Editing Stargate (film)

{{Short description|1994 film by Roland Emmerich}}
{{About|the original 1994 film|the Stargate franchise and other uses|Stargate (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Stargate
| image          = Stargateposter.jpg
| alt            = 
| caption        = Theatrical release poster
| director       = [[Roland Emmerich]]
| producer       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Joel B. Michaels]]
* [[Oliver Eberle]]
* Dean Devlin
}}
| writer         = {{Plainlist|
* [[Dean Devlin]]
* Roland Emmerich
}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Kurt Russell]]
* [[James Spader]]
* [[Jaye Davidson]]
* [[Viveca Lindfors]]
}}
| music          = [[David Arnold]]
| cinematography = [[Karl Walter Lindenlaub]]
| editing        = {{Plainlist|
* Michael J. Duthie
* Derek Brechin
}}
| studio         = {{Plainlist|
* [[Centropolis Entertainment|Centropolis Film Productions]]
* [[Carolco Pictures]]
* [[StudioCanal|Le Studio Canal+]]
}}
| distributor    = {{Unbulleted list|[[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer|MGM/UA Distribution Co.]]<br />(United States)|[[Pathé|AMLF]]<br />(France)}}
| released       = {{Film date|1994|10|28|United States|ref1=<ref name="afi">{{cite web |title=Stargate (1994) |url=https://catalog.afi.com/Catalog/moviedetails/60246 |website=AFI Catalog |publisher=American Film Institute}}</ref>}}
| runtime        = 121 minutes<ref name="bbfc">{{cite web |url=https://bbfc.co.uk/releases/stargate-1970-3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161220212350/http://bbfc.co.uk/releases/stargate-1970-3 |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 20, 2016 |title=''Stargate'' (PG) |work=[[British Board of Film Classification]] |date=October 28, 1994 |access-date=December 10, 2016 }}</ref>
| country        = {{Plainlist|
* United States
* France<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=11478.html?nopub=1 |title=Stargate, la porte des étoiles - country|website=[[AlloCiné]].fr|access-date=January 9, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cinoche.com/films/la-porte-des-etoiles/index.html?nopub=1 |title=La porte des étoiles - country|website=[[cinoche]].com|access-date=March 13, 2016}}</ref>
}}
| language       = English<ref name="bbfc" />
| budget         = $55&nbsp;million<ref name="numbers" />
| gross          = $196.6&nbsp;million<ref name="numbers" /><ref name="mojo" />
}}
'''''Stargate''''' is a 1994 [[Science fiction film|science fiction]] [[action film|action]]-[[adventure film]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/work/stargate-132284|work=Allmovie|access-date=January 4, 2010|title=Stargate: Overview|last=Brenner|first=Paul}}</ref> directed and co-written by [[Roland Emmerich]]. The film is the first entry in the [[Stargate|''Stargate'' media franchise]] and stars [[Kurt Russell]], [[James Spader]], [[Jaye Davidson]], [[Alexis Cruz]], [[Mili Avital]], and [[Viveca Lindfors]]. The plot centers on the "[[Stargate (device)|Stargate]]", an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a [[wormhole]], enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe. The central plot explores the theory of [[Extraterrestrials in fiction|extraterrestrial]] beings [[Ancient astronauts|having an influence upon human civilization]].

''Stargate'' was released on October 28, 1994,<ref name="afi"/> by [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] in the United States, while it was released by [[Pathé|AMLF]] in France. The film received mixed reviews, with its atmosphere, story, characters, and graphic content both praised and criticized. The film grossed $196.6&nbsp;million worldwide against a production budget of $55&nbsp;million.

==Plot==
In 1928 at [[Giza]], [[Egypt]], archaeologist Professor Paul Langford, accompanied by his daughter Catherine, unearths cover stones engraved with [[Egyptian hieroglyphs]] and other markings. Beneath he discovers a large metallic ring of unknown purpose.

In 1994, the now-elderly Catherine invites [[Egyptology|Egyptologist]] and [[linguistics|linguist]] [[Daniel Jackson (Stargate)|Daniel Jackson, Ph.D.]] to translate the hieroglyphs. The stones, located underground at a military installation in Colorado, are now part of a [[classified information|classified]] [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] project overseen by [[Air Force Special Operations Command|Special Operations]] [[Colonel (United States)|Colonel]] [[Jack O'Neill|Jack O'Neil]]. Jackson determines that the hieroglyphs refer to a "stargate" which uses star [[constellation]]s as spatial coordinates. He is then shown the Stargate, the ring device from Giza. They use his coordinates to align the Stargate's rotating inner track with V-shaped markings (or "[[Chevron (insignia)|chevrons]]") along its outside. When all seven chevrons are locked in, a [[wormhole]] opens, connecting the Stargate with a distant planet. Jackson joins O'Neil and his team (Reilly, Porro, Freeman, Brown, Ferretti, and Kawalsky) as they pass through the wormhole.

They emerge inside a [[pyramid]] on the arid desert planet of [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Abydonians|Abydos]]. Jackson attempts to locate the symbols required for the return journey through the Stargate but fails. O'Neil orders Kawalsky to set up camp. Jackson sees a mastadge, a large animal with a harness, which drags him off when he approaches it to investigate. O'Neil, Kawalsky and Brown follow and they discover a tribe of humans working to mine a strange mineral, which Brown identifies as the same material the Stargate is made of. O'Neil radios the others to secure basecamp. Following them back to their city, Jackson realizes that the people speak a variant of [[Egyptian language|Ancient Egyptian]] and is able to communicate with them. He learns that the tribe sees him and his comrades as [[wikt:emissary|emissaries]] of their god [[Ra]] due to an amulet given to him by Catherine. The tribe's chieftain Kasuf presents Jackson with his daughter [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Sha're|Sha'uri]] as a gift, and although Jackson initially refuses her, he later becomes romantically attached to her. O'Neil befriends Kasuf's teenaged son Skaara and his friends. That night, Ra's ship lands atop the pyramid structure, and his soldiers capture Ferretti and Freeman while killing Porro and Reilly.

