![]() ![]() The result is an almost entirely incoherent film that makes no sense whatsoever. As recounted by both Pyun and Lemorande in the fascinating Cannon Films documentary Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), Pyun was essentially required to finish the film with zero budget for special effects. as well as several of the cast from Rusty Lemorande’s film. (1988), shooting it on the same South African sets and with most of the cast from Alien from L.A. ![]() Pyun, who receives no credit on the finished film, wrote a new screenplay and turned Journey to the Center of the Earth into a sequel to his just-completed centre of the earth film Alien from L.A. ![]() About two years after the collapse of the Rusty Lemorande version, Golan-Globus, left with an uncompleted disaster on their hands, hired prolific genre director Albert Pyun to complete the film. (In some places, the reason for this has been cited as the financial collapse of Golan-Globus, however this cannot be true as the finished film was released by Golan-Globus two years before their demise). The director at that point with Rusty Lemorande, an unknown who had previously worked as a producer on Barbara Streisand’s Yentl (1983), and had written and produced the computer love story Electric Dreams (1984) and the Michael Jackson/Francis Ford Coppola 3D science-fiction short Captain Eo (1986).įor reasons not known, this version of the film ground to a halt part way into production and was left uncompleted. Golan and Globus operated the Cannon Films distribution chain throughout the 1980s and produced a host of Charles Bronson and Chuck Norris action films and cheap sword-and-sorcery copies, among others. What one can piece together is that the film originally began shooting in 1986 for Israeli-born, American-based producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus. This version of Journey to the Center of the Earth is a film that had a greatly troubled production history. ![]()
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