Hi, welcome to Hollywood crime scene. This is Rachel Fisher. Hi, this is Desi Jetican.

Desi. Yes. I changed my episode at the last minute. Oh, no. I'm sorry. I was, I had my line ready to go. were you going to do oh well I guess we'll save it we'll save it because it'll give it away yeah I will do it next time okay I will I just it's been it's I'll save it. I'll save it. I'll save it. I will do it next time. Okay.

I will.

I just, it's been hard to focus.

And I was like, oh, this is like multiple narratives.

Right.

I can't do this right now.

So I decided to switch it up and do something that I think is a very fun topic.

And that is the absolute disaster that was the 2000 movie Battlefield Earth.

Oh, Scientology. And we're going to talk about Scientology. A little bit, yeah. A lot of it.

Oh, right. Well, I mean, the whole story is, yeah. Yeah. But it's not like a Scientology episode.

That's what I meant.

It's not a Scientology episode, but we're going to get into some stuff because obviously you can't talk about this movie without talking about Scientology.

And I had multiple sources for this episode.

I read the book, well, a chapter in the book, Fiasco,

A History of Hollywood's Iconic Flops by James Robert Parrish. I've used this book as a source before for a different flop movie. Maybe it was Waterworld. I think it was Waterworld.

It's a good book, though.

I recommend it.

And I also used a lot of newspaper articles.

Let's get into it.

On May 12, 2000, John Travolta's new movie was released, Battlefield Earth.

It was supposed to be a sci-fi epic on par with Star Wars.

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