First Posted: 03-28-10 09:16 AM | Updated: 03-28-10 09:33 AM
'Battlefield Earth' won a Razzie for the worst movie of the decade this month, and screenwriter J.D. Shapiro has written a long, hilarious apology and explanation for in the NY Post.
The movie was a sci-fi bomb based on a novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. The movie starred John Travolta.
Shapiro came about the project in 1994 by reading that the Scientology Center was a "great place to meet women," but found it wasn't. He ended up meeting Karen Hollander, president of the center, who was a fan of the Shapiro-penned "Robin Hood: Men in Tights." She suggested a movie based on a book by Hubbard.
He agreed, dined with John Travolta, wrote and sold a script to studios that he was proud of, and then had that script radically altered.
But first he tried Scientology:
I took a few courses, including the Purification Rundown, or Purif. You go to CC [Celebrity Center] every day, take vitamins and go in and out of a sauna so toxins are released from your body. You're supposed to reach an "End Point." I never did, but I was bored so I told them I had a vision of L. Ron.
The resident Scientologists said, "What did he say?" "Pull my finger," was my response. They said I was done.
source: Huffington Post
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