Cinescape
June 7, 1999

Travolta Talks 'Earth'

Ever since his career revival in Pulp Fiction, John Travolta has been building up quite a bit of clout in Hollywood. While talking to USA Today, Travolta revealed how this clout brought the big screen Battlefield Earth project about saying, "It's the pinnacle of using my power for something. 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."