. Seasons 9-10 were basicly a new show, so a 4 season minimum run doesn't seem so outlandish.
Atlantis can easily hit season 6 or 7, I think.
With all the possible stories for a Gate series to tackle between existing plot threads and news ones that could be opened up, I can't see the franchise getting stale for quite some time, espeically if Chevron 9 opens up even further possiblities.
Afterall, the franchise can't really end until mankind becomes The Fifth Race proper. ::)
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What I meant was that SG-1 could have easily been ended at several times throughout the series, such as 5, 7 and 8. With the new storyline, they could have gone on for another year or two.
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Oh definitely, especially since Season 10 was the first season since 4 where they were anticipating the next season. 5, 6, 7, and 8 were all designed to end the series if need be. 9 was a dice roll though. Damn i wish they had just gone with the name change to Stargate Command to lower costs so it could have gone on longer.
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Gateworld: Cooper has plans for Atlantis, Universe
And what of Stargate Universe, the highly anticipated third TV series in the franchise? "I don't know!" Cooper said. "Unfortunately it takes a really long time to get deals done. And then everybody wants everything tomorrow."
The series has been pitched, and the decision on the next step currently rests with MGM -- as does the decision for a third SG-1 movie. An MGM representative told GateWorld that the studio is not ready to comment on either just yet.
"I'm not trying to be elusive," he added. "But I feel like we've been predicting things for a couple of years now, and I almost kind of want to say, 'When it happens, it happens.
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I doubt we'll see anything until Fall 2009. It's too bad though, I've always rather liked the Stargate franchise.
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So, they go to new universes now? ...where all the aliens look remarkably humanoid in appearance and speak perfect modern english and live on planets that look astonishingly like the Pacific Northwest? 
But really, if they do a third series they really need to get some new locations.
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If it takes a darker tone like DS9 did with Star Trek, I'll be happy.
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That could certainly work- one of the best things about SGA's first season was how it was initially a darker show than SG-1, which helped distinguished it, though the darker tone started to fade away during the 2nd season.
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