Through hidden markings and discussions with the tribe, Jackson learns that Ra is an alien being who came to Earth during the Ancient Egyptian period to possess human bodies to extend his own life. Ra enslaved these humans and used the Stargate to bring some of them to Abydos to mine the mineral that is used in the alien technology. Humans on Earth revolted, overthrew Ra's overseers, and buried the Stargate to prevent its use. During this investigation, Jackson comes across a [[cartouche]] containing six of the seven symbols needed to configure the Stargate for the return to Earth, but the seventh has been broken off and has worn away.

When Jackson, O'Neil, Brown, and Kawalsky return to the pyramid, there is a firefight against Ra's soldiers. Brown is killed and Kawalsky is injured. Jackson and O'Neil are captured and brought before Ra and his guards, who are revealed to be humanoids when they retract their armored head-pieces. A firefight ensues and Jackson is killed; O'Neil is incapacitated and is incarcerated with the others. Ra places Jackson's body in a [[sarcophagus]]-like device that regenerates him. Ra then shows Jackson a nuclear bomb  which O'Neil had secretly brought with him. Perceiving their arrival as an act of war, Ra declares his intentions to send the bomb back through the Stargate to Earth, along with a shipment of the mineral, which will increase its explosive power a hundred fold—essentially creating a world-ending event. Ra then orders the human tribe to watch as he prepares to force Jackson to execute the others to demonstrate his power, but Skaara and his friends create a diversion that allows Jackson, O'Neil, Kawalsky, and Ferretti to escape, while Freeman is killed. They flee to nearby caves to hide from Ra. Skaara and his friends celebrate, and Skaara draws a sign of victory on a wall, which Jackson recognizes as the final Stargate symbol needed for the return to Earth.

O'Neil and his remaining men aid Skaara in overthrowing the remaining overseers and then launch an attack on Ra, who sends out fighter ships to [[strafe]] the humans while he orders his ship to depart. The humans outside run out of ammunition and are forced to surrender to the fighter ships' pilots, but the rest of the tribe, seeing that their false gods are really humanoid, rebel against the guards and overthrow them. Sha'uri is killed, but Jackson takes her body and sneaks aboard Ra's ship using a teleportation system, leaving O'Neil to fight Ra's guard captain, Anubis. Jackson places Sha'uri in the regeneration device, and she recovers, but Ra discovers them and attempts to kill Jackson. O'Neil activates the teleportation system, killing Anubis and allowing Jackson and Sha'uri to escape the ship. O'Neil and Jackson teleport the bomb to Ra's ship, destroying the ship and killing Ra. With the humans freed, the remaining team—O'Neil, Kawalsky, and Ferretti—return to Earth while Jackson chooses to stay behind with Sha'uri and the others.

==Cast==
* [[Kurt Russell]] as [[Jack O'Neill|Colonel Jonathan J. "Jack" O'Neil]], a career [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] [[Air Force Special Operations Command|Special Operations]] officer, who suffers a period of suicidal depression after his son accidentally shoots and kills himself with O'Neil's own pistol. When his commission is reactivated, he willingly enters the Stargate, fully aware that he will likely not survive to return to Earth. In real life, Kurt Russell served in the [[California Air National Guard]] and belonged to the [[146th Tactical Airlift Wing]], then based in Van Nuys.<ref name="acdevlin" /> Russell turned down the role multiple times, until it was realized he was sent an early version of the script, so he was sent the completed shooting script and accepted it.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2019/film/features/stargate-25-anniversary-roland-emmerich-kurt-russell-1203384063/ | title='Stargate' at 25: How Roland Emmerich's Sci-Fi Classic Overcame a Chaotic Birth | date=October 29, 2019 }}</ref>
* [[James Spader]] as [[Daniel Jackson (Stargate)|Dr. Daniel Jackson]], an archaeologist and linguist whose theory that the [[pharaoh]]s of the [[Fourth Dynasty of Egypt|Fourth Dynasty]] did not build the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] is not very widely accepted. Actor James Spader was intrigued by the script because he found it "awful", but, after meeting director Roland Emmerich, got excited about it for he "realized that making this picture was going to be such an adventure that out of that would come an adventure on screen."<ref name="Entertainment Weekly">{{cite magazine|last=Asher-Walsh|first=Rebecca|date=November 11, 1994|title=James Spader is Slack Happy|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/11/11/james-spader-slack-happy/|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref>
* [[Jaye Davidson]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Ra|Ra]], a powerful [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] in human form. After voyaging across the [[universe]], searching for a new host that could sustain his dying body, Ra took the form of a curious adolescent boy and enslaved the people of his planet (Earth). Using a [[Stargate (device)|Stargate]], he transported people from Earth to another planet until the humans on Earth rebelled and buried their Stargate. Reluctant to continue acting after his debut in ''[[The Crying Game]]'', Davidson took the role after his request for $1&nbsp;million in pay was accepted.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stack.com.au/film-tv/whatever-happened-to-jaye-davidson/|title=Whatever happened to... Jaye Davidson?|date=May 29, 2020}}</ref> ''Stargate'' was the final major film for Davidson, who subsequently retired from acting. Kairon John plays the masked Ra and Dax Biagas plays the young Ra.
* [[Viveca Lindfors]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Catherine Langford|Dr. Catherine Langford]], the civilian leader of the Stargate project who was present when the Stargate was uncovered in Giza in 1928, where her father gave her the [[amulet]] depicting the [[Eye of Ra]]. ''Stargate'' was Lindfors' penultimate film.<ref name="acdevlin" /> [[Kelly Vint Castro]] portrays the young Catherine.
* [[Alexis Cruz]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Skaara|Skaara]], the son of Kasuf and brother of Sha'uri. Skaara and his friends aid O'Neil and his men to fight Ra.
* [[Mili Avital]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Sha're|Sha'uri]], the daughter of Kasuf. Kasuf offers Sha'uri to Daniel Jackson in marriage as a gift.
* [[Leon Rippy]] as [[Major general|Major General]] W. O. West, the commanding officer of the facility housing the Stargate device
* [[John Diehl]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Charles Kawalsky|Lt. Colonel Charles Kawalsky]], O'Neil's second-in-command
* Carlos Lauchu as [[Anubis]], the captain of Ra's personal guard
* [[Djimon Hounsou]] as [[Horus]], a personal guard of Ra
* [[Erick Avari]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Kasuf|Kasuf]], the local leader of the people living in a city near the Stargate, and the father of Sha'uri and Skaara
* [[French Stewart]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Louis Ferretti|Lt. Louis Ferretti]], a member of O'Neil's team
* Christopher John Fields as Lt. Freeman, a member of O'Neil's team
* [[Derek Webster (actor)|Derek Webster]] as [[Senior Airman]] Brown, a member of O'Neil's team
* Jack Moore as Senior Airman Reilly, a member of O'Neil's team
* Steve Giannelli as Lt. Porro, a member of O'Neil's team
* [[Rae Allen]] as Dr. Barbara Shore, a researcher studying the Stargate
* [[Richard Kind]] as Dr. Gary Meyers, a researcher studying the Stargate

