#Taarna the tarakian miniature movie#
The aspects of design which the movie is best remembered for are its unique-looking vehicles most notably Wolff’s jeep-like Scrambler and the steam-powered snowplough driven by Ernie Hudson’s character. Unhappy with the overly busy look of the film (Lafleur had been attempting to emulate the distinctive style of celebrated French comic book artist Jean ‘Moebius’ Girard in the vibrantly colorful and highly-detailed production design) – Johnson scrapped some of the more outlandish vehicles, props, makeup and costumes and instructed production designer Jack DeGovia to simplify the overall look of the film. Journeyman director Lamont Johnson ( The Groundstar Conspiracy, Lipstick) was then brought in to replace Lafleur with only two-and-a-half weeks prep. Ultimately Lafleur was fired after only two weeks of filming when it was decided, after viewing his dailies (which had a distinct absence of master shots), that the movie wouldn’t cut together. To avoid comparisons to Mad Max 2, however, which was in production at the time executive producer Ivan Reitman had the idea to relocate the action to outer space and retool Road Gangs as a full-blown space opera/western – with the new moniker Adventures In The Creep Zone (Ironside’s character was originally named King Creep). Spacehunter: Adventures In The Forbidden Zone was a project initiated in 1981 by Canadian filmmaker Jean Lafleur (along with co-writer Stewart Harding) as a post-apocalyptic road movie/western entitled Road Gangs.
Wolff then meets and befriends Niki (Molly Ringwald) – a precocious feral teen who coerces him into taking her on as his personal guide through this hellish and forbidding wasteland.
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Landing on the planet Terra Eleven, Wolff and his sexy android companion Chalmers (Andrea Marcovicci) become involved in a skirmish with the local Scavs (humans mutated after decades of toxic poisoning and plague) – during which Chalmers is killed. Peter Strauss plays Wolff (a roguish privateer in a colonized sector of space) who responds to a call to rescue a trio of beautiful women who, after their spaceliner explodes – are kidnapped on a desolate planet by a deformed and evil warlord, Overdog McNab (Michael Ironside). Starring Peter Strauss, Molly Ringwald, Ernie Hudson, Andrea Marcovicci and Michael Ironside. Screenplay by David Preston & Edith Rey and Daniel Goldberg & Len Blum, story by Stewart Harding and Jean Lafleur. Jaunty space western boasts outstanding design.ĭirected by Lamont Johnson.
SPACEHUNTER: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE
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