Nightflyers

Nightflyers (1987)

Where they're headed isn't the mystery. What's taking them there is.

A scientific group set out on a journey into space to find a magical creature. What they find is a killer computer on the ship they chartered.

Date of release
1987-10-23
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (21)
Runtime
1h 29m
Genres
Horror, Science Fiction
Director
Robert Collector

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $1.1M
  • Based on: Nightflyers

Nightflyers is a 1987 American science fiction horror film based on the 1980 novella of the same name by George R. R. Martin. Martin himself co-wrote the screenplay with Robert Jaffe.

Production

The film is based on a novella that appears in George R. R. Martin's 1985 short story collection. Originally written in 1980, the 23,000-word novella was published by Analog Science Fiction and Fact. In 1981, at the request of his editor at the time, James Frenkel, Martin expanded the story into a 30,000-word piece, which was published by Dell Publishing, together with Vernor Vinge's True Names, as part of their Binary Star series.

Nightflyers is set in the same fictional "Thousand Worlds" universe as several of Martin's other works, including Dying of the Light, Sandkings, A Song for Lya, "The Way of Cross and Dragon", "With Morning Comes Mistfall", and the stories collected in Tuf Voyaging.

Screen and television rights were purchased by Vista in 1984, which produced a 1987 film adaptation with a screenplay co-written by Martin, with writer/producer Robert Jaffe. It was directed by Robert Collector, using the pseudonym "T. C. Blake" as he left before post-production was completed.

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