==Production==
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|-
|style="border-bottom:2px solid peru; padding:5px; text-align:center;background:navajowhite;" colspan="2"|'''Hieroglyphic script on the coverstone and its chalkboard translation'''
'''(including original translation and later modification by Daniel Jackson)'''
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|style="text-align:center;padding:10px;" colspan="2"|<hiero>r:n:p-rnp-t:Z1*Z1*Z1-I8:V20-r:q-b-H-w-W15-N1:N25-p-w-r:a-C1-m-i-t:n-N8</hiero>
{{big|<s>time</s> ''year'' million sky Ra sun god}}
<hiero>m-x-m-t-S20-Aa18-n:f-q:r-s-T19-A24-Q6:A55-f:n-D&t-tA:r-G21-H-H-ra:N23</hiero>
{{big|''sealed + buried'' <s>coffin</s> <s>forever to eternity</s> ''for all time''}}
<hiero>s-sbA-b-O32-n:Z1*Z1*Z1-s-b-A-sbA:ra-Z1*Z1*Z1:f</hiero>
{{big|his <s>door to heaven</s> ''stargate''}}
|-
|style="border-top:2px solid peru; padding:5px; text-align:center;background:navajowhite;"|literal translation of the text:
years million in sky this Ra as Aten (=sun disk)<br />sealed buried enduringly and repeatedly<br />door his to stars
|style="border-top:2px solid peru; padding:5px; text-align:center;background:navajowhite;"|Jackson's final translation:
million years into the sky is Ra Sun God<br />sealed and buried for all time<br />his Stargate
|}
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===Development===
The film in its original cut and in the director's cut plays out in [[Chronology|chronological order]]. When Devlin and Emmerich edited the film in the director's cut to tighten the narrative, they decided to add a scene at the very beginning of the film to show who the human host of [[Ra]] was before the aliens took him. Only Davidson's upper torso was filmed.<ref name="acdevlin" /> The first scene was a combination of model shots and a set in [[Yuma, Arizona]] where ''[[Rambo III]]'' had been filmed. The scene of the excavation of the Stargate was also filmed in three days in Arizona. A golden look was achieved by filming near sunset.<ref name="acemmerich" /> To keep within the budget, the producers put stick figures with cloth in the distant desert to appear as humans. The original Stargate was painted black, but it looked like a giant tire so it was repainted silver at the last moment.<ref name="acdevlin" />

Daniel Jackson's lecture on his theories was filmed in a hotel in Los Angeles.<ref name="acemmerich" /> The scene was originally much longer and delved more into the theories that aliens had built the Egyptian pyramids, but it was trimmed for time concerns for the release.<ref name="acdevlin" /> The scenes with O'Neil at his house were the first ones filmed with Kurt Russell; his hair was cut short afterwards. Russell requested his hair color to be brightened a little for the film.<ref name="acemmerich" /> The fictional facility housing the Stargate was the largest set for the film, the former [[Spruce Goose]] Dome located in [[Long Beach, California]].<ref name="Dome">{{cite news |last1=Pinsky |first1=Mark I. |title=Long Beach Dome Gets New Life in Film : Movies: The former home of the Spruce Goose earns good reviews as a production facility 'five times larger than the largest stage at Warner Bros.' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-03-10-ca-41097-story.html |access-date=2 March 2019 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=10 March 1995 }}</ref><ref name="acemmerich" /> Egyptologist [[Stuart Tyson Smith]] joined the production to make all Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and spoken language as accurate as possible.<ref name="acdevlin" />

===Filming===
The mask of the [[pharaoh]] in the opening credits was made out of fiberglass and modeled in the workshop. The sequence used a [[Motion control photography|motion-control camera]] to give better depth of field.<ref name="acemmerich">{{Cite AV media |people=[[Roland Emmerich|Emmerich, Roland]] |date=2001 |title=Audio Commentary for Stargate |medium=DVD |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] }}</ref> The score of ''Stargate'' was composer [[David Arnold]]'s first work on an American feature film. When Devlin and Emmerich first flew to London to meet with Arnold, they had not yet heard the score; hearing it, they felt "he had elevated the film to a whole other level".<ref name="acdevlin">{{Cite AV media |people=[[Dean Devlin|Devlin, Dean]] |date=2001 |title=Audio Commentary for Stargate |medium=DVD |publisher=[[MGM Home Entertainment]] }}</ref> Arnold later interviewed the actors during [[principal photography]], using the information to improve his score.<ref name="acdevlin" />

