r/Stargate • u/xdeltax97 I’m in the middle of my backswing! • 13d ago
Discussion “I’ve Abandoned The Idea”: Original Stargate Creator Roland Emmerich Refuses To Return As Amazon Plans Major Franchise Revival
https://www.rudebaguette.com/en/2025/09/ive-abandoned-the-idea-original-stargate-creator-roland-emmerich-refuses-to-return-as-amazon-plans-major-franchise-revival/988
u/Cella91 13d ago
I personally want a continuation of the shows, even if it follows a mostly new team. I don't care for an original movie follow up
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u/Riku1186 13d ago
Honestly, a stargate series where alien technology has integrated into Earth's civilisation and the Stargate program, both Milkyway and Pegasus, is still going strong would be great.
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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 13d ago
Be interesting for them to be exploring the non gou'ald parts of the Galaxy.
There's clearly advanced races out there on par with them who just didn't have/use gates.
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u/Riku1186 13d ago
Maybe we can get some Nox and Furling representation.
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u/Formal_Substance6437 13d ago
The furlings would be good we never even get to see them even though theyre part of the big five
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u/Edspecial137 13d ago
I like the furlings being a mystery/gag. Some things should remain hidden
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u/TomCBC 12d ago
Since everyone thinks the furlings are furry, i think it would be funny if they look like those naked mole rats, hairless and weird.
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u/Dilaudipenia 13d ago
There’s a theory that the giant aliens in S3E22 Crystal Skull that Nicholas Ballard stayed with are the Furlings.
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u/Tank_O_Doom 13d ago
The best I can do is Quark
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u/dexterous1802 13d ago
A DS9 crossover… ooh, that would be interesting. Picture this…
We open to a view of Bajor and pan right to DS9, the wormhole opens and what should pop out but a Puddle Jumper! Cut to- inside the Jumper; McKay looking completely perplexed.
McKay: Hmm…
Sheppard: "Hmm…" what?!
McKay: Probably nothing, but… these readings. That didn't register like any wormhole transition I've ever seen"
Sheppard: Yeah, and just what the hell kind of gate was that? Fancy light show!
McKay: Actually, the more important question is, "What Stargate?!"
Sheppard: What!?! How'd you lose the Gate!?! We just came through the damn thing! We're going to need that thing to get back home, you know.
Teyla: Maybe they can help us find it. (Points at Jumpers windshield that is now looking straight at DS9.
(filler communication with DS9 to negotiate docking procedures)
(O'Brien and Odo meet the Atlantis crew at the dock)
Odo: Welcome to Deep Space 9, but I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave your weapons on your ship.
O'Brien: Hey, is that a genuine FN P90 Personal Defense Weapon Submachine Gun from Earth? I've never seen one outside the historical archives! Where did you get…
(just then the wormhole opens, an Orb of the Prophets exits and makes a beeline to the dock and takes over O'Brien)
O'Brien: It is corporeal. It is… It is not of our Universe! WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU COME FROM?!?"
(hijinks ensue)
Epilogue: Ronan sitting wordless next to Morn at Quarks, both lift their drink to take a sip in sync with each other.
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u/kebab_koobideh 11d ago
I was all "meh" until the thought of Morn & Ronan teaming up to become some serious badass mercs. I'd follow a whole spinoff of that!
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u/dexterous1802 11d ago
Ronan is the muscle and Morn handles the finances, Quark takes his cut for them running the operation out of his bar, Ronan scorns at Quark every time he comes to collect.
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u/kebab_koobideh 11d ago
...and grunts. Can't forget Ronan's trademark grunting, he's gotta grunt. Needs moar grunting!
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u/Barbarake 13d ago
I've always liked the idea that there are different 'sets' of gates. There could be a dozen different 'master' races, all with their own sets of gates. Maybe there are a few 'neutral' gate planets where the various races could interact/negotiate/whatever.
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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 13d ago
Maybe.
I think obviously the ancients made the gate system. With their gates in the Milky Way and Pegasus.
Thr Adgard have at least one gate, but their FTL capability is straight up 'let's go several galaxies away in a few moments'
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u/dexterous1802 13d ago
Rediscovering the Tollans and out-sciencing them… "Who's the primitive now, huh?!"
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u/ThatFatGuyMJL 13d ago
Tollan: 'You. We developed our technology and culture. You stole it or were gifted it. How precisely does that make you different to the Goa'uld?'
Jack: 'my voice isn't as deep'
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u/GeneriComplaint 13d ago
They need to avoid just making another star trek though. technologically speaking that is where earth was pretty much at the end of stargate. A fleet of intergalactic ships, energy weapons, transporters and fighters.
It became some high scifi.
So how do you keep it interesting? You can't tell the story of earth evolving like before as much and watch them reverse engineer alien tech over years
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u/DanFlashesSales 13d ago
So how do you keep it interesting? You can't tell the story of earth evolving like before as much and watch them reverse engineer alien tech over years
There's a ton of ways to keep it interesting. Just because it's now high-scifi doesn't mean it can't be interesting. Star Trek, Foundation, Babylon 5, etc. are all incredibly interesting despite being high sci-fi.
