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I only remember that I thought the film was good but modestly so and that it was so obviously a gap filler for a new Star Wars film that was prayed for but would not come to cinemas for many decades hence. It wasn’t until the release of Street Fighter 2 and Mortal Kombat that I saw how powerful the experience could be with players standing there betwixt screen and joystick obsessively tickling the buttons. Nick Castle. After all, the top YouTube stars as I already mentioned aren’t reviewing movies they’re playing games and doing live commentary on it. 1984, Adventure, Barbara Bosson, Catherine Stewart, Dan O'Herlihy, Gary Whitta, Jonathan Betuel, Lance Guest, Nick Castle, Sci-Fi, sequel, The Last Starfighter, The Last Starfighters Of course, by 1984 Tron had already been released which merged the worlds of video games with reality. This glimpse of Gunstar’s and Rylos space docks made the internet all excited. Mostly the trio of pinball machines they had on offer at a local truck stop in bum fuck Indiana where my dad took me of a morning when school was out so we could load up on cheap pancakes and sausage and have a go at the Terminator 2 machine. You know what I mean. But now the prospect of a sequel/reboot to The Last Starfighter has set the masses of Generation X old enough to appreciate the film upon its release into a frenzy. Sure, if you want to grow up to be a professional video game player. Whitta: “You’ve got this completely byzantine, impenetrable situation where no one seems to know exactly what the deal is.”. Although there is complicated interplay between the features of the ownership of the rights between Universal and Warner Brothers back around 2015 there was talk that no less than Steven Spielberg and Seth Rogen had shined the light of their attention on developing a Starfighter project but that Betuel held the keys to the rights stipulating (apparently) that he be involved with the project or else no one could have a go at the property. For the most part, the romance of the arcade was something I never really got to experience. This had been created by Rogue One‘s Matt Allsopp to help visualise the potential movie. What isn’t clear is whether it was about the money or about a creative stake in the film. Namely a good score and likable original characters. The year was 1984 and no one knew what would come next. Gary Whitta who most notably aided in the story creation for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) (worldwide $1.056 billion) took to Twitter last May announcing he was writing and producing a new Starfighter film alongside and with the deal-or-no-deal imprimatur of Jonathan Beteul the first film’s controversial writer. 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It was literally a sequel where Lance [Guest] and Catherine Marie [Stewart], the leads were going to come back as parents. So, is The Last Starfighter 2 something you want to see? This had been created by Rogue One‘s Matt Allsopp to help visualize the potential movie. In addition to his Star Wars credit, Whitta has a diverse background in print, video games, and further motion pictures. The Last Starfighter is a 1984 science fiction adventure film directed by Nick Castle. The Last Starfighter: Alex Rogan / Beta Alex Just the Way You Are: Jack the Answering Service Guy 1985 Waiting to Act: Body Snatcher Guy 1987 Jaws: The Revenge: Michael Brody 1988 The Wizard of Loneliness: John T. 1997 Plan B: Jack Sadler 2001 Mach 2: Keith Dorman 2007 Shadowbox: Morell - Shadow Man Short 2008 The Least of These: Mark Roberts 2009 21 and a Wake-Up Not very re-watchable, but has nothing you could feel bored about. More importantly to Film Goblin readers — if not the world at large — he wrote some big-time genre films such as The Book of Eli, the post-apocalyptic Denzel Washington vehicle that received mixed reviews and did business of $157 million against an $80 million budget. Betuel even went on to tease what to expect from his long-planned sequel, as well as how The Last Starfighter 2 would continue the saga whilst still remaining true to the original. Lance Guest played the engaging protagonist Alex Rogan, with other cast members including Robert Preston and Dan O’Herlihy. “I think it was 2005 and it was going to be at that point a 30 year, 35 year sequel. But who are you going to believe? Or, should the original be left alone? Are the games educational? One could make the argument that there is a very similar theme between simulation and reality in Ender’s Game‘s finale to that of The Lost Starfighter. Whisked away from the banality of his trailer park life to a distant alien planet, Alex struggles to use his video game-playing skills to pilot a real ship, with real lives at stake. It's not a time capsule of the 80s by any means, we're taking it to the next level. Joined Apr 1, 2017 Messages 497 Location UK. This comes to us courtesy of Movie Hole. He has nothing to lose whereas Betuel doesn’t have much on the back burner besides Starfighter. But back to 1984 where video games were just beginning to become the juggernaut of entertainment, they are now. Involving Betuel in the creative process more deeply may be the answer. Our hero Alex Rogan conquers a popular local arcade game and is cast thereby in an intergalactic war between an evil force and a group of honor-bound and human-friendly aliens. Roger Ebert wrote in his review, “Those arcade video games had to come from somewhere, and The Last Starfighter has an interesting theory to explain why they seemed to pop up all over the world, almost overnight. Director. Also