===Visual effects===
Jeff Kleiser and Kleiser-Walczak Construction Co.'s visual effects team of 40 people created the look of the Stargate. They used self-written image-creation and compositing software, as well as commercial digital packages to create the Stargate, the morphing helmets worn by Ra and the Horus guards, and the cityscape of Nagada. The morphing helmets were not true 3D but 2D elements, as Kleiser explained: "You shoot the character without the headdress, you shoot the character with a headdress. And then you have to go in and, and create all these little sections that you would then wipe off to reveal—and it had to match up, the two things had to match up. I think the cameras were moving as well."<ref name="Hoare">{{Cite web |last=Hoare |first=James |date=June 17, 2022 |title=CGI Fridays {{!}} Jeff Kleiser's Strange Journey from Super-8 to Stargate |url=https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/06/17/cgi-fridays-jeff-kleisers-strange-journey-from-vegas-to-stargate/ |access-date=June 24, 2022 |website=The Companion |archive-date=June 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624143257/https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/06/17/cgi-fridays-jeff-kleisers-strange-journey-from-vegas-to-stargate/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Footprints in the sand were often digitally removed. The creation of the wormhole, which was fully digital, was one of the biggest challenges in the making of the film. The ripples had to be digitally composited to appear accurate and realistic. Scanning lasers were lined up parallel to the gate to illustrate the amount of body that passed the surface of the Stargate plane. Afterwards, the parts of the body that had or had not yet gone through the gate (depending on the side of filming) were obliterated with a digital matte, a process that removes unwanted components from an individual frame or sequence of frames.<ref name="specialeffects" /> The funnel of water that precedes the Stargate opening was filmed by discharging an air cannon into a water tank, as Jeff Kleiser explained: "We didn't know how much air pressure to set the cannon on but it went from 1 to 500&nbsp;lb, so we said 'Let's try 100—start the camera rolling and hit the thing.' It evacuated all the water out of the tank and onto the camera and everybody. It turned out that 1&nbsp;lb was about the right amount."<ref name="Hoare"/>

The use of computers generating a big 3D storyboard allowed Emmerich to try out different shooting angles before settling on one angle.<ref name="specialeffects" />

==Music==
{{Main|Stargate (soundtrack)}}
The [[Film score|film's score]] was composed by [[David Arnold]], played by the [[Sinfonia of London]] and conducted by Nicholas Dodd.<ref name="sol">{{cite web |url=http://www.sinfonia-of-london.com/ |title=Stargate soundtrack |website=SynfoniaOfLondon.com |access-date=April 3, 2009 |archive-date=June 8, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100608094305/http://www.sinfonia-of-london.com/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> It was the second motion picture score that Arnold had composed and his first major one. At the time of production, Arnold had recently started to work in a local video store in London. Once hired, he spent several months in a hotel room working on the soundtrack, spending more time rewriting the music and improving it, during delays due to film companies trying to get the rights to distribution.<ref name="da">{{cite web |first=David |last=Arnold |url=http://www.davidarnold.com |title=History - 1994 |website=DavidArnold.com |access-date=September 10, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061116020402/http://www.davidarnold.com/ |archive-date=November 16, 2006 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> According to Arnold, "when I first read the script for Stargate, I knew what approach to take, which was to be as big and bold as possible," saying: "Every time there was an amazing sight, the characters would stand back and say, 'Oh my God!' But James would just smile and walk towards it. That was the basis for the Stargate score, moving forward with a sense of majesty instead of being frightened by what's around the corner."<ref name="starscore">{{cite magazine|first=Kerry J.|last=Byrnes|url=http://filmscoremonthly.com/features/timetravel1.asp|title=Stargate - David Arnold|magazine=Film Score Monthly|access-date=April 3, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106045733/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/features/timetravel1.asp|archive-date=January 6, 2009|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

==Release==
===Theatrical===
''Stargate'' was released in the United States and Canada on October 28, 1994.<ref name="afi"/>

===Home media===
In 1995, the film was released on [[VHS]] and as a [[Dolby Digital]]-encoded laserdisc spanning two discs (three sides).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.lddb.com/laserdisc/21444/LD60190-WS/Stargate-(1994)|title=LaserDisc Database - Stargate [LD60190-WS]|website=www.lddb.com}}</ref> The first [[DVD]] release was on June 18, 1997. The DVD format was re-released in October 1999 under the title ''Stargate Special Edition'', and again in 2003 on VHS and a 2-disc DVD set with remastered theatrical and extended editions.<ref name="MC-20100120">{{cite web |last=Montana |first=Tony |title=Stargate (1994) - Comparison: Theatrical Cut versus Extended Version |url=https://www.movie-censorship.com/report.php?ID=2264 |date=January 20, 2010 |work=Movie-Censorship.com |accessdate=July 5, 2021}}</ref> The film was released on [[Blu-ray]] format on August 29, 2006.<ref name="formats">{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00004R6PV |title=Stargate (VHS) (1995) |date=April 26, 1995 |website=Amazon.co.uk |access-date=April 3, 2009}}</ref><ref name="bluray">{{cite web |url=http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/movies.php?id=133&show=review |title=Stargate Blu-ray |website=Blu-ray.com |access-date=April 3, 2009 }}</ref>

