I clipped out a little bit from most sections below, the stuff I found interesting at any rate. The whole article is worth a watch along with YouTube embeds of various things like interviews.
I clipped out a little bit from most sections below, the stuff I found interesting at any rate. The whole article is worth a watch along with YouTube embeds of various things like interviews.
The working title is “Stargate” … and that might end up being the title of the show.
Stargate‘s production designer is Nathan Crowley, who worked with Christopher Nolan on films from The Prestige and Batman Begins to Interstellar and Dunkirk. On television, he worked on the first season of HBO’s Westworld. In 2025 Crowley won the Academy Award for Wicked.
Along with him comes artist Phillis Lehmer, Crowley’s wife and long-time creative partner.
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.
Consulting producer Joseph Mallozzi is also writing an episode for the first season — currently at the outline stage. “I don’t know what I’m allowed to say about that, mostly for guild rules,” Gero said … “but yeah, he’s going to write a script. Absolutely. … Joe just sent me an outline, and it was just great.”
When the new series was announced last November, 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. Now that vision is being worked out, practically, in the writers’ room — and it means taking the time to find the right solutions to pesky story problems.
Casting Has Begun
As scripts are written and production moves toward rolling cameras this fall, Gero confirms that the team has begun looking at actors for the show’s key roles.
“We are in the preliminary stages of casting,” he confirmed. “That stuff leaks very quick, for some reason. You’ll hear it as close to those deals getting done as possible.”
Don't forget the promised new ship design, which was apparently part of the pitch for the show! Maybe a new alien species? Or perhaps just an iteration on the Prometheus an Daedalus classes? I...
Don't forget the promised new ship design, which was apparently part of the pitch for the show! Maybe a new alien species? Or perhaps just an iteration on the Prometheus an Daedalus classes?
I have high hopes for the series, as a longtime Stargate fan. It makes me very happy to see GateWorld involved; I cracked up a little reading about the new showrunners consulting the Omnipedia (some of which they wrote!) while researching ideas and Gate mechanics. As someone who hasn't loved the new Star Trek shows, and grew up as more of a Stargate fan... it makes me very happy to imagine more Stargate in my future. There isn't much fun adventure scifi out there these days!
I really appreciate them keeping the fandom in the loop. I just hope they keep the humor that they allowed to crack into the edges of all three TV series. That was part of why I had a hard time...
I really appreciate them keeping the fandom in the loop. I just hope they keep the humor that they allowed to crack into the edges of all three TV series. That was part of why I had a hard time getting into SGU: the humor was a lot more subtle, but it was there by the end of season 2. But even SGU eventually became something I enjoyed over time. I just hope this new show doesn't take me 10 years to get around to watching.
“I’m heartened by the fact that Martin is very respectful of what came before,” Mallozzi said. “We’ll build stories … [and] it’s very easy to find solutions that run counter to canon. And there will be times when we’ll go a certain way and then I’ll point out, ‘Actually, SG-1 established this.’ And rather than hand-wave and say, ‘This is a new show,’ Martin has said, ‘OK, we have to consider this,’ and found a way to work around it or incorporate it.”
I do as well. I watched the interview with Nathan Crowley and I'm heartened that they seem to really appreciate his design work and philosophy about design. I refuse to be excited about the show...
I do as well. I watched the interview with Nathan Crowley and I'm heartened that they seem to really appreciate his design work and philosophy about design. I refuse to be excited about the show (personal reasons: I've been hype about things in the past and let down before, usually I prefer to go in neutral and be pleasantly surprised) but I'm just not far off from it.
Yeah, I got the sense that they understood why Universe was bad. I’m hoping for something closer to Atlantis, which sounds (perhaps only to my optimistic ears) like where they want to go.
Yeah, I got the sense that they understood why Universe was bad. I’m hoping for something closer to Atlantis, which sounds (perhaps only to my optimistic ears) like where they want to go.
I clipped out a little bit from most sections below, the stuff I found interesting at any rate. The whole article is worth a watch along with YouTube embeds of various things like interviews.
Don't forget the promised new ship design, which was apparently part of the pitch for the show! Maybe a new alien species? Or perhaps just an iteration on the Prometheus an Daedalus classes?
I have high hopes for the series, as a longtime Stargate fan. It makes me very happy to see GateWorld involved; I cracked up a little reading about the new showrunners consulting the Omnipedia (some of which they wrote!) while researching ideas and Gate mechanics. As someone who hasn't loved the new Star Trek shows, and grew up as more of a Stargate fan... it makes me very happy to imagine more Stargate in my future. There isn't much fun adventure scifi out there these days!
I really appreciate them keeping the fandom in the loop. I just hope they keep the humor that they allowed to crack into the edges of all three TV series. That was part of why I had a hard time getting into SGU: the humor was a lot more subtle, but it was there by the end of season 2. But even SGU eventually became something I enjoyed over time. I just hope this new show doesn't take me 10 years to get around to watching.
I very much appreciate that.
I do as well. I watched the interview with Nathan Crowley and I'm heartened that they seem to really appreciate his design work and philosophy about design. I refuse to be excited about the show (personal reasons: I've been hype about things in the past and let down before, usually I prefer to go in neutral and be pleasantly surprised) but I'm just not far off from it.
Yeah, I got the sense that they understood why Universe was bad. I’m hoping for something closer to Atlantis, which sounds (perhaps only to my optimistic ears) like where they want to go.