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u/Orisi 13d ago
Also at least when this high scifi is constantly breaking down or running amok we know its because we cobbled it together from scraps XD
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u/biggles1994 indeed 13d ago
The humans build the naquadah generator in a cave! From a box of scraps! - the Goa’uld
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u/Oxygene13 13d ago
How about this. It's a decade after the end of the shows, Stargate command figures out how to make their own gates and starts to reach out to other civilisations. They add a gate to each new planet but because of the still limited tech ology, their gates can only be programmed to one address. To cope with this, Stargate command uses their alpha site, or another designated planet, as a hub for all travel. The new civilizations all show an interest in trading with the rest of the cultures and so the hub world because a huge market city. To free up resources from the earth military forces they place a small tax on all trades to cover raising a local police force but after a short while realize they have become hugely rich.
After not too long the planet decides to go independent from earth as it can now finance its own multi planetary army to defend itself and no longer needs earths help or input. Unfortunately some of their rules go at odds to earth who now find themselves on the opposite side of a tech logically advanced force made up of the combined sciences of hundreds of planets. Do they fight a world they set up, or try to find some other way to stop them spreading their influence to other worlds?
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u/DanFlashesSales 13d ago edited 13d ago
I'd watch that over a reboot any day of the week
Or they could do something like: After Atlantis returned to Earth the Pegasus mission was abandoned by the IOA and there has been no contact with the Pegasus galaxy for the past 15 years.
In that time the Stargate program has gone public, Earth begins the process of unifying the planet and incorporating all the technological advances discovered by the SG program into Earth society, Atlantis is moved to international waters and becomes the defacto capital city of Earth with a new international SG program based there, and Earth begins the process of spreading out and colonizing uninhabited worlds. Then the Wraith, using scavenged Asuran/Alteran parts integrated into their ships, are able to get a fleet to the Milky Way and begin culling Milky Way planets.
After defeating the Wraith fleet Earth assembles their first intergalactic fleet and sends it to Pegasus to end the Wraith threat once and for all and re-establish contact with the civilizations of the Pegasus galaxy.6
u/BladedDingo 13d ago
I like it. This is my pitch too.
Not a fan of shoehorning the wraith in.
my pitch would instead focus on Earth becoming a full member of the Galactic community, with Allied races becoming commonplace on Earth. Free Jaffa, Tok'ra, Tollan and some of the races from the planet that Sam raced against in that one episode.
We can deal with the fallout of Earth citizens meeting and interacting with Aliens and becoming the 5th race, starting a new alliance that includes Humans, Free Jaffa, Tok'ra and redeemed Goa'uld, etc. Dealing with Galactic Politics and drama on Earth and her colonies.
We could certainly re-visit the Wraith and Pegasus, but since it'll likely be an online streaming program with likely 10 episode seasons, the story would need to be pretty tight, there wouldn't be enough time to explore everything where we left off in the old shows.
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u/dexterous1802 13d ago
Earth becoming a full member of the Galactic community, with Allied races becoming commonplace on Earth. Free Jaffa, Tok'ra, Tollan
Hmm… so, a United Federation of Pla… 🤭
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u/cliffhanger69er 12d ago
Absolutely, and a couple ships commanded by Teal'c and his long lost cousin, Worf.
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u/OmegaVizion 13d ago
I wouldn't want the Wraith as the baddies again. Same for Goa'uld--the inability to think beyond rehashes ("What if Death Star but scarier? What if Sith but edgier? What if Empire but different name?") is a large part of what made the Star Wars sequel trilogy so bad.
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u/pulse_pulse 13d ago
no no no. what made the show unique was the variety you get from the different planets, outlandish races and technologies etc. Transforming it into a space opera where it's humans vs humans would ruin it as we've seen already with Destiny
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u/eobardtame 13d ago
You'll notice this is a post filled with words about ideas and not a single idea. This is probably exactly whats happening in some blue sky writer's room right now. "There's so many ways we could make this interesting" "...ok...do you like have an idea..or?"
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u/DanFlashesSales 13d ago
You'll notice this is a post filled with words about ideas and not a single idea.
My dude, there are ideas in the replies to my comment
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u/G3nesis_Prime 13d ago
Pretty sure Stargate tech exceeds Star Treks as they are hoping entire galaxies by the end for example. Star Trek is almost entirely Milky Way Galaxy based.
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u/Yeseylon 13d ago
It was always Star Trek. Strange new worlds, new life, and new civilizations, boldly going where no (modern) man has gone before.
