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121-687: While panned by critics, the 1994 film Stargate drew much attention, grossing close to 200 million USD . The film was praised for its special effects and eventually gathered its own cult following over the years. The follow-up Stargate television franchise built a solid fanbase , which has been known for its loyal fans. Stargate SG-1 has established many of its own conventions , such as Wolfcon in Europe, Gatecon in Canada , among others. The franchise contains many unofficial conventions such as MediaWest Con and Vividcon established and run by fans of

242-474: 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 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

363-609: A Constellation Award in the category of Outstanding Canadian Contribution to Science Fiction Film or Television in 2008. The average viewership to Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis was around ten million a week worldwide. According to Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis co-creator Brad Wright , the show is popular in Great Britain, Germany, France and Australia, but with a steadily declining viewership in homeland Canada. About thirty million Stargate DVDs were sold worldwide by 2006. The DVD release of Stargate: The Ark of Truth in

484-415: A PR arm of the franchise. The truth is, as incredible as they've been in the amount of support they’ve shown, there have also been incidents in which we've strongly disagreed with some of the decisions they've taken. Nothing that couldn't be talked through but, still, enough to remind everyone that Gateworld was and would remain a strong and independent online entity." Stargate (film) Stargate

605-447: A clunky script makes this a portal to ho-hum." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 42 out of 100, based on 17 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". At Movie Review Query Engine (MRQE), which assigns a normalized rating to mainstream critics, the film holds a score of 64 out of 100 based on 95 reviews. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale. Most of

726-561: 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." Devlin stated that he hoped to enlist original stars Kurt Russell (Col. Jack O'Neil) and James Spader (Dr. Daniel Jackson) for

847-462: A fourth Stargate series." This continued in September 2020, when it was reported that whilst not currently involved in writing, Mallozzi had spoken to Wright about the development, confirming it to be a fourth television series which would continue on from where SG-1 , Atlantis and Universe left off and include characters from those shows. On November 21, 2020, Brad Wright confirmed that he

968-628: A high-ranking Nazi officer, Philip Alexander as Captain James Beal, British officer stationed in Egypt, and Shvan Aladdin as Wasif, a native Egyptian and a lieutenant in the British army. Stargate Infinity is an American animated science fiction television series created by Eric Lewald and Michael Maliani as a spin-off from its sister show , Stargate SG-1 . The story arc in Infinity

1089-455: A large episode guides, with transcripts and pictures. The site also features up-to-date news. The GateWorld forum has more than 44,000 members and 9,100,000 posts. The record number of users online at the same time was 2,770 as of 10 May 2011, the day after the last episode of Stargate Universe aired. GateWorld was inaugurated on October 22, 1999 as "Starguide," a fan site that has changed addresses and servers many times since then. The site

1210-537: A little bit from our original idea since so many years have passed.   ...We wanted to explore the idea of how the Stargates were built originally, and where else in the universe they exist, and why they exist – and where else they exist on Earth. We had really planned out, as a trilogy of films, to allow this mythology to grow bigger and bigger. However, Devlin told Empire in November 2016 that

1331-428: A mastage, 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 Ancient Egyptian and

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1452-567: A new Stargate as a reboot with a trilogy. 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. On November 17, 2016, Devlin told Empire Online that the plans to make a reboot and a potential new series are stalled. On April 14, 2023, it was announced that MGM were rebooting their film franchises for film and television, including Stargate . Stargate Stargate (often stylized in all caps)

1573-412: A new service called GateWorld Play, a Stargate video service similar to YouTube . Plans were to update this new channel "seven days per week for the foreseeable future". On June 9, 2006 Entertainment Weekly became the first major publication to recognize GateWorld. The Province called GateWorld "amazingly detailed". GateWorld was the winner of the 2007 SyFy Genre Awards for "Best Web Site". It

1694-492: A news editor for the official Stargate SG-1 magazine and to check Stargate comic books for continuity errors with the TV shows before publication. Late Night with Conan O'Brien graphic designer Pierre Bernard gained notoriety among Stargate fans for devoting several of his "Recliner of Rage" Late Night segments to SG-1 . The producers invited him to make cameo appearances in the episodes " Zero Hour " and " 200 ". Gatecon

