Screenwriters Hired To Pen Stargate Remake

In May of last year, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures announced that they were joining forces with Roland Emmerich and Dean Devlin for a Stargate trilogy that would reimagine the original 1994 film. Today, two screenwriters have been chosen to work on the project.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, Nicolas Wright and James A. Woods will pen the first of a trilogy of Stargate films. Wright and Woods are relatively new to Hollywood, but have already worked with Emmerich on 20th Century Fox's Independence Day 2.

Roland Emmerich, who directed the first film that starred Kurt Russell ("Furious 7") and James Spader ("Avengers: Age Of Ultron"), intends to direct the remake as well. Devlin, who co-wrote the first Stargate film, will be back to produce.

In the past, Emmerich and Devlin had said they had originally intended Stargate to be a trilogy but waited to long to get back to it. The plot of the 1994 film was: "A small group of US troups and an Egyptologist use an ancient device found in 1920's Egypt to transport themselves to a distant planet where humans resemble ancient Egyptians."