Stargate , the remake of Roland Emmerich's 1990 sci-fi film from Warner Bros. and MGM, has landed a pair of writers.

According to THR , Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods are in final talks to pen the first of what is planned to be a new trilogy of movies. Emmerich will direct, and Dean Devlin, who co-wrote the first movie with Emmerich, will produce.

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Wright and Woods are relatively new to the writing game but recently collaborated with Emmerich on the script for Independence Day 2. (Fox greenlit the movie based on their draft.) Emmerich's Centropolis Entertainment also picked up a secret action-thriller from the duo.The first Stagate movie starred Kurt Russell and James Spader and told the discovery of an ancient ring-shaped device that leads to a planet with humans resembling ancient Egyptians. The film also launched several TV series.

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