1815-401: 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

1936-492: A position in the regular cast in Season 10. MGM put an average of $ 1,400,000 into each episode of the show, and regarded it as one of its most important franchises. SG-1 was taken off air in 2007; however, two direct-to-DVD movies entitled The Ark of Truth and Stargate Continuum were made to tie up loose ends. Stargate: The Ark of Truth is a direct-to-DVD movie written and directed by Robert C. Cooper . The film

2057-443: A production budget of $ 55 million. In 1928 at Giza , Egypt , archaeologist Professor Paul Langford, accompanied by his daughter Catherine, unearths cover stones (also called pyramidion or capstone ) engraved with Egyptian hieroglyphs and other markings. Beneath he discovers a large metallic ring of unknown purpose. In 1994, the now elderly Catherine invites Egyptologist and linguist Daniel Jackson, Ph.D. to translate

2178-433: A purchase of MGM , its library, and assets, including Stargate . Around that time, writer and producer on Stargate SG-1 , Atlantis , and Universe Joseph Mallozzi teased Wright's pilot script for the new project on social media. However, in November 2022, Wright announced that his revival project was likely dead following Amazon's purchase. In December 2022, Amazon Studios and MGM were reported to be taking pitches on

2299-660: A store. Now, even the cast and producers of Stargate have contributed to the site with extensive multimedia interviews, blogs, spoilers, and live chats. The GateWorld Alpha Site is a site made by the creators of GateWorld. It was made in case of system problems with GateWorld that would stop fans from connecting to it. The site provides news on problems and updates on-site maintenance. In 2007, GateWorld launched its Creation Storefront merchandise section, which includes DVDs , Stargate glassware , apparel , jewelry , photographs , autographs , keychains, and calendars available for purchase. On January 4, 2008, GateWorld launched

2420-399: 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

2541-507: A television series titled Stargate SG-1 as a sequel to the film. This show was joined by Stargate Atlantis in 2004, Stargate Universe in 2009, and a prequel web series, Stargate Origins , in 2018. Also consistent with the same story are a variety of books , video games and comic books , as well as the direct-to-DVD movies Stargate: Children of the Gods , Stargate: The Ark of Truth , and Stargate: Continuum , which concluded

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2662-463: A third Stargate SG-1 direct-to- DVD special and released on July 21, 2009, by MGM Home Entertainment in 16:9 widescreen format. A few months before its release, executive producer Brad Wright announced it would be enhanced with brand new visual effects and scenes not previously included in the television version. The beginning was to be slightly altered, a new scene added, and the nudity scene taken out to make this episode suitable for children, with

2783-612: Is a military science fiction media franchise based on the film directed by Roland Emmerich , which he co-wrote with producer Dean Devlin . The franchise is based on the idea of an alien wormhole (specifically an Einstein–Rosen bridge ) device (the Stargate ) that enables nearly instantaneous travel across the cosmos. The franchise began with the film Stargate , released on October 28, 1994, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Carolco , which grossed US$ 197   million worldwide. In 1997, Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner created

2904-482: Is a 1994 science fiction action - adventure film directed and co-written by Roland Emmerich . The film is the first entry in the Stargate media franchise and stars Kurt Russell , James Spader , Jaye Davidson , Alexis Cruz , Mili Avital , and Viveca Lindfors . The plot centers on the titular " Stargate ", an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole , enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in

3025-452: Is a direct-to-DVD movie written by Brad Wright and directed by Martin Wood . Some scenes for this movie were already shot at the end of March 2007, but the original start date was set for May 22 at Vancouver's Bridge Studios. The production budget was $ 7   million. The movie was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on July 29, 2008. The Region   4 DVD was released on August 6, 2008, with

3146-429: 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

3267-484: Is able to communicate with them. He learns that the tribe sees him and his comrades as emissaries of their god Ra due to an amulet given to him by Catherine. The tribe's chieftain Kasuf presents Jackson with his daughter 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

3388-424: Is an annual fan convention which centers around the Stargate television franchise . Gatecon was conceived in 2000 to provide a place for fans of the show Stargate SG-1 to meet members of the cast and crew, and to get to know their fellow fans. The original organizers met due to an interactive Stargate -themed site run by Ryan Peters under Showtime 's umbrella. Since its inception, Gatecon has raised money for

