Lost on Mars

Lost on Mars''' is a movie made in color in 2002 and rereleased in 2010 produced by Westfield Entertainment, directed by Eric Shook. The screen play was written by shook based on what it might be like if Mars had a thriving atmosphere and civilization before Mars lost its atmosphere. The movie was a major attempt to bring back the lost style of early film making based on styles like director Fred M. Wilcox who directed forbidden Planet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_Planet, and The First Men in the Moon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Men_in_the_Moon two notable classic films in their own right.

Plot The first rocket ship designed to go to Mars is scheduled for a routine planetary space exploration. The mission is drastically changed once Earth receives a strange signal transmitted by a probe on Mars. Once the three young astronauts land on Mars, they find a device that sends them spiraling back to a time when the ruthless Siperion Empire controls Mars. Their only chance of escaping from the past is to find the time device that brought them there in the first place. Alex Quinn is the commander of this sci-fi adventure who gets caught in a violent magnetic storm during takeoff, which somehow activates the ancient time traveling time device they found in a sealed tomb on Mars. Quinn leads two other astronauts Captain Michelle Fox and Captain Nichole Taylor back through time, Quinn has to use all his training and skills to keep them alive during a crash sending all three 300 billion years into Mars’s past. The astronauts search the planet then get captured by a guard from the Siperion Empire. Giza is a Siperion officer who finds out that these three astronauts have the ability to travel back and forth through time. She stops at nothing to have this great ability to move through time. Giza known as the great barbarian warrior must have this power to travel back in time to kill the Sorth, a great and powerful ruler of the Siperion Empire. Once she accomplishes her plan, then and only then can she take the power of the Masha from the Sorth an evil power the Sorth possess.

Production

The film sets were constructed by Westfield Entertainment to resemble the scenes and rocket ships of the 1950s famous science fiction classics. Various locations where scouted out and the final sites where decided in South Dakota and Illinois. A full mockup of the inside of a rocket ship was designed and built that would to carry three astronauts to mars. Costumes where made with little modern design but a simpler white astronaut suit to keep within the total feel of early days of space travel. Digital graphics where kept to a minimum and while the making of Lost on Mars the use of real props and models were created to bring a more realistic concept of space travel to the audience; a process you can’t get from modern computer generated graphics today on any scale. The cast made up of various actors studied how actors of that era behaved in front of the camera in attempt to resemble the early years of science fiction film making closely as possible. Lost on Mars was shot during 2002 and transferred to VHS for release which was later picked up by Pro-Active Entertainment for distribution. Lost on Mars was then released after 2010 on DVD.

Directed by Eric Shook Cast: Kelli Wilson, David Long, Gretchen Maxwell, Megan glosser, Julia Gommell, Brittany Wisovaty, Amber Distler, Eric Shook, Beverly Rankin, Justin Hemming and John T Oertling

External links •	Internet movie base http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1521796/ •	Westfield Entertainment http://westfieldentgrp.com/ •	Amazon.com http://www.amazon.com/Lost-On-Mars/dp/B0030E1IO0/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_2