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" First we gave you Robert Carlyle, then came Lou Diamond Phillips, and our final Stargate Universe interview comes courtesy of the show&amp;#039;s executive producer Brad Wright. How is the latest instalment of the franchise shaping up? What does he think of the decision to axe SG-1 and Atlantis? What&amp;#039;s the status of the Stargate movies? Read on to find out! How does working on Universe compare to working on the other Stargate formats? &amp;quot;Well, they&amp;#039;re both coming out of the same office and with a lot of the same crew so there&amp;#039;s a familiarity to it that is fun and nice. We have a fun place to work. But that&amp;#039;s where the similarity stops. The show itself, the feel of the show - the shooting style - is very different. We literally changed the way we&amp;#039;re approaching shooting. We&amp;#039;re going all handheld - or 90% handheld - and dualing cameras and that allows the actors to perform in the scenes in a way that is very natural. It&amp;#039;s fun on the set to watch Mr Carlyle and everybody around him hit it out of the park.&amp;quot; Was it a conscious decision to give it a different feel to the other Stargates? &amp;quot;Oh, totally. It was really driven by Robert Cooper&amp;#039;s desire to give the show a unique look. A show that made you aware when you flicked the station that you were watching Stargate Universe. Also, to bring the show into the 21st Century. We watch Friday Night Lights and The Shield and Firefly and this is how they capture that energy in the television shows. For the three-hour premiere, we hired the director of photography for The Shield because we wanted to make sure that that was the look that we got.&amp;quot;  Looking back now, do you think it was the right decision to cancel the other Stargates? &amp;quot;Well, look - I would have loved them to go forever, let&amp;#039;s be honest! I make money from them! I created the show and when a show you&amp;#039;ve created goes on for a long period of time, you make money. However, when Sci Fi said 10 years was [enough], I wasn&amp;#039;t gonna get angry or disappointed at that - that was the longest running sci-fi show in history, and that is a gift in any producer&amp;#039;s world. Atlantis went on for five years and that&amp;#039;s 100 episodes - a long run. I watched House the other night and that&amp;#039;s just entering its sixth year and it feels like its been on the air for a very long time. Despite rumours that fans have made up, I didn&amp;#039;t do it! It wasn&amp;#039;t my decision, I didn&amp;#039;t flip a coin... For them to assume that is really rather naive.&amp;quot; Do you think they both could have carried on? &amp;quot;The reasons that they didn&amp;#039;t carry on weren&amp;#039;t creative - of course they could have carried on. There were stories to tell and they weren&amp;#039;t tired shows. We had more seasons planned, but this is a business and people have to recognise that.&amp;quot; What&amp;#039;s the current status of the third SG-1 movie and the Atlantis one? &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re still on hold right now. The market for DVD is terrible, quite frankly. Like I said earlier, this is a business. We have scripts, we have a desire to make these movies, but naturally, MGM is not going to proceed with them unless they can be successful.&amp;quot; Will old Stargate fans be drawn in to Universe? &amp;quot;I do think they will. Yes, it is different but SG-1 always evolved. Look at an episode from season one and look at an episode from season six and look at an episode from season nine - that show evolved. And this show is evolving in a much larger step all at once - there&amp;#039;s no question that SGU is a wholesale evolution of the show as opposed to a small step. It&amp;#039;s still being written by Robert and myself and our sensibilities are still going to make it into the script. We can&amp;#039;t help ourselves - we write what we write! Our work is still going to have a sense of the here and now and a sense of humour. Is it as funny? No - it&amp;#039;s much more realistic.&amp;quot; A number of original Stargate actors are appearing. Was that an attempt to lure old Stargate fans back? &amp;quot;In part. There&amp;#039;s an element of the passing of a torch. But also we want to remind the audience that this is happening at the same time as the SG-1 universe is continuing. So Jack O&amp;#039;Neill is the head of home world security in SG-1, so that means he&amp;#039;s the head of home world security on Universe as well. It&amp;#039;s mainly a sense of maintaining the integrity of the fabric of the universe.&amp;quot;  There are some big names in the SGU cast. Why did you select those people? &amp;quot;Every time you proceed with a series you have a wishlist. You create a character and you say, &amp;#039;It would be great if X was that character&amp;#039; and this is the first time in my career that I got the person on top of my wishlist - Robert Carlyle! Usually, they&amp;#039;re unavailable, they&amp;#039;re uninterested, they read the script and don&amp;#039;t get back to you... And you move your way down or whatever. In SG-1, MGM partnered us with Richard Dean Anderson, and in Atlantis, we auditioned people for the roles.&amp;quot; How long do you see Universe running for? &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;d asked me how long I&amp;#039;d expected SG-1 to run, I would not have said 10 years. If you&amp;#039;d asked me how long I&amp;#039;d expected Atlantis to run, I&amp;#039;d have been delighted at five. So, I&amp;#039;m gonna say the same thing and say it would be a wonderful, wonderful thing if we went five years on SGU.&amp;quot; Stargate Universe premieres October 2 on Syfy in the US and on October 6 on Sky1 in the UK. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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