if you click on the twitter link, you’ll get to see heaps more concept art. The post THE LAST STARFIGHTER … Obviously no Robert Preston, and I have no idea whether any of the other cast members have any interest in revisiting this. Our hero Alex Rogan conquers a popular local arcade game and is cast thereby in an intergalactic war between an evil force and a group of honor-bound and human-friendly aliens. The movie is supposedly being produced by George … The Last Starfighter was one of the first CGI-heavy movies ever made, which makes it an important film in the history of cinema. Betuel plans to make The Last Starfighter 2 alongside Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels scribe Gary Whitta, and describes the project as "a combination … The more you read about the Starfighter IP languishing in development hell for so many decades the more you learn this all stems from Jonathan Beuel intransigence. What we got only one year after Jedi was an unexpectedly slow-moving and interesting little picture called The Last Starfighter and with a novelization by no less than Alan Dean Foster. Nothing related to movies cracks the top ten when it comes to the kinds of personalities that people like to watch on YouTube, and I think that is salient insofar as it shows us how far behind interest in movies is as compared with the insatiable interest in gaming. The two things every kid seemed interested in at the time — correct me if I’m wrong — were arcades and Star Wars (toys, films, novelizations, etc). Betuel has been planning the follow-up for some time but has sadly been held back by various rights issues and studio problems which have now been rectified. You can often find Whitta talking inside baseball about the video games industry on the Kinda Funny Games podcast. Why would Seth Rogen lie? Lance Guest Catherine Mary Stewart Suzanne Snyder Barbara Bosson John O'Leary Dan O'Herlihy Robert Preston Kay E. Kuter Norman Snow Dan Mason Chris Hebert George McDaniel Charlene Nelson John Maio Robert Starr Al Berry Wil Wheaton Marc Alaimo Vernon Washington Bunny Summers Peggy Pope. None of this might seem unique in 2019 where gaming dominates the culture. There was a high stakes race to rake in profits from Star Wars withdrawal. But this was years later. We had a fun script so I’m not sure right now where Jonathan [Betuel] is going to take it. Audiences love the 1980s and returning to this decade has been a sure-fire way to hit the right nostalgic notes for some time. According to Cinema Blend, director Nick Castle, writer Jonathan Betuel and star Lance Guest are all on board for The Last Starfighter 2, which would be based on a “Son of the Starfighter”-type storyline. The Last Starfighter follows everyday teenager Alex Rogan, played by Lance Guest, who, after finally achieving the high score on Starfighter, his favorite arcade game, meets the game's designer, Centauri, played by Robert Preston. Whitta shared some concept art. Concept art for the new Last Starfighter Concept art for the new Last Starfighter Concept art for the new Last Starfighter Concept art for the new Last Starfighter. At least not one anyone wants to see. on at Film Goblin, he tagged Rogen. Music is by Craig Safan and cinematography by King Baggot. Whitta and Jonathan Betuel, the writer and creator of The Last Starfighter, have been working on a follow-up to the sci-fi classic from our youth. In fact, he would never live to see the day but in 2019 professional video game player is about the most god damn lucrative thing that you could set out to do so long as you upload stream on Twitch and your videos to YouTube. But Whitta seems to have a passion for the project and there are interesting things about the original to draw from. He was recruited to join the team of best Starfighters to defend their world from the attack. I know that sounds mean but there it is. Return To Rylos. And when it did everything would shrivel up and the stakes would be zero. This is pure conjecture on my part. Hilarious and inaccurate.”. So there you have it. Well, get ready to go back once again, as one of the writers behind the cherished 1984 sci-fi adventure The Last Starfighter, Jonathan R. Betuel, has now offered a promising update on his long-gestating sequel. A sequel with all new characters though, or older versions of the original characters played by different actors isn't of much interest to me. Will THE SUICIDE SQUAD get an R rating? It’s not that arcades suddenly became less cool (maybe they did) when the first Nintendo began to dominate. But Whitta seems to take Betuel’s side here, saying that there is some inherently complicated issue pertaining to the rights aside from whether or not Betuel’s involvement is an a priori part of the deal. In his New Year’s Day review for The Last Starfighter Ebert struck a dad note about the fad: The way to get rich, they say, is to invent something that’s cheap and habit-forming, and get a patent on it. Sounds like he’s trying to stay in Betuel’s good graces but if both Spielberg and Rogen can’t get this thing off the ground what makes Whitta think different? He has a partner named Gary Whitta who wrote The Last Starfighter is directed by Nick Castle and written by Jonathan R. Betuel. Thank you very much. The loss of the second with the extirpation of the Emperor left a vacuum at the movie house and in the soul. the last starfighter cast and crew; The Last Starfighter is a 1984 American space opera film directed by Nick Castle. I was only one year old in 1984, so I do not remember the arcade era or the Soviet menace for that matter. Vince W Towel Champion. A new