The Save Stargate campaign just put a plane in the sky over Amazon.
On Tuesday, June 16, the fan-funded #SaveStargate banner plane took to the air over Amazon MGM Studios in Culver City, California, fulfilling a grassroots protest months in the making — and fans on the ground captured the moment as the banner passed over the iconic Culver Studios arch.
“It’s there!!!! The #SaveStargate plane over @AmazonMGMStudio @PrimeVideo studio. @JeffBezos PLEASE LISTEN TO THE FANS!!! We want @martingero @BaronDestructo Stargate show reinstated,” one fan posted alongside a photo of the plane in flight.
The aerial banner, funded through a fan GoFundMe campaign, flew during a window of 11 AM to 1 PM Pacific, towing the #SaveStargate message directly over the studio responsible for canceling Martin Gero’s Stargate series.
Fans had gathered on the ground in Culver City to watch and document the flight, with organizers timing a coordinated tweet storm to coincide with the plane going up.
The push appeared to gain real traction online as it unfolded. A fan-run livestream of the flyover — billed as a #SaveStargate “LIVE Flyover at Amazon MGM Studios” — drew what one fan account reported as more than 92,000 viewers as the event played out.
The Cast Showed Up Too
The flyover landed in the middle of a day of heavy cast activity, as Stargate actors across multiple series amplified the campaign in real time.
Robert Patrick — Colonel Marshall Sumner in the Stargate Atlantis pilot — had pledged to join the tweet storm and spent the day posting in support, sharing a vintage Atlantis cast image and urging fans to sign the petition.
Rachel Luttrell, who played Teyla Emmagan across all five seasons of Atlantis, dug out behind-the-scenes photos from the archives to mark the occasion: “Hello Stargate universe! Sharing photos I dug out yesterday, from the archives. BTS Stargate Atlantis … all attitude. #SaveStargate.”
And Christopher Judge, who played Teal’c across all 10 seasons of SG-1, added his voice with a simple post as the flyover unfolded: “#SaveStargate Indeed!”
It’s the latest sign of how thoroughly the franchise’s own talent has lined up behind the fan effort, with actors from SG-1, Atlantis, and Universe now organizing alongside the fanbase rather than from a distance.
Mallozzi Keeps Hammering the Point
Longtime franchise producer Joe Mallozzi, who has been the campaign’s most consistent voice, marked the day by sharing an outside analysis arguing that Amazon is sitting on an underused asset. He highlighted the line: “The lesson Amazon’s own catalogue teaches is: legacy genre IP, taken seriously, is a youth-acquisition machine.”
It’s a continuation of the argument Mallozzi has been making throughout — that executives underestimate fans and misread the data, dismissing exactly the kind of organized, motivated audience that just funded a plane to fly over their headquarters.
A Campaign That Refuses to Fade
The flyover caps weeks of escalating fan pressure that shows no sign of letting up. The main “Save Stargate with Martin Gero” petition has surpassed 85,000 signatures, the GoFundMe cleared its funding goal to put the banner in the air, and the #SaveStargate hashtag has repeatedly trended as fans coordinate their efforts across time zones.
As we reported, Amazon canceled Gero’s series despite a completed 20-week writers room and pre-production already underway in the UK, with filming set for the fall — a decision widely tied to the studio’s executive shakeup. Amazon MGM Studios still hasn’t publicly addressed the fan revolt, the petitions, or the flyover.
For now, the fans have made their message impossible to miss — they’ve literally written it across the sky above Amazon’s own lot. Whether anyone inside the building is looking up remains the open question.
Cosmic Book News will continue to update on the Save Stargate campaign as it develops.
