Editing Stargate (film) (section)

==Cast==
* [[Kurt Russell]] as [[Jack O'Neill|Colonel Jonathan J. "Jack" O'Neil]], a career [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] [[Air Force Special Operations Command|Special Operations]] officer, who suffers a period of suicidal depression after his son accidentally shoots and kills himself with O'Neil's own pistol. When his commission is reactivated, he willingly enters the Stargate, fully aware that he will likely not survive to return to Earth. In real life, Kurt Russell served in the [[California Air National Guard]] and belonged to the [[146th Tactical Airlift Wing]], then based in Van Nuys.<ref name="acdevlin" /> Russell turned down the role multiple times, until it was realized he was sent an early version of the script, so he was sent the completed shooting script and accepted it.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://variety.com/2019/film/features/stargate-25-anniversary-roland-emmerich-kurt-russell-1203384063/ | title='Stargate' at 25: How Roland Emmerich's Sci-Fi Classic Overcame a Chaotic Birth | date=October 29, 2019 }}</ref>
* [[James Spader]] as [[Daniel Jackson (Stargate)|Dr. Daniel Jackson]], an archaeologist and linguist whose theory that the [[pharaoh]]s of the [[Fourth Dynasty of Egypt|Fourth Dynasty]] did not build the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] is not very widely accepted. Actor James Spader was intrigued by the script because he found it "awful", but, after meeting director Roland Emmerich, got excited about it for he "realized that making this picture was going to be such an adventure that out of that would come an adventure on screen."<ref name="Entertainment Weekly">{{cite magazine|last=Asher-Walsh|first=Rebecca|date=November 11, 1994|title=James Spader is Slack Happy|url=https://ew.com/article/1994/11/11/james-spader-slack-happy/|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]}}</ref>
* [[Jaye Davidson]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Ra|Ra]], a powerful [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] in human form. After voyaging across the [[universe]], searching for a new host that could sustain his dying body, Ra took the form of a curious adolescent boy and enslaved the people of his planet (Earth). Using a [[Stargate (device)|Stargate]], he transported people from Earth to another planet until the humans on Earth rebelled and buried their Stargate. Reluctant to continue acting after his debut in ''[[The Crying Game]]'', Davidson took the role after his request for $1&nbsp;million in pay was accepted.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://stack.com.au/film-tv/whatever-happened-to-jaye-davidson/|title=Whatever happened to... Jaye Davidson?|date=May 29, 2020}}</ref> ''Stargate'' was the final major film for Davidson, who subsequently retired from acting. Kairon John plays the masked Ra and Dax Biagas plays the young Ra.
* [[Viveca Lindfors]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Catherine Langford|Dr. Catherine Langford]], the civilian leader of the Stargate project who was present when the Stargate was uncovered in Giza in 1928, where her father gave her the [[amulet]] depicting the [[Eye of Ra]]. ''Stargate'' was Lindfors' penultimate film.<ref name="acdevlin" /> [[Kelly Vint Castro]] portrays the young Catherine.
* [[Alexis Cruz]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Skaara|Skaara]], the son of Kasuf and brother of Sha'uri. Skaara and his friends aid O'Neil and his men to fight Ra.
* [[Mili Avital]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Sha're|Sha'uri]], the daughter of Kasuf. Kasuf offers Sha'uri to Daniel Jackson in marriage as a gift.
* [[Leon Rippy]] as [[Major general|Major General]] W. O. West, the commanding officer of the facility housing the Stargate device
* [[John Diehl]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Charles Kawalsky|Lt. Colonel Charles Kawalsky]], O'Neil's second-in-command
* Carlos Lauchu as [[Anubis]], the captain of Ra's personal guard
* [[Djimon Hounsou]] as [[Horus]], a personal guard of Ra
* [[Erick Avari]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Kasuf|Kasuf]], the local leader of the people living in a city near the Stargate, and the father of Sha'uri and Skaara
* [[French Stewart]] as [[List of Stargate SG-1 characters#Louis Ferretti|Lt. Louis Ferretti]], a member of O'Neil's team
* Christopher John Fields as Lt. Freeman, a member of O'Neil's team
* [[Derek Webster (actor)|Derek Webster]] as [[Senior Airman]] Brown, a member of O'Neil's team
* Jack Moore as Senior Airman Reilly, a member of O'Neil's team
* Steve Giannelli as Lt. Porro, a member of O'Neil's team
* [[Rae Allen]] as Dr. Barbara Shore, a researcher studying the Stargate
* [[Richard Kind]] as Dr. Gary Meyers, a researcher studying the Stargate