Supernova (2000 film)

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Supernova
UK DVD cover for Supernova
Directed by	Walter Hill (credited as Thomas Lee)
Produced by	Ash R. Shaw Daniel Chuba Jamie Dixon
Starring	James Spader Angela Bassett
Editing by	Michael Schweiter Melissa Kent
Distributed by	Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists
Release date(s)	2000
Running time	1hr 27mins
Language	English/French/German/Italian/Spanish
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Supernova was a 2000 science fiction film, from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists. The film was written by David C. Wilson, William Malone and Daniel Chuba and directed by Walter Hill credited as Thomas Lee.

Though Hill was chiefly responsible for principal photography, Jack Sholder directed some reshoots, and Francis Ford Coppola was called in to supervise re-editing to try to produce a releasable film. Thomas Lee was chosen as a director pseudonym for release as it was felt that Alan Smithee was too well-known as a badge of a film being disowned by its makers.

The cast featured James Spader as Nick Vanzant, Angela Bassett as Kaela Evers, Robert Forster as A.J. Marley, Lou Diamond Phillips as Yerzy Penalosa, Peter Facinelli as Karl Larson, Robin Tunney as Danika Lund, and Wilson Cruz as Benjamin Sotomejor. This movie was shot by cinematographer Lloyd Ahern and scored by composers David C. Williams and Burkhard Dallwitz.

This film received a MPAA rating of PG-13, and was filmed in color with DTS sound.

[edit] Plot summary

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In the distant future, a medical spaceship called the Nightingale 229 encounters a distress call, and jumps through about 4,000 light-years to a dying star's system and find a strange survivor with a mysterious alien artifact.

The survivor starts to kill the ship's crew and sabotage the ship, and the artifact turns out to be a doomsday device made of 9th-dimensional matter.