Sha'uri to Daniel Jackson in marriage as a gift. Leon Rippy as Major General W. O. West, the commanding officer of the facility housing the Stargate device John Diehl as Lt. Colonel Charles Kawalsky, O'Neil's second-in-command Carlos Lauchu as Anubis, the captain of Ra's personal guard Djimon Hounsou as Horus, a personal guard of Ra Erick Avari as Kasuf, the local leader of the people living in a city near the Stargate, and the father of Sha'uri and Skaara French Stewart as Lt. Louis Ferretti, a member of O'Neil's team Christopher John Fields as Lt. Freeman, a member of O'Neil's team Derek Webster as Senior Airman Brown, a member of O'Neil's team Jack Moore as Senior Airman Reilly, a member of O'Neil's team Steve Giannelli as Lt. Porro, a member of O'Neil's team Rae Allen as Dr. Barbara Shore, a researcher studying the Stargate Richard Kind as Dr. Gary Meyers, a researcher studying the Stargate Production Development The film in its original cut plays out in chronological order, as well as in the director's cut. When Devlin and Emmerich edited the film in the director's cut to tighten the narrative, they decided to add a scene at the very beginning of the film to show who the human host of Ra was before the aliens took him. Only Davidson's upper torso was filmed. The first scene was a combination of model shots and a set in Yuma, Arizona where Rambo III had been filmed. The scene of the excavation of the Stargate was also filmed in three days in Arizona. A golden look was achieved by filming near the time of sunset. To keep within the limit of the budget, the producers put stick figures with cloth in the distant desert to appear as humans. The original Stargate was painted black, but it looked like a giant tire so it was repainted silver at the last moment. Daniel Jackson's lecture on his theories was filmed in a hotel in Los Angeles. 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 scenes with O'Neil at his house were the first ones filmed with Kurt Russell; his hair was cut short afterwards. Russell requested his hair color to be brightened a little for the film. The fictional facility housing the Stargate