BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980) Official Trailer
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Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange answerers link it as a quick way to confirm or identify the film when users are trying to name half-remembered 1980s sci-fi movies.
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What it is
The official trailer for Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a Roger Corman-produced space opera in which seven mercenaries are hired to defend a farming planet from a warlord. It is a short promotional clip posted on Corman's official YouTube channel.
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Cites Pete · 2022-02 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Trying to ID a movie I watched in the '90s, featuring a spaceship with a logo showing a star being held between the thumb and index finger of a hand”
Is the ship one of these? [LINK] From this article. [LINK] Originally used in Battle Beyond The Stars [LINK] , and reused along with numerous other props and effects in Space Raiders [LINK] . I've not seen either film. Can't see any logos in the trailers. But I'll bet this is it. Here are the trailers. You can see the reuse of effects even in this short clips. Battle Beyond The Stars Space Raiders
Cites Per-Olof Wiktorsson · 2022-06 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Film that begins with spaceship combat seen from a cockpit or control room”
Might be B-movie producer Roger Corman's attempt to cash in on the first Star Wars wave of success. The Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). Written by John Sayles and Directed by Jimmy T. Murakami. There's a cockpit scene from the evil command ship at the start. The plot circles around a peasant boy from a peaceful planet that is under threat of invasion from the forces of an evil overlord. The boy takes his ship and goes off into space to find adventurers and experienced warriors to fight for his cause against the evil. There are plenty of spaceships, one of the smaller ones has an x-figure shape. BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS (1980) Official Trailer - YouTube
Cites FuzzyBoots · 2022-11 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “Searching for title of 1980s sci-fi movie that reminded me of Star Wars”
Possibly Battle Beyond the Stars [LINK] (1980) produced by Roger Corman The farming world Akir is threatened by the tyrannical warlord Sador (John Saxon), who rules the sinister Malmori Empire and, his body parts deteriorating, is capturing and appropriating them from others. Sador's huge dreadnought, the Hammerhead, mounts a "Stellar Converter", a weapon that turns planets into small stars. He demands that the peaceful Akira submit to him when he returns in "seven risings of your red giant", or he will turn his Stellar Converter on their planet. Zed (Jeff Corey), last of the famous Akira Corsairs, is old and nearly blind. He suggests they hire mercenaries to protect their world. Since Akir
Cites FuzzyBoots · 2024-12 · Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange · on “80s Sci-Fi film where alien race agrees to arm transplant to try and kill the bad guy”
This is likely Battle Beyond the Stars [LINK] (1980) produced by Roger Corman, borrowing from my answer at Searching for title of 1980s sci-fi movie that reminded me of Star Wars [LINK] The farming world Akir is threatened by the tyrannical warlord Sador (John Saxon), who rules the sinister Malmori Empire and, his body parts deteriorating, is capturing and appropriating them from others. Sador's huge dreadnought, the Hammerhead, mounts a "Stellar Converter", a weapon that turns planets into small stars. He demands that the peaceful Akira submit to him when he returns in "seven risings of your red giant", or he will turn his Stellar Converter on their planet. Zed (Jeff Corey), last of the fam