Prime Video Is working On A New 'Stargate' Series
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Finally! After 14 years off the air, Stargate is returning to TV.
It had been announced by all involved parties that the Stargate franchise is coming back to the screen through a deal with Amazon MGM Studios. This is huge news for fans of the science-fiction show. There’d been rumors for some time now that a new show was in development, but until now, it had only been rumors.
It’s not only coming back to production, but according to the players involved, it’s an entirely new story that does not reboot the franchise through retcon or start over. According to Joseph Mallozzi, who was showrunner, executive producer, and writer for the SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe series under the Stargate umbrella, this revival is due to the work of Martin Gero.
Gero also worked extensively on SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe. He has been working on a pilot and the details for the new series, and reportedly reached out to Mallozzi about a year ago, asking him to read the pilot for the new series. Mallozzi assures fans that it’s everything people have come to love about the franchise, and that they’re “in for a treat.”
There are no details about the show or when it will begin production, but this is promising news for those who have eagerly awaited confirmation of the rumors.
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The Stargate universe began back in 1994 with the film that birthed the franchise, starring Kurt Russell and James Spader. The film inspired the TV show that followed, SG-1, originally starring Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, and Michael Shanks. SG-1 expanded on the movie’s premise that a technologically advanced race used wormhole-generating devices they dubbed stargates to travel nearly instantaneously across the galaxy. SG-1 was the team designation for the group that used the gates to explore the galaxy for humanity, encountering other humans who had been transported over thousands of years on these planets and developed new civilizations, as well as meeting alien races.
SG-1 was the longest continuously running science fiction show in history. It spawned a spin-off show, Atlantis, that explored the premise that the city of Atlantis was real and the result of an advanced early evolution of humanity. That show also happened to star Jason Momoa, before he hit the big time. Atlantis further inspired another series, Universe, that followed a group of Earth refugees on an ancient spaceship that was traveling the universe, seeding worlds with stargates. Unfortunately, it only lasted two seasons.
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