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Same ship in Space Raiders

posted 19 years ago by tommyuk
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Anyone ever see Space Raiders.It's the same ship as the one in Battle Beyond the Stars.

[–] matwsussx 19 years ago

all the ships are the same because Space Raiders uses the exact same footage from Battle Beyond the Stars, they both had the same producer Roger Corman who was king of low budget B-Movies. Space Raiders even uses the same score composed for BBTS by James Horner.

[–] andy-mccarthy 19 years ago

Nell appeared in Don Wilsons "Future Kick" during a "this is why the world is screwed up" prologues. Stock footage is lame.

[–] Firefox13A 19 years ago

So that's how they avoided copyright? Same producers? They should have linked it with a little creative writing and reused a character or two and made them sequels somehow. Then it would have worked better.

[–] apathetic 19 years ago

Yup, evidently Space Raiders isn't the only film they used BBTS stock footage in because the BBTS ship also appears in "Prison Ship Star Slammer" (1988), an absolutely terrible film, think "Prisoner: Cell Block H" in space...

[–] group13 18 years ago

Take a look again guys. Any true science fiction movie fan will tell you at least 8 familiar ships/scenes in there ;-)

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[–] stbarabas 18 years ago

I still laugh when i see those scenes they showed up in so many movies.. I was channel surfing the other day and saw it used on some low budget porno, emmanuelle movie.

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[–] neetrihteno 18 years ago

Scenes from this were also used in Ultra Warrior, which was a veritable cornucopia of stock footage. Seriously. I think there was more stock footage than new content.

[–] psdhart 13 years ago

Recycled material
The spaceship used in the movie was recycled for another science-fiction movie blasted by critics, the Roger Corman film Space Raiders.Footage from the movie was used in later movies and games: a clip from the movie (in 3-D) is shown during the movie theater fight scene at the end of Bachelor Party, and footage was also used for the laser disk game Astron Belt. The soundtrack was later recycled by Corman for Raptor and other movies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Beyond_the_Stars

[–] tommyuk 13 years ago

I remember playing the Astron Belt Laser Disc Coin-op video game, Galaxy Ranger, Firefox and MACH 3 too.They were fun for a while but the laser disc games were just a short fad mainly due to being problematic to maintain and they didn't do great business compared to regular Coin-op video games.

[–] ydobon-1 13 years ago

The spaceship footage from this movie has been used in a LOT of other films.