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==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]]'' (2002β03), and the live-action television series ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' (2004β09) and ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' (2009β11). ====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>
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