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Forbidden Planet Celebrates 50th Anniversary

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By GustavoLeao / 06:36, 29 March 2006 / General Genre/SciFi

The seminal science-fiction movie Forbidden Planet, starring Leslie Nielsen as starship Commander Adams and Anne Francis as Altaira, premiered on the big screen in March 1956 and celebrates its 50th Anniversary this month. In the movie, the crew of the United Planets starship C-57D goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has.



Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry often credited Forbidden Planet for its influence on Star Trek. "Roddenberry spoke with me about how he had lifted a number of things from Forbidden Planet," Francis says, "like the hologram and beam me up, Scotty."

"Forbidden Planet could have been the pilot film for Star Trek," Nielsen says, adding with a laugh, "And maybe it was."

"The '50s are famous for a proliferation of science-fiction movies, most of them intended to be cheap entertainment," says M. Keith Booker, author of Alternate Americas: Science Fiction Film and American Culture "Forbidden Planet had the highest budget (an estimated $1.9 million) to date of any science-fiction film. It has Technicolor and widescreen. It was a conscious effort to make a quality film. It had predecessors like The Day the Earth Stood Still, but Forbidden Planet is much more of an exploration of the artistic possibilities."

The original article can be found here.



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By: Davy Pavel Chekov-Jones (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:09:15 on Mar 30, 2006

Actually Diabolik, if you've been following The Digital Bits website at all, you'll be happy to know that a 50th Anniversary is INDEED on its way this year! It WILL be two discs and supposedly loaded with special features, including a "feature-length" documentary with interviews with at least Nielsen and Anne Francis. No release date has been set just yet, but expect one to come within the next few weeks or months.

Personally, I can't wait, as the picture quality on the original MGM DVD is abysmal. And I'd LOVE to hear that funky soundtrack in 5.1 (if possible)!

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