3509-604: Is filmed, to visit the studio and interview the casts and crews of both shows for publication on GateWorld. Producer Joseph Mallozzi stated in his blog: "I have always been a supporter of GateWorld and consider it the premiere site for Stargate fans online. In fact, I was the one who suggested to MGM Marketing several years back, that they look toward establishing some sort of working relationship with Darren and GateWorld." Looking back on producing SG-1 ' season 5, Joseph Mallozzi also stated in 2011: "And, when we weren't writing or producing, we were checking out Gateworld which

3630-463: Is set 30 years into the future and follows Gus Bonner and his team. Bonner's team was created after he was framed for a crime he did not commit. He escaped from Stargate Command (SGC) after the hostile alien race Tlak'kahn attacked the SGC to find the chrysalis. Together with his team he escapes through the Stargate with the chrysalis. From that point forward they go from planet to planet until they find

3751-555: Is the conclusion of Stargate SG-1 's Ori arc, and picks up after the SG-1 series finale, but takes place before the fourth season of Stargate Atlantis . The Ark of Truth was released as a Region   1 DVD release on March 11, 2008. Sky One has broadcast the film on March 24, 2008, to be followed by the Region   2 DVD release on April 28, 2008, with the Region   4 DVD release on April 9, 2008. Stargate: Continuum

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3872-412: 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

3993-574: The Billboard chart Top Video Rentals on April 29, 1995. The positive reviews stated that it was an "instant camp classic" and praised the film for its special effects and entertainment value, with Chris Hicks of the Deseret News calling it " Star Wars meets Ben Hur ". 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

4114-522: The Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis television shows. A series of books written by Bill McCay , published from 1995 to 1999, were unofficial sequels to the film. From 1999 to 2001, ROC published four novels based in Stargate SG-1 written by Ashley McConnell . In 2004, UK-based Fandemonium Press started a new series of licensed tie-in novels based on Stargate SG-1 . Due to

4235-552: The Make-a-Wish Foundation through a series of auction evenings. Metro–Goldwyn–Mayer (MGM) and Bridge Studios donated props and costumes. Because of the financial crisis , Gatecon decided to not hold any convention until 2010 in Vancouver, British Columbia , Canada. Gatecon's founder Allan Gowen said, "With the current world economic status it is making it harder and harder for people to attend conventions," as

4356-525: The SG-1 characters of Daniel Jackson , Cameron Mitchell , Samantha Carter and Jack O'Neill , with the hope that Michael Shanks , Ben Browder and Amanda Tapping all return in some capacity to their respective roles. Wright also expressed that if the series does go ahead, he would want Tapping to direct, with it being clarified by Tapping that the series was not in active production, but still being worked on by Wright. In March 2022, Amazon completed

4477-583: The Sci Fi Channel announced that it would not be renewing Stargate SG-1 for an eleventh season after a series of poor performances in the Nielsen ratings . Many fans were enraged at the news, even creating websites in reaction to exhibit their commitment to the series. Spokesmen for the production have said all options for the continuation of SG-1 are being considered, including complete digital broadcasting. Executive producer Robert C. Cooper told

4598-463: The Sci-Fi Channel after its fifth season. It starred Richard Dean Anderson (as O'Neill ) and Michael Shanks (as Jackson ), alongside Amanda Tapping , Christopher Judge and Don S. Davis respectively playing the new characters Samantha Carter , Teal'c and George Hammond . The cast remained fairly regular for most of SG-1' s run, but experienced some changes. Michael Shanks left

4719-665: The TV series , but not quite." In 1995, Stargate was considered for various film awards worldwide. It won six of the ten awards it was nominated for. Two video games based on the film were published by Acclaim Entertainment : a 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 . Devlin and Emmerich always envisioned Stargate as

4840-402: The pharaoh in the opening credits was made out of fiberglass and modeled in the workshop. The sequence used a motion-control camera to give better depth of field. 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

4961-515: The 12 years of mythology created by SG-1 and Atlantis if they are ever produced. On July 4, 2011, Dean Devlin spoke out again saying he had not given up on the idea of sequels to his 1994 feature film. He talked about the idea again in a new interview with Collider. Devlin actually wrote it as a trilogy of movies, but was never able to do parts two and three. His hope was, as the series started to wind down, that perhaps it would be time to actually get to do parts two and three: I think it'll change

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5082-597: The Canadian visual effects company Rainmaker . 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. On September 5, 2013, during an interview with Digital Spy , Emmerich said that he and MGM are planning

