Stargate (1994 film)
Roland Emmerich's 1994 film that began the franchise.
Stargate is a 1994 science fiction adventure film directed by Roland Emmerich, written by Emmerich and Dean Devlin, and starring Kurt Russell, James Spader and Jaye Davidson. It is the first work in the franchise, released by MGM on October 28, 1994.
Quick Facts
- Director
- Roland Emmerich
- Producer
- Joel B. Michaels
- Oliver Eberle
- Dean Devlin
- Writer
- Dean Devlin; Roland Emmerich
- Starring
- Kurt Russell
- James Spader
- Jaye Davidson
- Viveca Lindfors
- Music
- David Arnold
- Cinematography
- Karl Walter Lindenlaub
- Editing
- Michael J. Duthie; Derek Brechin
- Studio
- Centropolis Film Productions
- Carolco Pictures
- Le Studio Canal+
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Background
In 1928 an excavation at Giza uncovers a large metal ring. Decades later the Egyptologist Daniel Jackson works out the symbols on its cover stones, and a team under Colonel Jack O'Neil travels through the ring to the desert world Abydos, ruled by Ra, an alien posing as the sun god. The film grossed about $196.6 million on a $55 million budget and led to Stargate SG-1 in 1997. Ra's ship arrives at night in a sandstorm and lands on top of the pyramid on Abydos. At the climax, when the bomb O'Neil brought cannot be disarmed, he and Jackson send it aboard the ship with its teleportation rings, and it destroys the ship and kills Ra as he tries to escape.
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