Blast From The Past (August 24, 2000)

[ChrisReid]

LeHah dug up an old letter from Chris Roberts he received around the time the Wing Commander movie was released in the US. Occassionally people ask about the prospects for another movie and if Roberts would even be interested. Although the box office results for Wing Commander weren't as high as hoped, and this could prevent such a project, these are the thoughts Roberts had. If you're in the mood for more and didn't catch it in March, we have a real audio interview with him here.

BTW David actually composed four themes; The main title theme, the "love"theme, the Pilgrim theme and the Kilrathi theme (which kind of got reduced:-()Anyway, I hope you like the film. It's not perfect, but it's got a lot ofgood stuff in it and is better than most of the of the films that come outnowadays... Anyway I hope it does well enough to allow me to go back andtackle WC with a bigger budget (plus I've always liked the WC2 story a lot).I really want to try digital character animation for the Kilrathi.

In person he also told us he might like to spice in some Fleet Action novel elements, but at the moment this is unlikely. :-()

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Original update published on August 24, 2000