Lost in Space

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

This $90 million science fiction adventure is adapted from the television series, created by Irwin Allen, which originally ran on CBS from 1965 to 1968. The original series employed a Swiss Family Robinson in outer space premise; sent to colonize a planet in the Alpha Centauri system, the Robinson family was thrown off course by a stowaway and was left wandering from planet to planet (and changing along the way from a black-and-white series to a color series). The 1998 remake is set in the year 2058, when the United Global Space Force sends Professor John Robinson (William Hurt) and family -- wife Maureen (Mimi Rogers), daughter Judy (Heather Graham), teen Penny (Lacey Chabert), and 10-year-old Will (Jack Johnson) -- on a promotional space jaunt to herald the "offshore" future for the human race (now saddled with eco problems on Earth). Major Don West (Matt LeBlanc), more accustomed to fighting menacing Global Sedition forces, is reluctant to sign on as the Jupiter II pilot but quickly changes his mind after he gets a good look at Judy in her fetish-fashioned space togs. Space spy Dr. Smith (Gary Oldman), hired to sabotage the mission, programs in problems but winds up aboard the craft unconscious. Once awake, he summons the Robinsons from suspended animation, and they save the ship just in time, passing through hyperspace to arrive near an Earth ship where they encounter space-pet Blawp and hordes of teethy spiders. A spider bite makes the villainous Smith mutate, one of some 750 special effects, from animatronics (Jim Henson Creature Shop) to CGI, and other adventures await throughout the galaxy. Cameos include actors from the original series, including June Lockhart and Robot Voice Dick Tufeld. In a curious coincidence, the TV series took place in the future of 1997, the year this movie was produced. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

DVD FEATURES:

• Region: 1
• Number of Discs: 1
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1 (Cinemascope)
• Audio: 5.1, PCM Stereo
• Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
• Subtitle: English
• Features:
  • • Widescreen version
    • Deleted scenes
    • Audio commentary by director and writer
    • Audio commentary by visual effects supervisors, director of photography, editor, and producer
    • Featurettes: "Building the Special Effects" and "The Future of Space Travel"
    • "The Television Years," featuring synopses of all original episodes and interviews with original cast members
    • Production designs
    • Apollo 440 music video
    • Theatrical trailer
    • Biographies and filmographies of current and original cast members
    • DVD-ROM: Interactive games, original screenplay with direct links to the film, web links

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Director:

  Stephen Hopkins

• Producer:

  Stephen Hopkins, Akiva Goldsman, Carla Fry, Mark W. Koch

• Screenwriter:

  Akiva Goldsman

• Cinematographer:

  Peter Levy

• Composer (Music Score):

  Bruce Broughton

• Editor:

  Ray Lovejoy

• Production Designer:

  Norman Garwood

• Supervising Art Director:

  Keith Pain

• Co-producer:

  Tim Hampton, Kris Wiseman

• Executive Producer:

  Michael De Luca, Mace Neufeld, Robert G. Rehme, Michael Ilitch, Richard Saperstein

• Costume Designer:

  Vin Burnham, Gilly Hebden, Robert Bell

• Sound/Sound Designer:

  Simon Kaye

• First Assistant Director:

  Chris Carreras

• Casting:

  Allison Cowitt, Mary Selway, Mike Fenton

• Special Effects Supervisor:

  Angus Bickerton

• Second Unit Director:

  John Stephenson