Supernova
Short description
In the 22nd century, a medical rescue vessel called Nightingale 229 answers a distress signal from a remote mining colony. The ship's crew arrives to find a drifting shuttle, a lone survivor and a strange alien artifact he has brought aboard. Their situation grows worse when they are caught in the gravitational pull of a star on the verge of collapsing into a supernova, leaving them little time to escape. As the crew tries to understand the artifact and repair their ship, the survivor's presence proves dangerous to everyone on board.
Walter Hill directed the film, the eighteenth of the twenty-two features he has directed, between Last Man Standing and Undisputed. Francis Ford Coppola also has a directing credit, and Jack Sholder is credited among its directors as well. David C. Wilson wrote the screenplay, and the cast includes James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli and Robin Tunney. It was produced by Ash R. Shah, Daniel Chuba and Jamie Dixon for United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, American Zoetrope and Hammerhead Productions.
Released in January 2000, the film had a budget of about 90 million dollars and took in roughly 15 million worldwide. On IMDb it holds a rating of 4.9 out of 10 from around 21,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 5 out of 10 from about 451 votes. A critics' rating of 3.9 out of 10 from 64 reviews places it below even the modest audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film is credited to director Thomas Lee. This is a fictional pseudonym, similar to the more well-known Alan Smithee. For many years, the director, who for various reasons did not want his name mentioned in the credits, replaced his real name with the pseudonym Alan Smithee. After the film “Burn, Hollywood, Burn” (1997), the pseudonym became widely known to the general public, so the “American Directors Guild” decided to replace the pseudonym Alan Smithee with Thomas Lee.
- Production of the film began as early as 1988. The project was known as "Dead Star." William Malone was originally slated to direct the film.
- The film's premiere was repeatedly postponed. The studio was dissatisfied with Walter Hill's version of the film, so they decided to bring in Francis Ford Coppola to re-edit the film and shoot necessary additional scenes.
- The zero-gravity sex scene between Angela Bassett and James Spader was created from footage of scenes featuring Robin Tunnell and Peter Facinelli, with digital correction to darken Tunnell's skin tone.
- Jeffrey Wright was considered to direct the film, but he left the project just five weeks before filming began due to disagreements over the script.
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