Stargateis a truly unique franchise in pop culture history.

you’ve got the option to’t be a lovable Brat Packer forever.

Stargateweirdly got Spader’s attention because of how bad he thought it was.

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Kurt Russell got very upset with him.

He burst into his trailer and said ‘What are you doing?’

And Jim said, ‘Come on, admit it.

Col. Jack O’Neil (Kurt Russell) and Dr. Daniel Jackson (James Spader) travel to Abydos in ‘Stargate.'

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The dialogue is horrible.’

Kurt Russell said, ‘Of course, it’s horrible.

That’s why they pay you a million dollars.

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If it was brilliant, you’d do it for free.'"

(Suffice it to say thatSteven Soderberghand Roland Emmerich are two different flavors of director.)

“Once they started to understand the tone, they started to really get it.

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When the movie was finished, both actors were really pleased with it.

Your men don’t want to die, and these people here don’t want to die.

It’s a shame you’re in such a hurry to.”

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“They’ve always said they wanted to do it.

We were just going to kind of age them up as actors.

So it actually works out really nicely,“Devlin said during an interviewat San Diego Comic-Con 2006.

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