Interview: Jonathan Glassner
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 11 segments
Michael and David welcome their first guest, Stargate SG-1 Co-Creator and Executive Producer Jonathan Glassner! See all content 72 hours before anyone else by becoming a member at…
Oct 20, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 11 segments
Michael and David welcome their first guest, Stargate SG-1 Co-Creator and Executive Producer Jonathan Glassner! See all content 72 hours before anyone else by becoming a member at…
Jonathan GlassnerGuest
Michael ShanksHostDavid ReadHost
Going back to the creation of the show, like when you assembled, this is actually really, I'm really curious about this.
When you were assembling the group, and I'm not talking about the actors, but the, you know, all the components, the production designer and the, even so far as the ADs and the line producer and everything like that, how did you do that? How did you, what was your process for picking those people and going with them for the, you know, this very important, you know, first step of the journey?
Well, I mean, for the creative people like the DP and the art director, production designer, we, you know, like an e-show, we looked at reels and portfolios and so on and met with the people.
who um i felt from the very beginning was in over his head i i can't remember his name but he is now a very successful line producer ron french is it ron french yes juan french i mean he's grown into being a great line producer but that back then he had a little bit literally been a production manager that they promoted to line producer and that was a studio pick
because you have to keep in mind that there's the production department of the studio keeps their They like to keep their fingers in the pot all the time.
They want a line producer who's loyal to them more than they're loyal to the showrunners.
And so they put him in and he was in way over his head and having a really hard time.
And I had worked with John Smith before and was pushing very hard to get him to come in.
I think it's because they thought that he would be loyal to me and not loyal to them right right um but i don't know that but finally when when things got bad enough with ron and i don't want to badmouth ron because he's from what i understand he's an amazing line producer now but then he was brand new he was literally he had just been a production manager and he and that stargate was a massive show i mean we had a three sound stages going up, a set construction place that was the size of a sound stage, a wardrobe department that could have been a factory, you know, a factory for a clothing company.
So we finally, I finally kind of insisted on it and we brought John in and John then brought in, he let a bunch of people go, brought in a bunch of his people.
Going back to the creation of the show, like when you assembled, this is actually really, I'm really curious about this.
When you were assembling the group, and I'm not talking about the actors, but the, you know, all the components, the production designer and the, even so far as the ADs and the line producer and everything like that, how did you do that? How did you, what was your process for picking those people and going with them for the, you know, this very important, you know, first step of the journey?
Well, I mean, for the creative people like the DP and the art director, production designer, we, you know, like an e-show, we looked at reels and portfolios and so on and met with the people.
who um i felt from the very beginning was in over his head i i can't remember his name but he is now a very successful line producer ron french is it ron french yes juan french i mean he's grown into being a great line producer but that back then he had a little bit literally been a production manager that they promoted to line producer and that was a studio pick
because you have to keep in mind that there's the production department of the studio keeps their They like to keep their fingers in the pot all the time.
They want a line producer who's loyal to them more than they're loyal to the showrunners.
And so they put him in and he was in way over his head and having a really hard time.
And I had worked with John Smith before and was pushing very hard to get him to come in.
I think it's because they thought that he would be loyal to me and not loyal to them right right um but i don't know that but finally when when things got bad enough with ron and i don't want to badmouth ron because he's from what i understand he's an amazing line producer now but then he was brand new he was literally he had just been a production manager and he and that stargate was a massive show i mean we had a three sound stages going up, a set construction place that was the size of a sound stage, a wardrobe department that could have been a factory, you know, a factory for a clothing company.
So we finally, I finally kind of insisted on it and we brought John in and John then brought in, he let a bunch of people go, brought in a bunch of his people.
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