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PLYMOUTH Writen and
Produced by
"The lunar scuttlebutt has been flying.
There has been lots of talk about the ABC feature ``Plymouth'' and its
astronomical budget, pegged by various reporters at between $10 million and $20
million. There have been gossip scoops around town about budget overruns and
equipment failure. There has been talk about missing motors in lunar modules and
cutbacks on costuming to the point that actors were sharing space suits. Now
it's time to set the record straight. But first, let's go into retroburn. The
``Plymouth'' is a two-hour film-pilot based on science fact and tells the story
of a logging community in the Pacific Northwest that is offered the opportunity
to become the first lunar settlement and mining operation on the moon. Executive
producer-writer-director Lee David Zlotoff has worked with NASA experts in all
areas of lunar base design, as well as with space architects from around the
country, to ensure absolute accuracy in the construction of the ``Plymouth''
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A cast that includes
Cindy Pickett, Dale Midkiff, Richard Hamilton, Jerry Hardin, James Rebhorn, Anne
Haney, Perrey Reeves, Matt Brown, Lindsay Price, John Thornton, Eugene Clark,
Carlos Gomez, Brent Fraser, Ron Vawter and Robin Frates has been assembled on
three soundstages at the Culver Studios. Production designer Michael Baugh
provided the expansive sets. The film is now in postproduction. There were no
cost cuts, no malfunctions due to missing motors, no sharing of costumes. None.
The film's budget was a healthy $8 million, not $10 million to $20 million. And
Zlotoff, along with co-executive producer Ralph Winter and producer Ian Sander,
brought the project in (ital) under (end ital) budget, not over. Nearly $1
million under budget. When all is said and done, the project will stand as an
extremely special effort on the part of all involved, to be sure. But the stuff
of scuttlebutt, not really. " |
                 
                
       
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