Summary
Back in 1994,Roland EmmerichandDean Devlinwowed sci-fi audiences withStargate.
This original feature re-imagined ancient mythology as a reflection of not the divine, but the otherworldly.
It turns out, Emmerich and Devlin had the whole thing figured out, untilStargate SG-1got in the way.
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Before you hop through the gate, be sure you know where you’re going.
Of course, by this time, MGM had alreadylaunched aStargatetelevision franchise, beginning with the famedStargate SG-1.
“Fans love the series, so much that it got a sequel,” the producer noted.
“So it’s alive, well and in good shape.
But it would be great to finish telling the story we set out to tell 12 years ago.”
Devlin believed that bothStargateprojects could co-exist in the same creative space, but MGM didn’t necessarily agree.
“[It] was about a space ship buried underneath the Great Pyramid of Egypt.
And when we met, he pitched meNecropol, and I told him mine.”
So why would Jackson and O’Neil reunite for Part 2?
“The second one was going to deal with, ‘Why are there pyramids in Mayan culture?'”
But that’s not all.
Even the Loch Ness Monster would’ve been involved.
Despite hopes that Devlin could convince MGM to change their minds, nothing came to fruition.
The originalStargatestory was long gone, and it was us fans who suffered most.
Though we could’ve had two simultaneousStargatenarratives running (not unliketheJ.J.
What’s the Current State of the Stargate Franchise?
Part of the reason that aStargatesequel is unlikely to occur is thatMGM sold to Amazon in 2021.
With Amazon at the helm,aStargatereboot might finally happen.
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The Showtime-turned-Sci-Fi Channel series ran for a whole decade and furtherdiversified Emmerich and Devlins original concept.
Stargateis available to watch on Tubi in the U.S.
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