5203-519: The Earth-humans, the locals and the successors of Ra. 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. Dean Devlin eventually gave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) the rights over the film, and author Bill McCay wrote a series of five novels based on Emmerich's notes, continuing

5324-488: 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." Footprints in

5445-456: The Region   2 DVD released on August 18, 2008; followed by possible TV broadcasts. The film is a time-travel adventure and is the second sequel to Stargate SG-1 , after Stargate: The Ark of Truth . Stargate: Children of the Gods is a direct-to-DVD movie written by Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright and directed by Mario Azzopardi . The Stargate SG-1 pilot episode was re-cut as

5566-620: The US earned MGM/Fox $ 1.59   million in rentals in the first week after the release, and another $ 1.38   million in rentals in the second week. In its third week it earned US$ 1.19   million in rentals totaling $ 4.16   million. The DVD has also earned $ 9   million in sales. Stargate: Continuum would go on to gross over $ 8   million United States dollars in the United States. The film sparked mostly positive reviews with movie critics. A third Stargate SG-1 movie

5687-646: The adventures of the "Atlantis expedition", an international combination of military forces and civilian scientists who travel to the Pegasus Galaxy in search of the Lost City of Atlantis , built by the ancient race of beings who had built the Stargates. Throughout the five-year run the show mostly focused on the expedition fighting an alien species known as the Wraith, who are required to periodically feed on humans to survive and for thousands of years terrorised

5808-580: The alien calling itself Ra had belonged to, and their leaders known as the System Lords while liberating both the human populations they had enslaved throughout the galaxy as well as their enslaved armies of mutated humans known as the Jaffa . For the final two seasons the show moved to a new threat, the Ori, which were inspired by Arthurian legend. The series debuted on Showtime on July 27, 1997, and moved to

5929-415: The broadcast of Stargate SG-1 's milestone 200th episode. With the cancellation of Stargate SG-1 , Gateworld announced its support for SaveStargateSG1, a fan run campaign to get international networks and executives to show support for Stargate SG-1 and to help get it back on the air. Although the webpage focuses on news coverage and the episode guides, it includes a large encyclopedia , reviews, and

6050-493: 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 lb was about the right amount." The use of computers generating a big 3D storyboard allowed Emmerich to try out different shooting angles before settling on one angle. The film's score was composed by David Arnold , played by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by Nicholas Dodd. It

6171-401: The cancellation of Stargate Atlantis . Syfy announced on December 16, 2010, that they would not pick the show up for a third season. The final episode aired May 9, 2011. The shows focuses on an expedition being stranded several billion light years from Earth on board an Ancient ship called Destiny, which has been traveling through the universe uncrewed for millions of years. The show follows

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6292-502: 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. 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 . French Stewart 's character

6413-532: The character of Catherine Langford and is a prequel both to the television continuity and to the original feature film. The shooting began in August 2017 and series premiered online at the Stargate Command website on February 15, 2018. The cast includes Ellie Gall as the young Catherine Langford , Connor Trinneer as Catherine's father, Professor Paul Langford, Aylam Orian as Dr. Wilhelm Brücke,

6534-457: The cliffhanger that ended the show. The predominant story arc thus ran for more than 15 years, including 18 seasons (364 episodes) of programming, and 22 comic book issues as of January 2020. However, a variety of other media either ignore this main continuity or reset it, while maintaining essential elements that define the franchise (mainly, the inclusion of a Stargate device). These include the 2002 animated series Stargate Infinity . In 2017,

6655-486: 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. While the 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, on the television series this effect was completely created in computer graphics by

6776-740: The conflict with ROC's license, these books were available in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and the UK, but not in the US. Fandemonium books became available in the US in 2006. The official Stargate Magazine , produced by Titan Publishing, began publishing short stories written by Fandemonium authors in their 8th issue. The stories alternate between SG-1 and Atlantis . A series of comic books , based on Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis , began to be published by Avatar Press in 2003. Five have been published to date, with stories by James Anthony and artwork by Jorge Correa. In February 2008, it

6897-404: The crew as they struggle to survive on board Destiny with no apparent way home. The show was intended to have a darker tone than its predecessors and delve more into the humanity of the characters and their relationships with each other. In July 2017, a web series called Stargate Origins was announced at a San Diego Comic-Con Panel celebrating the franchise's 20th anniversary. It focuses on

7018-486: 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. 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