===Lawsuit===
In January 1995, Omar Zuhdi, a high school teacher, filed a lawsuit against the makers and originators of the original movie, claiming that they stole the plot and story of his 1984 film script ''Egyptscape'', as the basis of the film ''Stargate'' (and thus the ''[[Stargate]]'' franchise).<ref name=Oklahoman-2544065>{{cite news |last=Parker |first=John |title=Shawnee Teacher Wins Jury Date Writer Says MGM Stole "Stargate" Idea |url=https://www.oklahoman.com/article/2544065/shawnee-teacher-wins-jury-date-writer-says-mgm-stole-stargate-idea |work=The Oklahoman |date=July 30, 1996 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019193818/https://oklahoman.com/article/2544065/shawnee-teacher-wins-jury-date-writer-says-mgm-stole-stargate-idea |archive-date=October 19, 2019 }}</ref> The suit was later settled out of court.<ref>{{cite web|title=Zuhdi v. Metro Goldwyn Mayer, et al|url=http://www.legalmetric.com/cases/copyright/okwd/okwd_595cv00090.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930025640/https://www.legalmetric.com/cases/copyright/okwd/okwd_595cv00090.html|archive-date=September 30, 2010|df=mdy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/sci-files/cinema/stargate/index.shtml |title=Stargate |work=Discovery Channel |access-date=April 3, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090418013915/https://www.discoverychannel.co.uk/sci-files/cinema/stargate/index.shtml |archive-date=April 18, 2009 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

===Director's cut===
The [[director's cut]] had several scenes which were cut from the theatrical release. This version begins with a short scene showing the abduction of the human that is possessed by Ra. The second added scene took place immediately after the excavation of the Stargate in 1928 and showed a [[Petrifaction|petrified]] [[Anubis]] guard underneath a broken cover stone. With this scene, the producers had tried to introduce the idea that beings had attempted to come through the Stargate after its burial but the scene was ultimately cut for time concerns.<ref name="acdevlin" />

==Reception==
===Box office===
The film received a warm reception from the public, grossing $71,567,262 at the [[United States]] box office and $125&nbsp;million internationally for a worldwide total of $196,567,262.<ref name="mojo">{{cite web|url=https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=stargate.htm |title=Stargate (1994) |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=April 27, 2011}}</ref><ref name="numbers">{{cite web |url=https://www.the-numbers.com/movies/1994/0SGTE.php|title=Movie Stargate - Box Office Data, News, Cast Information |website=The Numbers|publisher=Nash Information Services }}</ref> At the time, the film set a record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film released in the month of October.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/month/?mo=10&p=.htm |title=Top Opening Weekends By Month |website=boxofficemojo.com |access-date=April 4, 2009}}</ref> It would hold this record for four years until 1998 when ''[[Antz]]'' took it.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1998/10/05/animated-antz-crawls-to-top-in-box-office-debut/|title=Animated "Antz' crawls to top in box office debut}}</ref>

In its first run, ''Stargate'' made more money than film industry insiders predicted, considering the lukewarm reviews.<ref name="time5">{{cite magazine |first=Richard |last=Corliss |title=The Invasion Has Begun! |magazine=Time |date=July 8, 1996 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984815-5,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815102703/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984815-5,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=August 15, 2009 |access-date=July 8, 2008 |author-link=Richard Corliss}}</ref><ref name="wesuf1">{{cite magazine |first=Rebecca |last=Ascher-Walsh |title=Space Under Fire |magazine=Entertainment Weekly |date=July 28, 1995 |url=https://ew.com/article/1996/07/12/timeline-independence-day-filmshoot/ |access-date=July 8, 2008 |archive-date=July 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080709002618/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,293332,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Some regard it as Emmerich's breakthrough film.<ref name="breakthrough">{{cite news |first=Steven |last=Goldman |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2008/mar/07/2 |title=Action Man |newspaper=The Guardian |access-date=April 3, 2009 |location=London |date=March 7, 2008}}</ref> ''Stargate'' grossed over $16,651,000 in the United States during its opening week in October 1994. It was the 35th-highest-grossing film opening in the U.S. in October.<ref name="iop">{{cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/weekends/month/?mo=10&p=.htm |title=Top Opening Weekends By Month |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=April 3, 2009}}</ref> From November 4–6, the film grossed around $12,368,700, declining 25%.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121990561/stargate-still-no-1-at-box-office/ |title='Stargate' still No. 1 at box office |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331205127/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/121990561/stargate-still-no-1-at-box-office/ |date=November 9, 1994 |access-date=March 31, 2023 |archive-date=March 31, 2023 |page=19 |newspaper=[[Ledger-Enquirer]] |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |url-status=live}} {{Open access}}</ref> It topped the box office for two weeks until it was dethroned by ''[[Interview with the Vampire (film)|Interview with the Vampire]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Love at First Bite: 'Vampire' Tears Into Box Office : Movies: Warners film looks to be the fourth largest debut ever. 'Santa Clause' sleighs into the No. 2 spot with a solid take.|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=November 14, 1994|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-11-14-ca-62651-story.html|access-date=December 22, 2010|first=Richard|last=Natale}}</ref> The film would continue this decline until the end of November, when the film garnered $4,777,198, or an 8.2% rise. The week before that the film garnered around $4,413,420, a 45.6% decline. In its last week playing theatrically, the film garnered around $1,170,500 in the U.S.<ref name="iopus">{{cite web|url=https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?page=weekend&id=stargate.htm |title=Stargate (1994) Weekend Box Office |website=Box Office Mojo |access-date=April 3, 2009 }}</ref>

===Critical response===
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On [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has an approval rating of 53% based on 51 reviews, and an average rating of 5.4/10. The site's critics consensus states: "''Stargate'' has splashy visuals and James Spader to recommend it, but corny characterization and a clunky script makes this a portal to ho-hum."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stargate/ |title=''Stargate'' (1994) |work=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |publisher=[[Fandango Media]] |access-date=July 26, 2024}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/stargate |title=''Stargate'' Reviews |work=[[Metacritic]] |publisher=[[Paramount Streaming|CBS Interactive]] |access-date=March 22, 2018}}</ref> At [[Movie Review Query Engine]] (MRQE), which assigns a [[Standard score|normalized rating]] to mainstream critics, the film holds a score of 64 out of 100 based on 95 reviews.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mrqe.com/movies/m100046681 |title=Stargate |website=MRQE |access-date=January 15, 2011}}</ref> Audiences polled by [[CinemaScore]] gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cinemascore.com|title=Find CinemaScore|format=Type "Stargate" in the search box|website=[[CinemaScore]]|access-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref>

