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ABOUT LOST ON MARS

Lost on Mars is a science fiction movie that  was produced by Westfield Entertainment and 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 intended to bring back the lost style of early film making based on styles like director Fred M. Wilcox who directed Forbidden Planet, and movies like First Men in the Moon directed by Nathan Juran.

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Plot

The first rocket ship designed to go to Mars is scheduled for a routine planetary space exploration on Mars. The mission is changed once Earth receives a strange signal transmitted by a probe on Mars. Eventually the three young astronauts land on Mars where they find a strange device located in an sealed tomb built by a lost civilization that has long been forgotten. This device will eventually send all of them back to a time when the 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. Commanded by Alex Quinn (David Long), the spacecraft gets caught in a violent magnetic storm during takeoff, which somehow activates the ancient time traveling time device they found on Mars. Quinn leads two other astronauts Captain Michelle Fox (Gretchen Maxwell) and Captain Nichole Taylor (Megan Glosser) back through time 300 billion years into Mars’s past.The astronauts search the planet for answers, but get captured by a guard from the Siperion Empire instead. Giza (Kelli Wilson) is a Siperion officer who finds out that these three astronauts have the ability to travel through time. Giza becomes determined to gain this ability at any cost. Giza (Kelli Wilson) known as the great barbarian warrior must have this ability to travel back in time to kill the Sorth a great and powerful ruler of the Siperion Empire. Once Giza accomplishes her plan to kill the Sorth, she will take the power of the Masha an evil power the Sorth possess and rule in her place.

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 rocket ship interior was designed and built that would carry three astronauts to mars. Costumes where made with simple white astronaut suits to keep within the total feel of early days of space travel. Digital graphics where kept to a minimum and while making 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 that cannot be obtained from modern computer generated graphics.

The cast was made up of various actors who studied how actors of that era behaved in front of the camera in an attempt to resemble the early days of science fiction film making. 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. The sequel to lost on mars is Empire of Danger.



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