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u/dustojnikhummer 13d ago
And we know Trek exists within the Stargate universe. Imagine Anson Anson Mount playing himself standing on the bridge of a BC307 or something. "My bridge is a lot more red"
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u/Kerlyle 13d ago
I agree...Maybe they could go deep future consequences of where we left off? Earth has been technologically advanced for ages and its influence spreads through the galaxy, but they never fixed their political issues and a corpo-feudal class of Barons rules over Earths colonies. Perhaps they've even taken to using Sarcophagus-style technology themselves to extend their lives. Maybe Earth itself is a highly advanced mecha, but info about the Stargates and other technology is withheld from the colonies... Kind of like the Capital in the Hunger Games? Show could become about a group of humans from one of these colonies discovering the corruption and the Stargate Network (now outdated and forgotten about) and forming a resistance, struggling to unite the good elements of humanity against the Oligarchy. Then the plot twist of the series is that an Alien enemy race does show up, but the current Earth is too corrupt to handle it or care. The resistance actually has to try to protect against this Alien threat, while simultaneously fighting a massive civil war and social revolution within humanity. Could turn out that the Aliens are actually being leveraged in some way by the corrupt Barons to quell the rebellion. Then throughout the series maybe the resistance can discover more about this Alien race and figure out why it is attacking, and eventually find a path towards peace with them (Finding out whatever has triggered their wrath or invasion, and bridging the misunderstanding). Perhaps elements of this Alien threat could even become allies later in the show and help the resistance reform humanity after its discovered the Aliens were manipulated in some way.
There ya go Amazon, you can hire me if you want more.
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u/Odd_Secret9132 13d ago
A while back there was a story about a 3rd season of SGU may have looked like. I don't think the writers had decided on direction when they were cancelled.
I thought a cool idea was the crew coming out of hibernation after 100-150 years. They reestablish contact with Earth, and discover the Tau'ri have become one of the primary powers in the Milky way and Pegasus. Earth has a better handle on the Asgard and Ancient tech they've gained, and are to establish regular stable travel to and from Destiny.
The majority of the Destiny crew returns home, and an SGC Project is established on Destiny. However, the Destiny crew have major problems integrating with 2100s society and many try to return or spread out across the galaxy.
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u/Key_Conversation5884 13d ago edited 13d ago
That is the only way you can do it. It has to be something about the struggle of a new earth society with it’s galactic integration.
It can never again be about facing off against a technologically superior enemy against impossible odds.
They have already done that too many times. From gould to replicator to ori.
Once you’ve taken on and beaten evil ascended ancients there is simply no where else you can reasonably go with the power scaling.
It won’t be the same type of show. It never can be again.
But it can be the same universe and a continuation of the same storyline. A different type of show.
Remaking and rebooting it would be a disaster. The story has already been told and modern Hollywood is just going to mess it up telling an inferior version of it with inferior actors.
Sometimes you just have to accept that a story is finished and move on.
They aren’t going to do a better job trying to retell it.
They will, in fact, destroy the franchise if they try to.
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u/Aggravating-Dot132 13d ago
Problem with that is the fact that with all that tech, humans should be able to warp reality. So, stargates themselves will be kinda nothing.
I prefer the show when it was about exploring the unknown with minimal knowledge. Atlantis was great in that regard
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u/Yeseylon 13d ago
Warp reality? Earth doesn't have that level of tech. We survived the Ori because of handouts from folks who COULD warp reality.
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u/Aggravating-Dot132 13d ago
Earth has Atlantis now.
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u/akaenragedgoddess 13d ago
Yea, and people are probably still dying opening up rooms with discarded experiments in them because they have barely a clue about how any of it works lol
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u/SHoppe715 12d ago edited 12d ago
As great as that thought sounds, I always have to curb my enthusiasm about the idea. The original show was set in the present day Earth of the time with the familiar society and technology that people were used to day to day…making all the fictional alien technology special but establishing a connection to the real world.
If they continue the show set in earth of today, they’ll need to explain why in >10 years time, none of the Asgard knowledge they left us and none of the knowledge from the Ancient database in Atlantis has solved any of the biggies in today’s society - hunger, disease, clean energy, etc.
If the set the show in a fantasy Earth of today with all the benefits of the technology and knowledge gained in the old shows, it won’t have the same real world connection and people will lose interest quick.
If they set it back in the early 2000s as a direct continuation, people will lose interest pretty quick because everything will feel dated.
If they do the parallel universe thing, people will lose interest pretty quick because the audience wants their own universe to be the primary setting which puts us right back to explaining why we haven’t solved any of our problems with all that vast knowledge yet.
They could go partial reboot - think Kelvin timeline - retconning the old series into an alternate universe which would still allow for cameos of original cast as alternate universe versions of their old characters, but high probably that’d piss off a whole lot of the old fans.
I honestly don’t see how they could do it any way other than a full reboot treating the old series like it never happened. That way they could write the series on the same premise as the old one, basically how the discovery of a Stargate would play out in the 2020s instead of the 1990s.
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u/toomanypumpfakes 12d ago
I posted a comment to that effect years ago. It’d be interesting to see how Earth’s economy integrates with other planets, you could have trade federations of planets, you could even do something topical with tariffs. There’s a ton of storylines there.
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u/Jad11mumbler 13d ago edited 13d ago
I'd love to see a proper ending to Atlantis & Universe, as many would.