Most of the negativity focused on what was criticized as overuse of special effects, thinness of plot, and excessive use of [[cliché]]s. [[Roger Ebert]] went so far as to say, "The movie ''[[Ed Wood (film)|Ed Wood]]'', about the worst director of all time, was made to prepare us for ''Stargate''". Ebert awarded the film one out of four stars and, even over 10 years later, ''Stargate'' remained on his list of most-hated films.<ref>{{cite news |date=October 28, 1994 |first=Roger |last=Ebert |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Stargate |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/stargate-1994 |newspaper=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |access-date=April 4, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=August 11, 2005 |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Ebert's Most Hated |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/eberts-most-hated |website=RogerEbert.com}}</ref> Mike DiBella from ''Allmovie'' said, "There simply isn't enough spectacle in ''Stargate'' to make up for its many flaws."<ref>{{cite news |first=Mike |last=DiBella |url=https://www.allmovie.com/work/stargate-132284/review |title=Stargate |website=Allmovie |access-date=April 4, 2009}}</ref> The film peaked at number one on the ''[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]'' chart ''Top Video Rentals'' on April 29, 1995.<ref>{{cite book |title=Billboard |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5AsEAAAAMBAJ |date=April 29, 1995 |publisher=Nielsen Business Media}}</ref>

The positive reviews stated that it was an "instant camp classic" and praised the film for its special effects and entertainment value,<ref>{{cite news |first=Stephen |last=Farber |url=http://www.movieline.com/reviews/stargate_rvw.shtml |title=StarGate |website=MovieLine |access-date=August 22, 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040221035710/http://www.movieline.com/reviews/stargate_rvw.shtml |archive-date=February 21, 2004}}</ref> with Chris Hicks of the ''[[Deseret News]]'' calling it "''[[Star Wars]]'' meets ''[[Ben-Hur (1959 film)|Ben Hur]]''".<ref>{{cite news |first=Chris |last=Hicks |url=http://deseretnews.com/movies/view/1,1257,1736,00.html |title=Movie review: Stargate |work=Deseret News |location=Salt Lake City |date=October 28, 1994 |access-date=August 22, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061105014132/http://deseretnews.com/movies/view/1,1257,1736,00.html |archive-date=November 5, 2006 }}</ref> Scott McKenzie from DVDactive said, "It's a shame because the world created around the ''Stargate'' is compelling and detailed. It's almost enough to make me want to watch the [[Stargate SG-1|TV series]], but not quite."<ref name="reviewone">{{cite web |first=Scott |last=McKenzie |url=http://www.dvdactive.com/reviews/dvd/stargate-special-edition.html |title=Stargate: Special Edition (UK - BD RB) |website=DVDactive.com |access-date=April 3, 2009 }}</ref>

===Accolades===
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In 1995, ''Stargate'' was considered for various film awards worldwide. It won six of the ten awards it was nominated for.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111282/awards |title=Stargate |website=IMDb |access-date=January 15, 2010}}</ref>

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Category
! Recipients
! Result
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|rowspan="3"| [[Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films]] || [[Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film]] || ''Stargate'' || {{won}}
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| [[Saturn Award for Best Costume Design]] || Joseph A. Porro || {{nom}}
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| [[Saturn Award for Best Special Effects]] || Jeffrey A. Okun and [[Patrick Tatopoulos]] || {{nom}}
|-
| [[BMI Film & TV Awards]] || [[BMI Film & TV Awards|BMI Film Music Award]] || [[David Arnold]] || {{won}}
|-
| [[Fantasporto]] || International Fantasy Film Award for Best Film || [[Roland Emmerich]] || {{nom}}
|-
| Germany's Golden Screen Awards || [[Goldene Leinwand|Golden Screen]] || ''Stargate'' || {{won}}
|-
| [[Hugo Award]] || [[Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation]] || ''Stargate'' || {{nom}}
|-
|rowspan="3"| Sci-Fi Universe Magazine: Universe Reader's Choice Awards || Best Science Fiction Film || ''Stargate'' || {{won}}
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| Best Special Effects in a Genre Motion Picture || Jeffrey A. Okun || {{won}}
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| Best Supporting Actress in a Genre Motion Picture || [[Mili Avital]] || {{won}}
|}

==Other media==
===Video Games===
Two video games based on the film were published by [[Acclaim Entertainment]]: a [[Stargate (1995 console video game)|1995 side-scrolling platform game]] for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]] and [[Sega Genesis]], and a [[Tetris]]-like [[puzzle video game]] for the [[Game Gear]] and [[Game Boy]].

===Cancelled film sequels===
Devlin and Emmerich always envisioned ''Stargate'' as the first part of a [[trilogy]] of films, but Parts 2 and 3 were never developed.<ref name="newstargatefilmfromorg"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.slashfilm.com/825646/stargate-was-meant-to-kick-off-an-entire-trilogy/ |title=Stargate Was Meant To Kick Off An Entire Trilogy|first=Collier|last=Jennings|website=Slash Film|date=April 7, 2022|access-date=April 26, 2022}}</ref> At Comic-Con 2006, twelve years after the original film was released, Devlin stated that he was in early discussions with rights-holders MGM about finally bringing the final two parts to the screen.<ref name="aintitcool">{{cite web|first=Eric|last=Vespe|url=http://legacy.aintitcool.com/node/24247|title=Quint chats with producer Dean Devlin about ''Flyboys'', ''Isobar'', ''Ghosting'' and the ''Stargate'' sequels|website=[[Ain't It Cool News]]|date=August 22, 2006|access-date=September 30, 2010}}</ref>

