Stargate Sequel, Untitled

By: Karl Schneider
Date: Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Last Updated: August 8, 2006

Genre: Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Production Company: MGM
Distributors: NA
Special Effects: NA
Project Phase: Rumored
Budget: NA
Who's In It: NA
Who's Making It: Dean Devlin (Producer)
Release Date: NA
Premise: A continuation of the story following an interstellar teleportation device,
Comments: Roland Emmerich has the oppurtunity to direct if he wants. Both Russell and Spader are interested in returning.
Updates:

July 21, 2006 - Dean Devlin, the co-writer and producer of the original STARGATE, has a production deal with MGM to develop a sequel that will pick up the story from the 1994 film.

Devlin spoke to Sci Fi Wire, saying, "We would just continue the mythology of the movie and finish that out. I think the series could still live at the end of the third sequel. So we're going to try to not tread on their stories."

"When we created the original Stargate, we always envisioned it as a trilogy, and, unfortunately, the way in which the movie got made, we didn't really have control over [it]," Devlin added. "I think it will be very exciting to actually get to go do parts two and three."

Roland Emmerich will have the opportunity to direct the film if he wants, and Devlin said both Russell and Spader seem interested in coming back. [Sci Fi Wire]


May 12, 2006 - Will we be seeing more Stargate? Brad Wright, co-executive producer of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis sure thinks so. Mentioned as possible upcoming projects were a third TV series, a movie, and a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

"What we've built is now bigger than all of us," Wright said. "Even if I were to not do the movie, I know somebody is going to do a Stargate movie. It's the second largest franchise for MGM next to Bond. So it's got significant brand potential, and by two series doing as well as they are and a game coming out, that could really, really, really brand the show in a big way. That's what they like in this business: a larger franchise with so many legs to it that it could go into the future for years to come."

"I know there will be a movie made," Wright said. "I know there will likely be another series made, whether I make it or not. It's just too good a vehicle for storytelling. This is exactly what Jonathan [Glassner] and I recognized 10 years ago, when we created the series. The Stargate is dramatically, and in terms of storytelling, a perfect vehicle from which to launch characters and tell stories. That's why it will go for years to come."