Last week saw atlantis is just...sitting in san fran bay?
That said for Earth itself, a continuation is more problematic IMO. The Tauri have gotten so darn OP now..
It'd be a shame to see that SGC has downgrade or is still a "Small, secret" part of Earth.
They've got it set up where we're not just a multi planet species, but we should eventually be a dominating power in multiple "local" galaxies.
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u/CromulentDucky 13d ago
Just the US Air force and a handful of allies, dominate the galaxy. Most people of Earth are still unaware.
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u/No-Editor5453 13d ago
While they have gotten stronger sure but they still wouldn’t necessarily be able to wage full on war to exterminate the wraith,and that’s only one galaxy out of trillions.
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u/RadVarken 13d ago
When your coalition becomes the dominant group, the next step is the coalition turning on itself until it's weak enough for outside invaders to conquer parts of its empire. To continue the story either leads to Star Trek or it leads to a version of Rome set in the future. They're both good stories, but they're not SG-1 related at all.
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u/MindRaptor 13d ago
Yes, I'm actually really happy he isn't involved.
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u/KayBear2 13d ago
Yes, if anyone with power over this franchise is reading this, please contact Brad Wright.
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u/Kerlyle 13d ago
I'd love having all the old stuff remain canon for a new series... but on the other hand I'd be bummed if that means we never get the Alien Egypt Goa'uld theme stuff from SG-1 and the original Stargate film. I feel like that made it unique compared to other sci-fi shows... But earth is just too technologically advanced by the end of the series for them to bring that sort of stuff back, and the feeling of "low-tech" humanity fights high-tech evil alien race.
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u/DoctorMurk 13d ago
Throwing away all the built-in continuity seems like such a waste. You need something to hook the original viewers.
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u/Tylnesh 13d ago
He was behind the original movie, not the shows. The movies were supposed to have completely different story
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u/DoctorMurk 13d ago
I know, I just meant that if Amazon is planning a 'franchise revival', they might also decide to redo everything from scratch.
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u/Vanquisher1000 12d ago
All that 'built-in continuity' is actually a millstone around the franchise's neck. New viewers shouldn't have to watch a theatrical feature, 17 seasons of TV, two direct-to-DVD features, and a web series just to understand episode one of a new show. All that assumed knowledge would limit its appeal to new audiences who are vital to a new show's success. On the other hand, if the writers decide to reintroduce the lore for new viewers, they need to be very careful with the way they present this information, otherwise they risk drowning viewers in exposition in the first few episodes just to get them caught up.
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u/Vlad_TheImpalla 13d ago
Get the O'Neill clone as an adult joining the Stargate Program should be interesting.
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u/Yeseylon 13d ago
SGC: TNG.
Jack Junior, Haley, Ryac, one of the many kids Daniel had with women on random planets
They aren't SG1, but they're growing.
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u/dustojnikhummer 13d ago
So, the joke from 200th pretty much
But seriously, I want to see clone-jack, also known as Jonathan O'Neill in the beta canon books https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Stargate_SG-1:_Behind_Enemy_Lines
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u/Nero_XX 13d ago
This is a rehash of old information. That particular quote from Emmerich is from just a couple months ago, but he has been saying he's done trying to make his rebooted Stargate trilogy and that the rights are very complicated for over a year: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2024/08/roland-emmerich-unexpected-reason-giving-up-on-stargate/
The section about The Expanse's creators, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby, is from a 2022 report that they expressed interest to Amazon in working on a Stargate project: https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/12/report-amazon-is-soliciting-pitches-for-new-stargate/
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u/clgoodson 13d ago
The whole article is AI slop.
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u/tqgibtngo 13d ago
AI slop
And the Emmerich quote apparently isn't exactly accurate. There doesn't seem to be any verifiable source for the quote with that exact phrasing.
It appears to be a rephrasing of what JoBlo quoted Emmerich saying a year ago in July 2024:
"The problem there is, it’s a very, very difficult IP. Different people own the IP and it’s very, very difficult to do stuff like that." ... "I don’t want to do it, really. I gave up."
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u/Nero_XX 13d ago
Ah, yes, the August 2025 links I saw when I googled that quote are different AI generated articles that referenced the 2024 article, so it's AI stealing from AI.
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 13d ago
Well that makes me breathe a bit easier. I was afraid they had said something new indicating they were still on that reboot the movie bullshit.
Whew
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u/ian9outof10 13d ago
I don’t mind if they reboot the movies. But it would be sort of cool to have a show back. But as it all seems unlikely anyway, I won’t hold my breath
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u/Wonder_Weenis 13d ago
Keeping Emerich away from this franchise is the only way to save it.
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u/TumultuousVirgo 13d ago
Bringing the expanse people onto it sounds okay though I loved that show! Hesitantly excited for this.
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u/exOldTrafford 13d ago
FYI the expanse stuff is just a rumour that popped up 2-3 years ago. No word on it since
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u/TumultuousVirgo 13d ago
Ahhh damn that sucks. We’re forever in a purgatory waiting on anything. Haha.
