Children of The Gods - Differences From The Film

Differences From The Film

Dean Devlin had originally planned to have two movie sequels pick up the story from his 1994 original Stargate. The first movie already tapped into Egyptian mythology; the second one would have moved into other mythologies; and the third would tie together all mythologies. Devlin then gave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) control over the franchise, and MGM decided to make a TV series based on the movie. Also, author Bill McCay wrote a series of five novels based on Roland Emmerich's notes, continuing the story the original creators had envisioned to Devlin's dismay. SG-1 showrunners Brad Wright and Jonathan Glassner altered the canon by introducing many novel concepts with their mythology of the SG-1 and Atlantis series.

Most notably, many characters were portrayed by different actors in the series, and names were spelled differently. Daniel Jackson was played by James Spader in the movie and by Michael Shanks in the series. Kurt Russell's character Jonathan "Jack" O'Neil, a rather humorless Colonel, is played by Richard Dean Anderson as Jonathan "Jack" O'Neill (with two L's) in SG-1. French Stewart's character was named Louis Feretti, in SG-1, Brent Stait's character is named Louis Ferretti (with two R's). The spelling of Daniel Jackson's wife changes from Sha'uri to Sha're, O'Neill's wife from Sarah to Sara. (Similarly, the name of O'Neil's son changes from Tyler in the film to Charlie.)

The Stargate Command (SGC) setting was transferred from the fictional military facility located in Creek Mountain, to the real life Cheyenne Mountain military complex. The planet Abydos from the film changed the distance from Earth from millions of light-years away (in an entirely different galaxy) to becoming the closest planet to Earth with a Stargate, residing in the same galaxy as Earth. Also in SG-1, Stargate travel is limited to the Stargate network in the Milky Way galaxy (unless a tremendous amount of power is used to lengthen the subspace wormhole of a Stargate to another galaxy's Stargate). In the film Ra was a member of an unnamed race who were becoming extinct, shown as a humanoid species with large black eyes and a lack of facial features (similar to an Asgard or a Grey alien though it is never made clear whether or not this body is a host for the SG1-like Goa'uld - Daniel even hints at this possibility, saying "Ra took him... Possessed his body like some kind of a parasite"). In SG-1 however, Ra is one of many "Goa'uld System Lords," who are a race of parasitic snake-like creatures. There were also changes to the Stargate. The unique set of 39 Stargate symbols in the film were replaced with the concept of 38 symbols that are the same for each Stargate (Earth's symbols based on Earth's constellations), plus a single point of origin symbol that is unique to that individual gate. While the kawoosh effect in the movie was created by filming the actual swirl of water in a glass tube, and looked like a vortex on the back of the Gate on the TV series this effect was completely created in CG by the Canadian visual effects company Rain Maker. (At the beginning of Season 9, however, the original movie wormhole sequence was substituted by a new sequence similar to the one already used on Stargate Atlantis at the time, but being blue as it was in the movie and SG-1, whereas in Atlantis it's green.)