Space Raiders

Space Raiders (1983)

He's ten years old and they've taken him ten-million miles into space.

A futuristic, sensitive tale of adventure and confrontation when a 10 year old boy is accidentally kidnapped by a spaceship filled with a motley crew of space pirates.

Date of release
1983-07-01
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (53)
Runtime
1h 24m
Genres
Action, Adventure, Science Fiction
Director
Howard R. Cohen

Casting

Interesting facts

Space Raiders, also known as Star Child, is a 1983 American space Western film written and directed by Howard R. Cohen and produced by Roger Corman. The film was made during the time when many studios were releasing space opera films following the success of Star Wars. However, the film was panned by critics, especially for its reuse of special effects footage and music taken from Corman's 1980 film Battle Beyond the Stars.

Production

Corman sold New World Pictures in January 1983 for $16.9 million. Under the terms of the contract, he agreed to stay on as consultant for two years and that New World would distribute any movies he made until February 1984. He agreed to provide the company with a minimum of five films they could release. He set up a new production company, Millennium, named after a 1981 retrospective of Corman's work at the National Film Theatre of London.

The job of directing Space Raiders, which was based on Treasure Island, went to Howard R. Cohen, who had written several films for Corman and recently turned director with Saturday the 14th. Since Cohen didn't have a lot of directing experience at the time, Corman brought in Eric Morris to assist him in setting up the shots a week before shooting commenced.

The sets used for Space Raiders were repurposed and modified from Corman's previous production of Battle Beyond the Stars and Android; some of these sets were later used in the Fred Olen Ray film Star Slammer.

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