Amazon’s New Stargate Series Gets Story Details & Status Update From OG Star After Cancellation

Published Sep 14, 2026, 6:10 PM EDT EXCLUSIVE: New details about Amazon's Stargate series have come to light. A series order was given for a new Stargate show as of November 2025, with franchise veteran Martin Gero serving as showrunner, writer, and executive producer, and Roland Emmerich, director of the 1994 Stargate movie starring Kurt Russell and James Spader, as another executive producer. However, in June 2026, it was revealed that Amazon had canceled the show, reportedly due to executives worrying that the new story would only resonate with diehard fans of the franchise. During the Stargate SG-1 reunion panel at Rose City Comic Con, moderated by ScreenRant's Ash Crossan, SG-1's Jack O'Neill star Richard Dean Anderson clarified that the canceled series was not a reboot. He explained that Michael Shanks' SG-1 character, Daniel Jackson, was going to be in the series as a "conduit that would take us from our show, from our universe to the next generation of it." As for why it was canceled, he believes it has to do with disagreements about who would "control" the show. Check out his comments below: I’ve stayed out of touch with many things in my life, but the politics going on over the reboot, they’re calling it - first of all, it technically didn’t seem like a reboot more than it was using Michael Shanks’ character, Daniel, well again, as the conduit that would take us from our show, from our universe to the next generation of it. Something has gone awry in the negotiations, or the development, or who’s going to run it, who’s going to control it, etc. etc. There’s so many things that take place behind my scene anyway. I can guess what has been happening, but I think it’s been forestalled because of all of those things I just referenced a second ago. According to Anderson, when talking with Shanks, any potential future for the Stargate series seems like "a dead issue." That being said, Anderson acknowledges that a strong campaign has been ongoing for months now in an effort to still save the show. I honestly don’t know what’s happening to it or what’s going to happen with it. It feels, to talk to Michael about it, that it’s kind of a dead issue. I don’t know that for sure. Please don’t spread the word. But there is a campaign going on. Save Stargate. That’s the name of the campaign that’s going on to not let it die. In other words, to save it. That’s as clear as I can be, which is such a sad commentary. The Change.org petition to "Save Stargate with Martin Gero!" has reached 123,134 signatures as of this writing. #SaveStargate also continues to appear frequently on social media and even in the comments of Prime Video posts promoting movies and shows that have nothing to do with Stargate. While Anderson confirmed that an established Stargate character, Daniel, was going to be in the series, consulting producer Joe Mallozzi, who also has a long history of working within the franchise, pushed back against the idea that it only would have been accessible to diehard fans. On X, Mallozzi wrote shortly after the cancellation news broke, "Nope. No. Sorry. Gonna have to push back on this. We were ever mindful of creating a show that would have broad appeal." In a follow-up post, Mallozzi added, "Creator Martin Gero developed a new Stargate series over two years, ultimately crafting a show that offered a fresh jumping-on point for new viewers while deeply respecting existing canon. It was a series that avoided the pitfalls of several modern remakes and reboots by fully embracing the core of its predecessors: action, adventure, exploration, wonder, heart, humor, and found family." Back in June, Shanks reposted the cancellation news by saying, "Yep. They did that." At the time, his post was seen more as a disappointment coming from someone with deep ties to the franchise, but it takes on new meaning now, knowing that he was actually going to be in the show and pave the way for a new era. As indicated by Anderson, there is uncertainty about what the future of Stargate looks like now. The initial cancellation report stated that Amazon is still interested in expanding the franchise, but it is unknown what that would look like after scrapping a series that was greenlit, along with the fan backlash that followed. Gero previously worked on the Stargate shows Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, and Stargate Universe. Mallozzi also worked on all these series, as did Brad Wright, another consulting producer on Amazon's canceled show. Dean Devlin, who co-wrote and produced the 1994 movie, was another executive producer attached to the new series, alongside Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell of Safehouse Pictures. Showrunner Martin Gero Writers Martin Gero