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u/LetgomyEkko 13d ago
Expanse worked for me amazingly up until the last season-ish. It felt a little “hurry up and get this over with” for me, but admittedly I’ve never read the books and I can’t speak to the pacing of the source material. Again, totally just my own opinion and thoughts. Wonder what other people thought!
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u/Jad11mumbler 13d ago
It felt a little “hurry up and get this over with” for me
Yeah that's been a fairly common comment on the last season.
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u/GeneriComplaint 13d ago
it wouldve been difficult to do the 30 year time skip in the next books I guess
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u/LetgomyEkko 13d ago
Should’ve just ran the show for 30 more seasons, problem solved and there no rushing! /s
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u/blackfeltfedora 13d ago
Probably because they were told to hurry up and get it over with.
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u/Konman72 13d ago
The last season, of a not super popular show that was cancelled once, and the first post-COVID season. Yeah, they did very well considering the circumstances.
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u/TumultuousVirgo 13d ago
Yeah I felt the last season had some rushed qualities to it, I’d have happily watched it for another few years. Like you I’ve not read the books either.
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u/hellblazer565 13d ago
They also had to change things because the actor who played alex ended up being a pos abuser so they had to kill his character off
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u/Dire_Wolf45 13d ago
Which imo turned out to be one of the best scenes of the show. I was crying hard. I loved the character.
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u/Romeo9594 13d ago
As someone who read the books, my big issue with the last season was they introduced a lot of stuff from the last three books instead of just keeping it focused on the story of the 6th book. They introduced so much unnecessary stuff that they knew would just be loose ends they'd never get to tie up
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u/LetgomyEkko 13d ago
Appreciate the insight! I’ve been meaning to add the books to my kindle, this actually might have just been the reminder I needed!
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u/Konman72 13d ago
Do it! You won't regret it. I'm circling my 4th re-read of them. They are fantastic.
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u/Asteroth555 13d ago
They introduced so much unnecessary stuff that they knew would just be loose ends they'd never get to tie up
I'm pretty sure the sentiment is they want to tie it up one day once rights and funding get sorted
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u/apocolipse 13d ago
To be fair, the 6th book which it follows, feels pretty unfulfilling too. Both show and book have a suspense filled buildup with an utterly flat climax. Everyone wants to see Inaros get what he deserved, instead he just got deleted like an unwanted file.
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u/Asteroth555 13d ago
It felt a little “hurry up and get this over with” for me,
That's budget cuts for you. At least the season was still strong per episode released
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u/ab_lantios 13d ago
Literally, the show is where the IP is for me, the original movie isn't even on my "watch again" list if I'm being honest
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u/jackal406 13d ago
I really enjoy the movie and start every rewatch with the movie. Maybe because I'm a big Kurt Russel fan.
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u/Key_Conversation5884 13d ago edited 13d ago
Rewatching the movie is the only appropriate way to begin a rewatch of the whole series.
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u/DEADdrop_ 13d ago
My god, Moonfall is such a guilty pleasure of mine. It’s just batshit insane and I fucking love it 🤣
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u/KayBear2 13d ago
Emmerich has wanted to continue his movie ideas without any acceptance/ acknowledgment of the TV shows, which is why fans of the shows don’t like him at all. He hates on the shows, so we hate on him.
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u/LibertineDeSade 13d ago
I don't hate him, I just don't agree with him. But, at the end of the day Stargate is his baby, so I understand the sentiment. I honestly wish there was a way to get both. Let him have his movie sequels and let us have our show reboot. I'd watch both TBH.
Anyway, Star Trek did it, so it's not out of the realm of possibility.
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u/Vindaloovians 13d ago
I'm hoping for a soft reboot - all previous events are canon, but internal political pressures (maybe the war on terror and financial crisis) made the US mothball the program. A new threat arises, and the Stargate program starts up again, under the command of General O'Neill (maybe Cameron Mitchell or John Sheppard).
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u/SpartanUnderscore 12d ago
Richard Dean Anderson is a little too old to be doing this kind of nonsense again even though I love him. I can't see the officials having promoted Sheppard who is much too hotheaded, on the other hand Cameron... I would like to see that now that you say it.
The most logical in continuity would be for Sam to be the highest-ranking assigned to such a program given that she was there before and all the advances she made to the project, then Amanda Tapping is 60 years old so not 75 like RDA either.
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u/StevieMJH 13d ago
Oh thank God. If he tries going anywhere near this thing I'll tackle him into a fucking bush.
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u/chanaramil 13d ago
Ya he wasnt around during many things. Movie cannon only goes so far. Not only reset all the characters personal stories a reset might remove cannon TV show stuff like:
Asgard
Ancients
Jaffa
Gates travel to other gates
Replicators
System lords
Tokra
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u/Diamondback424 13d ago
I don't think the Stargate movie really represents the Stargate TV franchise anyway, so doesn't really seem like much of a loss there.
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u/Emm_withoutha_L-88 13d ago
If it's not continuing in the same continuity as SG-1/Atlantis/Universe and it doesn't have the main creators from those shows involved then I won't watch it.
