The Stargate Reopens: Prime Video Orders New Series

After a lot of almosts and maybes, Stargate is officially coming back. Amazon MGM Studios has ordered a brand-new Stargate TV series for Prime Video, and yes, it is being steered by someone who actually knows the franchise from the inside.

Who is making it

• Martin Gero is creating, writing, and showrunning the new series. He is a Stargate veteran (he cut his teeth on the TV shows) and also created NBC's 'Blindspot'.
• Executive producers: Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell for Safehouse Pictures, plus Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich.
• Consulting producers: Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi, two of the key creative hands behind the classic Stargate TV run.
• Studio and platform: Amazon MGM Studios for Prime Video.

Gero is not a tourist here. He spent years inside the franchise, which makes this setup feel a lot less like a random IP swing and more like a proper continuation.

'Twenty years ago, my first real job in television was as a Story Editor on Stargate Atlantis. I spent five years at the franchise working across all three series... For those who have kept the gate active through conventions, rewatches, and unwavering faith — this one’s for you. And for those that are new to our world — I promise you’re in for something extraordinary.'

Amazon, for its part, is framing this as a big, legacy-meets-new chapter move: the kind of revival that nods to the past while pushing for something ambitious and emotional for a global Prime Video crowd.

How we got here

The franchise started with Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin's 1994 sci-fi adventure 'Stargate' — a crowd-pleaser that didn’t get the film trilogy those two wanted, but instead launched a TV empire. The original movie followed linguist Daniel Jackson and retired Army Col. Jack O'Neil cracking an ancient portal in modern-day Egypt and landing on a planet ruled by the tyrant Ra. It starred Kurt Russell, James Spader, and Jaye Davidson.

TV is where Stargate found its groove: 'Stargate SG-1' ran for ten seasons and wrapped with direct-to-video movies; the animated 'Stargate Infinity' lasted one season; 'Stargate Atlantis' went five seasons; 'Stargate Universe' ran two; and there was the web series 'Stargate Origins.' The brand stretched beyond the screen too — books, comic books, video games, direct-to-video features — and then, for a while, went quiet.

There was a serious attempt to kick-start it again in 2014, when Emmerich and Devlin tried to reboot the film side with a new trilogy that would retell the story from scratch and finally complete it. They developed that plan for a couple of years before it fell apart. Fast-forward: Amazon bought MGM, which owns Stargate, and started eyeing revivals. Now we’re here — a fresh series order, back on TV, where the franchise has historically thrived.

My read

Putting Gero in charge makes practical sense. He knows the mechanics of Stargate TV, and having Wright and Mallozzi on the board as consulting producers should help keep the DNA intact. Emmerich and Devlin are executive producers too, though Emmerich said last year he wasn’t interested in coming back to Stargate, so his credit here likely reads more legacy/contract than day-to-day involvement.

No plot or casting details yet, but the gate is open again. When Prime Video starts dialing in specifics, I’ll be there with an address lock.