Supernova (2000 film)
- James Spader: Nick Vanzant
- Angela Bassett: Dr. Kaela Evers
- Lou Diamond Phillips: Yerzy Penalosa
- Peter Facinelli: Karl Larson
- Robin Tunney: Danika Lund
- Wilson Cruz: Benj Sotomejor
- Eddy Rice Jr.: Flyboy
- Knox White: Troy Larson
- Kerrigan Mahan: Voice of Troy Larson
- Vanessa Marshall: voice of Sweetie
Super Nova is an American science fiction thriller directed by Walter Hill from the year 2000.
Action
The medical spaceship Nightingale 229 has a crew of six and is commanded by Captain Marley. The other crew members are the first officer Nick Vanzant, the physician Dr. Kaela Evers, the computer specialist Benj Sotomejor and two other doctors. Having collected an emergency call, the team is taking a leap to a 4000 light years distant moon, to provide assistance there. Due to a technical fault the captain is seriously injured and dies. The Nightingale is hit by asteroids and loses almost all fuel.
Shortly afterwards, a shuttle docked to the Nightingale with the adventurer Troy. Only in the later action is clear that this is the externally modified Karl Larson, who had deposed the emergency call. This brings secretly an alien artifact in the ship, which already caused a mutation in him. After the crew has discovered the artifact suggests Troy ( Larson ) to bring this to the earth, there to make money and to involve the crew in the competition. Vanzant but refuses to take the artifact to the earth, because they do not know whether present a risk to of the artifact. He then flies to the tender of the Nightingale to the moon to recover additional fuel there.
Larson, who has developed due to the mutation superhuman strength and tremendous self-healing, then begins to kill some of the crew and to commit acts of sabotage. Among other things, he tells the tender, which has landed on the moon to start by remote control without Vanzant. However Vanzant can use an escape pod, which he had taken precaution to return to the ship.
It turns out that the artifact includes neundimensionale matter, which can turn a star into a supernova and create new three-dimensional matter. Vanzant and Evers therefore try at all costs, Larson discourage them to bring the artifact to the planet who wants to make it there to make money. Finally, they succeed Larson to hurl together with the artifact from the space ship. As the only survivor they then return to Earth, while the artifact transforms the abandoned star in a supernova.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews, it disappoint even SF fans have little to offer as the film. The screenplay lacks uniformity and intelligence. The "standard ideas " of the genre would be consumed more in the film act as if they were there. Berardinelli praised James Spader and Angela Bassett, who would present the " lame " Dialogues with conviction.
The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was " actually quite handsome ." The operating under a pseudonym director bar are remarkable. The " muddled production history " burden the film and its plot.
Background
The film was shot in the Raleigh Studios in Los Angeles. After the film, directed by Walter Hill was shot, Jack Sholder shot a few scenes after. Then the film under the supervision of Francis Ford Coppola has been re-cut. Walter Hill occurs therefore uncredited on under the pseudonym Thomas Lee.
The cost of production was estimated at 60 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 14.2 million U.S. dollars.