Differences_from_the_series Stargate_(film)



concept drawing of ra s original humanoid form patrick tatopoulos.


sg-1 creators , executive producers brad wright , jonathan glassner altered canon introducing several new concepts during production of sg-1 , atlantis series. notably, many characters portrayed different actors in series, , names spelled differently. daniel jackson played james spader in movie , michael shanks in series. kurt russell s character jonathan jack o neil, rather humorless colonel, played richard dean anderson jonathan jack o neill (with 2 l s) in sg-1. french stewart s character named lieutenant louis ferretti, in sg-1, brent stait s character named major louis ferretti. spelling of daniel jackson s wife changes sha uri sha re, o neill s wife sarah sara, (similarly, name of o neil s son changes tyler in film charlie).


the stargate command setting transferred fictional military facility located in creek mountain, cheyenne mountain military complex. unnamed planet film named abydos in series , distance earth changed millions of light-years away (in entirely different galaxy, kalium galaxy ) becoming closest planet earth stargate, residing in same galaxy earth. in sg-1, stargate travel limited stargate network in milky way galaxy (unless tremendous amount of power used lengthen subspace wormhole of stargate galaxy s stargate). ra last of unnamed race in film, being of humanoid species large black eyes , lack of facial features. in sg-1, however, ra 1 of many goa uld system lords, race of parasitic eel-like creatures. there changes stargate. unique set of 39 stargate symbols in film replaced concept of 38 symbols same each stargate (earth s symbols based on earth s constellations), plus single point of origin symbol unique individual gate. while kawoosh effect in movie created filming actual swirl of water in glass tube, , looked vortex on of gate; on tv series effect created in cg canadian visual effects company rainmaker. @ beginning of season 9, original movie wormhole sequence substituted new sequence similar 1 used on stargate atlantis, being blue in movie , sg-1, whereas in atlantis s green , in universe, s white.








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