Watch: Stargate Atlantis' Jason Momoa and Joe Flanigan Have Surprise Reunion - and a Few Drinks

With Jason Momoa now a bona fide movie star showing up in blockbusters like Fast Xand emAquaman/em, it’s easy to forget one of his breakout roles came right here on strongSYFY/strong in the original series a data-entity-href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/stargate" data-entity-title="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/stargate" href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/stargate" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emStargate Atlantis/em/a — and it turns out he’s still pals with some of his old co-stars from the Pegasus Galaxy./p pMomoa played the alien Ronon Dex in emAtlantis/em, joining the series as a regular in Season 2 and sticking around for the rest of the show’s five-season run. He played a gruff warrior on the run, who finds a new home with the Atlantis crew. His best pal in emAtlantis/em was easily a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/stargate-atlantis-joe-flanigan-remembers-sadistic-moment-shooting-syfy-series" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"Joe Flanigan/a’s John Sheppard, who recruited Ronon onto his team and fought to make him a part of the expedition./p pWe haven’t seen much of the pair together since the show ended in 2009, but all that changes in the most unlikely of ways: the pair teamed up for a Guinness beer commercial, with Momoa going on the run to catch up with Flanigan at a bar for a drink./p pstrongFor More onemStargate:/em/strongbra href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/why-rodney-mckay-wasnt-originally-supposed-to-be-on-stargate-atlantis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"strongMorlocks: When Stargate Fan Faves David Hewlett Robert Picardo Starred in Time-Bending Horror Flickbr The Abandoned Stargate Movie That Would’ve Combined Atlantis, SG-1 Universebr Rodney McKay Wasn’t Supposed to Be on Stargate Atlantis - Here’s How He Ended Up There Anyway/strong/a/p h2emStargate Atlantis/em Alums Jason Momoa and Joe Flanigan Reunite for a Guinness Commercial/h2 p/pdiv class="embed-code-other embed-code-youtube"iframe loading="lazy" fetchpriority="low" src="about:blank" data-src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/nyd1CUA-Yo4?si=xrCnBGCGpF_Ux2si" class="optanon-category-13" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen style="width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 560 / 315;"/iframe/div pThe two have obviously aged a bit in the 15 years since emAtlantis/em ended, but Flanigan (now 57) still looks sharp with the grey beard — like how fans might imagine Shepard would look if Atlantis kept going and things got a bit tougher taking on the Wraith over the past decade./p pMomoa (now 44) and Flanigan have remained friends since the end of emAtlantis/em, popping up in cameos at times in one another’s projects, like Momoa’s series emSee/em, and whenever the pair can find a chance to work together. In a a data-entity-href="https://ew.com/movies/2018/07/19/jason-momoa-aquaman-interview/" data-entity-title="https://ew.com/movies/2018/07/19/jason-momoa-aquaman-interview/" href="https://ew.com/movies/2018/07/19/jason-momoa-aquaman-interview/"2018 interview with emEntertainment Weekly/em/a, Momoa said Flanigan became one of his “best friends” after their tenure working together on emAtlantis/em, even though the two had a pretty good height difference that showed up on screen./p p“He was the sweetest guy, I was his Chewbacca to his Han Solo. He was shorter and he wasn’t scared of that. He embraced it. He’s still one of my best friends.”/p pemStargate Atlantis/em was a spin-off of strongSYFY/strong’s beloved original a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/stargate-sg-1" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emStargate SG-1/em/a, taking the space adventure action to a whole new galaxy with a new team setting up camp in the Ancient city of Atlantis. The show ran from 2004-2009, and was one of three emStargate/em series that would run on strongSYFY/strong over the years, including emSG-1/em and a href="https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/topic/stargate-universe" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"emStargate Universe/em/a./p