Writer J.D. Shapiro helped pen Battlefield Earth, one of the worst pieces of crap in the history of Hollywood. It recently won the Razzie for “Worst Movie of the Decade”, which Shapiro accepted in person, and now he’s explaining himself in the New York Post.
Let me start by apologizing to anyone who went to see “Battlefield Earth.”
It wasn’t as I intended — promise. No one sets out to make a train wreck. Actually, comparing it to a train wreck isn’t really fair to train wrecks, because people actually want to watch those.
The whole article is definitely worth a read.
