As of late, Christopher Choose is finest identified for taking part in Kratos within the God of Battle video video games, however there’s a choose group of science fiction followers who nonetheless keep in mind him fondly for taking part in Teal’c in Stargate: SG-1 (a present that got here with filming struggles). The Stargate franchise has been largely dormant for greater than a decade now, with the one main launch in that interval being the net sequence Stargate: Origins that was later recut right into a film. Nonetheless, Choose has been making an attempt to get a Teal’c spinoff going for years now, and he opened up about its Black Panther-like premise, in addition to shared why it hasn’t gotten off the bottom.
Choose stopped by Within You with Michael Rosenbaum to speak about his private {and professional} lives with the title host. When Rosenbaum requested the actor if he’d take into account returning to Stargate if the story was proper, Choose mentioned he would “take into account it.” He then shared that whereas he was engaged on God of Battle, he and his companion begin engaged on a Stargate SG-1 spinoff sequence, and the pitch made it by way of “three totally different regimes” at MGM. He continued:
This spinoff was about what occurred to Teal’c and his race of freedom as a result of on the finish of the present, they’ve gained their freedom, they usually now have inherited all this expertise from those who they served. So what do you do? My tackle it was mainly… so two of the episodes I wrote have been in regards to the Amazonian mythology, so it could be Stargate’s tackle the Amazonian mythology. So I pitched Stargate’s tackle Black Panther. So we as this enslaved folks now had our freedom, inherited this expertise, and the way we turned this culturally and technologically superior society. So what burden comes with that? Do you assist different folks or do you retain it to your self, proper? And so three regimes cherished it, after which we have been purchased by Amazon.
For individuals who want context, Teal’c is a Jaffa, i.e. an genetically modified human who has an belly pouch that’s used as an incubator for a larval Goa’uld, an alien parasite that take management of a number’s physique and thoughts as soon as they’re totally matured. Whereas these creatures give the Jaffa talents like enhanced energy and an extended lifespan, when Stargate SG-1 started, they’d been enslaved to the Goa’uld and in addition served as their troopers. These larval Goa’uld have been additionally essential to a Jaffa’s immune system, and if one was eliminated, they’d die except a brand new larva was implanted, though the drug Tretonin later mounted that downside.
Teal’c defected from his Goa’uld grasp Apophis in the beginning of Stargate SG-1, and because the sequence continued, he impressed different Jaffa to insurgent in opposition to these sinister aliens. By the point the Goa’uld have been defeated, the Jaffa have been capable of lastly to forge a society all their very own, and that’s what Christopher Choose has been trying to discover in-depth with this Stargate spinoff. The comparability to Black Panther is certainly apt, as a result of as we’ve seen from studying the comics and watching the Marvel motion pictures so as, Wakanda is essentially the most technologically superior nation on Earth, with devices and gadgets which can be on par with alien expertise. However like Choose identified, on this occasion, the Jaffa have been inheriting the Goa’uld’s expertise, in order that provides one other layer of complexity that may make this an attention-grabbing Stargate present to observe.
Nonetheless, the actor then implied that Amazon shopping for MGM is the explanation his Teal’c-centric spinoff has been stalled, if not outright scrapped. That’s a disgrace, as a result of that may make a worthy piece of programming to stream with a Prime Video subscription. Hell, I’ll take the Stargate franchise being revived in any type on that platform. Relaxation assured, we’ll let you understand if that occurs.