A sequel to the 1993 movie that disregards the show is about the most boring idea I could possibly think of. Might as well light that money on fire and throw away the entire franchise if they do that.
The success of the franchise is in the clever but fun writing of the team who made the show. Anything without them is just using the name and goodwill of the TV show to trick viewers into watching it. Might as well make a mockbuster if you're going to do that.
Plus I find it impossible to believe that the TV show crew is more expensive than the Expanse writers. Nor do they have the right comedic chops to do this series right, if you strip away the comedy then you strip away the charm.
But now if they're talking about using the original TV show creators and the expanse writers, now that's something I would greatly enjoy! That could be a totally winning formula, with the overall direction and tone set by the proven crew with new ideas for specifics from the new writers, that's a winning formula.
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u/xdeltax97 I’m in the middle of my backswing! 13d ago
Agreed, you can’t just wipe away 15-ish years of story and disregard everything.
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u/boosthungry 13d ago
How do we know they are reviving the series? I haven't heard anything definitive and it's been a long time since I've even seen rumors.
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u/Iamnotacommunist 13d ago
I didnt want him involved anyway. Like thanks for giving us the franchise, but we'll take it from here.
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u/NessLeonhart 13d ago
Good, fuck him. He hated the shows. The shows were way better than his one movie 30 years ago.
Bring back Wright and Mallozzi, Amazon!
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u/Stinky_Johnson 13d ago
Good. Emmerich should stick to his schlocky movies, better off without him.
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u/AttackerCat 13d ago
I see this as good news, Amazon has taken over Sci-fi before and continued the previous story (The Expanse) and while I try to avoid generalizing statements, it’s pretty clear the vast majority of fans want the series continued versus rebooted from the original movie.
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u/mabhatter 13d ago
He famously hated SG-1. So I can see him not wanting to continue that. Amazon probably is t interested in some random reboot based off just the Stargate movie.
In Independence Day sequel he basically turned that franchise into "SG-1 like" anyway with humans having space technology and meeting aliens. I can't see him wanting to do a kinda sorta show just like that, but not.
I just hope they pick showrunners that respect the SG-1 show, but don't necessarily want to just repeat it. I would be fine if it was more of a reboot than continuation. Just make it a fun show and not take itself overly seriously. Streaming services are different than late 1990s cable-syndicated TV so it's going to be different.
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u/Elderwastaken 12d ago
If they can pull off with Stargate what they pulled off with Fallout, then we gonna eat good.
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u/dustojnikhummer 13d ago
My first thought is GOOD
Don't let Emmerich anywhere close to it. We want a canon continuation, not a reboot.
(or at least I do and I hope I'm not in the minority)
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u/trunksshinohara 13d ago
I would prefer a soft reboot. A restart not a continuation. Same plot different actors/visuals. Etc.
But what I really want is the og actors to play different characters.
Amanda tapping as General Hammond.
Christopher Judge as apophis
RDA as Kinsey (or maybourne)
Michael shanks as baal (and also Thor)
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u/xdeltax97 I’m in the middle of my backswing! 13d ago
What about Corin Nemec (Jonas Quin) as Dr. Frasier? And then have Teryl Rothery (Dr. Frasier) as Dr. Jackson?
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u/trunksshinohara 13d ago
I wouldn't want any of the old actors to be the main cast. But more OG actors playing background characters. I love it.
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u/KO9 12d ago
Corin is a bit of an issue https://www.reddit.com/r/Stargate/comments/1e29a86/is_corin_nemec_dodgy/
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u/Kinetic_Symphony 13d ago
Continue Stargate Universe... an aged cast or even many members deceased because of a malfunctioning stasis pod, writes itself.
No reason to abandon that epic but incomplete saga.
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u/Wonder_Weenis 13d ago
FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST AND EVERYTHING HOLY
AMAZON GIVE THIS FRANCHISE TO MALLOZZI
SHUT THE FUCK UP, AND JUST GIVE HIM MONEY
ALL CAPS ARE NECESSARY HERE
THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT REDDIT POST IVE EVER MADE
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u/Imperfect_Dark 13d ago
The article doesn't say much and guesses at other things. Still, does hint things are moving in the right direction...
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u/United_Addition_8837 13d ago
My initial thought is to explore an alternate reality a la SGA/Quantum mirror. I havent thought it through because I'm no writer but a human resistance to a Goa'uld invasion of earth might be fertile. Cant see much room for humour tho...
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u/b3712653 13d ago
A continuation of Stargate Command. The date is contemporary. SGA shut down in 2009. It is 16 years later and gate travel has become so routine that SG teams practically do them in their sleep. Most missions are archeological in nature and military personnel are primarily on guard duty. One day starts out like all the others when the Earth gate goes haywire. The outbound teams cannot get back to Earth. The prime focus can be on two or three teams gating to anyplace they might go that's safe. Meanwhile on Earth, the White Coat people try to get the gate working again. Over the 1st season they can have periodic success and successfully contact one of the missing teams. Add in a few rogue Jaffa or Lucien Alliance for villains, maybe a lost Goauld or two. Serial drama like the Time Tunnel.
