Brad Wright - Screenwriter

Brad Wright is one of the creators of Stargate - SG1, one of my favourite TV shows, this series adapted from the film Stargate follows a team of people as they travel and explore space through the means of a Stargate, a way of harnessing a stable wormhole to travel lightyears.

The series stretched from 1997 till 2007 and had two spin off shows, Stargate - Atlantis and Stargate Universe. He along with Jonathan Glassner created the show and kept it going for over 200 episodes spanning 10 seasons.

Wright has also written scripts for a few other television series such as Adventures of the Black Stallion, The Odyssey and Highlander -The Series. 

                                                                              Wright was born in Toronto and graduated from the York University Theatre program in 1984, before his television career, Wright worked for several years with a Toronto theatre company as an actor and playwright.

I enjoyed Stargate as it was something new and original, carrying on from the film Brad Wright gave the characters more depth and introduced new and interesting characters and concepts. 

What I also enjoyed about the series was that it wasn't too unbelievable, Wright managed to take a sci-fi series about aliens that could take human beings as hosts and backed it up with science, however a few times in the series it did seem to stumble over the same problems as Star Trek when some of the concepts sounded too far fetched and unrealistic.

If I was to take anything from Brad Wright's style it would be to create these characters with interesting backstories and to put them into situations they are not comfortable with, as he frequently does in Stargate and also showing the repercussions of actions through a longer format than a film.

Action and reactions are depicted in both the story and the characters persona's such as when one of the main characters loses his wife to the Goa uld his character changes from slightly innocent and nerdish to smart and withdrawn.

I like the concept of showing character change throughout the series as a result of the story's ups and downs, many TV shows do not do this and simply have the characters revert to who we always perceive them to be, going a full circle and not really progressing anywhere.


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GateWorld - Interviews: An Expanding Universe (Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper - April 2009)
Brad Wright - IMDb
Stargate: Continuum - Exclusive: Creator Brad Wright Interview - YouTube
Stargate Universe - Season 2, Brad Wright Interview - YouTube
Brad Wright Interview - YouTube
Official Stargate Website: Crew Member
Brad Wright - Wikipedia (Image Only)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargate_SG-1 (Image Only)
https://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2009/10/four-sci-fi-shows-and-one-film-that-stargateuniver.html (Image)