concept video reveals a first-look at The Last Starfighter sequel from Gary Whitta, co-writer of the Star Wars spinoff Rogue One.Inspired by the seminal science-fiction film Star Wars in 1977, The Last Starfighter is a classic 1984 space opera directed by Nick Castle, a longtime collaborator with John Carpenter. A video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. The Last Starfighter is released to lukewarm reviews but grows to cult status over the ensuing decades. ‘The Last Starfighter 2’ Is Finally Moving Forward Confirms Writer. A science fiction classic, The Last Starfighter delivers an imaginative, action-packed adventure. Ender’s Game — which shares an interesting commonality with The Last Starfighter — would be released only one year later in 1985. He was the editor of PC Gamer for a time and wrote several computer games including The Walking Dead: The Game, The Walking Dead: 400 Days and The Walking Dead: The Final Season. For those of you unfamiliar, or those of you who just need a quick brush up, The Last Starfighter centers on Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), a hopeful … Joined Sep 9, 2011 Messages The Last Starfighter 2 sizzle reel teases the potential sequel The Last Starfighter sequel is still in the works Exclusive: Sci-Fi cult classic The Last Starfighter teaser with redone VFX I guess video games would qualify. "The leads are now parents and time has passed," he said. Lumens science fiction and everything inbetween. Video game expert Alex Rogan finds himself transported to another planet after conquering The Last Starfighter video game only to find out it was just a test. The film tells the story of Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), a teenager recruited by an alien defense force to fight in an interstellar war. in a straightforward and very ridiculous teen movie style. Pure 80s family movie essence: plain stupid, but ah so good-spirited and heart-warming. The Last Starfighter is an unabashed ripoff of Star Wars and a bit of E.T. Hopefully, they’ll mount something fun and we’ll see our characters again.”. But what do you have when you do that? What isn’t conjecture is that Betuel brushed off Rogen in an interview with Yahoo saying, “I saw that, and it painted me as the Howard Hughes, bah humbug, standing in the way,” Beutel laughed, “That was hilarious. It didn’t look all that cool. Not in the pages of Cinemafanique, not in the pages of the god-damned New York Times neither. Here he craps all over the way the Star Wars license has been handled by Electronic Arts. While kids the world over played out new Star Wars scenarios using their action figures and plastic starships and models, and while Michael Jackson ruled the airwaves, so too the  arcade obsession was in full swing. Since Whitta tweeted out that new concept art last month there has been little news regarding movement on the project. A plum job you bet your ass for an A-franchise as far as I’m concerned. Currently not available to stream. Producers. While my perspective on The Last Starfighter is admittedly heavily coated with 80's nostalgia (my taped-off-cable VHS copy was in heavy rotation back in them days) there are still several points nostalgia can't explain away: 1) The Last Starfighter is one of the best Star Wars rip-offs to be released into a heavily saturated market in the wake of the original trilogy's success Last year Whitta shared some concept art. In my opinion, it’s a tall order based only upon interest from millionaire tech wizards in their 40s who have a weird sentimental attachment to an off-brand Star Wars. Something in the subconscious of humanity was looking to merge heroically with these new simulations. One of the biggest box office stars in the world with a mug of root beer for a face or the guy who hasn’t been part of a meaningful project for the last 25 years? ‘The Last Starfighter 2’ Is Finally Moving Forward Confirms Writer . Twist himself M. Night Shyamalan. That said, I do have a few memories of good times using arcade machines. What's changed is time itself, certainly as the video world and the alien world have continued to tick away. Last year in an interview with Bloody Disgusting Castle had this to say. Betuel plans to make The Last Starfighter 2 alongside Rogue One and Star Wars Rebels scribe Gary Whitta, and describes the project as "a combination of reboot and sequel that we both think honors the legacy of the original film while passing the torch to a new generation." With Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter, Dan Mason. Deep Dark Space. Centauri reveals that he created Starfighter as a training ground for developing and recruiting actual pilots to help fight a war in space. It will take some convincing though for Whitta and Betuel to drum up enough money to get the picture off the ground. But we just wanted to give you the total breakdown of where things stood because there is, apparently, massive interest among a core group of fans who want to see this property brought back to the big screen once again. Something that’s currently being warred over by theater owners and said streaming entities. When asked about his intriguing Twitter game Whitta responded coyly, “I know Seth is a fan of the original and he’s tried to get this done before too. An untenable idea for the fans if not for the mercurial creator from Modesto. Rogue One so he’s in good company there. Personally I think he’d make a fantastic Centauri.”. It stars Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Catherine Mary Stewart, Dan O'Herlihy and Norman Snow. 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