Stargate fans have been living in uncertainty for nine years what exactly does MGM plan to do
with 17 years of Stargate history and a restless fanbase eager for something anything to happen
with their favorite science fiction franchise the sudden cancellation of Stargate Universe mid-story
in 2011 left fans wandering aimlessly for years while a wishy-washy MGM has been everywhere from
let's make new Stargate to hello are you guys still alive so it should come as no surprise
that some fans of the show have grown tired of waiting and have decided to take matters
into their own hands a massive fan based tweet event called Stargate SuperDrive that will push
for a fourth Stargate series is about to launch and you can be a part of it it was created by
a fan but not just any fan the upcoming tweet storm was organized by none other than Joseph
malossi a writer and executive producer on all three original Stargate series and most
recently known for creating the amazing dark matter TV series according to malossi Stargate
SuperDrive will hopefully be that final push to get a new Brad Wright Stargate series greenlit
by MGM make sure you stay tuned until the end of the video to watch our stargate SuperDrive
trailer and get pumped up about how you can be part of this rare event millat see and others
participating in this online shout didn't come to this place lightly like many Stargate fans stuck
in MGM's deadlights millat c was dealing with his own inner horror with the franchise being
in a constant state of limbo he explained that after years of waiting he grew as impatient as
most Stargate fans for a new series he knew he needed to get MGM's attention and he had a plan
on how to do it but let's get back to that plan in a moment how did we get here how did one of
the most successful television science-fiction franchises of all time end up in what seems like
an eternal purgatory stargate sg1 was once listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as being
the longest-running continuous science fiction TV series running for 10 years before the title
was taken away by Smallville in 2011 Stargate Atlantis was hugely popular and many felt it
had been prematurely cancelled and replaced by Stargate Universe but the whole franchise came
to a grinding halt when MGM filed bankruptcy and Stargate on television entered the Dark Ages there
are two videos that do a deep dive into why all this happened and there will be links to those
at the end of this video if you want to learn more the point is that Stargate is a success
story for MGM and there was no reason for fans to believe the studio wouldn't get back on the
Stargate horse when times were better but during an interview with gate world in 2011
Alaina Huffman who played tomorrow Johansson in Stargate Universe explained that Brad Wright had
tried very hard to put a movie together but MGM post-bankruptcy was not interested in funding a
Stargate movie that continued the TV series this apathy toward the Stargate television series was
confirmed during a variety interview in 2016 with Jonathan Glickman the president of MGM's motion
picture group during the interview he recalled that when he ascended to his position in 2011
the Stargate property had been dormant and for a black of a better term had played itself out
at that moment the message was loud and clear MGM didn't have any plans for more Stargate on
television but no studio in their right mind is going to sit on a money maker right so in 2014
fans hopes soared when MGM announced that they were rebooting the original Stargate movie with
a plan to do multiple films unfortunately these movies would not be based on the more than 340
hours of Brad Wright created Stargate television but instead take the story in a new direction
based on the 2-hour movie from 1994 what fans of the television series were disappointed but maybe
it was possible that new movies could also ignite the flame of a new Stargate TV series
it's probably a good thing we didn't find out a successful new movie franchise would likely take
its premise to television and the Brad Wright vision of Stargate would have likely been lost
forever so in 2016 the gods of canon spoke and the rebooted movies were killed with fingers pointing
at the studio as being more concerned over cost than quality despite the setbacks fans of a new
Brad Wright backed Stargate series could hope once again surely MGM would go back to television now
that the new movies were dead fans would only have to wait six months during comic-con San Diego 2017
Stargate fans got the news they had been waiting for it was announced that Stargate origins was
coming to a new Stargate command subscription service the new series described as webisodes
would essentially be a 10 episode feature-length movie broken into 10 episodes of 10 minutes it
wasn't a Brad Wright show but it was new Stargate and it was planning to take us back to a time
before Colonel Jack O'Neill and dr. Daniel Jackson came into the picture in 2018 the world war ii era
stargate origins was launched with mixed reviews but fans were eager for more stories but for some
reason following the release of origins MGM started running silent the Stargate command
streaming service was up and running and offered a one-stop shop for the fandom it felt like a new
start for the franchise not wanting to miss out on this opportunity Malati organized his first
massive tweet storm on March 9th 2018 the goal for that event called Stargate now was to send a
message to MGM that fans want a fourth Stargate series by creator Brad Wright participation in
the Twitter storm was overwhelming armed with the hashtag Stargate rising at MGM Studios more than
100,000 tweets were sent and it trended number one in Canada France and the United Kingdom
number two in the United States and number seven world Amandla tapping Michael Shanks christopher
Judge Robert Picardo and david hewlett were only a few of the dozens of stargate alums to join the
twitter storm it was a transcendent moment for the fandom with everyone coming together in one
voice across the globe and when the dust settled surely that would be enough to convince MGM that
stargate fans weren't done with the franchise surely MGM would respond with have no fear
stargate will continue with Brad Wright at the helm at the very least they'll say we hear you
loud and clear but there was nothing if they saw Stargate trending worldwide on Twitter they were
staying quiet about it as the months went by stargate origins was looking like a one-trick
pony and stargate rising had peaked and was fading into the past then unexpectedly 10 months later
in January 2019 Brad Wright told Newark so the hub podcast that he has been in contact with MGM
about the Stargate brand the man who had fathered Stargate in every iteration of the TV show until
the cancellation in 2011 was back in the picture Wright said that MGM realizes Stargate is a
genuine franchise and they are taking it seriously he said fans shouldn't expect a full-fledged new
TV series anytime soon but MGM seemed open to conversations and was receptive of his wish to
honor the hundreds of hours of world-building and television that had already been created Wright's
message to fans was that Stargate is an important part of the MGM library and they're working on it
it would seem that malossi and the Stargate fandom had indeed been heard by MGM then in
May Richard Dean Anderson told gate world that he hoped the series would return and that he was
interested in being a part of it while nothing is certain especially after the closure of the
Stargate command streaming service palazzi is convinced that the franchise is so valuable to
MGM that it is only a matter of time before they announce a new series and with MGM smack dab in
the middle of the streaming wars with epics now a fourth Stargate series makes so much sense
the current mega tweet storm Stargate SuperDrive is planned for Friday December 6 and starts at 9
p.m. Eastern and 6 p.m. Pacific Malati feels now is the right time for MGM to be reminded that
the fandom is out here and ready to support a new series with Brad right back at the helm he knows
right can craft a series that new viewers will enjoy while still paying tribute to everything
that's come before dear MGM this is a win win pull the trigger sincerely the Stargate fandom if you
were a Stargate fan and you want a fourth Stargate series dust off your Twitter accounts or make a
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