Last year we learned that Warner Bros. and MGM were going to develop a Stargate trilogy with director Roland Emmerich and producer Dean Devlin. They've been working on developing a new Stargate film for years, and it's continuing to move forward.

Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are in final negotiations to write the script for the first film of the trilogy. The two writers recently worked together with Emmerich on Independence Day 2. They obviously all had a good experience working with each other since they are teaming back up.

I've enjoyed the Stargate franchise over the years, from the first film to the several SyFy Channel series' that followed. The original plan for the first film was to turn it into a trilogy but they never got to make the other two films. I imagine this new set of movies will start from scratch and reinvent the franchise. It's definitely a fun universe to play with, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it turns out.

Emmerich is working on a drama called Stonewall, which is set during the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York. He is also in pre-production on his Independence Day sequel.

Source: THR