If you can believe it, 30 years have passed since Stargate landed in theaters worldwide. To this day, Roland Emmerich's big 1994 sci-fi feature still causes some division amongst cinephiles, yet ...

Three decades ago, before they had their biggest break with Independence Day, screenwriters Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich launched Stargate into theaters with Emmerich also directing the film.

Three decades later, Stargate's legacy has endured. We look back at how it all started, what came after, and the franchise's possible future. If you can believe it, 30 years have passed since ...