An anonymous reader writes: Sliding over to 00.58.54 in this embedded podcast, 'Battlefield Earth' director Roger Christian, twice an Oscar-winner — and the visual creator of 'Star Wars' and 'Alien' — makes a rare commentary about his last 12 years as the director of 'the worst sci-fi movie ever made' — 'Battlefield Earth' (2000). He talks of Rupert Murdoch's war against the movie, his unfaltering lack of any interest in scientology, the praise the movie got from Spielberg, Tarantino and George Lucas, Spielberg's sequestering of its design for 'Minority Report', the fallacies about what it cost and what it made (and is still making)...and the success it is having on HBO, as viewers slowly discover it's 'just a sci-fi movie' and not a proselytising tract for scientology.
