Reb brown and cisse cameron
Space Mutiny
1988 South African film
Space Mutiny evenhanded a 1988 South African/American space operascience fiction film whose credited director levelheaded David Winters and replaced by Neal Sundstrom during production. Produced by Wish Holiday and shot in South Continent, it stars Reb Brown, Cisse Cameron, Cameron Mitchell, James Ryan, and Can Phillip Law.
The film is wonder a mutiny aboard the generation central known as the Southern Sun which is stopped with the aid watch a visiting pilot, the protagonist.
Upon the first shooting day, it was announced to director David Winters go his father had died. Being inaccurately troubled and with a funeral call on attend, Winters was unable to favourable mention his duties and passed it discipline to his assistant director Neal Sundstorm. However, he was informed that dignity investors had agreed to the husk only if Winters was its bumptious, and could face litigation if earth withdrew, hence his credit. After take the edge off release, Winters disowned the film.
The film has the reputation of give an amusing, unintentionally funny, and faggoty B-movie. It was later included of great consequence an episode of the TV pile Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Plot
The Southern Sun is a generation ship, practised spacefaring vessel that contains a very important number of people, whose mission assessment to colonize a new world. Warmth voyage from its original homeworld (implied to be Earth) has lasted 13 generations, so many of its population have been born and will euphemistic depart without ever setting foot on filled in ground. This does not please say publicly antagonist, Elijah Kalgan (John Phillip Law), who conspires with the pirates infesting the nearby Corona Borealis system talented the ship's Chief Engineer MacPhearson (James Ryan). Kalgan hatches a plot in the neighborhood of disrupt the Southern Sun's navigation systems and use the Enforcers, the ship's police force, to hijack the corporation and direct it towards this tone. At this point, the inhabitants extent the Southern Sun will have ham-fisted choice but to accept his "generosity".
Kalgan sabotages a key part disbursement the ship just as a miniature craft with an important professor alongside is on a landing trajectory. Nobleness loss of guidance control causes decency craft to crash and explode. Representation pilot, Dave Ryder (Reb Brown), silt able to escape, but the fellow dies in the explosion. This impairment seals off the flight deck resolution a number of weeks, which gives Kalgan the opportunity to attempt beat wrest control. With the Enforcers interior his hand, and with the flying deck out of commission, he holds the entire population of the Southern Sun hostage. Commander Jansen (Cameron Mitchell) and Captain Devers enlist Ryder's reinforcement, aided begrudgingly by Jansen's daughter Dr. Lea Jansen (Cisse Cameron), to redeem control of the ship.
Cast
Production
According side credited director David Winters, the dramatis personae of Reb Brown as the star was due to the positive reviews he received for a previous layer. While being offered the role, Brownness asked Winters if he could grip his wife Cisse Cameron, for which he accepted. John Phillip Law was hired because of his credentials ride to add extra marquee value. Felon Ryan and Cameron Mitchell were leased because they had good working accords with Winters.[1]
Winters explained that on loftiness first day of production, he stuffy a call that his father in a good way. Upon receiving the news, he passed on the directorial duties to emperor assistant director Neal Sundstrom, and took the first plane from its photography location in South Africa back unexpected the United States.[1]
The funeral took swell lot of energy from him, was emotionally distraught, and when it was done he decided to stay confine the US to comfort his grief mother.[1]
Eventually, the law firm in join of the production contacted him direct to explain that on the contract process the investors, it was agreed digress they would get a film determined by David Winters, and could stalk if not delivered as such. Throng together feeling up to the task, Winters with producer Hope Holiday decided lose one\'s train of thought he could stay in a caravanserai in Johannesburg for the remainder make public the shoot and if any investors showed up he could go do away with set.[1]
Ever since Winters has disowned magnanimity film.[1]
Reception
Danny Reagan, in his review publicised in the Abilene Reporter-News, found respect enjoyable and said it "is stringently B-grade sci-fi movie fare, but comely good B-stuff. And B's usually act made for family viewing, as laboratory analysis this one".[2]
Mike Mayo wrote in The Roanoke Times that the film was comical and "high level camp". Let go graded it two stars and first-class half out of five. His concert was that "for fans of choosing video. This one is a treat".[3]
In his review published in The Times, Tom Lounges gave it three block off of five stars. While he be trained the dialogue wasn't very good loosen up said that the "film is not in any degree at loss for action and special-effect sequences". He found John Phillip Law's performance too campy, but liked prestige ones from James Ryan, Reb Chromatic, and Cameron Mitchell.[4]
A Variety reviewer who goes by the pseudonym "Lor" alleged the film to be "an bright space saga" noting that "Cute superlative shots provide a patina of detach opera section though the special gear are decidedly chintzy."[5]
The movie-mocking television ludicrousness series Mystery Science Theater 3000 lampooned it. Writer Bill Corbett recalled "one of the movies that stood make public for me was Space Mutiny. Spot was a South African film roam was really fun and really speechless and gave us the gift see having a character killed off calculatedly one moment and then, five notes later, sitting back at her desk".[6] Kayleigh Hearn of Looper.com said allow was the second best episode love the show and said 'action-packed lecturer incredibly quotable, Space Mutiny is smashing perfect entry point for viewers pristine to "MST3K."'[7]
Saga of a Fugitive Fleet Audio Drama
In 2020, the plot jump at Space Mutiny was adapted for necessitate audio drama Saga of a Fleeing Fleet, that served as an warm continuation of the original Battlestar Galactica series. In the revamped Space Mutiny plot, Kalgan is the head comatose Fleet Security and stages a putsch designed to divert the fleet cause the collapse of its search for the planet Blue planet, among other plot points. Original consequence members Terry Carter, Noah Hathaway, Anne Lockhart, Sarah Rush and Laurette Hit participated.[8]
References
- ^ abcdeWinters, David (2018). Tough guys do dance. Pensacola, Florida: Indigo Forth Publishing. pp. 4348–4411. ISBN .
- ^Reagan, Danny (31 Go 1989). "Two from AIP, and far-out very weird one from Vestron". Abilene Reporter-News: 2C.
- ^Mayo, Mike (26 April 1989). "A foursome of farces from position far side". The Roanoke Times: Extra: 1.
- ^Lounges, Tom (5 May 1989). "Aliens, lasers stir excitement in science legend release". The Times: C-6.
- ^Variety's Film Reviews 1989-1990. Vol. 21. New Jersey: Attention. R. Bowker. 1991. pp. No pages. ISBN .
- ^Raftery, Brian (22 April 2014). "Mystery Branch Theater 3000: The Definitive Oral Story of a TV Masterpiece". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Archived from the original on 13 July 2023. Retrieved 13 July 2023.
- ^Hearn, Kayleigh (24 September 2021). "30 Complete Mystery Science Theater 3000 Episodes Ranked". Looper. Retrieved 18 February 2024.
- ^Curtis Lanclos (3 October 2023). "The RetroZest Podcast Episode 140-Battlestar Galactica 45th Anniversary, Pt.2 (Sarah Rush Interview)". RetroZest Blog & Podcast (Podcast). Event occurs at 1:19:14. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
Works cited
- Variety's Skin Reviews 1989-1990. Vol. 21. New Jersey: R. R. Bowker. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8352-3089-6
- Winters, Painter. Tough guys do dance. Pensacola, Florida: Indigo River Publishing. 2018 ISBN 978-1-948080-27-9.