Supernova (2000 film)

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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
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Supernova is 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 re-shoots, and Francis Ford Coppola was called in to supervise re-editing to try to produce a releasable film. It was reported that the studio, extremely unhappy with Walter Hill's completed product, called in Francis Ford Coppola to "re-edit" the film. "Thomas Lee" was chosen as a directorial pseudonym for release, as the name Alan Smithee had become too well-known as a badge of a film being disowned by its makers.

Originally developed in 1988 by director William Malone (House on Haunted Hill (1999)) as "Dead Star" with paintings by H.R. Giger and a plot that had been called Hellraiser in outer space."

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.

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

1 Plot summary
2 Reception
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Plot summary

Supernova chronicles the search and rescue patrol of a medical ship in deep space in the early 22nd century and its six-member crew which includes a Captain and Pilot (Robert Forster), a co-pilot (James Spader), a medical officer (Angela Bassett), a medical technician (Lou Diamond Phillips), a search and rescue paramedic (Robin Tunney), and a computer technician (Wilson Cruz). When their vessel, the Nightingale 229, answers an emergency distress signal from a comet mining operation in a distant galaxy, the crew soon finds itself in danger from the mysterious young man (Peter Facinelli) they rescue, the alien artifact he's smuggled aboard, and the gravitational pull of a giant star about to go supernova, the most massive explosion in the universe.

[edit] Reception

Supernova was generally not received well by most reviewers. Rotten Tomatoes, for example, a website that collates professional and semi-professional reviews on films, gives it a mere 10% rating.^[1] A New York Times reviewer called it, "light on originality and low on suspense though high on design and special effects".^[2]