The end of the Writers Guild of America strike has been officially announced (see VARIETY), and those writers affected by it have returned to their jobs. Stargate Atlantis writer Carl Binder returned to the studios yesterday with a draft of a script in hand. His fellow workers threw a welcome back party for him, complete with a Valentine’s cake and “Happy Birthday” wishes (see Joseph Mallozzi’s personal blog for pictures and a brief write-up on Binder’s return to the fold, but beware of some spoilers for Season Five).
Hopefully, in the weeks ahead, we’ll also hear of the return of Robert C. Cooper and Brad Wright as writers for the third television series in the Stargate franchise, Stargate Universe, and for the third direct-to-video movie in the Stargate SG-1 saga, both of which have been pitched to MGM. Just before the strike, Stargate Universe was pitched to the Sci Fi Channel, but no announcement of its being picked up has been made as of yet.
Even though Stargate Atlantis lost Carl Binder for the duration of the strike, the remaining writers, Alan McCullough, Martin Gero, Joseph Mallozzi, and Paul Mullie, continued to write scripts for the new season that will be going before cameras mid-month. Thus far, Mallozzi has revealed the names of six of these scripts and teasers about a few others (see our Stargate Wiki for a breakdown of each of these episodes).
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