7139-543: The end of the third season, Higginson and McGillion were removed as regulars, both serving recurring roles in the 4th season. Season   4 brought in Amanda Tapping, reprising her role as Samantha Carter from SG-1, and Jewel Staite in a recurring role. Tapping left the show for Season   5 to concentrate on Sanctuary , and was replaced by Robert Picardo , who reprised his role as Richard Woolsey from both SG-1 and Atlantis . However, in late summer 2008 it

7260-484: The evidence to clear their names while learning about the unique cultures in the galaxy , so that they can one day return to Earth . The story arc was never resolved because of low viewership ratings and the show was cancelled in 2003. Stargate Infinity premiered in September 2002 as part of 4Kids Entertainment 's FOX BOX Saturday morning line-up on FOX and went off the air in June 2003. Due to its lack of popularity

7381-451: The fansite GateWorld exclusively that he was working to continue SG-1 . Currently, no network or company has ordered new episodes of SG-1 , so the show is on hold until a new buyer can be found. However, SciFi has attempted to block other networks from taking up the show, citing its original exclusive contract with MGM. Atlantis proved to be as successful as SG-1 , with Nielsen ratings and viewership. The Stargate franchise in 2009 won

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7502-431: The film to a whole other level". Arnold later interviewed the actors during principal photography , using the information to improve his score. 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

7623-526: The film was named Abydos in the series and the distance from Earth changed from millions of light-years 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

7744-469: The film with the television series Stargate SG-1 without the input of Emmerich and Devlin. Stargate SG-1 has won the Saturn Award for Best Syndicated Television Series on numerous occasions, and its cast has won similar awards for acting. More recently, it received acclaim for its visual effects , which increased in quality and realism as the show gained a larger budget. On August 21, 2006,

7865-423: The final movie roughly seven minutes shorter than the original episode. Stargate Atlantis was a spin-off television series from Stargate SG-1 . A new feature film was originally intended to transition the two series after the sixth season of SG-1 . Later, SG-1 was renewed for a seventh season, and the feature film was then planned to transition that season. Finally, when SG-1 was renewed for an eighth season,

7986-402: The first part of a trilogy of films, but Parts 2 and 3 were never developed. 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. According to Devlin, the second film is intended to be set around twelve years after the original, with Jackson making

8107-474: The first television show after 10 seasons. In 2011, Stargate Universe , the last Stargate program on television ended its run. Brad Wright announced that there were no more plans to continue the same story in further productions. In 2016, comic publisher American Mythology acquired the rights to publish new Stargate Atlantis stories set within the established franchise canon. This was expanded in 2017 to include new Stargate Universe comics as well, resolving

8228-425: The franchise in some capacity. In January 2019, Wright elaborated that his conversations with MGM pertained to continuing the television franchise in a way that fully acknowledged the "several hundred hours of show that's already out there" and not simply honouring it. In July 2020, SG-1 , Atlantis and Universe writer-producer Joseph Mallozzi teased Wright's project, commenting that "we've never been closer to

8349-530: The franchise was briefly revived with the announcement of a new prequel web series, Stargate Origins . Episodes premiered on a central "fan hub" for the franchise called Stargate Command, with a single season of ten 10-minute episodes. The Stargate franchise is built around the in-universe titular device of the Stargate , a ring-shaped device built by an ancient intergalactic race of beings that allows almost instantaneous travel across vast distances via wormholes that can be "dialed" between any two Stargates on

8470-451: The franchise. The first film already tapped into Egyptian mythology; the second one would have moved into other mythologies; and the third would have then tied all the mythologies together. Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis producer Brad Wright said in 2002 that "Devlin can wish to do a sequel to Stargate all he wants. MGM owns the rights, and I doubt very much that they'll ask him to do it. He knows better." These sequels would bypass

8591-524: The franchise. Since its early years, Stargate has grown in popularity in Great Britain , France , and Germany among other European countries. The American-written book, Reading Stargate SG-1 noted that the franchise was strong with female fans because of its feminist approach to certain characters, most notably Samantha Carter (portrayed by Amanda Tapping ). Brad Wright used the term "Gaters" to refer to fans of Stargate SG-1 in 2001, but

8712-441: 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. 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 lb, so we said 'Let's try 100—start

