Battlefield Earth: An Apology From The Writer

[arniejolt]

We would like to apologize for the following announcement...

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.

The explanation gets better from here on out, you can read the rest of it at the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/movies/penned_the_suckiest_movie_ever_sorry_MdXedZpTMWJmf pw80Xc7aO/0

[Der_Lex]

Ah, the writer for the screenplay.

Here I thought it was an apology from Ron Hubbard from beyond the grave, or wherever Scientologists go after they die, which was a partially scary and partially amusing thought.

[Banky71]

The Theatans forgive him.

[DethTung]

Here I thought it was an apology from Ron Hubbard from beyond the grave, or wherever Scientologists go after they die, which was a partially scary and partially amusing thought.

This is exactly what I thought. Of course, anyone talking from the grave would basically be saying a bunch of gibberish (http://ualuealuealeualemirror.ytmnd.com/).