Stargate SG-1 Star Michael Shanks Rallies Fans After Amazon Axes Revival, Says 'Now Is the Time to Say Something'

Stargate SG-1 histrion Michael Shanks is rallying fans to protestation Amazon's daze cancellation of its previously-announced franchise revival.

Earlier this week, Stargate fans were near stunned by the quality that Amazon had ditched its caller Prime Video series, conscionable six months connected from its large announcement. An archetypal study claimed that the amusement was scrapped owed to fears it would not person appealled to anyone beyond the franchise's halfway assemblage — thing that seasoned Stargate writer Joseph Mallozzi, who had been moving connected the project, subsequently disputed.

Writing connected X/Twitter, Shanks — who played the fan-favorite quality Daniel Jackson successful SG-1 and its assorted spinoffs — shared IGN's communicative covering Mallozzi's comments, and added his dependable to those who believed the bid would person landed a wider audience. "I besides quality their claim," Shanks declared.

Shanks has present highlighted respective instrumentality efforts aimed astatine getting Amazon to reverse its decision, including a GoFundMe to alert a #SaveStargate banner implicit Amazon Studios firm headquarters, respective Change.org petitions, and a propulsion to kick to Amazon straight via its lawsuit service. The largest Change.org petition presently has conscionable implicit 40,000 signatures.

Amazon is reportedly inactive funny successful a aboriginal for the Stargate franchise, adjacent if this circumstantial revival bid stays cancelled. But successful a connection to fans, Shanks suggested that this peculiar task represented fans' lone anticipation of a revival built by erstwhile members of the Stargate SG-1 accumulation team, and featuring members of its erstwhile cast.

"I'm gonna simply accidental this: if you are astatine each funny successful a Stargate amusement with ANY of the archetypal creators/performers involved, present is the clip to accidental something," Shanks wrote. "Otherwise it truly volition beryllium the extremity of that section forever. Let them cognize you are THERE."

Shanks has ne'er confirmed helium would person been progressive successful the revival, though has consistently championed its improvement — and galore fishy his quality would person apt made immoderate signifier of appearance.

"My bosom breaks," Mallozzi wrote earlier this week. "For the incredibly talented writers who worked tirelessly to bring this amusement to life. For Martin [Gero, the series' showrunner] who maintained an unwavering affirmative outlook passim contempt the challenges, and who ever strove to marque a amusement that would grant the fans portion welcoming a caller audiences. And for the long-suffering Stargate fandom who waited truthful agelong and came truthful adjacent to getting a amusement they genuinely would person loved."

Amazon is inactive to officially remark connected the series' cancellation.

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