More Details on Stargate: Extinction

The franchise might be dead but hope springs eternal for more adventures with the Stargate: Atlantis team, and executive producer Joseph Mallozzi has some ideas for Stargate: Extinction.

The gang over at Gateworld found Mallozzi musing over the next adventure of the Atlantis team in a project called Stargate: Extinction, and the premise sounds so good that I hope somebody picks it up and runs with it.

According to Mallozzi, Extinction would open up with Atlantis relocating from the San Francisco Bay to the far side of the moon, but it would soon be discovered that the Ancients programmed the city to self-destruct if it was ever taken out of the Pegasus Galaxy. This knowledge would prompt the assembly of the old team in an effort to return Atlantis home.

“It’s time to get the band back together,” Mallozzi shared, “and we check in with our various team members as they are called up and beamed away for the return journey: Teyla and her family, Keller, Beckett, Lorne, Zelenka and, of course, Sheppard and Ronon who are plucked away while receiving treatment at a local hospital following a barroom brawl (we went back and incorporated the scar actor Jason Momoa received following an incident near his L.A. home). Once everyone has assembled, McKay gives them the 411. Given the time constraints they face, they have to get back to Pegasus as quickly as possible — meaning they’ll have to use the wormhole drive again. Zelenka calculates that two jumps should do it.”

Of course, this is the world of Stargate, and nothing is ever that easy. The wormhole drive burns out after the first jump, and a search for help leads the team into a “wild time-travel themed adventure,” where it’s discovered that Todd the Wraith is “simultaneously, their hugest threat and biggest ally.”

Stargate: Extinction was announced by MGM and Syfy Channel in 2008, but MGM’s bankruptcy issues and the demise of Stargate: Universe saw Extinction put on the shelf and all but forgotten.

While fans beg for more Stargate adventures that could take place in movie, novel, or comic book form, MGM continues to remain silent on the subject.

Does anyone else think that Stargate: Extinction sounds like an awesome idea? Come on, MGM, wake up and realize the audience is still here. Give us what we want. If nothing else, think of it as a vehicle for Jason Momoa, who’s becoming quite the big name with projects like Game of Thrones and the upcoming Conan the Barbarian.