#WeWantStargate Movement Gets Support From Former Stars, Showrunner
by Chad DentonA Twitter campaign seeking to revive the dormant Stargate franchise has won support from series veterans Jewel Staite and Michael Shanks. Joseph Mallozzi -- a former showrunner of all three Stargate TV series, Stargate: SG-1, Stargate: Atlantis, and Stargate Universe -- fired off the campaign with the hashtag #WeWantStargate.
Mallozzi, who was also the co-creator of Syfy's Dark Matter and is currently the showrunner of the upcoming Utopia Falls, is working to organize a fan campaign called Stargate Superdrive to grab the attention of the IP's current owner, MGM, and convince it to greenlight a new series.
The last Stargate TV series, Stargate Universe, aired on Syfy from 2009-2011, but was canceled before a proper conclusion of the show's storylines could make it to the screen. Reports of a new film trilogy then began circulating as late as 2015, but those plans were ultimately shelved. So, apart from a 2018 prequel web series Stargate Origins, several video games and graphic novels published by American Mythology Productions, the Stargate universe has remained in stasis for eight years.
On Stargate: Atlantis, Staite played a member of the villainous alien species the Wraiths, and later, the protagonist Dr. Jennifer Keller. Shanks portrayed Dr. Daniel Jackson in both Stargate: SG-1 and Stargate Universe, a protagonist who originated in the 1994 film that kicked off the entire franchise and was initially played by James Spader.
#WeWantStargate became a top trending hashtag. It remains to be seen if it will provoke a response from MGM.
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