SCI FI WIRE has posted an article about the future of Stargate SG-1 as the broadcast of the show’s finale approaches next Friday, June 22. They talked with executive producer Robert C. Cooper about the two direct-to-DVD movies, Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum and how the franchise “begins anew”:
Fans mourning the loss of SG-1 after this season can take comfort that the franchise will live on in other ways. “SG-1 ran for 10 successful seasons,” Cooper said. “We’ve ended that run on SCI FI, and now we’re continuing the story with those characters. Our DVD packages sell so well that, if the movies sell as well as the series sells, it’s going to be a tremendous success. And MGM [which produces the series] will eagerly want more.”
The article also presents some spoilers for Brad Wright’s Stargate: Continuum:
“In some respects, Brad’s idea evolved out of the fact that the Navy had come to us and said, ‘If you ever want to shoot in the Arctic, we’d love to take you up there,'” Cooper said. “‘We have a couple of nuclear submarines you could shoot on.’ So Brad said, ‘Wow, I’m just going to write a movie around that.’ We were the first production ever to shoot that far north. It was a pretty cool experience for everyone that went.” Cooper paused, then added: “A very cold experience.”
Stargate SG-1’s warm relationship with the U.S. military began in season one, when the producers needed permission to use stock shots of the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center, which is the home of Stargate Command in the show’s fictional universe. Eventually, the military vetted scripts for accuracy, and two chiefs of staff had cameo roles as themselves. “As things progressed, we started to say, ‘Hey, send us up a C-130 or a couple of F-18s,'” Cooper said. “There are two F-15s that are parked out at Vancouver airport now that we’re shooting in [for Continuum].”
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For more background information on the two movies, visit the Stargate Solutions Wiki’s Movie Index for links to each of the movie guides.