The Kurt Russell Stargate film is in trouble on the perfect service for a revival

In 1994, director Roland Emmerich involuntarily launched one of the largest and most detailed science fiction franchises in recent decades with “Stargate”. Although the film was initially supposed to start a film trilogy “Stargate”, these plans were abandoned after the start of the film, and we rather obtained several continuations of television and spin-offs-notably with “Stargate SG-1”, which resumed where Emmerich’s film had stopped. Since then, the “Stargate” franchise has continued to grow, including several television series, direct-to-home films, comics, video games and novels.

But in 1994, such a sprawling saga had to seem a distant dream for Emmerich, who just wanted to tell a story of cool science fiction. “Stargate” was the result. The film with Kurt Russell in the role of the colonel of the army Jack O’Neill, who, alongside the archaeologist and Egyptologist Daniel Jackson (James Spader), leads a team of experts through the portal holding an Egyptian style extraterrestrial world. There, they meet a despotic sovereign in the form of RA (Jaye Davidson), and are no choice but to help to overthrow Ra to return home to earth.

“Stargate” was not a mega-hit, but it still performed well at the box office, which brought up $ 196.5 million with a budget of $ 55 million. The criticisms were not particularly breathtaking, but the film has an OK note of 54% on Rotten Tomatoes and was far from being a critical disaster (although Roger Ebert was certainly not impressed, summarizing the film as follows: “Design the strangest intrigue that you can think, and reduce it as quickly as possible to the clichés of action movies.”) In the television series, “Stargate” A following cult, thanks in the television series. As such, the film itself is an important element in the history of pop culture. In that spirit, you could consider a rewatch or even a first watch of the film that started everything – and if you are a first -rate video subscriber, you can do it at no additional cost.

“Stargate” is available to buy or rent in all usual places, but it is currently free for subscribers on Prime Video. If you pay a premium subscription, it means that you can ignore this unreasonably frustrating experience to have to rent or buy a film despite the fact that you pay for about 12 different streaming services.

At a time when there are so many media offered, you can make much worse than giving a watch on Emmerich’s film, especially if it means that this prevents you from scrolling through the interface before giving up completely. But it is also worth seeing if you may have seen “Stargate SG-1” and jumped the film that started everything. When Showtime originally Greenlit a series of continuation with “SG-1”, Emperich had enough equipment, and a new creative team took over to help Shepherd Jack O’Neill and his intergalactic explorers during their biggest trip to date: on the small screen.

None of the film stars returned either, Kurt Russell being replaced by the star of “Macguyver” Richard Dean Anderson “and James Spader being exchanged for Michael Shanks. As such,” Stargate “is a truly unique entry into the Over franchise, representing the only time when the source material was given the critical treatment and with a casting that has never returned to their laughs. David Hunter by The Hollywood Reporter renting the film to “use with imagination[ing] The latest special effects technology to give the audiences new sensations. “This” technology “is, of course, dated today, but the charm of the early 90s is surely just another reason to look.

Whether you revisit the film for the first time since its beginnings or you are looking for a way to enter the “Stargate” saga, “Stargate” by Roland Emmerich is the perfect bridge. Not only because it is the literal beginning of the global scenario, but because it is a fun science fiction action film of the 90s that is worth the detour, that you plan to fully browse the portal in the vast “Stargate” universe. In addition, the presence of the film on Prime Video raises intriguing questions about a potential renewal.

Hollywood Studios has always appreciated reviewing the past successes, even at the beginning of the 20th century, when John Wayne was thrown into a Western remake despite the fact that the silent version of the same film had made its debut six years earlier. Today, remakes and renewals are larger than ever, and Prime Video has organized its fair share, from the remake in English of a Spanish romantic drama to its Revival of A Sarah Michelle Cult Classic streaming series. Amazon’s streaming service has also proven that it was more than capable of producing superior quality programs, from the brilliant adaptation of “Fallout” video games, to extremely popular “trade”. Thus, with the blockbuster of Roland Emmerich in 1994 sitting on the main video servers, the question surely becomes: “When will Amazon throw its weight behind a full renewal of” Stargate “?”

The last time we saw all kinds of “Stargate” history on television is when “Stargate Universe” ended in 2010. Consulted, there was the 2018 Web series “Stargate Origins”, but the franchise was roughly dormant in terms of television and cinematographic projects since the end of “the universe”. Now that we are firmly in the era of “Newstalgia”, and that the first-rate video has established itself as one of the best streaming platforms, what better time to bring back “Stargate” for the age of streaming? Whether it takes the form of a series or a film, Amazon has financial resources to make a superior quality offer.