Editing Stargate (film) (section)

===Television spin-offs===
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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]]'' (2002–03), and the live-action television series ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' (2004–09) and ''[[Stargate Universe]]'' (2009–11).

====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>