Solar Crisis (film)

Solar Crisis
Directed by Richard C. Sarafian
Produced by Richard Edlund
James Nelson
Screenplay by Joe Gannon
Crispan Bolt
Based on Solar Crisis
by Takeshi Kawata
Starring Tim Matheson
Charlton Heston
Peter Boyle
Annabel Schofield
Corin Nemec
Jack Palance
Music by Maurice Jarre
Cinematography Russell Carpenter
Edited by Richard Trevor
Production
company
Gakken Co. Ltd.
Japan America Picture Company
Distributed by Bridge Entertainment Group
Trimark Pictures
Vidmark Entertainment
Lions Gate Entertainment (current)
Release dates
 1990
Running time
 111 min
118 min (director's cut)
Country Japan/USA
Language English
Budget $55,000,000 (estimated)

Solar Crisis is a 1990 Japanese-American science fiction film. The screenplay was written by Joe Gannon and Tedi Sarafian (credited as Crispan Bolt), based on the novel Kuraishisu niju-goju nen by Takeshi Kawata, and directed by Richard C. Sarafian (credited as Alan Smithee). The cast featured Tim Matheson as Steve Kelso, Charlton Heston as Adm. "Skeet" Kelso, Peter Boyle as Arnold Teague, Annabel Schofield as Alex Noffe, Corin Nemec as Mike Kelso and Jack Palance as Travis. The executive producers were Takeshi Kawata and Takehito Sadamura, with FX cinematographer Richard Edlund and veteran sound editor James Nelson as its producers.

This film received a MPAA rating of PG-13, and was filmed in color with Dolby SR stereo sound. The budget is estimated to have been about $55,000,000, yet it had a very limited theatrical release.

Plot summary

In 2050, a huge solar flare is predicted to irradiate the Earth. Astronauts aboard the spaceship Helios must go to the Sun to drop a bomb equipped with an Artificial Intelligence (Freddy) and a Japanese pilot (as a backup if the Artificial Intelligence fails) at the right time so the flare will point somewhere else. Giant IXL Corp CEO Teague thinks the flare will not happen and wants the mission to fail so he can buy the planet cheaply while the scare lasts. Employee Haas prepares a surprise for the astronauts. While Steve Kelso commands the space ship where temperature rises, Steve's father Admiral 'Skeet' Kelso is searching the desert for Steve's son Mike who has gone AWOL to say goodbye to his dad but who inadvertently crossed the path of the guys from IXL after meeting desert-dweller Travis.

Cast

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