It began as a screenplay called Space Probe One, hastily dusted off and given, along with a hefty FX budget and a bombastic John Barry score, to director Gary Nelson, who had previously had a success for Disney with Freaky Friday. This was Disney’s first film released with anything stronger than a U rating, which meant that characters could say “damn” and “hell”, and that Anthony Perkins could be eviscerated by a giant crimson robot with wrist-mounted death-whisks.īut it’s also too throwaway to satisfy as “serious” sci-fi. Like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, released the same month, it looks as much to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey for inspiration as it does to George Lucas’ breezy adventure. A “junior” version in all but name, it runs 60 pages shorter than the standard edition by chopping out words like “perihelion”.Ī huge tentpole investment for Disney, it’s bizarrely sombre for a kids film.
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