Just when ‘Stargate’ fans had a glimmer of hope about a new big screen outing, their dreams have been dashed.

That is according to Dean Devlin, the writer and producer of this year’s ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’. He also penned the 1994 ‘Stargate’ movie starring Kurt Russell and James Spader that was directed by Roland Emmerich.

Speaking to Empire (via Den of Geek), Devlin revealed that the proposed reboot, again helmed by Emmerich, had been canned.

“It looked good for a couple of months, but now it’s not looking so good. There are just a lot of things that have to fire at the same time, and there was a moment where I thought it was all firing at the same time, and then it all kind of fell apart.”

Despite there being an audience in place already due to the popularity of both the first movie and the successful TV series ‘Stargate SG1′, it appears both he and Emmerich had other commitments or lost interest.

However, with ‘Independence Day: Resurgence’ performing so badly at the box office this summer, there’s every chance potential producers and indeed production company were hard to come by.

‘Resurgence’ didn’t even make it past the $400 million mark at the global box office and cost a hefty $165 million to make. Taking into account marketing costs, a film usually needs to double its budget to break even, so the sci-fi blockbuster barely made anything.

Yet he still had ideas over how a rebooted film could work, free from the constraints of a major studio.

“I think if we did ‘Stargate’ right, the fans would like it and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they’ll reject it. As they should. But I kind of don’t want to do it if I think that we’ll screw it up, and that’s one of the things that’s holding us back.”

As with everything - ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ being a prime example - bringing back or continuing the story of classic sci-fi properties has to be done well. Otherwise you’ll seriously annoy your core fan base who are essentially the ones who’ll be spreading the good (or bad) word about it.

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“Elements of it will flow into the reboot, definitely. The amount of characters, for instance. It’s not a two-hander like the first one with James Spader and Kurt Russell, this time it’s a bigger group. Yes, there’s still the James Spader character and the Kurt Russell character, but other people are equally important. James and Kurt won’t come back – maybe as cameos – it’ll be a younger cast.” (x)

I’m guessing there won’t be any of what I liked the most of SG-1, namely Tok'ra and Goa'uld :(

Goa'uld maybe. I mean, Ra was one and he was in the original film so they might feature in the reboot. Tok’ra, no way. They were a SG-1 thing. Sorry.

It’s going to be Stargate 200 all over again with an all young cast

*sobs* why doesn’t the Stargate fandom get a revival whyyyy Star Wars and Star Trek both got theirs ITS OUR TURN

There’s supposed to be a revival sometime soon. The same guys who did the original movie claim that they are going to redo it and make it into a trilogy. Unfortunately they would ignore anything from the series. They said that they would start production after filming the sequel to Independence Day, which has just come out with a trailer. I believe that they hired writers for it in March.

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