Roger Christian talks what happened with Prisoners of the Sun

Q: I saw a trailer, all that I was able to find, for Prisoners Of The Sun, and I wondered what's happening with that in terms of being released.




A: The film is stuck in legal problems in Germany at present and work done without the Producer or Directors knowledge or approval is holding up procedures.

The special effects guy and I saw the effects that they were doing. They were so bad that I said 'My name's off this, we won't have anything to do with it'.

It's gone into such a bad legal battle…it's lost its time too, because the story was pre-Raiders [4] coming out, and it was a kind of similar story, although it's Egyptian. At its time it would have been okay, but now it's lost its place.

I'm not encouraging it now. In the end I don't know what'll happen with it. My German producer who made Nostradamus with me, he was fighting the battle to try and get it resurrected, because he said 'This is such a commercial film'. And I still get buyers, especially from a lot of independent distribution companies saying 'We want to put this film out - how can we get it?'. It has huge production value; we shot some really great stuff and had a really good cast too.

But for now it's locked in a legal battle.