Amazon kills plans for Stargate series reboot

Key points

• Amazon's fledgling Stargate series, announced last November, has been canceled, Variety reported.
• The new show was met with enthusiasm by franchise fans and would have been helmed by Martin Gero, who worked on Stargate: Atlantis back in the early 2000s.
• However, Amazon execs were said to be worried that the new series would only appeal to hardcore Stargate fans and lacked broad appeal beyond that.
• Amazon has elected not to move forward with the new Stargate seeries," said executive producer Joseph Mallozzi on X.
• "As of today, officially, that original vision is no more.