# Amazon Kills Plans for Stargate Series Reboot — Officially! 💔🌌
Yo guys—Steve Dent just broke the news on Engadget this morning (June 3, 2026), and it's officially confirmed that Amazon is walking away from their ambitious new *Stargate* series reboot. This one was announced back in November with so much promise: Martin Gero—who famously worked his magic on *Atlantis* way back in the early 200s—was slated to helm a show he'd spent two full years developing, and Joseph Mallozzi described it as "a fresh jumping-on point for new viewers while deeply respecting existing canon." Honestly, I was genuinely excited about this because it sounded like exactly what the franchise needed: something that wouldn't alienate diehards but would actually pull in casual sci-fi fans who'd never seen a wormhole before.
Now here's where Amazon really got interesting with their decision-making—they'd been looking to develop projects within the *Stargate* universe since 2022, right after they acquired MGM and came into possession of that beautiful IP—and you can absolutely see why they wanted this franchise to carry some weight for them. They currently don't have a hit sci-fi property on their hands like they did with *The Expanse*, which wrapped up back in 2022 without a clear successor, so bringing in the world-renowned wormhole network would've been smart expansion strategy at that point. But apparently execs weren't feeling it; Mallozzi dropped this beautiful clarification over on X: *"Sadly, it's true. Amazon has elected not to move forward with the new Stargate series... As of today, officially, that original vision is no more."* The primary concern was reportedly all about breadth versus depth—this would be a show for hardcore fans who knew every detail and could barely find broader appeal outside them—which feels genuinely baffling considering Gero spent two years crafting this specifically as an entry point.
What makes this sting so much, though—it's that the *Stargate* universe is absolutely massive in its own right: we've got a legacy stretching back to 1994 with James Spader and Kurt Russell kicking off the movie franchise before Richard Dean Anderson led us through SG-1 for what felt like forever—and then four other TV shows joined the family along with two direct-to-video entries, all exploring those ancient alien-built transportation devices that create galaxy-spanning wormholes to connect worlds. Nothing was ever officially announced about where our new series would land in timeline terms or which plot threads it'd follow, but now we'll never get to see Gero's fresh take unfold, and more importantly—we won't get the opportunity Mallozzi mentioned so wistfully: introducing us to this world and those characters all over again while potentially reintroducing ourselves to familiar faces from decades of storytelling. It really stinks because that sweet spot between respecting lore AND welcoming newcomers was exactly what *Stargate* needed right now, especially with MGM in Amazon's hands.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2186409/amazon-kills-plans-for-stargate-series-reboot/
Yo guys—Steve Dent just broke the news on Engadget this morning (June 3, 2026), and it's officially confirmed that Amazon is walking away from their ambitious new *Stargate* series reboot. This one was announced back in November with so much promise: Martin Gero—who famously worked his magic on *Atlantis* way back in the early 200s—was slated to helm a show he'd spent two full years developing, and Joseph Mallozzi described it as "a fresh jumping-on point for new viewers while deeply respecting existing canon." Honestly, I was genuinely excited about this because it sounded like exactly what the franchise needed: something that wouldn't alienate diehards but would actually pull in casual sci-fi fans who'd never seen a wormhole before.
Now here's where Amazon really got interesting with their decision-making—they'd been looking to develop projects within the *Stargate* universe since 2022, right after they acquired MGM and came into possession of that beautiful IP—and you can absolutely see why they wanted this franchise to carry some weight for them. They currently don't have a hit sci-fi property on their hands like they did with *The Expanse*, which wrapped up back in 2022 without a clear successor, so bringing in the world-renowned wormhole network would've been smart expansion strategy at that point. But apparently execs weren't feeling it; Mallozzi dropped this beautiful clarification over on X: *"Sadly, it's true. Amazon has elected not to move forward with the new Stargate series... As of today, officially, that original vision is no more."* The primary concern was reportedly all about breadth versus depth—this would be a show for hardcore fans who knew every detail and could barely find broader appeal outside them—which feels genuinely baffling considering Gero spent two years crafting this specifically as an entry point.
What makes this sting so much, though—it's that the *Stargate* universe is absolutely massive in its own right: we've got a legacy stretching back to 1994 with James Spader and Kurt Russell kicking off the movie franchise before Richard Dean Anderson led us through SG-1 for what felt like forever—and then four other TV shows joined the family along with two direct-to-video entries, all exploring those ancient alien-built transportation devices that create galaxy-spanning wormholes to connect worlds. Nothing was ever officially announced about where our new series would land in timeline terms or which plot threads it'd follow, but now we'll never get to see Gero's fresh take unfold, and more importantly—we won't get the opportunity Mallozzi mentioned so wistfully: introducing us to this world and those characters all over again while potentially reintroducing ourselves to familiar faces from decades of storytelling. It really stinks because that sweet spot between respecting lore AND welcoming newcomers was exactly what *Stargate* needed right now, especially with MGM in Amazon's hands.
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2186409/amazon-kills-plans-for-stargate-series-reboot/