What is Stargate (movie)?
{{italictitle}} {{Infobox movie | name = Stargate | director = [[Roland Emmerich]] | producer = [[Dean Devlin]] | writer = [[Roland Emmerich]]<br> [[Dean Devlin]]| starring = [[Kurt Russell]] <br /> [[James Spader]] <br/> [[Jaye Davidson]]| studio = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | distributor = [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]] | released = 28 October, 1994 | runtime = 121 min. | language = English | budget = $55,000,000 (est.) | music = [[David Arnold]] }} {{for|the television series|Stargate SG-1}} '''''Stargate''''' is a 1994 [[science fiction]] [[movie]], starring [[Kurt Russell]] as Colonel Jonathan Jack O'Neil, [[James Spader]] as Dr. Daniel Jackson and [[Jaye Davidson]] as [[Ra]]. Although the movie got mixed [[review]]s from [[movie critic]]s, it did very well at the [[box office]] with a [[revenue]] of $196.6 million, which was nearly four times higher than its [[budget]] of $55 million. The [[financial]] success of this movie also started the [[Hollywood]] [[career]] of Roland Emmerich and it became a [[cult movie]]. ==Plot== In a dig at [[Giza]] in 1928, [[scientist]]s find a big [[metal]]ic ring inscribed with [[hieroglyphics]]. [[Archeology|Archeologist]] [[Doctorate|Doctor]] Daniel Jackson is called by the [[United States Air Force|U.S. Air Force]] to translate hieroglyphics on the ring. They find out that the ring is actually a piece of alien technology that creates [[wormhole]]s to transport people across the universe. A military team under the command of the U.S. Air Force [[Colonel]] Jonathan Jack O'Neil goes through the stargate with Jackson, and after the journey find out that they cannot get back to [[Earth]]. They find a city of ancient [[Egypt]]ian-like people under the [[tyrant|tyrannical]] rule of [[Ra]], who is an [[Extraterrestrial life|alien]] posing as their [[god]]. They eventually kill Ra with a [[nuclear bomb|nuclear blast]] and figure out how to get back to Earth, but Jackson gets married and stays on the planet. ==Related pages== * [[Stargate SG-1]] * [[Stargate Atlantis]] ==