Third Series will it show?!!!

[stardino]

Quick fast information on third series:
No cast
Script in making
Not for sure if it will be off the other stargate show
Waiting for scifi to pick the show or accept the script
Might actually be good
Greenlight at MGM

Will this new coming series even make it past the acceptance? Welll.....that I have no idea.

Stardino

[yukitoyu22]

They said it wouldn't be a spin off, meaning not based off of the other stargate shows. The also said it will take place in modern day, but probably not based off of the SGC.

[Lemuria]

I will be surprised if Sci-fi turns it down. They seem to show just about anything lately no matter how awful.:hmm: I mean, has anyone been keeping up with that terrible Flash Gordon?:sigh: I only watched it recently again because Steve Bacic (Camulus on SG-1) was playing Barin. Not even the drop dead gorgeous Steve Bacic could keep me interested.:disagree:

[Colonel Sampras]

if they turn them down I will announce djihad on them and suicide bomb! lol

[Robin K]

I will be surprised if Sci-fi turns it down. They seem to show just about anything lately no matter how awful.:hmm: I mean, has anyone been keeping up with that terrible Flash Gordon?:sigh: I only watched it recently again because Steve Bacic (Camulus on SG-1) was playing Barin. Not even the drop dead gorgeous Steve Bacic could keep me interested.:disagree:

I haven't watched Sci-fi in a year or so...when they put wrestling on, and ran all of those freaking horror movies ad nauseam, hubby stopped turning it on except for Stargate SG-1 (which I had stopped watching after the third episode of season 9).

When Sci-fi canceled Farscape (remember Sci-fi Friday night? That was what we watched every Friday!) and then moved Battlestar Galactica from Friday to Sunday (whose bright idea was THAT?), and THEN canceled SG-1, they pretty much slit their own throats. Let 'em bleed.

If this 'new show' isn't based on the original...has nothing to do with the SGC, how in the world will they be able to call it "Stargate" anything? So far, from what I'm hearing, it's not going to be anything I'll be watching.

[yukitoyu22]

The working title is called Stargate Universe. They said it'll feel like Stargate, but be its own entity.

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 series 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."


http://gateworld.net/news/2007/03/third_series_is_istargate_univer.shtml

[Robin K]

It will be interesting to see what they come up with. It also depends on what night it's on whether we'll watch it...we only 'do' television on Friday nights. (Well, sometimes Hubby watches movies on Saturday.)

[Lemuria]

The only way they are going to be able to pull this off is if it is set somewhere else in the Milky Way or Pegasus Galaxies and it has to do with a totally different civilization. Or, who knows, it could be that the Alterans created gates in other galaxies and it could take place there.:huh1:

[Anissa T]

I down for watching, but it better be good. Sci Fi is already on my bad side.

[Robin K]

I down for watching, but it better be good. Sci Fi is already on my bad side.

You and me both, my friend! Sci-fi is just another cable channel now...there's nothing Sci-fi about it! (Well, Atlantis, and that's the ONLY thing!)

I just don't know how it can be "Stargate" if it's not based on the original movie/series. I know what they're saying...but it just doesn't make sense to me. I'm not going to get my hopes up, that's for certain!

[Anissa T]

I think Eureka is SciFi, sort of. So, it Enterprise. But, the wrestling is just killing me.

[Robin K]

I think Eureka is SciFi, sort of. So, it Enterprise. But, the wrestling is just killing me.

I forgot about Enterprise. Between the wrestling and the horror movies (how about a few sci-fi movies?), we just don't watch it all.

[Lemuria]

I am still trying to figure out the whole wrestling thing.:huh1: The only thing I watch on Sci-fi now is Atlantis and Ghost Hunters.

[yukitoyu22]

More Info: http://gateworld.net/news/2007/03/iuniversei_deals_with_ninth_chev.shtml

The working concept for the third Stargate television series includes the Stargate's ninth chevron, executive producer Robert C. Cooper told fans today..."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 form 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."

Just what the Stargate's ninth chevron does and how it might relate to working title Stargate Universe (story) fans can only speculate. Watch GateWorld for more on the third series!

