Independence Day: Resurgence Kills Stargate Sequel?

STARGATE, Kurt Russell, 1994

At one point, along with an Independence Day sequel, they were going to allow Roland Emmerich to follow up with a new Stargate movie.

Speaking with Empire recently Dean Devlin says that though the project was looking promising for quite some time, it is no longer happening:

“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. It’s one of the reasons I prefer to work independently.

Listen, 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.

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. That kind of ‘collaboration’ is a terrifying aspect of the whole thing.”

Speculation, but ‘Resurgence’ probably killed it.  The abuse of CGI alone was some of the more egregious corner cutting I’ve ever seen.  One thing though, I’d really like to see Emmerich make another UniSol movie…