Battlefield Earth
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All team (70)
Short description
By the year 3000, Earth has been under the control of the alien Psychlos for a thousand years. Led by the security chief Terl, they have stripped the planet of its resources and reduced the surviving humans to slaves or scattered tribes living without technology. A young hunter named Jonnie Goodboy Tyler is captured and taken into Terl's service, and he becomes the focus of a human effort to rise against the occupiers. The film is an adaptation of the science fiction novel by L. Ron Hubbard.
Roger Christian directed the film, which followed Nostradamus in his filmography. John Travolta, who also produced, plays Terl, with Barry Pepper as Tyler, Forest Whitaker as Ker, and supporting turns from Kim Coates, Sabine Karsenti and Christian Tessier. The screenplay was written by Corey Mandell and J.D. Shapiro, and the production involved 71 credited crew members.
Made for a budget of 44 million USD, the film returned about 30 million USD worldwide. Audiences have rated it 2.5 out of 10 on IMDb from 86,000 votes and 3.3 out of 10 on TMDB from 973 votes. A critics' rating of 2.8 out of 10 from 151 reviews is in line with those audience scores.
What's left behind the scenes
- Travolta initially wanted to play the role of Tyler himself, but by the time filming began, he felt he looked too old for the part and instead played the main villain.
- Initial plans and intentions called for filming a sequel based on the second part of the novel that served as the literary source material (1982) by L. Ron Hubbard (1911-1986). This did not come to pass due to the unsatisfactory reaction to the film from audiences and critics.
- According to the film's cinematographer, Giles Nuttgens, the excessive use of color filters and a technique called the 'Dutch angle' (when the camera looks at the character from below, and the horizon is tilted) was a necessity, as he had never before or since worked with such a limited lighting budget.
- The food on set was so unsatisfactory that John Travolta brought in a personal chef from Canada, who then cooked for the actors and crew.
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