According to Devlin, the second film is intended to be set around twelve years after the original, with Jackson making a discovery that leads him back to Earth and to the uncovering of a new Stargate. The second entry would supposedly use a different mythology from the Egyptian one which formed the background to the original film, with the third installment tying these together to reveal that "all mythologies are actually tied together with a common thread that we haven't recognized before."<ref name="comingsoon200706">{{cite news |url=https://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15537 |title=Devlin Announces Plans for Stargate Sequels |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616234819/http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=15537 |archivedate=June 16, 2009 |date=July 20, 2006 |website=ComingSoon.net }}</ref> Devlin stated that he hoped to enlist original stars Kurt Russell (Col. Jack O'Neil) and James Spader (Dr. Daniel Jackson) for the sequels. The actors reportedly expressed an interest in participating in the project.<ref name="ignrusselspader">{{cite web |title=Comic-Con 2006: Devlin on Stargate Sequels |url=http://movies.ign.com/articles/720/720070p1.html |website=[[IGN]] |publisher=[[Ziff Davis]] |access-date=April 3, 2009}}</ref>

The film trilogy would not directly tie into the series ''Stargate SG-1''. According to Devlin, the relationship between the movie and the series is "we would just continue the mythology of the movie and finish that out. I think the series could still live on at the end of the third sequel. So we're going to try to not tread on their stories."<ref name="comingsoon200706" /> Plans for sequels to the original film are unrelated to the development of [[Direct-to-video|straight-to-DVD]] films made as sequels to ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. According to Devlin, he and Emmerich had always planned to do three films with the potential for more, but MGM preferred to play out the television series first.<ref name="scificool">{{cite web |url=http://www.scificool.com/dean-devlin-talks-possible-stargate-and-independence-day-sequels/ |title=Dean Devlin Talks Possible Stargate and Independence Day Sequels |website=Sci-Ficool.com |access-date=April 3, 2009 |archive-date=October 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004202026/http://www.scificool.com/dean-devlin-talks-possible-stargate-and-independence-day-sequels/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Novel series===
Using some of Emmerich's notes, [[Bill McCay]] wrote a series of five novels, continuing the story the original creators had envisioned, which involved the Earth-humans, the locals and the successors of Ra.

===Television spin-offs===
{{Main|Stargate}}
The CD-ROM programme ''Secrets of Stargate'', released after the film, showed how the special effects were made, and included behind-the-scenes of the film and the showing of interviews with the cast and the production members.<ref name="specialeffects">{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/wow-how-did-they-do-that-1568272.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220524/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/wow-how-did-they-do-that-1568272.html |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Wow, how did they do that? |newspaper=The Independent |access-date=April 3, 2009 |location=London |first=Beth |last=Porter |date=January 16, 1995}}</ref> Dean Devlin eventually gave [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] (MGM) the rights over the film,<ref name="newstargatefilmfromorg">{{cite web |url=http://www.ukscifi.net/i/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20|title=Devlin Develops New ''Stargates'' |first=Patrick |last=Lee |website=UK SciFi Networks |date=April 16, 2008 |access-date=September 30, 2010 |archive-date=March 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303204537/http://www.ukscifi.net/i/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=20 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and author Bill McCay wrote a [[List of Stargate literature|series of five novels]] based on Emmerich's notes, continuing the story the original creators had envisioned. In 1996, MGM hired [[Brad Wright]] and [[Jonathan Glassner]] to create a [[Spin-off (media)|spin-off]] television series. ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' premiered on the American subscription channel [[Showtime (TV network)|Showtime]] on July 27, 1997 and ended its ten-season run in 2007. ''Stargate SG-1'' itself spawned the non-canon animated television series ''[[Stargate Infinity]]'' (2002–03), and the live-action television series ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' (2004–09) and ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' (2009–11).

====Differences from film to television franchise====
[[File:Ra original humanoid.jpg|thumb|upright|Concept drawing of Ra's original humanoid form by [[Patrick Tatopoulos]]<ref name="tataoup">{{cite web|url=http://www.tatopoulosstudios.net/mainpage.html |title=Stargate - Ra - Tatopoulos Studios |publisher=Tatopoulos Studios |access-date=April 4, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090515114617/http://www.tatopoulosstudios.net/mainpage.html |archive-date=May 15, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>]]
''SG-1'' creators and executive producers Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner altered the canon by introducing several new concepts during production of the ''SG-1'' and ''Atlantis'' series. In the television series, characters were portrayed by different actors, and names were spelled differently.<ref name="bbc.co.uk" /> Daniel Jackson was played by James Spader in the film and by [[Michael Shanks]] in the series. Kurt Russell's character Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil, a rather humorless Colonel, is played by [[Richard Dean Anderson]] as Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill (with two 'l's) in ''SG-1''.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news |first=Will |last=Joyner |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E5D7163AF935A15754C0A961958260 |title=Through a Gate to the Far Side of the Universe: A TV Series |date=July 26, 1997 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=April 4, 2009}}</ref><ref name="digitalbits">{{cite web |url=http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews2/stargatesg1s1.html |title=Stargate SG-1: The Complete First Season |website=thedigitalbits |access-date=April 4, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090319003337/http://www.thedigitalbits.com/reviews2/stargatesg1s1.html |archive-date=March 19, 2009 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> [[French Stewart]]'s character was Lieutenant Louis Ferretti but in ''SG-1'', played by [[Brent Stait]], he is a Major. The spelling of Daniel Jackson's wife changes from "Sha'uri" to "Sha're", O'Neill's wife from Sarah to Sara. (Similarly, the name of O'Neil's son changes from "Tyler" in the film to "Charlie".)<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A765597 |title=Stargate SG-1 - the TV Show |date=August 2, 2002 |publisher=BBC |access-date=April 4, 2009}}</ref>

