AP June 6, 1999

Travolta Can Now Fight for Film

.c The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- John Travolta's comeback is old news. Now he's so big in Hollywood he can really throw his weight around.

``I can get things done that a studio might not normally do,'' Travolta says in Sunday's Daily News. ``I told my manager, `If we can't do the things now that we want to do, what good is the power?' It's a waste, basically. Let's test it and try to get the things done that we believe in.''

One result of that effort is ``Battleship Earth,'' a movie version of L. Ron Hubbard's science fiction novel. Shooting begins soon.

``It's the pinnacle of using my power for something,'' Travolta said. ``We've been trying to make it for 10 years, but we never got a script that was right. Hubbard had been writing sci-fi, fantasy and pulp since 1937, and it's high time it was done.''

Hubbard is the founder of Scientology, which Travolta has followed for nearly a quarter-century.

Travolta's latest release is the upcoming ``The General's Daughter,'' a drama about an Army investigator trying to find a killer.

Copyright 1999 The Associated Press.