Space Mutiny

Space Mutiny (1988)

There Is Nowhere To Hide From The Enemy Within.

A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.

Date of release
1988-08-01
TMDB
2.7 / 10 (84)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Romance, Adventure, Science Fiction
Director
Neal Sundstrom

Casting

Interesting facts

Space Mutiny is a 1988 American-South African science fiction film directed by Neal Sundstrom and David Winters, starring Reb Brown, Cisse Cameron, Cameron Mitchell, James Ryan and John Phillip Law. Brown stars as a hotshot pilot who visits a large spaceship, and uncovers a conspiracy led by its seditious security officer (Law).

Production

The film was announced under the title Mutiny in Space, which it kept until after principal photography. It was written by Action International Pictures' David Winters under his frequent pseudonym Maria Dante, with uncredited contributions from South African Ian Yule, who had previously worked for AIP. It was intended to be directed by AIP co-founder David A.

Producer David Winters signed Reb Brown thanks to positive reviews of his performance in Death of a Soldier. Brown asked Winters if he could hire his wife Cisse Cameron, which he accepted. John Phillip Law was cast due to his role in the vintage sci-fi film Barbarella. James Ryan and Cameron Mitchell both had an established relationship with Winters. Executive producer Hope Holiday had studied jazz dance with Winters.

Principal photography took place around August and September 1987. Per one source, Transkei, a nominally independent Xhosa state located in southeastern South Africa, was announced as the main location. However, first-hand accounts indicate that filming took place near Johannesburg, Transvaal. On the first day of shooting, director David Winters received news that his father had died.

The picture was shot inside a power plant, and several scenes make no attempt to hide the surrounding industrial decor. According to Winters, he simply intended to leave those elements out of shot. For his part, cinematographer Vincent G. Fox says that he added a reddish tint to the film, in order to pass the sunlight peering through the windows as the glare produced by the ship's reactors.

Immediately after wrap, Sundstrom left the project and Winters, who had just been diagnosed with endocarditis, had to edit the film from his hospital room, where an editing bay was installed. Winters justified the inclusion of a shot of actress Claudia Jacobs, whose Lieutenant character seems to have been fatally shot in the prior scene, by the fact that no better one was available.

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