WandaVision creator will be the latest to try to reopen the Stargate

Nevertheless, if mind-spinning and audience-friendly sci-fi is what Amazon is looking for, Schaeffer would be a great get. WandaVision remains one of the few examples of Marvel’s expansive storytelling connecting with Disney+ subscribers. The series inspired the well-liked spin-off, Agatha All Along, and the upcoming VisionQuest, which, we should note, Schaeffer did not work on. 

Since the film’s release, Stargate has mostly been relegated to a cult following on Saturday afternoon television. However, that was enough to give former MacGyver Richard Dean Anderson a job for 10 seasons on Stargate SG-1. The series inspired two more spin-offs, Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe, as well as an animated series, Stargate Infinity, and a webseries, Stargate Origins. It also has a passionate fanbase, which did what most passionate fandoms do when an unmade series gets canceled before anyone’s had a look at it: They launched a campaign to revive it, complete with 100,000 signatures on a Change.org petition, billboards, banner-carrying planes, and a rally in Culver City, California, earlier this year.

“We hope Amazon MGM hears us and realizes that current fans are the best free advertising they could ever ask for,” said SaveStargate movement founder James Kerfoot ahead of a New York City rally. “Times Square is just the next stop, not the last one. We’re not going away anytime soon.”