I Wrote 'Battlefield Earth' To Get Laid

Travolta called it,"The 'Schindler's List' of sci-fi."

Forest Whitaker and John Travolta in “Battlefield Earth.” The big-screen disaster based on the L. Ron Hubbard novel won a coveted Razzie for Worst Movie of the Decade. And now we have the guy who penned it speaking out:

NY Post ~ This month, "Battlefield Earth," the blockbuster bomb based on the novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, won the Razzie for "Worst Movie of the Decade."

J.D. Shapiro, the film's first screenwriter, accepted the award in person. Shapiro, who also wrote the screenplay for "Robin Hood: Men in Tights", "We Married Margo", and is developing a King Arthur spoof called "524 AD" (524AD.com), explains what it's like to be attached to one of Hollywood's most notorious flops.

Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see Battlefield Earth. It wasn't as I intended -- promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn't really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.

It started, as so many of my choices do, with my Willy Wonker.

It was 1994, and I had read an article in Premiere magazine saying that the Celebrity Center, the Scientology epicenter in Los Angeles, was a great place to meet women. [continued at NYpost.com]

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