Interestingly enough, original SG-1 co-creator Brad Wright has teased work on a script for a revival of the old series, which would bring back fan favorite characters and tee up a new adventure. So I would like some form of continuation.” I like the original film a lot, but I fell in love with this franchise through the characters and the world building of the TV series. “I’m an optimist, so I continue to have high hopes that the Amazon deal will finally break the logjam and get a new series into production. Or at least signal that they are thinking about it,” Sumner said. With the amount of entertainment being produced today, and the number of classic series and franchises being resurrected, it’s actually getting a bit ridiculous that the studio hasn’t pulled the trigger on anything new yet. “ Stargate’s fan base has been exceptionally patient in waiting for word of a new production. ![]() The resilient presence of Sumner’s popular fan site is proof that there are still plenty of fans out there jonesing for fresh content-he just hopes any future revival won’t toss the old continuity out the window. Stargate is owned by MGM, which was recently acquired by Amazon, and fans are hopeful that means the streaming service has some type of plan to bring the franchise back for some long-awaited new adventures. Aside from a web series, the franchise has been dormant for the better part of a decade, while Star Trek is building an entire universe of spinoffs on Paramount+, and Star Wars has taken over Disney+ with original projects, most recently the acclaimed Rogue One-spinoff Andor. There’s also the fact that, despite all the success of the recent past, the Stargate franchise has largely been left for dead the past several years. SG-1 and Atlantis are told in a weekly episodic fashion, but without that dreaded ‘reset button.’ So long-time viewers were continually rewarded by characters, ideas, and plot points coming back around… sometimes years later.” I love the franchise because Stargate built a mythology where past events really matter. “These are also shows with big ideas, and writers that respect the audience. Whether it’s Jack’s courage and his subversive humor, Daniel’s moral integrity, Sam’s brilliance, or Teal’c’s deep desire for freedom, every member of the team was in some sense the kind of people all of us aspire to be,” Sumner opined. “The characters are easy to relate to because they are us. The other big difference between Stargate and those other sci-fi franchises? Where Trek and Wars are set in the far-flung future, or galaxies far, far away, Stargate is set in the present day, with no lightsabers or starships (well, at least not until later seasons) to make it seem too fantastical. “ Stargate had a moderately successful film in the 1990s, premiered on a pay cable channel in 1997, and by the time it had mass accessibility (through syndication and Sci-Fi Channel in the U.S.) the entertainment landscape was pretty crowded.” Star Wars was a mega hit from 1977,” Sumner told Paste. There were only three television networks when Star Trek premiered then it got a series of high-profile feature films. ![]() “I’d attribute much of that to the era when it entered the cultural zeitgeist. Sumner believes the gap simply comes down to timing. We asked Darren Sumner, founder of the popular GateWorld fan site, as he has helped build and grow the fan community around the franchise since 1999. It all started with a lightly-heralded 1994 sci-fi flick about a weird Egyptian artifact that’gla s really a portal to another planet, and evolved to include multiple television shows (most notably the long-running Stargate SG-1), multiple films, a web series, and even a short-lived streaming service (yes, really)-all built around the simple pitch of modern-day heroes exploring exciting, alien worlds.īut despite running for more than 350 hours of television with SG-1, and spinoffs Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, and those series airing in more than 100 countries and reaching as many as 17 million viewers per week at its peak, Stargate still isn’t spoken in the same breath as the other big “Stars” franchises. But there’s another “Star” franchise that’s been around for decades and has told as many, or more, stories than those other two combined: Sure, Star Trek and Star Wars are arguably the first properties that come to mind. We’ll give you a hint: it starts with “Star.” No, not that one. ![]() Let’s talk about one of the biggest sci-fi franchises in the world.
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