The new Stargate feature film may get a nudge forward in its time table.
Writer-producer Dean Devlin tells Nerd Report that he and director Roland Emmerich are currently working on just one of the Independence Day sequels — and waiting on the third installment for now.
That means that when Stargate rolls around on Emmerich’s directing schedule, it may only have to wait for one Independence Day movie and not two.
“Unfortunately, we have to wait until we finish Independence Day for that,” Devlin said of the Stargate reboot. “Roland wants to direct that one too. Hopefully we go into that right afterwards.”
“He’d like to direct the first one. I don’t know if he wants to do all three but he definitely would like to do the first one.”
The delay on a third Independence Day is strategic, Devlin said: “We decided just to do one first to make sure that people like where we’re going. If that works well, there’s an ability to do some world building which would be really fun and interesting to do. I think Roland and everybody felt, let’s just make sure 20 years later that people still are interested.
“I think in our case, we started to feel that maybe we were being a little bit arrogant by assuming that we could do two movies. We said you know what, let’s scale it down. Let’s first make sure that it works for everyone.”
ID Forever: Part 1 is currently scheduled to be released in the U.S. on June 24, 2016. So our guess that Stargate could arrive no earlier than the summer of 2017 is still holding.
Keep it locked on GateWorld for the latest on the planned trilogy of Stargate movies in the months to come!
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I can't believe anyone would actually want to see this. The Stargate film is, by far, the weakest aspect of the franchise (other than the cartoon). All three TV series were FAR superior to that weakly written and directed movie. Emmerich is a complete hack, and letting him do a sequel to that film instead of continuing the TV franchise is a massively stupid decision.
I am beyond excited. The original movie is what started the whole franchise, it was my introduction to the Stargate saga and it's because of it's success that the Stargate series even existed. Emmerich never did get the chance to tell the complete story the way he wanted to, and I'm nothing if not curious about where he intended it to go. I love the Stargate universe and everything about the shows, but they had their day in the sun. As much as I would love them to continue, I feel that they've run a healthy course. The Stargate universe is so vast and versatile, there's so much more that Emmerich could do with a new movie. I can't wait to see what else he creates.
So let me get this straight...
Independence Day, which was based upon the script for a Stargate Sequel, is getting made into a trilogy, in which they want to "world build".
At the same time they want to reboot Stargate, who's main popularity lies, not with casual audiences but with the TV series fans, so that they can "tell the story they always wanted to"...
Unless Emmerich concedes that the TV franchise is his strongest weapon and acknowledge that, I think any Stargate movie he makes may only generate moderate interest.
this is stupid, and this is selfish on the part of emmerich/devlin.
if mgm thinks giving the stargate franchise back to emmerich/devlin will breath new life into the franchise, i think both parties are in for a rude awakening.
17 seasons worth of stargate stories is going to be something *very* hard for emmerich and devlin to surpass.
but what do i know? i'm just a FAN.
It's like they want to revive the franchise just to kill it again.
Meh. The best part of the Stargate franchise was the TV series. I saw the original movie and wasn't all that impressed by it. The involvement of RDA was what drew me in (I grew up a huge MacGyver fan). With that said, I'm not saying that the reboot will be terrible. I will watch it, but not expecting to be blown away.
I'm not going to pass judgement on a Devlin/Emmerich Stargate re-boot until I've actually seen the movie. That said, I'm keeping my expectations low.
I have no interest in the movie other than to comment that I have no interest in the movie.
If (emmerich || devlin == respect TV series){
get good movie;
}else{
FAIL;
}
........Bazinga.......