Stargate
Director: Roland Emmerich
Genre: Adventure, Science Fiction, Thriller, Action, Sci-Fi Adventure
Year: 1994
Country: United States of America, France
Language: English Language, Norwegian Language
Starring: James Spader, Kurt Russell, Jaye Davidson, John Diehl, Alexis Cruz, Viveca Lindfors, French Stewart, Erick Avari, Mili Avital, Leon Rippy, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou, Gianin Loffler
Stargate is a 1994 American French adventure-military science fiction film released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and Carolco Pictures. Created by Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich, the film is the first release in the Stargate franchise. Directed by Roland Emmerich, the film stars Kurt Russell, James Spader, Jaye Davidson, Carlos Lauchu, Djimon Hounsou, Erick Avari, Alexis Cruz, Mili Avital, John Diehl, French Stewart, and Viveca Lindfors. The plot centers around the premise of a "Stargate", an ancient ring-shaped device that creates a wormhole enabling travel to a similar device elsewhere in the universe. The film's central plot explores the theory of extraterrestrial beings having an influence upon human civilization.
The film had a mixed initial critical reception, earning both praise and criticism for its atmosphere, story, characters, and graphic content. Nevertheless, Stargate gained a cult following and became a commercial success worldwide. Devlin and Emmerich gave the rights to the franchise to MGM when they were working on their 1996 film Independence Day (the rights to the Stargate film are currently owned by StudioCanal, with Lions Gate Entertainment handling most
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