John Travolta admits he has no regrets over Battlefield Earth, and would do it all again...
The knives were firmly out for John Travolta's long-cherished passion project, Battlefield Earth, when it landed in cinemas in 1999. Eyed as the first in a multiple-part adaptation of the source material, with Roger Christian directing, the project attracted negative attention from the off for being an adaptation of Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard's book. It would be fair to say that, while it has merits, the end movie probably didn't help either.
In an interesting new interview over at The Daily Beast, however, Travolta has stood by the film. When asked if he regretted it, he adamantly replied "no way, are you kidding? Why would I ever regret that?"
He continued, saying that "I had the power to do whatever I wanted and I chose to do a book that I thought was worthy of making into a movie. It's a beautiful film. It's a good movie."
So what went wrong? Travolta admitted that he believed the media confused it as the story of Scientology. "They did that with Phenomenontoo, and Phenomenonis really the story of Jesus Chris. It's not Scientology." We should note, though, that Phenomenon was a solid hit.
Travolta added that "if we had to do it over again, I would still do it. It was a moment where I could say 'I had all the power in the world and could do whatever I wanted.' Not a lot of people get that opportunity, and I did what I wanted to do."
The full interview, and it's an interesting one, is here.
Our 10 remarkable things about Battlefield Earth, meanwhile, can be found here.
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