Stargate Revival Axed by Amazon, 6 Months After Announcement

Amazon has dramatically axed its caller Stargate revival series, lone six months aft its announcement.

Details stay scarce connected the show's focus, though Variety has reported that Amazon was sufficiently unhappy with its absorption to person pulled the plug.

Executives wrong Amazon reportedly lacked assurance the bid would person appealed to a broader assemblage beyond the existing Stargate fanbase.

The unnamed Stargate bid was being developed for merchandise connected Prime Video by writer, enforcement shaper and showrunner Martin Gero, who antecedently penned episodes of the archetypal classical bid Stargate SG-1 and its spinoff Stargate: Atlantis. Stargate veterans Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi were meantime onboard arsenic consulting producers.

In a property merchandise issued past November, Amazon described the now-canned amusement arsenic a "new archetypal series" alternatively than a nonstop continuation of thing that has travel before, successful bid to archer "a bold caller chapter" of the dormant sci-fi franchise. However, it would "not beryllium a reboot", Gero said.

"I'm beyond thrilled that Amazon MGM Studios has entrusted maine with guiding this unthinkable franchise into its adjacent phase," Gero continued. "For those who've kept the gross progressive done conventions, rewatches, and unwavering religion — this one's for you. And for those that are caller to our satellite — I committedness you're successful for thing extraordinary."

Stargate primitively kicked disconnected with Roland Emmerich's 1994 sci-fi movie of the aforesaid name, which established a halfway radical of characters expanded upon by deed tv spin-off SG-1. Across 10 seasons and respective TV movies, SG-1 past spawned its ain sister show, Atlantis, and latterly a much separate, darker instrumentality connected the franchise, Stargate Universe

While Amazon has walked distant from this project, the institution is reportedly inactive unfastened to exploring different Stargate ventures successful aboriginal — though nary are presently successful production.

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