New Seasons for the Stargate Franchise
The British Columbia Film Commission has posted the filming schedules for Stargate SG-1’s record-breaking tenth season and spin-off Stargate Atlantis’s third season on their website. Both shows will share the same filming schedule, starting February 20 and ending October 10.
Stargate SG-1 will start their filming with “Flesh and Blood”, written by Robert C. Cooper and directed by William Waring. This story picks up where Season Nine’s “Camelot” cliff-hanger leaves off and sees the return of Vala Mal Doran to the Milky Way. Claudia Black will reprise her role as Vala and become a full-time member of the cast, scheduled to appear in all 20 episodes.
Michael Shanks (Daniel Jackson), Christopher Judge (Teal’c), Beau Bridges (Hank Landry), and Ben Browder (Cameron Mitchell) return to Season Ten full-time as well. Because Daniel Jackson finally gets to Atlantis in the third episode (written by Brad Wright), there will most likely be appearances by Atlantis cast members, but which characters will be crossing over to the episode is still a mystery.
Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter) also returns, but will not be in all 20 episodes of SG-1. Tapping stated in a chat held by The Amanda Tapping Club on January 16, “I don’t know what is in store for S10. I know that I won’t be in all 20 eps of SG1. I do also know that I will be doing some crossover episodes in Atlantis. So again I don’t know for sure how many of each I will be in, but the majority will be SG1.”
Before signing off from his online activities at Gateworld and SG1Solutions, executive producer and writer Joseph Mallozzi had hinted about planned episodes of Season Ten. According to Mallozzi in his Q&A’s, the character of Carter was scheduled to appear in at least the first eight episodes.
Episode writers for Season Ten include Robert C. Cooper, Joseph Mallozzi, Paul Mullie, Brad Wright, Alan McCullough, Damien Kindler, and Martin Gero. Season Ten will also present the highly-anticipated 200th episode (episode 10.06), which Mallozzi has stated, “…will offer up a little something for everyone. It’ll be an episode unlike any we’ve ever produced, both in terms of format and content.”
STARGATE SG-1 (X)
Kawoosh! Productions X, Inc.
Exec. Prod: Robert Cooper,
Brad Wright, Joseph Mallozzi,
Paul Mullie, John Smith,
Carl Binder
Prod: John Lenic, Andy Mikita
Director: Various
DOP: Jim Menard, Peter Woeste
PM: John Lenic
PC: Jennifer Roe Emery
LM: Rick Fearon
ALM: TBA
PD: Graeme Murray
Cast: Ben Browder,
Amanda Tapping,
Chris Judge, Michael Shanks,
Beau Bridges, Claudia Black
Casting: Sean Cossey
Extras: Sandra Couldwell
Sched: Feb 20 – Oct 10/06
2400 Boundary Road
Burnaby, BC V5M 3Z3
292-8500 fax: 292-8550
Stargate Atlantis starts their third season with “No Man’s Land”, written by Martin Gero. Like SG-1, the premiere concludes a cliff-hanger, in this case, “Allies”. All members of the regular cast are returning: Joe Flanigan (John Sheppard), Torri Higginson (Elizabeth Weir), David Hewlett (Rodney McKay), Rachel Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan), Jason Momoa (Ronon Dex), and Paul McGillion (Carson Beckett).
Very few hints have been made on the details of Season Three episodes, but writers Martin Gero, Joseph Mallozzi, Paul Mullie, Robert C. Cooper, Carl Binder, and Brad Wright are already very busy with plans which, at last report, reach to the mid-season two-parter. It has been stated that Season Three will include more cross-over episodes with SG-1, with the character of Samantha Carter appearing in some episodes.
STARGATE ATLANTIS (III)
Pegasus Productions III Inc.
Exec. Prod: Robert Cooper,
Brad Wright, Joseph Mallozzi,
Paul Mullie, John Smith,
Carl Binder
Prod: Martin Wood, Martin Gero
Director: Various
DOP: Michael Blundell,
Brenton Spencer
PM: George Horie
PC: Jennifer Roe Emery
LM: Heather Vedan
ALM: Bob McQuarrie
PD: Graeme Murray
Cast: Joe Flanigan,
David Hewlett, Rachel Luttrell,
Jason Momoa, Paul McGillion,
Torri Higginson
Casting: Sean Cossey
Extras: Sandra Couldwell
Sched: Feb 20 – Oct 10/06
2400 Boundary Road
Burnaby, BC V5M 2Z3
292-8560 fax: 292-8550
- British Columbia Film Commission TV Series Filming Schedules
- Transcript of January 16 Chat with Amanda Tapping
- Season Ten Episode Guides
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