8833-487: The hieroglyphs. The stones are now part of a U.S. Air Force classified project overseen by Special Operations Colonel Jack O'Neil . Jackson determines that the hieroglyphs refer to a "stargate" which uses star constellations 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 " chevrons ") along its outside. When all seven chevrons are locked in,

8954-506: 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. (including original translation and later modification by Daniel Jackson) time year million sky Ra sun god sealed + buried coffin forever to eternity for all time his door to heaven stargate years million in sky this Ra as Aten (=sun disk) sealed buried enduringly and repeatedly door his to stars million years into

9075-664: The humans of the galaxy, all while preventing their new foes from reaching the Milky Way. Atlantis debuted on the Sci-Fi Channel on July 16, 2004, starring Joe Flanigan and Torri Higginson in the lead roles, with Rainbow Sun Francks , David Hewlett , and Rachel Luttrell alongside. Hewlett and Higginson's characters had previously appeared in SG-1 (though Higginson inherited the role from actress Jessica Steen ). In Atlantis' second season, Paul McGillion and Jason Momoa (replacing Francks) were added as regulars. At

9196-442: The initial "re-discovery" of the Stargate on Earth and the first expedition off-world. The film sees a team led by Colonel Jack O'Neil ( Kurt Russell ) and including Egyptologist Daniel Jackson ( James Spader ) venture through the Stargate to the planet of Abydos, finding a society of ancient Egyptian-speaking humans ruled by a space-faring alien posing in the role of the ancient Egyptian sun god Ra . The expedition eventually liberates

9317-460: The intended film instead became the two-part season finale episode " Lost City ", and the setting of Stargate Atlantis was moved to the Pegasus galaxy . This allowed the two shows to exist side-by-side within the same fictional universe , and later the two shows even become interconnected. Atlantis was developed by most of the same people and in the same studios as SG-1 . The series follows

9438-530: The license for Vancouver conventions in 2005. Wolf Events organized many SG-1 conventions in Europe, particularly in the UK and Germany. GateWorld (also known as GateWorld.net and abbreviated to GW ) is an English-language fan - news site -based webpage for British-Canadian American science fiction shows but lays most its weight on the Stargate franchise . It was started in 1999 by Stargate SG-1 fan Darren Sumner, to be an online community for fans of

9559-564: The lukewarm reviews. Some regard it as Emmerich's breakthrough film. 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. From November 4–6, the film grossed around $ 12,368,700, declining 25%. It topped the box office for two weeks until it was dethroned by Interview with the Vampire . The film would continue this decline until

9680-590: The main characters Daniel Jackson and Jack O'Neill (which was re-spelled to include an extra "L"). The setting was transferred from a fictional military facility located in Creek Mountain, to Stargate Command which was based in the Cheyenne Mountain Complex . The show for the first eight seasons initially focused on efforts by Stargate Command to combat the Goa'uld, the race of beings to whom

9801-548: The negativity focused on what was criticized as overuse of special effects, thinness of plot, and excessive use of clichés . Roger Ebert went so far as to say, "The movie 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. Mike DiBella from Allmovie said, "There simply isn't enough spectacle in Stargate to make up for its many flaws." The film peaked at number one on

9922-403: The network. The shows themselves are typically set contemporaneous to when they were made, featuring real-world or "realistic" technologies in an otherwise science-fiction setting. Most incarnations of the franchise follow a similar structure, following the exploits of the lead expeditionary team of the show's setting on various one-off or season-arc continuing episodes, with major differences being

10043-430: The original film are unrelated to the development of 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. Using some of Emmerich's notes, Bill McCay wrote a series of five novels, continuing the story the original creators had envisioned, which involved

10164-437: 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

10285-402: The plans to make a reboot of a potential new series were stalled. In September 2018, it was reported that SG-1 , Atlantis and Universe showrunner Brad Wright had been approached by MGM about continuing the franchise. The following year, SG-1 stars Amanda Tapping and Richard Dean Anderson further confirmed that they'd spoken to Wright and expressed their own interest in returning to

10406-482: The principal setting and main villains faced. Due to multiple developers working separately and independently on the franchise over the years, the various Stargate productions are not entirely consistent with each other; and while no set of works forms an official canon , the largest following exists for the three live-action series. The titular 1994 film Stargate , directed by Roland Emmerich and co-written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin , focuses on

