Everything We Just Learned About The New Stargate Series
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Everything We Just Learned About The New Stargate Series
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Some highlights
> Stargate‘s VFX supervisor is Mohen Leo, whose credits with Industrial Light & Magic include Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and Andor. Along with the announcement, Gero confirmed that ILM will be one of Stargate‘s visual effects partners.
> Although each previous show has iterated on the design of the Stargate (even SG-1 updated the feature film’s gate), Crowley suggested that the design of the Stargate itself might not be changed much — at least not at this early stage of the process.
> Consulting producer Joseph Mallozzi is also writing an episode for the first season
> Gero assured fans that it is not rebooting the story but will stick to the universe that viewers came to love over more than 350 episodes of television.
> The working title is “Stargate” … and that might end up being the title of the show.
Sounds great to me.
My hope was just that the basic premise is just taking one of the 2 original SG-1 Stargates, and starting a new series with a new SG crew using the gates in a more up to date military base of today. That could be the military activating the gates again, or it could be aliens opening one that was stored away. It sounds like they’re going for something along those lines.
My biggest worry is that it’s only 8 episodes. I want an actual episodic series, and not a movie split into 8 episodes like most series are now days. I’d be so happy if they got the spending down to a few mil per episode and gave us 21+ episodes in a year instead of the usual 20-100 mil per episode and only 8 episodes they do now days.
With the episode featuring the Quantum Mirror which took anyone who touched it to an alternate universe, there is a canon way to do an actual reboot, while still having cameos from the original cast.
As much as I love Stargate, there have been so many episodes and movies, sticking to that continuity might make it difficult to bring new viewers in. An actual reboot with different characters and a whole new universe to explore might be a better option, while peppering in a connection to the original universe to tickle original fans like me.
I’m excited either way. Hope they still film it in BC. As a Western Washingtonian, I loved that every planet they went to looked like the woods back behind my old house.
The fact that Mallozzi is writing an episode means he’s confident in the pitch, which gives me a lot of hope. Sounds like they have a lot of passion for it.
Joseph needs to tell us what happened to Destiny in his episode, please lol.