A film remake for the 'Stargate' franchise was already in the making, but recent reports say that the movie will not happen at all.
The original "Stargate" writer Dean Devlin explained that the potential sci-fi trilogy isn't going to happen anymore, according to reports from Empire Online. Devlin, who also collaborated with filmmaker Roland Emmerich, said that "[the movie] 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," continued the writer. "And there was a moment where I thought it was all firing at the same time, and then it all kind of fell apart."
For the other reasons, Devlin blamed the Hollywood blockbusters mentality for failing to revive "Stargate." With the original film being independently made, working with major studios has prevented the remade franchise from ever happened, according to the writer.
"You'd have several studios involved and a lot of voices and, you know, you may make something great, but you also may have something that doesn't resemble what you wanted to do," Devlin explaine. "That kind of 'collaboration' is a terrifying aspect of the whole thing."
Sometime last year, writers Nicolas Wright and James A. Wood were actually collaborating in recreating the script for the "Stargate" remake, according to IGN. The last movie they penned was the sequel "Independence Day: Resurgence," which received an underwhelming box office reception. But this might have impacted the writers' willingness to join in for the "Stargate" remake.
Until anything actually happens, audiences will have to just turn to original 1994 film that starred Kurt Russell and James Spader available in DVD and digital stores and also multiple TV series and direct-to-video movies.