10527-487: The production teams nor the fans of Stargate consider Infinity to be an official part of the Stargate universe. According to Stargate SG-1 co-creator Brad Wright , the animated series should not be considered official Stargate canon . Commenting on it, he stated, "I don't have a problem with it. I'm just not involved." Stargate took in $ 16.7   million on its opening weekend and $ 196.6   million overall, and received mixed reactions from critics; while it

10648-471: 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

10769-502: The reason why there is not going to be any Gatecon in 2009. Until 2005, Gatecon was the main Stargate SG-1 fan convention. It was held in the Vancouver area, with more actor and crew member participation than other conventions. SG-1 conventions by Creation Entertainment were also marketed as "The Official Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis Tour", which mostly took place in the United States until Creation Entertainment acquired

10890-444: 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

11011-480: The rights to the show and released the entire series to DVD on May 13, 2008, in Region   1. As of 2009 , there is yet to come a release of Stargate Infinity package in Region   4, namely Oceania and Latin America. The writers and producers of Stargate SG-1 , Stargate Atlantis and Stargate Universe and the main canon of the Stargate franchise were not involved with Infinity , and neither MGM,

11132-433: 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

11253-594: The scene was ultimately cut for time concerns. The film received a warm reception from the public, grossing $ 71,567,262 at the United States box office and $ 125 million internationally for a worldwide total of $ 196,567,262. At the time, the film set a record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film released in the month of October. It would hold this record for four years until 1998 when Antz took it. In its first run, Stargate made more money than film industry insiders predicted, considering

11374-403: 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." Stargate

11495-458: The sequels. The actors reportedly expressed an interest in participating in the project. 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." Plans for sequels to

11616-566: The show at the end of Season   5 and was replaced by Corin Nemec as Jonas Quinn . Shanks returned at the beginning of Season   7 and Nemec was written out. At the end of Season   7 Davis left the show and Anderson filled the gap he left in the story. Season   9 saw the departure of Anderson , but added new regulars Beau Bridges and Ben Browder . After a debut episode in Season 8, followed by appearances in eight episodes of Season 9, Claudia Black 's popular reception earned her

11737-459: The show is almost completely unrecognized. The series was cancelled before any of its story arcs could be resolved. The show was of low budget , which was constantly noted by the media. DIC Entertainment released a 4-episode DVD on October 7, 2003, in Region   1. MGM Home Entertainment released a five disc season box set on August 13, 2007, in Region   2. Shout! Factory , a company known for releasing cult animated series, acquired

11858-481: The show. Through its relationship with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), GateWorld occasionally offers exclusive news reports such as the recurring appearance of Claudia Black in season nine of Stargate SG-1 and the announcement of the third Stargate live-action television series being in development and the casting of Brian J. Smith in this new show. GateWorld has an extensive show encyclopedia, cast interviews, an online store, forum , articles, reviews as well as

11979-408: The sky is Ra Sun God sealed and buried for all time his Stargate The film in its original cut and in the director's cut plays out in 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

12100-409: The society from the control of the alien, killing it in the process, before the survivors (bar Daniel, who had ingrained himself with the locals) return to Earth. In 1997, Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright co-developed Stargate SG-1 , a television series intended to continue the story laid down by the original film. Although new actors were cast, several roles from the film were reprised, including

12221-629: The story the original creators had envisioned. In 1996, MGM hired Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner to create a spin-off television series. Stargate SG-1 premiered on the American subscription channel 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). SG-1 creators and executive producers Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner altered

12342-404: The subspace wormhole of a Stargate to another galaxy's Stargate). 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 " Goa'uld System Lords ", a race of parasitic eel-like creatures. There were also changes to the Stargate. The unique set of 39 Stargate symbols in the film was replaced with

12463-478: The success of the Stargate television series, in 2006, Dean Devlin said: "He has struck a production deal with MGM and is developing the long-delayed sequel feature films that will pick up the story from the 1994 original." According to Devlin, two movie sequels would have picked up the story from the 1994 original, but not the mythology of the SG-1 and Atlantis series, with the original stars Kurt Russell and James Spader. Devlin regretted giving MGM control over

12584-406: The term was never fully adopted. Some fans believe that there was a real Stargate device under Cheyenne Mountain that inspired writers Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie to come up with their own conspiracy story for season 4's " Point of No Return ". The fansite GateWorld became a major franchise news site with special arrangements with MGM; GateWorld's founder Darren Sumner was later hired to serve as

