Roland Emmerich
What’s old is new again in the endlessly recycle happy place called Hollywood these days, though it’s been going on for a lot longer than that. With the 70′s mined and the 80′s getting worked on and even a few into the 90′s these days, it’s no surprise that in an effort to find blockbusters that can draw an audience with built in recognition that Stargate would surface again. After the 1994 film and many, many TV series and episodes, there’s definitely a lot to work with there and while it won’t bring back the film cast, director Roland Emmerich is set to do it.
“We went to MGM, who has the rights, and proposed to them to do a sequel, but as a reboot … and reboot it as a movie and then do three parts,” Emmerich told Digital Spy. “Pretty soon we’ll have to look for a writer and start.”
Emmerich has a lot of affinity for the feature, which spawned quite a few spinoffs and tie-ins along the way with books, games and even the cartoon, so it’s little surprise that he wants to try and revive it and work with some new actors by using the nature of the gates to do something with it.
Similarly, Emmerich is doing a bit of 90′s revival already by working on Independence Day 2, which is scheduled for a July 3rd, 2015 release with Will Smith potentially set to revisit it. “There are those people who make mainstream commercial films in order to further their career so that they can one day get to make the movie they’ve always dreamed of making,” Devlin told Hero Complex earlier this year. “And then there’s those people who really, really love mainstream movies, and Roland’s one of those people. He approaches these films with the same amount of love and passion as Scorsese does when he does an art picture.”
[Source: Hero Complex]