The ‘Stargate’ Reboot Isn’t Happening Anytime Soon
Audiences weren’t too keen to jump back into the world ofIndependence Daythis past summer.Roland Emmerich’s all-around underwhelming sequel failed to match half the success of its predecessor. The pricey sequel didn’t connect with audiences, meaning we probably won’t seeIndependence Day 3’sintergalactic journeyanytime soon. Another sequel we maybe shouldn’t expect fromStonewalldirector Roland Emmerich? TheStargateone he’s been planning a long time.
Below, learn more about why theStargatereboot isn’t happening.
Back in 2013, Emmerich announced theStargatesequel/reboot. The director wanted to do aStargatetrilogy, which would somehow continue the story of the 1994 movie. Emmerich’s original film never launched a sequel, although there were successful television shows (Stargate SG-1andStargate Atlantis) based on the same core concept: a mysterious portal discovered in the desert can transport humans to a distant alien world. That alien world is ultimately a letdown in the film, but there’s worse company to have thanKurt RussellandJames Spaderin a decent enough sci-fi movie.
It’s unknown if either actor would’ve returned for the reboot/sequel, but producerDean DevlintoldEmpireit recently fell apart anyway:
It looked good for a couple of months, but now it’s not looking so good. There are just a lot of things that have to fire at the same time, and there was a moment where I thought it was all firing at the same time, and then it all kind of fell apart. It’s one of the reasons I prefer to work independently. Listen, I think if we didStargateright, the fans would like it and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they’ll reject it. As they should. But I kind of don’t want to do it if I think that we’ll screw it up, and that’s one of the things that’s holding us back.
The originalStargatewas made independently, while the reboot would involve both Warner Bros. and MGM. The producer added:
You’d have several studios involved and a lot of voices and, you know, you may make something great, but you also may have something that doesn’t resemble what you wanted to do. That kind of ‘collaboration’ is a terrifying aspect of the whole thing.'
The last we heard about theStargatereboot was thatIndependence Day: Resurgencewriters,Nicolas WrightandJames A. Woods, werewriting it. What their script was about we don’t know, but a decade ago, Devlin toldIGNthe sequel they first imagined in 1994 was going to take place 12 years later and follow the same group of characters. Both Devlin and Emmerich have always expressed interest in aStargatetrilogy, but it looks like they’ll have to wait a while longer to attempt to make it happen again.