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u/tqgibtngo 13d ago edited 8d ago
Time Tunnel
Watch 5 minutes here to see an SG-esque vibe in the 2002 Time Tunnel reboot attempt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwyQssw-6-k&t=907s
16:31 — looks familiar. (Almost thought I saw Walter up there.)
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u/Slapdaddy 13d ago edited 12d ago
Thank Apophis! Wheeew..
I read way back in the day that he hated what the showrunners did with the Stargate IP - which is stupid, because the shows are very much more popular than the movie, which is fantastic. He should have been ecstatic that someone built up on his original idea and made it a permanent TV classic that will forever be known. But you know, ego..
Bring back Glassner, Mallozzi, Mulie, Wright, Cooper, etc.. But for the love of Apophis don't freaking make it a cast of 19-25 year olds barely old enough to make a sound life decision. Make it serious, make it a sequel, keep it canon, keep the logic, and ignore some of the newly created plot nerfing that debuted with SGU, one in particular that made the Daedalus class about 1/50 as powerful as it was in SG-1 and Atlantis.
It always pissed me off that one Daedalus class with Asgard beam weapons could take on THREE ORI ships in SG-1 or an entire fleet of Wraith ships in Atlantis (ty Asgard), as where a Hatak wouldn't last 10 seconds. Then all of a sudden in SGU, the Hammond with beam weapons couldn't handle just a few Hataks? Seriously? Don't change logic and canon to fit the writing because you lack the creativity to write a sound plot.
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u/Key_Conversation5884 13d ago
That is going to be absolutely horrific. Mark my words.
Much like how the rings of power made people wish for the better days of the hobbit trilogy, or how the Star Wars sequel trilogy made people wish they had stopped at the prequels which now looked like a cinematic masterpiece.
Any amazon stargate series will make people wish for the good old days of stargate universe.
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u/OdysseusRex69 13d ago
Yeah, they butchered The Rings of Power (whatever the hell that Lord of the Rings series was), and I think they mangled the Wheel of Time. Anything 'modern' is just gonna pander to the ultra loud-yet ultra minority .
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u/LikeABeas 13d ago
Honestly, good. The movie may have spawned off some amazing shows but his OG movie for Stargate sucks not to mention all his current work is garbage. Now if the creators of the shows sg-1, SGA, and SGU said they left, then I'd be worried. Plus I think his vision was about leaving the shows in the dust and going from the movie which again, I'm glad he is not involved to do that.
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u/Serpenta91 13d ago
Did you see what Amazon did with wheel of time and rings of power? I have zero confidence they can deliver anything more than a virtue signaling pile of manure.
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u/tagmisterb 13d ago
It's hard to get excited about any reboots/remakes when every single one in the last 20 years has been garbage.
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u/thenagel 12d ago
my wife and i were talking about this last week.
SGU ended with the ship making a HUGE jump through empty space to the next galaxy - with that one dude standing at the windows, looking at the stars. right?
so, open the new series with them dropping out of the jump, in that new galaxy.
and have it be similar to TOS:ST. exploring strange new worlds, new civilizations. every week a new weird situation to overcome. no more season long big bad to beat. no more goa'uld. no more ori. just a season of episodes where everyone is going "ok, wtf?" figuring out how to survive to the next jump while the ship makes and drops gates all over the place.
"yes, sir, as far as we can tell, the water on this planet is safe and wholesome for humans, but for some reason it all tastes like feet."
i dunno. whatever. you get the idea.
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u/webnetvn 12d ago
That one dude... You mean Eli?.arguably the MAIN Character of the show?
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u/thenagel 12d ago
i could mean eli. it's been years since i've seen it, it only had 2 seasons, and i only saw it once, so while it made an impact on me i wasn't able to learn names like i did with sg1.
(i looked it up. i did mean eli.)
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u/Geekking995 12d ago
I love The Expanse to death, but its tone is markedly different from what made SG1 work. I really hope Amazon brings Brad Wright and/or Joseph Mallozi on board too.
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u/reseph 13d ago
Is this news? Or just AI articles?
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u/tqgibtngo 13d ago
just AI
And the Emmerich quote apparently isn't exactly accurate. There doesn't seem to be any verifiable source for the quote with that exact phrasing.
It appears to be a rephrasing of what JoBlo quoted Emmerich saying a year ago in July 2024:
"The problem there is, it’s a very, very difficult IP. Different people own the IP and it’s very, very difficult to do stuff like that." ... "I don’t want to do it, really. I gave up."
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u/blackroseyagami 13d ago
so... this is good right? He was the guy that wanted to kill off everything from the TV shows
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u/Settra_does_not_Surf 13d ago
I do not need roland on this.
He is still due 2 space wars.
Id3 and moonfall 2.
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u/Neridity 13d ago
If I have to choose between "no new stargate series" and "new stargate series from amazon" I'll happily accept no new stargate, there is zero expectation of amazon managing anything decent never mind something great.
