Talk about sticking a fork in your career! Or perhaps not, since according to IMDb.com, writer J.D. Shapiro hasn’t had much of a career since being known as “one of the two guys who wrote ‘Battlefield Earth’” (along with Corey Mandell, whose own screenwriting career never progressed pass “Earth”). Ever since he wrote the much derided “Battlefield Earth” in 2000, J.D. Shapiro has scripted a short TV comedy called “X-Treme Biography: Santa”, and is writing and directing his own comedy called “Knights of the Not-So Round Table: The Lost Tapes of 524 Ad”. But in the intervening eight years since “Battlefield”? Butkus. Which probably means Shapiro doesn’t have all that much to lose when, on the 10 year anniversary of “Battlefield Earth” where the film was given the unenviable title of “Worst Movie of the Decade” by the Razzies, Shapiro took to the NY Post and penned this apology to...
- 3/29/2010
- by Nix
- SciFiCool.com
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