Charles Cohen, executive vice president of MGM Television, has voiced plans to develop further Stargate films and produce a third television series to be titled Stargate Universe (discounting Infinity as a Stargate television series), currently in a pre-production concept phase.[32][33] Additionally, Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper, developers of SG-1 have signed a contract with MGM to produce two SG-1-based films, tentatively titled Stargate: The Ark of Truth and Stargate: Continuum. Both films will be direct-to-DVD releases.[34] According to actor Michael Shanks, most of the cast and crew of the series have signed on to the movies (though Richard Dean Anderson will not reprise his role as Gen. Jack ONeill for Ark of Truth), set to begin filming on April 15, 2007 and June 1, 2007.[35]
Plans for producing two sequels of the original film were announced by the original films creator Dean Devlin at the 2006 San Diego Comic-Con. He has said he is currently in talks with MGM to produce four films and he would like two of them to be the final two films in his envisioned Stargate trilogy.[36] In an interview with Sci Fi Wire, Devlin says that should the sequels be made, he hopes to enlist Kurt Russell and James Spader in the two sequels. These sequels would ignore the 11 years of mythology created by SG-1 and Atlantis if they are produced.[37]
In the meantime, Lionsgate remains the major rights holder to the original film; this was due to the fact that its predecessor, Live Entertainment, owned home video rights to the Carolco Pictures library and had also owned international distribution rights, although Carolco itself was on the brink of bankruptcy when they produced this film.[citation needed]
So there is 2 series to dvd on the way, There is a 3rd script that may happen
There is the original movie squeal planned and maybe a 3rd after so 3 definite movies with 2 being dvd/tv ones and 1 actual movie with the possibility of a 3rd movie and 3rd dvd movie
Think Babylon 5 and the number of movies that are about to tie things off
New series is interesting but not sure how well that will do
According to Cooper, the "series maintains the spirit of Stargate, but opens up a whole new universe."[4] It is currently being developed as "a completely separate, third entity"[2] – as opposed to Stargate Atlantis, which was created as a spin-off from the first series Stargate SG-1.
Robert C. Cooper has revealed that the new series will finally reveal the purpose of the ninth chevron on the Stargate and (like the first two series in the franchise) will take place during the present time, not in the distant future. It would be the first time that the ninth and final chevron is used in a series of the franchise. According to Cooper, "It plays a major factor in the third series.".[2] Brad Wright announced that the ninth chevron "sends us somewhere very interesting".[3]