The [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Stargate Command|Stargate Command]] setting was transferred from the fictional military facility located in Creek Mountain, to the [[Cheyenne Mountain Complex|Cheyenne Mountain military complex]].<ref name="bbc.co.uk" /> The unnamed planet from the film was named [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Abydonians|Abydos]] in the series and the distance from Earth changed from millions of [[light-year]]s away (in an entirely different [[galaxy]], "the Kalium galaxy") to becoming the closest planet to [[Earth]] with a Stargate, residing in the same galaxy as Earth. Also in ''SG-1'', Stargate travel is limited to the Stargate network in the [[Milky Way]] galaxy (unless a tremendous amount of power is used to lengthen the subspace wormhole of a Stargate to another galaxy's Stargate).<ref name="bbc.co.uk" /> Ra was the last of an unnamed race in the film, being of a humanoid species with large black eyes and a lack of facial features. In ''SG-1'', Ra is one of many "[[Mythology of Stargate#Goa'uld|Goa'uld System Lords]]", a race of parasitic eel-like creatures.<ref name="nytimes" /><ref name="gwfaq">{{cite web |url=http://www.gateworld.net/the_stargate_faq.shtml#movie.1 |title=The Stargate FAQ |website=GateWorld |access-date=April 4, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720205227/http://www.gateworld.net/the_stargate_faq.shtml#movie.1 |archive-date=July 20, 2008 |df=mdy-all}}</ref>

There were also changes to the Stargate. The unique set of 39 Stargate symbols in the film was replaced with the concept of 38 symbols that are the same for each Stargate (Earth's symbols based on Earth's constellations), plus a single point of origin symbol that is unique to that individual gate.<ref name="gwfaq" /> While the ''[[Stargate (device)#Wormhole|kawoosh]]'' effect in the movie was created by filming the actual swirl of water in a glass tube, and looked like a vortex on the back of the Gate,<ref>DVD commentary for the ''Stargate'' film</ref> on the television series this effect was completely created in [[computer graphics]] by the Canadian [[visual effects]] company [[Rainmaker Digital Effects|Rainmaker]].<ref>''Stargate Magic: Inside The Lab.'' Special feature on [[Stargate SG-1#DVD releases|Stargate SG-1 DVD]] Volume 37 (Lost City).</ref>

At the beginning of ''SG-1'' season 9, the original wormhole-traversal sequence used in the film, and in the series up to that point, was replaced with a new sequence similar to the one already used on ''Stargate Atlantis'', but blue as it was in the movie and ''SG-1''. In ''Atlantis'', it is green, and in ''Universe'', it is white.<ref>Audio commentary for "The Ties That Bind", SG-1.</ref>

===Reboot===
On September 5, 2013, during an interview with [[Digital Spy]], Emmerich said that he and MGM are planning a new ''Stargate'' as a reboot with a trilogy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/a513056/stargate-to-receive-movie-reboot-trilogy-planned/|title='Stargate' for movie reboot, trilogy|first=Ben|last=Rawson-Jones|date=September 5, 2013|website=Digital Spy}}</ref> On May 29, 2014, it was announced that MGM and [[Warner Bros.]] are partnering together for a reboot as a trilogy with Emmerich directing, Devlin producing, and Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods writing.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://variety.com/2014/film/news/mgm-warner-bros-team-with-roland-emmerich-dean-devlin-on-stargate-reboot-1201196082/|title=MGM, Warner Bros. Team with Roland Emmerich, Dean Devlin on 'Stargate' Trilogy|last=Kroll|first=Justin|work=Variety|date=May 28, 2014|access-date=May 28, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/stargate-remake-finds-writers-769847|title='Stargate' Remake Finds Its Writers (Exclusive)|website=The Hollywood Reporter|last=Kit|first=Borys|date=February 3, 2015}}</ref> On November 17, 2016, Devlin told [[Empire Online]] that the plans to make a reboot and a potential new series are stalled.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/remake-stargate-happening-know-exclusive/|title=The remake of Stargate is not happening, and we know why: exclusive|work=Empire Magazine|last=Gross|first=Ed|date=November 17, 2016}}</ref> On April 14, 2023, it was announced that MGM were rebooting their film franchises for film and television, including ''Stargate''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://deadline.com/2023/04/robocop-stargate-legally-blonde-barbershop-in-works-film-tv-amazon-mgm-ip-1235243057/|title='Robocop,' 'Stargate', 'Legally Blonde' & 'Barbershop' Among Titles In Works For Film & TV As Amazon Looks To Supercharge MGM IP|first1=Nellie|last1=Andreeva|first2=Peter|last2=White
|work=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|date=April 14, 2023|access-date=April 15, 2023}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Science fiction|Film|Television}}
* [[Stargate]]
* ''[[Pyramids of Mars]]'', a ''[[Doctor Who]]'' serial
* [[The Wall (The Twilight Zone)|"The Wall"]], an episode of the 1985 revival of ''[[The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''
* [[White savior narrative in film]], a cinematic trope studied in sociology, for which ''Stargate'' has been analyzed<ref name="vera">{{cite book |last1=Vera |first1=Hernán |last2=Gordon |first2=Andrew M. |year=2003 |chapter=The Beautiful White American: Sincere Fictions of the Savior |title=Screen Saviors: Hollywood Fictions of Whiteness |url=https://archive.org/details/screensaviorshol00vera |url-access=registration |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |isbn=978-1-4616-4286-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/screensaviorshol00vera/page/33 33]}}</ref>

==References==
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===Sources===
* {{cite journal |last1=Krueger |first1=Frederic |title=The Stargate Simulacrum:Ancient Egypt, Ancient Aliens, and Postmodern Dynamics of Occulture |journal=Aegyptiaca |date=2017 |issue=1 |pages=47–74 |url=https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/aegyp/article/view/40164/33823 |access-date=18 June 2019|doi=10.11588/aegyp.2017.1.40164}}

==External links==
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