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There is a future for the Stargate franchise on television. Today Amazon MGM Studios announced that it has given the green light to a brand new live-action series, which will stream globally on Prime Video.

Veteran Stargate writer and producer Martin Gero created the show and will helm it as executive producer and showrunner. Fellow Stargate alums Brad Wright and Joseph Mallozzi are also on board as producers. The new series will continue the franchise with the same universe, canon, and tone that made Stargate a global hit.

“This has been a very hard secret to keep for the last 18 months, but we can announce today that a brand new Stargate series is coming to Prime Video,” Gero said.

And, in a surprise twist, Stargate’s original creators Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich (Stargate, Independence Day) have signed on as executive producers, alongside Safehouse Pictures’ Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell (Obi-Wan Kenobi, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters).

GateWorld managing editor Darren Sumner and Dial the Gate host David Read, both long-time fans of Stargate, were on hand to discuss the announcement firsthand with the producers. Watch the announcement from Prime Video:

Stargate’s television universe spans 17 seasons and more than 350 episodes, and Prime Video’s show will be the first new, ongoing series since Stargate Universe took its final bow in May 2011. Gero emphasized for long-time fans that the new series will not be a reboot.

“It is not a reboot,” Gero said. “It is a brand new chapter. It’s its own unique chapter in the Stargate universe.”

He also said that their goal is not only to make the show that long-time fans have been waiting for, but also to create a point of entry for newcomers. “For us, it’s really important to not only have it so that the fans feel like, ‘This is my Stargate, this is the Stargate I’ve been waiting 14 years for,’ but that a brand new audience can come in without having to have watched 350 episodes of an amazing show – that they can start with episode one of the new Stargate show,” he said. “And then if they love it, then they can go back and watch everything else.”

Further details on the next series are still scarce, including a title, production schedule, and filming location. Casting has not yet begun. A continuation of the existing canon will allow the show to bring back some familiar faces, though the producers aren’t willing to name names just yet.

Gero was first hired as a staff writer for spin-off series Stargate Atlantis in 2004, rising through the ranks to executive producer while penning episodes like “Duet,” “Be All My Sins Remember’d,” “Sunday,” and “First Contact.” He also wrote for a handful of Stargate SG-1 episodes, a pair of Stargate Universe episodes, and directed the Atlantis episode “Brain Storm” in 2008.

Following his time on the Stargate franchise, Gero worked as a writer and producer for the HBO comedy Bored to Death. He created the CW original drama The L.A. Complex and NBC’s tentpole series Blindspot, followed by executive producer roles on reboots of Kung Fu for The CW and Quantum Leap for NBC.

Brad Wright will be a consulting producer on the new show. He co-created Stargate SG-1 with Jonathan Glassner in 1997, as well as Stargate Atlantis (2004) and Stargate Universe (2009) with Robert C. Cooper. After Stargate, Wright created the Netflix and Showcase original science fiction series Travelers.

“We’re going to be able to do things that we could not do in 1997, and even beyond that,” Wright said. “We’re going to be able to do almost anything, in terms of visual effects and everything our imagination can come up with now.

“I strongly feel that [fans] will watch this show and say, ‘This is Stargate.’”

Joseph Mallozzi joined Stargate’s team of writer-producers in 2000, and wrote or co-wrote numerous fan-favorite episodes over his 11 years with the franchise. He then created the Syfy original Dark Matter with Paul Mullie. Mallozzi will also be a consulting producer on Prime Video’s Stargate series.

“When I first joined the franchise [in] SG-1’s fourth season, one of the first things I did was get on social media, and I started to interact with the fans,” Mallozzi said. “And little did I realize that I would be interacting with them for 25 years. And I can tell you that, in that 25-year span, their enthusiasm for Stargate has never waned. … The opportunity to finally tell them Stargate is coming is incredible.”

Roland Emmerich directed the original 1994 Stargate feature film, which he co-wrote with Dean Devlin. The two lost the rights to the franchise when investors sold the film to MGM in 1994, and since the television franchise went off the air the duo have attempted to get their own Stargate revivals off the ground. Devlin is also producing the Syfy Channel original The Ark with SG-1 co-creator Jonathan Glassner.

Having these two join Gero and Stargate’s TV team for the Prime Video series represents a remarkable unification of the franchise’s creative talent — for the first time in Stargate’s 31-year history.

The news finally answers the call that Stargate fans have been rallying around for years, since Stargate Universe went off the air nearly 15 years ago. Following MGM’s 2010 bankruptcy, the studio’s new owners showed little interest in reviving the franchise — save for a short-form Web series produced in 2018. Wright himself later penned a pilot script for a fourth series, but it failed to advance after the COVID pandemic and MGM’s sale to Amazon.

Amazon acquired Metro Goldwyn Mayer and all of the studio’s assets (including the Stargate franchise) in the spring of 2022, creating the new Amazon MGM Studios.

Prime Video will also give the Stargate franchise its first global, simultaneous release. Previous shows in the franchise were distributed to various cable and broadcast outlets in different countries, with differing contractual arrangements and release strategies – leaving viewers in some countries weeks or months behind on new episodes. Amazon’s streaming service is in more than 240 countries and territories around the world, with science fiction and fantasy series including Fallout, The Expanse, The Boys, and The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Gero told GateWorld that he wants to keep fans informed about what is happening behind the scenes of Stargate as the show enters production – including a stack of concept art he is eager to share.

“I think what’s amazing about the Stargate construction is that it takes place today. It takes place on Earth, the Earth that you recognize. But yet this gateway to the stars allows us to tell these amazing stories with epic scope, incredible sense of humor and, again, a sense of presence in the real world.”

GateWorld will continue to cover the past, present, and future of Stargate – now in our twenty-seventh year! – so keep your chevrons locked here for the latest. For more conversation on this breaking news, check out the livestream with Darren and David below.

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