Disney+ has Star Wars and Paramount+ has Star Trek, so it’s time for Amazon to get its own sci-fi franchise with “Star” in the title. Prime Video has greenlit the TV revival of the iconic Stargate franchise, This will be the fourth major TV show in the series, following the first film,
We don’t know anything about the plot and where it fits into the decades-old mythology, but we do know the showrunner is Martin Gero. He is an IP veteran who has dominated the industry while working Stargate: Atlantis In the early 2000s. he also made the show blind spot and was the show runner Which was actually kind of nifty (RIP).
Franchise creators Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich are on board as executive producers, along with Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi. That last pair were behind most of the Stargate TV projects, including the most recent live action show stargate universe,
This means a lot to Prime Video. Eventually, Amazon did it, and the Stargate IP came with that purchase. This is not the first time that this platform will be associated with science fiction. prime video It was originally canceled by SyFy. There are three more books in that series that have yet to be adapted. just saying.
For the uninitiated, the Stargate franchise includes the titular Stargates. These are transportation devices created by ancient aliens that act as wormholes spanning the galaxy. It all started with a 1994 film.