A space odyssey mixing ancient Egyptiana and high-tech wizardry, Stargate became an unexpected hit. After making his solo Hollywood debut directing Jean-Claude Van Damme in the cyborg action fest Universal Soldier (1992), Emmerich and Devlin revealed a talent for conjuring A-level action spectacles out of B-movie scenarios with their first film together, Stargate (1994).
On the latter, he met actor Dean Devlin who subsequently switched jobs to become Emmerich's writing and producing partner once Emmerich set up shop in Hollywood. After his student film, The Noah's Ark Principle, debuted at the 1984 Berlin Film Festival, Emmerich formed his production company Centropolis and directed supernatural fantasies Making Contact (1986) and Ghost Chase (1987), and the straight-to-video action film Moon 44 (1990). Born and educated in West Germany, Emmerich studied production design as well as direction at the Munich Film and Television School. A director/writer/producer with a flair for special effects-driven action, German Roland Emmerich made himself at home in blockbuster-hungry 1990s Hollywood. He is openly gay and a campaigner for the LGBT community. In an amazing trivia, he directed his first feature, Das Arche Noah Prinzip (1984), in 1984. The feature became a huge success and was sold to more than 20 countries. While enrolled in the director's program at film school in Munich, his student film Das Arche Noah Prinzip (1984) went on to open the 1984 Berlin Film Festival.
In his youth, he pursued painting and sculpting. Emmerich began his career in his native Germany.
Before fame, he originally wanted to be a production designer, but decided to be a director, after watching the original Зоряні війни (1977).
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