Cinescape
May 25, 1999

'Earth's' 'Phantom' Team

John Travolta sounds like he wants the right people behind the camera to effectively pull off the big screen version of L. Ron Hubbard's book Battlefield Earth. According to the BBC, Travolta has hired some of the creative team who helped bring about Star Wars: Episode One - The Phantom Menace. The Beeb reports that Travolta plans to use the skills of Phantom's "cinematographer and the second unit director." That would be David Tattersall as director of photography and the previously reported Roger Christian as the director.