Which means it may take a little longer since the writing strike, but since most writers are Canadian, it may not hinder it much.

[yukitoyu22]

It has also been denied that Michael Shanks was offered the lead in the new series..

[Robin K]

It has also been denied that Michael Shanks was offered the lead in the new series..

Michael Shanks and Christopher Judge are working on a totally new show...one that CJ has written. From what I've read so far, MGM is interested in backing the show. CJ would play Gabriel, MS would play Lucifer, who, according to MS, "has daddy issues".

[stardino]

Bets me how they will make it a different show apart from the other stargate shows but even in the first season...to make stargate universe to work it has to meet sooner or later with Stargate Atlantis for it to continue. This probable has to happen at the end or closing of stargate atlantis which better have a good ending.
Hope stargate universe comes soon because...i actually like anything that is scifi and deals with wormholes, aliens, and fighting (nothing about stupid open drifts like whatever that new show is called).

If the show is not sweet...**** MGM to hell!!!! (mmm...can't think donuts):wave:

[cb49747]

What does it mean that a show is not a spin off but it's own entity? Well Star Trek next gerneration and star trek enterprise are not spin offs but rather their own shows. So Stargate Universe I think can make it. I have hope for MGM and SCIFI but they need to stick to what works and what people want to see on SCIFI. Cool SCIFI shows, not wrestling.

Anyway I think the 9th Cheveron is a interdimensional chevron what do you all think? They get stuck and have to get back to their own dimension.

Possible, Plausible could be.

[Robin K]

There are already hints about the movie that will deal with the 9th Chevron, which has to do with time travel.

[cb49747]

That could would be cool too.

[Robin K]

I can just imagine the trouble time travel could cause...could be a pretty good show...as long as Cooper isn't involved!

[djackson7]

wasn't this series suposed to be out last month?

[Robin K]

I don't think there was an actual timeline announced, although I could be mistaken about that. Seeing as how there weren't any announcements concerning any upcoming premier, I think it's a safe bet that they're still working on the project. I don't remember reading that scripts had actually been written, or parts cast as of yet.

[colonel Mitchell]

im very confused about the third series

[yukitoyu22]

There's no need to be confused since there's no information. This is all speculation.

[yukitoyu22]

Info as of March 2007:

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 series 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. Stay with GateWorld for the very latest developments

[Angelica Constantine]

Thank you so much for that yuki. :D

[yukitoyu22]

I just realized I posted that twice >.<

Basically there's been no peep out of them since then. Maybe we'll hear stuff from the upcoming conventions where the producers will be there. Maybe I'll get the nerve to ask... lol

[Robin K]

I just realized I posted that twice >.<

Basically there's been no peep out of them since then. Maybe we'll hear stuff from the upcoming conventions where the producers will be there. Maybe I'll get the nerve to ask... lol

That's okay, yuki...I only read it once...LOL!

I thought things had been fairly 'quiet' since the 'announcement' that they were working on a third series.

Just to play devil's advocate here, does anyone think that a lack of fan interest might be part of the hold up? No one that I've talked to has been more than slightly curious about it, and my 'Gater friends and I hold little hope that it will be anything in the league of Stargate SG-1. That's not saying that we're not willing to give it a chance. It is saying that we don't expect much from this group, not after what they did to SG-1!

[Angelica Constantine]

Might be Robin not sure.

[yukitoyu22]

I dunno, I'm -really- interested in it, but it's hard to get interested in something you know so little about.

[Robin K]

I dunno, I'm -really- interested in it, but it's hard to get interested in something you know so little about.

I agree...they haven't thrown even the smallest of hints out, only that it's going to be 'completely different from Stargate SG-1 or Stargate Atlantis' (which, considering it's a 'spin-off', which means it's BASED in and on the Stargate universe seems like a negative to me!), not too many people are waiting with bated breath. Personally, I think the suits involved are idiots, don't have a much higher opinion of the writers, so if the show ever airs, I'll check it out. If it doesn't, I won't be disappointed.

[colonel Mitchell]

There's no need to be confused since there's no information. This is all speculation.

thats y im confuesed maybe we should just not worry about the third series