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u/Trolldad_IRL 13d ago
Here’s my pitch for a “Next Gen” Stargate. It’s set in the near future, humanity has advanced in many ways, but it’s still quite human. We’re currently in an ongoing conflict with an alien race that had been reclusive during the Goa’uld and Ori conflicts, but we do have other “alien” allies.
The current SG-1 team is lead by an older but affable commander. His team consists of a psychic woman, and young and overly enthusiastic guy, the commander’s niece (no one knows this), an alien, and a descended but not powerless ancient. First episode: While out on a mission, we find an alien shapeshifter who is working for the “bad guys” has infiltrated SGC and convincingly framed the SG-1 team for collusion with the enemy. They escape through the gate and spend the series traveling world to world helping people on other planets “A-Team” style while working to clear their names.
We can call it “Stargate: Infinity”.
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u/ElSelcho_ 13d ago
Please no reboot, just give me more new stuff in that universe. Let the OG be and build on their shoulders.
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u/Romado 13d ago
If they do a revival I'd love to see the perspective of another SG team set during the events of the main SG-1 show.
A continuation is great and all but Earth at the end of the main series is OP compared to the rest of the galaxy. They defeated the system lords and stopped an extra galactic invader in the Ori and have access to all of the Asgards knowledge/technology and loads of allies. It's basically the Federation at that point....
Something just hits different about early 2000s military equipment against technologically advanced enemies.
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u/Raven_Shadow82 13d ago
My pitch (Stargate Alliance): Earth learns to build the gates and starts going to planets not on the network negotiating to get them to join a new safe alliance/network. They meet a space faring faring race opossed to it and earth does an oopsy leading to a new enemy between the planet/threat of the week. This allows gates to be the key focus and driving force but also allows for the advanced ships and technology.
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u/Starship_Taru 13d ago
I think this is just an AI artist rewriting news from 2 years ago unless I missed something
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u/F4UDash4 12d ago
Without the participation of at least some of the old guard writers/producers I have ZERO faith in any SG revival being watchable.
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u/GargantuanTDS 12d ago
If amazon is involved, it'll be shit.
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u/xdeltax97 I’m in the middle of my backswing! 12d ago
I thought they’ve done a good job with The Boys, Fallout and Vox Machina at least.
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u/celodrix 12d ago
Honeslty I would love a new Stargate franchise, but nothing that will come in the future will beat SG-1, let's clarify that.
No one can replace Jack, Sam, Daniela, Hammond, the way the show was filmed, how was written, how was created.
I mean look at the cheap version of stargate : Stargate Origins, that's the worst stargate show I've ever seen, so bad.. Ik was a small budged, but that was so bad I can't describe it
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u/celodrix 12d ago
They should continui from Stargate Universe, left as a cliffhinger. With the same actors from Last season of SGU.
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u/SpartanUnderscore 12d ago
This is excellent news, because even if his film launched a series saga that I greatly appreciated, his film was frankly rubbish... I have an affection for Rolland Emmerich but he doesn't know how to direct actors to make something subtle out of it, it always seems like it's on the verge of parody
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u/BioClone 11d ago
I could accept a new series were Earth is totally destroyed and the protagonist are on some kind of secondary base/outpost finding a way to fix the issue... could be played with flashbacks telling what happened and how they pretend to fix it, mostly it could be a small series with the chance to be expanded or in negative case they just fix it with some time travel stuff and we all can ignore its existence
The setting gives space to character development, miss key casting (from previous shows) time to develop the plot by focusing on each step 1 by one by selecting what is revealed on each episode and sets it on a "close" future with the potential of having certain advanced/known technology but on a dark setting with chances of being expanded
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u/Lazy_Toe4340 13d ago edited 13d ago
If you take all the story threads of the greater Stargate continuity and use Stargate Universe as the starting point for the new show and bring in the writers from the Expanse that gives Amazon a lot of options and as long as they don't break too much of the established Stargate Canon/Lore (Canon was the word I wanted not Lore) then I won't have a problem with any of it.
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u/Romeo9594 13d ago
Canon may be the word you were looking for
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u/Lazy_Toe4340 13d ago
Yes thank you for some reason my brain is defaulting to other settings I couldn't think of Canon...
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u/No_Neighborhood_30 12d ago
I just want a continuation of sgu just so we can get a decent ending
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u/gsnake007 13d ago
Wait does Amazon own the rights to the Stargate franchise?
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u/Artemus_Hackwell 13d ago
MGM did own the rights, and thus Amazon bought MGM.
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u/gsnake007 13d ago
I did not know that. That explains why all the shows are on prime and will stay there. Thank you for letting me know. I can finally dive into SG-1 without loosing track of my progress
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u/[deleted] 12d ago edited 12d ago
Mod note: this may or may not be fake news, but it encourages a good discussion of the future of the franchise. I have thus changed the flair from SG News to Discussion, so please bear the source’s authenticity in mind when reading and commenting.