Amazon’s Stargate Reboot Officially Revived With Major MCU Creator

©MGM Television/Courtesy: Everett Collection Published Oct 9, 2026, 3:33 PM EDT Felipe Rangel is a Movie and TV Journalist ScreenRant. He has been writing about movies and TV since 2021. Felipe joined ScreenRant in 2022, working across different teams, covering everything from breaking news to features to reviews and more. Felipe is a writer who is an avid film and TV fan, with superhero movies and series being his biggest passion. He graduated from college in 2019, having studied Journalism. Before college, he spent a month studying at the Oxford English Centre. His superhero knowledge expands to the comics, with his undergraduate thesis being "Politics Reflected In American Comics." Sign in to your ScreenRant account This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available.Stargate is opening up another portal. The iconic sci-fi franchise started with a movie, 1994's Stargate, which was directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich. After Stargate grossed $196.6 million in theaters worldwide, the sci-fi franchise was brought back on the small screen. There have been many Stargate TV shows through the years, starting with 1997's Stargate SG-1, which ran for a whopping 10 seasons, concluding in 2007, and featured actors like Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Michael Shanks, and many more. In November 2025, Amazon MGM Studios announced that a new Stargate series was in development. However, this June, the project was scrapped, but it has been revived. According to Variety, a new Stargate series is in the works at Amazon MGM Studios with WandaVision's Jac Schaeffer leading the project. Schaeffer has an overall deal with the studio and will executive produce the show alongside Joby Harold and Tory Tunnell for Safehouse Pictures. This is Amazon's second attempt at resurrecting the Stargate franchise, as an earlier attempt with Martin Gero as showrunner, who was involved with Stargate SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, and Stargate Universe, failed to grain traction. Reasons for the cancellation came from multiple reports, ranging from Amazon's fear of the show not reaching a broader audience to leadership changes. Developing...