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Disney+ has Star Wars and Paramount+ has Star Trek, so it is about time Amazon will get its personal sci-fi franchise with “star” within the title. Prime Video has simply greenlit a TV revival of the enduring Stargate franchise, . This would be the fourth main TV present within the sequence, following the primary film.

We do not know something concerning the plot and the place it suits into the decades-long mythology however we do know that the showrunner is Martin Gero. He is a veteran of the IP, having minimize his tooth within the trade whereas engaged on Stargate: Atlantis again within the early 2000s. He additionally created the present Blindspot and was showrunner on the , which was really type of nifty (RIP.)

Franchise creators Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich are on board as government producers, as are Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi. That final duo had been behind many of the Stargate TV initiatives, together with the latest dwell motion present Stargate Universe.

This makes a number of sense for Prime Video. Amazon did , in any case, and the Stargate IP got here together with that buy. It isn’t the primary time the platform could have dabbled with science fiction. Prime Video after it was initially cancelled by SyFy. There are three extra books in that sequence which have but to be tailored. Simply saying.

For the uninitiated, the Stargate franchise includes the titular Stargates. These are transportation units created by historic aliens that act as galaxy-spanning wormholes. It began with a film from 1994.