He gets trapped in there, and it's like a horror film. It's an amazing sequence. "'Battlefield Earth' played for six months on HBO. They actually offered about $60 million to Travolta to do a sequel.

Battlefield Earth: A Saga of the Year 3000 was the first and likely last big-screen adaptation of a novel by L. Ron Hubbard, the wildly prolific sci-fi author best known as the founder of Scientology.

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