There have been issues that it might solely enchantment to hardcore followers.
Amazon’s fledgling Stargate collection, introduced final November, has been canceled, Variety reported. The brand new present was met with enthusiasm by franchise followers and would have been helmed by Martin Gero, who labored on Stargate: Atlantis again within the early 2000s. Nevertheless, Amazon execs have been stated to be nervous that the brand new collection would solely enchantment to hardcore Stargate followers and lacked broad enchantment past that.
“Sadly, it is true. Amazon has elected to not transfer ahead with the brand new Stargate seeries,” stated government producer Joseph Mallozzi on X. “As of immediately, formally, that authentic imaginative and prescient isn’t any extra. We’ll by no means get the chance to introduce you to that world and people characters — or reintroduce you to and examine in with some acquainted faces from the previous.”
Amazon was trying to develop tasks within the Stargate universe beginning again in 2022, when it acquired the IP with its purchase of MGM. It could have made sense to make use of the well-known franchise to broaden its sci-fi choices, because it does not presently have successful in that style because it did with The Expanse, which resulted in 2022.
Nothing was ever introduced concerning the plot for the brand new collection and the place it might match into the Stargate timeline. Nevertheless, Mallozzi stated that Gero developed the collection over two years, “finally crafting a present that provided a contemporary jumping-on level for brand spanking new viewers whereas deeply respecting present canon.”
For the uninitiated, the franchise revolves across the titular Stargates, transportation gadgets created by historical aliens that act as galaxy-spanning wormholes. It began with a 1994 film starring James Spader and Kurt Russell, adopted by the Stargate SG-1 collection, starring Richard Dean Anderson. There have additionally been 4 different TV exhibits and two direct-to-video films.
