Roland Emmerich’s 1994 sci-fi adventure “Stargate” ended up grossing over $196 million worldwide, but the path to becoming a hit wasn’t easy. The independently-made film that opened 25 years …
SG-1,” direct to video movies, video games and comic books, but it was not well-received with audiences in early test screenings.’s character, Ra, a powerful and ruthless alien in human form who had enslaved people from Earth and taken them to another planet via the Stargate, an ancient, ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole.. “He was originally an Egyptian who worked for the aliens. He was the boss of the humans, but he was still slave to the aliens.
“Mario Kassar, who was our executive producer, was doing all the foreign sales,” Devlin recalls. “Jaye was not really what we saw in our heads when we wrote it, but if it helped to finance the movie, great.” Emmerich notes that the idea for “Stargate” originated with the 1970 documentary “Chariots of the Gods,” which he saw while in film school in Munich. Based on the book by Erik von Daniken, the doc theorizes that “aliens created all civilizations,” he says. “That got me thinking I could make a movie about that.”
And they did. “I remember six months before the movie came out, I hit every single sci-fi convention in the country,” Devlin recalls. “I set up a little booth to promote the movie.” But Russell didn’t like the script. Eventually, he agreed after producers hit the right salary number. “But then what we found out is that he had been given the wrong script,” Devlin remembers. “He was given a very early draft of the script that should never have gotten out. So, when he actually saw the shooting script he went, ‘Oh, this isn’t so bad.”’
“Stargate” also changed the career of young British composer David Arnold, who won an Emmy for his music for the series “Sherlock” and has since scored movies including “Independence Day” and 2006’s “Casino Royale.”
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