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Stargate Universe Writers' Room - Remi Aubuchon
by Steve Eramo
12/13/2010
Photo courtesy of Joseph Mallozzi
A lover of Science Fiction, especially the Stargate franchise, Remi Aubuchon always wanted to work in that particular genre. Over the past few years, the writer/executive producer has taken his vast experience in character drama and applied it to his work on Caprica and similar-themed shows. Needless to say his interest was piqued upon hearing that Stargate Universe co-creators/executive producers Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper wanted to bring a new writer or two onboard their staff for the show’s second season.
“As fate would have it, Brad and Robert were looking for someone who had some experience writing character drama,” says Aubuchon. “As you probably know, SGU is a slight departure from the other Stargate series in that Rob and Brad really want to do more character-related pieces, even though I think we still have the same fun Stargate stuff going on, including the mythology, which has taken me forever to get up to speed on. As Brad [jokingly] said to me one day, ‘It’s only 400 episodes, Remi. You should be able to figure it out pretty quickly,’ because It’s one thing to be a viewer, but quite another to actually work on the show and have to keep track of everything going on.
“So I met with Brad and Robert, we liked each other and decided that I would come join them this year. I actually began watching season one episodes before they were even completed so that I’d at least have an idea of where Brad, Rob and the other guys were going with SGU. A big part of that was just getting the audience comfortable with this new version of the franchise along with its characters, which has given us the opportunity this year to do some really interesting things and focus even more on the characters themselves...
