Battlefield Earth (novel)/Trivia: Difference between revisions

** Before that, J.D. Shapiro, the first screenwriter was fired because the original studio (MGM) wanted to change his script too much (which he knew he would be a bad decision...). He [[Creator Backlash|practically disowned the film]], and even decided to accept his Razzies.

** This was the last movie Franchise Films helped finance. According to the lawsuit and federal investigation afterward, this studio made a living forcing movies to be severely under budget and taking the leftover as pure profit. In this case, the $75 million budget-film only got $44 million.

* [[Just Plane Wrong]]: Oh, so many examples. Nothing should be working after about a millenium, it takes years, not weeks to learn to fly one, none of them have flight-suits and yet they're all stunt dogfighter material. On the positive side, they ''do'' mention that Harrier jets can hover.

* [[Springtime for Hitler]]: The film was the subject of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlefield_Earth_(film)#Fraud_by_Franchise_Pictures $121.7 million judgement], possibly being an attempt to deliberately profit from a bomb.

* [[Stillborn Franchise]]/ [[Franchise Killer]]: There were originally going to be sequels based on the rest of the book. It also indirectly [[Pun|killed Franchise Pictures]] as well.