Battlefield Earth (film)/Trivia


 * Creator Backlash: Writer J. D. Shapiro openly apologized for this film, and went to get the Golden Raspberry Award himself.
 * Co-star Barry Pepper said that had he known he was going to won Worst Supporting Actor at the Razzies, he would have shown up to accept his award in person, too.
 * Forrest Whittaker has also gone on record saying that he regrets appearing in the movie. Apparently even Money, Dear Boy wasn't enough to justify it in his eyes.
 * Even the film's cinematographer has gone on record as saying that the overuse of color filters and Dutch angles wasn't his idea, and that he was given the smallest lighting budget he had ever worked with.
 * Doing It for the Art.
 * Hilariously enough, Shapiro admits in his letter above that he got involved at first because he read that the Scientology center was "a great place to pick up women", and it snowballed from there.
 * Just Plane Wrong: Oh, so many examples. Nothing should be working after about a millennium, 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.
 * Harriers are so unreliable that the fact that they can even be repaired is almost ridiculous.
 * Real Life Relative: Travolta's wife, Kelly Preston, plays Terl's girlfriend.