Stargate sequel became Independece Day?

Producing the new Independence Day movie pretty much defeats the purpose of having more than 1 Stargate movie.

Let's say the 1st of 3 new Stargate movies is similar to the original. They go to the other planet, defeat Ra.

Okay, what's next? Watch the new Independence Day movie. That's what's next.

Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich might try to make another sequel, or more, out of the new Independence Day movie. That will obviously delay any work toward Stargate.

If you look at the general themes and story characteristics of the original Stargate and original Independence Day, there was a lot more potential to turn Stargate into a series.

With the new Independence Day sequel, viewers will be less excited about watching a new Stargate movie series. They'll think, "Didn't we just see that?"

People are already less-than-excited about the new Stargate because it will abandon all continuity from the TV shows. Personally, I'll watch Stargate regardless of continuity.

They can have my movie-watching money. I just don't think they'll end up making enough money from other people to amount to a successful Stargate reboot-as-trilogy. I hope they do. I hope they prove me wrong.

Considering the cliché outcome of the new Independence Day movie - it's all yesterday's has-been sci-fi storytelling, there's nothing fresh or exciting about it - I have my doubts that they'll do any different with a "new" Stargate.

I love Stargate. I also think it's time they let someone else write it - with or without TV continuity, I don't care - I just want a good, fresh story.

Let them retell the same basic story for the 1st movie, but the 2nd and 3rd would seriously need to evolve from the first.

They can respect the TV series while still leaving it out of the story, do a new-Star-Trek effect, time travel back to where it all began, or basically back to the end of the movie, then change direction.

Or they can do a re-imagined-BSG effect, have so much time pass that the old stories still happened in their own way but became legend.

Or they can do a Disney Star Wars effect. Just repeat A New Hope and call it The Force Awakens... in other words, repeat 1994 Stargate. Okay, well, just do a reboot, then make more movies.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

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The original cast is way too old.

I'd like to see either:
A) reboot, new cast, same characters, same story; or
B) next gen continuation, the old farts stand aside and help the newbies.

A reboot would be great, the original movie... that story is awesome.

A next gen could also be great, it'd still respect the original, and yet give people the opportunity to be reintroduced to it, only for the current generation viewers to latch onto.

The Stargate project was top secret, so the next gen approach would work. Nobody knows what a stargate is. The old retired Daniel and Jack could be the "upper management" for a new Stargate project that uses new characters and gives us new stories.

They're not going to use the TV continuity, but if they were to at least give a tip of the hat, they could do a time travel reboot, then it wouldn't matter if they left the old stuff in or threw it out, but it would be nice if they slip in some easter eggs out of respect for the immense success that the TV shows brought to the franchise.

You asked what Roland's (and Dean's) plans were for a sequel. They supposedly wanted the 2nd movie to be set about a decade or so after the original, Jackson goes back to Earth, finds a 2nd stargate, it'd use a different mythology (not Egyptian); and the 3rd movie to tie all mythologies together. Supposedly Kurt Russell and James Spader had, at one point in time, expressed an interest in returning to participate in that. I don't know if that'd happen. I can see Russell returning, he was supportive even during the TV shows. He even visited the set and had a photo shoot with the TV cast. I doubt Spader would return, he has been interviewed saying some not-so-positive things about the original movie, thinking that he's above it, better than it.

Devlin made an interesting comment comparing the original movie to the TV shows, "We would just continue the mythology of the movie and finish that out. I think the series could still live on at the end of the third sequel." So, basically, the TV series still works, but only after finishing the movie series. I don't know how that would work, though, considering Stargate SG-1, episode 1, starts where events leave us after the end of Stargate 1994... unless they go back in time to the end of the 1st movie before jumping into the series, but then that'd defeat the purpose in even having a movie series... but, then again, I guess that actually does work.

Check out author Bill Mccay's Stargate novels. The creators gave him their notes for those books, so you can get an idea about what we might end up seeing in the new Stargate movie(s) from that source.

Also, Devlin and Emmerich didn't just have plans to turn Stargate into a trilogy, they were/are open to even more movies.

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