Stargate Hasn’t Received a Sequel 20 Years Later, Here’s Why By I saw Stargate in the theater when I was younger and didn’t quite get it. I thought the first part of the movie was interesting but a little boring. I loved some of the visual spectacle and action, but it didn’t click as a whole experience until years later.
Even after that, I never held the movie in as high regard as some of my friends and couldn’t get into the show. A buddy loaned me the first two seasons back in college, and it just wasn’t happening. Even though I love Richard Dean Anderson, I sort of gave up on the IP, not wanting to insult my friends who liked it, but part of me figured: if it is so good, there would be movie sequels, right? Stargate has a rich premise and has always felt so close to the heels of the giants in this genre.
What if we dug up an interstellar gate, a wormhole to another distant planet, ruled by an alien resembling Ra whose origins may explain the mysteries of Earth’s Egyptian mythology? Can the team convince these inhabitants to rebel against their overlord and help them get home? There’s a lot of potential there, not just for a single movie. The gate was poised to take audiences on any number of adventures, which happened, just not on the big screen. The movie had a rough start, with many questioning the scope, some of the actors, and the script.
It was an independent film, unattached to any major studio, and financed through StudioCanal, a production company th.