Anderson helps kick off Stargate Atlantis
JANUARY 9, 2004
Stargate SG-1 star
Richard Dean Anderson ("
Colonel [url="http://www.gateworld.net/omnipedia/characters/links/oneill.shtml"]Jack O'Neill[/url]") will appear in the premiere episode of the spin-off series
Stargate Atlantis, the actor told the
Canadian Press news agency. "We're shooting it concurrently and it will hopefully pick up the ball," Anderson said. "I'll help launch it. I'll be in the pilot but after that I'm done."
Colonel O'Neill appears in the episode to help convince Major John Sheppard, one of
Atlantis' regular characters, to join the dangerous mission to another galaxy.
Anderson also said that Season Eight of
SG-1, which begins filming in February, will be his final year with the long-running series. "I have a five-year-old daughter who I don't get to see enough," Anderson said, "I'm going to build a house in California and I'm going to learn Spanish."