Director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) had been noodling a story about an alien spacecraft ...

Even back in the early 1990s when they were putting together the original Stargate movie ... to help recreate the Egyptian language the people of the alien world Abydos speak in the 1994 film ...

As part of the film’s story, a Stargate is discovered on Earth that can link to a planet across a vast distance in space where aliens — that utilize armor and symbols that look Egyptian ...

The Stargate is an ancient Egyptian artifact built by a tyrannical alien race, and with James Spader’s help as a translater, the U.S. government finds a way to switch it on. It becomes a portal ...