We cannot say that Quentin Tarantino always goes in the direction of the majority in terms of cinema! In 2000, it secured one of AlloCiné’s lowest-rated films 1 out of 5 for nearly 700 audience votes. This is Battlefield Earth – Battlefield Earth.
Directed by Roger Christian, who started out as a set designer on Star Wars and was the director of Return of the Jedi Part 2, the film is set in the year 3000, on a desert Earth and humanity is on the brink of extinction. under the control of a psychologist. But the heroic Johnny Goodboy Tyler (Barry Pepper) will give hope to the surviving earthlings.
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The cast includes Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Marie-Jose Crouse and John Travolta. The latter agreed to take a $10 million pay cut in exchange for a $15 million payout when the film reached $55 million at the box office. This is how the actor Travolta lost 10 million.
However, the film, rejected by the public, tempted Quentin Tarantino at the time, according to director Roger Christian. Geek’s Den :
Tarantino came to review. He sat down with me, hugged me and said, this is exactly what I want to write. It’s totally impressive. You’re going to shoot, all of you, but I really like this movie. Wait ten, twelve years and it will be the opposite. Forget the present, you are going to live in hell.
John Travolta
Adapted from Scientology founder L. Based on Ron Hubbard’s novel, Battlefield Earth launched Travolta’s career as a movie star. The major studios would drop the actor who would start doing a lot of “direct to video”, which is still the case today. He is still paying for the failure of this 23-year project.
If that’s often good advice when it comes to movies, Quentin Tarantino predicted that Battlefield Earth would be re-evaluated over time. On these lines, it is not wrong to say that he made a mistake as the film has been largely forgotten by the public.
A flop when it was released (under $30 million for a production budget estimated at $73 million), the film only got people talking about it again in film-lover circles.
AlloCiné and Nanarland have dedicated their entire program to it as proof of this:
Source: Allocine
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