12705-425: 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 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

12826-493: The universe. The central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization . Stargate was released on October 28, 1994 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the United States, while it was released by 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 million worldwide against

12947-529: 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".) The Stargate Command setting was transferred from the fictional military facility located in Creek Mountain, to the Cheyenne Mountain military complex . The unnamed planet from

13068-411: Was also nominated in 2006. The producers of the Stargate franchise are in good contact with GateWorld and have mentioned the website favorably in several audio commentaries. In 2004, Darren Sumner was invited to tour through the sets of Stargate Atlantis and to interview the members of the series' crew. Since then, he and partner David Read make an annual pilgrimage to Vancouver , where the franchise

13189-433: Was announced that Big Finish Productions would release officially licensed audiobooks featuring members of the cast reading new stories. The first two stories, available on CD and digital download, are Gift of the Gods read by Michael Shanks and A Necessary Evil read by Torri Higginson . After Bill McCay had written a series of five novels continuing the story the original creators had envisioned, and despite

13310-490: Was announced that SciFi would not renew Atlantis . The final episode aired on January 9, 2009. Stargate Universe is the third live-action Stargate series, and premiered on October 2, 2009. The series was pitched to the Sci Fi Channel in the fall of 2007, just before the writer's strike – which put a hold on the project. "The pitch was received very well," according to Stargate Atlantis co-creator Brad Wright. Sci Fi Channel ordered Universe after announcing

13431-464: Was cut short afterwards. Russell requested his hair color to be brightened a little for the film. The fictional facility housing the Stargate was the largest set for the film, the former Spruce Goose Dome located in Long Beach, California . Egyptologist Stuart Tyson Smith joined the production to make all Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics and spoken language as accurate as possible. The mask of

13552-426: Was developed by Darren Sumner, an SG-1 fan, to be an online community for the show Stargate SG-1 , similar to web sites for other science fiction shows. Though the site focused on Stargate , other parts of the site were devoted to other sci-fi series in the form of episode guides. It was during this time that Starguide was given the new name GateWorld. The main site was completely redesigned in 2006 to coincide with

13673-451: Was developing a television series of Stargate with MGM and that it would be a continuation, not a reboot. He also confirmed that whilst things were progressing, the industry shutdown during the coronavirus pandemic was slowing aspects of the development. In a series of podcasts in March and May 2021, Wright continued to offer small updates on the project, including that his script features

13794-633: Was fast becoming THE one stop shop for everything Stargate . In fact, Gateworld was so impressive in its scope and detail that we eventually abandoned updating the show's massive bible [...] in favor of directing prospective freelancers to the site. It blew all other Stargate -related sites, even the studio's which paled by comparison. Over the years, Gateworld evolved alongside the franchise, growing and improving. In later years, I would roll my eyes and fans on other forums would accuse Darren and David – "the Gateworld guys" as we called them – of simply being

13915-505: Was filmed. 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. To keep within the budget, the producers put stick figures with cloth in the distant desert to appear as humans. The original Stargate

14036-502: Was painted black, but it looked like a giant tire so it was repainted silver at the last moment. Daniel Jackson's lecture on his theories was filmed in a hotel in Los Angeles. 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. The scenes with O'Neil at his house were the first ones filmed with Kurt Russell; his hair

14157-432: Was panned by some critics such as Roger Ebert , several positive reviews counterbalanced this leading to a score of 46% on Rotten Tomatoes . Although the film was originally intended as the first of a trilogy, Emmerich and Devlin ultimately moved on to produce Independence Day , and it was not until 2006 that Devlin showed renewed interest in developing sequels. In the intervening time, copyright-holder MGM succeeded

14278-415: Was planned to follow Continuum , but the third movie was put on hold with any other future Stargate movies; the film would have centered around the character of Jack O'Neill . In 2010 Stargate was estimated to have injected $ 1 billion in to the economy of British Columbia . There are three series of novels based on the Stargate franchise, one based on the original Stargate film and two based in

14399-429: Was released in the United States and Canada on October 28, 1994. In 1995, the film was released on VHS and as a Dolby Digital -encoded laserdisc spanning two discs (three sides). 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. The film

14520-445: Was released on Blu-ray format on August 29, 2006. 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). The suit was later settled out of court. The director's cut had several scenes which were cut from

14641-490: 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. According to Arnold, "when I first read

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