Roger Corman's quest to match the meteoritic success of Star Wars included collaborating with major sci-fi legends.
The Big Picture If you make a successful, genre-defining film chances are that someone will try to replicate it. The success of The Avengers not only proved that the Marvel Cinematic Universe could work, but the blockbuster sent every studio into a race to create their own "cinematic universe". Barbie has already led Hasbro to start developing a plethora of toy-related movies - including Uno, for some reason. But nowhere is this more prominent than with Star Wars.
But George Lucas wasn't Roger Corman's only source of inspiration. Battle Beyond the Stars also draws major inspiration from the Western classic The Magnificent Seven - which itself is an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai. The war epic had previously inspired a lot of films - ironically, Star Wars was chief among them - but it also helped in part to kick off the wave of spaghetti Westerns that would populate Hollywood until the 1970s.
Which Sci-Fi Legends Worked on 'Battle Beyond the Stars'? To bring Battle Beyond the Stars to life, Roger Corman wrangled together his own all-star team including director Jimmy T. Murakami alongside screenwriter John Sayles and composer James Horner. Sayles would go on to script other science fiction films including E.T.: The Extra-Terrestial and The Howling, while Horner would score Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and The Rocketeer.
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