Battleground Globe is the title of each the science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard as well as a film adaptation of said novel produced by and starring John Travolta.

The book
A novel Field Globe was number 1 published inside 1980 by St. Martin's Click, though wholly subsequent reprint keep around been by Scientology publishing companies Bridge Publications and Galaxy Press. This was Hubbard's foremost science fiction novel since his pulp magazine days of the 1940s, and it wwhen promoted as Hubbard's "return" to science fiction fallowing an extended hiatus.

Written inside the style of the fiber fiction era (when you took which Hubbard began his writing career), the novel occurs as massive act (complete 750 places inside hardback, 1000+ around softback) telling a invented story placed just about 1,000 years in my new. Prior to a story begins, a reader learns, an evil alien race known as a "Psychlos" invaded Earth near the end of the 20th century, destroying human civilization in a matter of days and reducing humankind to little more than cave dwellers. the gr& years late, the series of cases is put into action that eventually gives humanity the risk to rebel against their alien lord and loose Globe from either the control of a massive astronomic empire.

Reaction to the book from either literary critics & science fiction fans has been unquestionably mixed since its publication. Patch typically acknowledged to become one of Hubbard's better books, reviews & comments thereon use ranged from either existence thrilling & action-packed to plodding, overlong, & potentially undecipherable. Particularly, accusations develop been manufactured that a book includes themes of Scientology.

a big total of booksellers, publication executives, & previous Scientologists state that, when sustaining more Hubbard books, the organization of Scientology engaged within a massive public relations campaign to acquire tremendous quantities of the book, sequentially to place it onto right-right seller lists & foster the image of Hubbard as a best-selling creator. Equally reported in The San Diego Union, representatives of Hubbard actually promised the publishing company the particular total of copies would become bought by subsidiary organizations of Scientology. Various bookshop chains (including Waldenbooks) have cited examples of Scientologists repeatedly inherit places & purchasing armfuls of the book at one time. Many bookshop reported that shipments of the book arrived using wallmart's have price tags already affixed to a babies, possibly prior to it were unpacked from either the transport boxes. [http://www.holysmoke.org/sdhok/book-buy.htm]

Example of possibly Scientology-related content
Psychlo, a title of a alien mintage, can be from either the word psychiatrist. Inside a book a Psychlos or even Catrists come described en bloc of mountebank of unknown origin world health organization managed to be a elite group inside their population & so gave a title to their entire mintage & a planet. Psychlos or even Catrists come described when atheistic, cynical & cruel; people world health organization don't part a views of the Catrists or even oppose the two come subjected to various forms of persecution. These are stated that the supporting character, the Psychlo mathematician known as "Soth", was shaped per views of his mother world health organization was the member of the trend lines class action, the and so-supposed "church", which held religious meetings secretly.

The movie

When his profits in the pic Pulp Fiction, Hollywood star John Travolta pushed hard to produce the motion-picture show adaptation of Field Globe the reality. Travolta, a devoted Scientologist & one of the organization's virtually all vocal supporters, described a book around interviews when "like Star Wars, only better." A movie Battlefield Earth according to a novel come call at 2000 and was produced by Franchise Pictures, JTP Films (Travolta's company), and Morgan Creek Productions, and distributed by Warner Bros. in the U.S. It was directed by Roger Christian and starred John Travolta, Barry Pepper, Forest Whitaker, Kim Coates, Richard Tyson, Sabine Karsenti, Michael Byrne. Travolta's married woman Kelly Preston also appeared; her role is often incorrectly described when "starring" potentially though she just appears inside 1 scene.

Therein futurist epos, the greedy alien security chief, played by John Travolta, enslaves human captive to mine gold for him. Barry Pepper plays a homo (or even "man-animal") world health organization decides to liberate his population by fighting a security chief.

A film received nothing however bad reviews, including from either The New York Times and acclaimed film critic Roger Ebert. It was too voted on the Internet Movie Database as one of the Century worst films ever. [http://us.imdb.com/bottom_100_films] A ultimate insult come inside 2001, once a moving-picture show received sevener Razzie Awards, including Worst moving-picture show of a Month & Worst Actor (Travolta), profits classifying a movie when the worst film manufactured around Hollywood since Showgirls. In 2004, the picture received the Razzie for ''Worst 'Drama' Of Our 1st 25 Years''. the blackball reaction to the pic halted plans to produce a sequel.

Discharged withinside on top 3,300 theaters, Battleground Globe grossed the aggregate of $29,725,663 worldwide, falling far short of its $73 million production budget & $30 million in figured marketing costs.

Cast
John Travolta - Terl Barry Pepper - Jonnie Goodboy Tyler Forest Whitaker - Ker Kim Coates - Carlo Sabine Karsenti - Chrissy Michael Byrne - Parson Staffer Christian Tessier - Mickey Sylvain Landry - Sammy Richard Tyson - Robert the Fox Christopher Freeman - Processing Clerk John Topor - Processing Clerk/One-Eyed Guard/Teleportation Supervisor Shaun Austin-Olsen - Planetship Tim Post - Assistant Planetship/Psychlo Guard Earl Pastko - Bartender Michel Perron - Rock