Stargate Universe Star to Amazon MGM Studios: Revive the Franchise Now

Stargate has been parked in the hangar for a long minute. Now we have two very different reads on whether it is ever firing up again: one hopeful, one very much over it.

First, a quick status check

• The franchise spans three movies and five series, with fandom support that ranges from culty to die-hard.
• It has been 15 years since anything new hit the screen; the most recent run, Stargate Universe, wrapped on Syfy in 2010.
• Behind the scenes, MGM’s bankruptcy slowed everything down for ages. Amazon bought the studio in 2022, which has been a promising sign for legacy IPs (see: RoboCop) and got fans wondering if a gate might reopen.

The optimist: Alaina Huffman

Alaina Huffman, who played Tamara Johansen on Stargate: Universe, is ready for the franchise to re-enter the wormhole. Speaking to CBR, she called Stargate one of MGM’s marquee properties and said she hopes Amazon finds a way to restart it — not necessarily Universe specifically, but the brand in any form that makes sense.

Her pitch is practical: the tools to make this stuff look great are cheaper and faster than ever, genre is mainstream, and there are plenty of fresh stories to tell. She also floated a smart bit of nostalgia bait — bring back some familiar faces from SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe to bridge old and new.

The skeptic: Roland Emmerich

On the film side, Roland Emmerich — who directed the 1994 Stargate movie (a top-20 box office hit that year, and still the only theatrical Stargate release) — does not sound eager to jump back in. Last year he told JoBlo that the rights situation is a slog and he is out.

"The problem there is, it is a very, very difficult IP. Different people own the IP and it is very, very difficult to do stuff like that... I do not want to do it, really. I gave up."

That is some classic Hollywood inside baseball: when an IP’s ownership is split and tangled, even deep-pocketed backers can get stuck in development purgatory.

So, could Amazon actually pull this off?

If Amazon wants it, there is a path: nostalgia cast, modern VFX, and a clean rights roadmap. The appetite is obviously there — the franchise still has a big footprint and a passionate fanbase — but Emmerich’s comments are a reminder that enthusiasm does not untangle contracts.

Would you rather see a big-screen reboot, a prestige series, or a soft relaunch that folds in SG-1/Atlantis/Universe vets? What would it take to make a new Stargate actually work in 2025? Tell me your take.