Her kommer helgens nedtur for alle som hadde sett frem til nyinnspillingen av Roland Emmerichs Stargate fra 1994: Den er kansellert. Filmen skulle regisseres av Emmerich enda en gang, og det skulle bli en trilogi. Produsent Dean Devlin kunne i et intervju med Empire fortelle litt om tingenes tilstand:
"It looked good for a couple of months, but now it's not looking so good. There are just a lot of things that have to fire at the same time, and there was a moment where I thought it was all firing at the same time, and then it all kind of fell apart."
"Listen, I think if we did Stargate right, the fans would like it and we could do something really good. But if we screw it up, they'll reject it. As they should. But I kind of don't want to do it if I think that we'll screw it up, and that's one of the things that's holding us back."
Vi mistenker at kanskje sommerens flopp, Independence Day 2, har litt av skylden. Både Emmerich og manusforfatterne fra den filmen skulle jobbe med Stargate-remaken, men de har neppe noen høy stjerne hos produksjonsselskapet for tiden.