Stargate (1994): trivia & fun facts

Fun facts

• Kurt Russell as Colonel Jonathan J. "Jack" O'Neil, a career U.S. Air Force Special Operations officer, who suffers a period of suicidal depression after his son accidentally shoots and kills himself with O'Neil's own pistol.
• The scenes with O'Neil at his house were the first ones filmed with Kurt Russell; his hair was cut short afterwards.
• The score of Stargate was composer David Arnold's first work on an American feature film.
• In real life, Kurt Russell served in the California Air National Guard and belonged to the 146th Tactical Airlift Wing, then based in Van Nuys.
• Viveca Lindfors as Dr. Catherine Langford, the civilian leader of the Stargate project who was present when the Stargate was uncovered in Giza in 1928, where her father gave her the amulet depicting the Eye of Ra.
• The scene of the excavation of the Stargate was also filmed in three days in Arizona.
• The film grossed $196.6 million worldwide against a production budget of $55 million.
• The scene was originally much longer and delved more into the theories that aliens had built the Egyptian pyramids, but it was trimmed for time concerns for the release.
• The film's score was composed by David Arnold, played by the Sinfonia of London and conducted by Nicholas Dodd.
• Stargate grossed over $16,651,000 in the United States during its opening week in October 1994.
• The director's cut had several scenes which were cut from the theatrical release.
• At the time, the film set a record for the highest-grossing opening weekend for a film released in the month of October.
• Russell turned down the role multiple times, until it was realized he was sent an early version of the script, so he was sent the completed shooting script and accepted it.

Source: Wikipedia

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