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Producer Dean Devlin reveals in a new interview that the effort to revive the 'Stargate' movie franchise has fallen apart.

Nov 19, 2016

AceShowbiz - The long gestating "Stargate" reboot is not happening. The project which was supposed to remake the original 1994 film and kick off a new trilogy has been canceled. It was producer Dean Devlin himself who brought the bad news.

James A. Woods and Nicolas Wright ("Independence Day: Resurgence") were originally hired to write the script. It's unclear whether or not the "Resurgence" box office disappointment has something to do with the cancellation.

"It looked good for a couple of months," he told Empire, "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."

He added, "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."

While the original movie was made independently, the remake is expected to involve Warner Brothers and MGM. "You'd have several studios involved and a lot of voices and, you know, you may make something great," Devlin explained, "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."