{"id":711228,"date":"2026-06-03T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711228\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:35:10","slug":"martin-geros-stargate-series-not-moving-forward-at-amazon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/711228\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Gero’s ‘Stargate’ Series Not Moving Forward At Amazon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tStargate<\/a> has become a high-profile likely casualty of the regime change at Amazon<\/a> MGM Studios. The reboot of the popular MGM IP from Stargate veteran Martin Gero<\/a>, which received a series order by Prime Video in November 2025<\/a>, will not be going forward, Deadline has confirmed.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe decision to pull the plug came late in the process \u2014 I hear the show had completed a 20-week writers room and was in pre-production in the UK. It was explained with the new series\u2019 vision and creative direction, which allegedly no longer aligned with Amazon\u2019s programming strategy.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe differences apparently ran so deep, they required an outright axing vs. retooling the existing version of the project by giving notes to Gero, a veteran showrunner who had been signed into an overall deal by Amazon MGM Studios for the purpose of him spearheading Stargate.<\/p>\n

\n\tIronically, the new Stargate was greenlighted by Amazon MGM Studios Head of Television Peter Friedlander in one of his first pickup decisions after he joined the streamer in early October. But the series falls under the purview of one of Friedlander\u2019s top lieutenants, Brett Fetter, Head of Worldbuilding & Genre Series, who didn\u2019t start at Amazon until February. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe two executives who had developed Stargate with Gero and had championed it, Nick Pepper, formerly Head of US SVOD TV Development and Series \u2013 Wholly Owned, and Matt King, formerly Head of Tentpole, Genre and Universe Development, Wholly Owned, are both gone \u2014 with the former leaving when Fetter joined the company and the latter departing two months later when Fetter restructured his team<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\tStargate was among the first MGM titles\u00a0identified for series or film adaptations<\/a>\u00a0following Amazon\u2019s $8.5B acquisition of the storied Hollywood studio in 2022. The studio may revisit the IP with another showrunner, possibly someone who does not have history with it and would give it a fresh new perspective, I hear. <\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, Gero, who had worked on three previous Stargate series and created NBC\u2019s\u00a0Blindspot, will focus on developing new projects under his overall deal at Amazon MGM Studios. <\/p>\n

\n\tStargate\u00a0is a military sci-fi franchise that centers on the Stargate, an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a stable wormhole, enabling near-instantaneous travel across the cosmos.<\/p>\n

\n\tOriginally launched with Roland Emmerich\u2019s 1994 feature film\u00a0Stargate, the\u00a0franchise has expanded over three decades to include multiple television series including\u00a0Stargate SG-1\u00a0(1997-2007),\u00a0Stargate Atlantis\u00a0(2004-2009), and\u00a0Stargate Universe\u00a0(2009-2011). Other series include the animated\u00a0Stargate Infinity (2002-2003) and web series\u00a0Stargate Origins\u00a0(2018).<\/p>\n

\n\tGero served as creator, writer and executive producer on the reboot. Executive producers also included Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell for Safehouse Pictures as well as Dean Devlin and Emmerich, the duo behind the 1994\u00a0Stargate\u00a0movie. Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi, longtime creative leaders within the\u00a0Stargate\u00a0TV universe, served as consulting producers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe news of Stargate\u2018s demise was first reported by Variety.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stargate has become a high-profile likely casualty of the regime change at Amazon MGM Studios. The reboot of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":711229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[971,49,48,75,132642,56875,348],"class_list":["post-711228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-amazon","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-martin-gero","tag-stargate","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/711229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}