We were excited to hear that after buying up MGM Studios, Amazon was interested in pursuing a new “Stargate” TV series at Prime Video, but sadly, the version that was being worked on has been officially scrapped by the streaming service.
That update comes from Variety, as they outline that Amazon was a tad worried that the new show being developed by Martin Gero (writer/exec producer, and showrunner) was too concerned about servicing existing die-hard fans of the previous shows, rather than trying to make it accessible to a new generation and folks who aren’t exactly well-versed in the lore. This was part of Amazon’s big plan to mine the MGM legacy projects, but it is said that they’re still going to find a way to resurrect the IP in some form (remains to be seen if that is a TV show or a new feature film).
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Fans were rightly excited when Gero, who helped reboot “Quantum Leap,” was assigned to the project after previously working on the TV shows “Stargate SG-1” and “Stargate: Atlantis” (featuring a young Jason Momoa) early on in his writing career alongside 2009’s “Stargate Universe.”
Created by Dean Devlin and director Roland Emmerich, the original 1994 film starred James Spader and Kurt Russell as miltiary/science exploration group that is thrust into an alien world, via the teleportation device known as the Stargate (unearth by arceogists and dating back many thousands of years), that very much looks and feels like ancient Egypt and is ruled by Ra, an alien god-like figure that is able to take a human disguise to hide his true nature.
Details were never revealed, but the producing team would have featured Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell at Safehouse Pictures, as well as Devlin, Emmerich, Brad Wright, and Joe Mallozzi.
Like “Star Trek” and “Babylon 5,” the fandom is very diverse, but can also feel niche when compared to modern sci-fi TV projects (even “Star Trek” is having issues getting a new feature film getting into production), and in the current atmosphere, Amazon might have felt it was just attractive enough for the general audience, which is needed for pricey IP-based shows these days. We’ll have to be patient to see what they end up doing with “Stargate” or if they just put it on the shelf.
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