Battlefield Earth is a 1982 science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz.
The subsequent film adaptation, released in 2000, was a commercial failure and was criticized as one of the "worst films ever made".
In the year AD 3000, Earth has been ruled by an alien race, the Psychlos, for a millennium. Humanity has been reduced to a few scattered tribes in isolated parts of...
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Battlefield Earth is a 1982 science fiction novel written by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. He composed a soundtrack to the book called Space Jazz.
The subsequent film adaptation, released in 2000, was a commercial failure and was criticized as one of the "worst films ever made".
In the year AD 3000, Earth has been ruled by an alien race, the Psychlos, for a millennium. Humanity has been reduced to a few scattered tribes in isolated parts of the world while the Psychlos strip the planet of its mineral wealth. Jonnie Goodboy Tyler, a young member of one such tribe, lives in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Depressed over the death and disease affecting his tribe, he leaves his village to explore the lowlands and to disprove the superstitions long held by his people involving ancient gods and monsters. However, he is captured in the ruins of Denver by Terl, the Psychlo chief of security. The Psychlos, hairy 9-foot (2.7 m) high, 1000-pound sociopaths, originate from a planet with...
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