John Travolta as Terl

Actor John Travolta has been honored twice with Academy Award nominations, most recently for his riveting portrayal of a philosophical hit man in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. He received a Golden Globe nomination for that highly acclaimed role and was named Best Actor by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, among other distinguished awards. Travolta was equally praised as a Mafioso-turned-movie-producer in the comedy sensation Get Shorty, singled out by many critics as one of the best performances of the year and garnering a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy.

Travolta has starred in some of the most momentous and influential films of a generation, earning his first Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for his role in the blockbuster Saturday Night Fever, which launched the disco phenomenon of the late 1970s. He went on to star in Grease and the wildly successful Urban Cowboy. Additional film credits include the Brian DePalma thriller Carrie and Blow Out, as well as Amy Heckerling's hit comedy Look Who's Talking.

One of Hollywood’s busiest and most sought after performers, Travolta has starred in Michael and Phenomenon and in John Woo's top box-office thriller Broken Arrow. He starred in Face/Off with Nicholas Cage, She's So Lovely with Sean Penn and Robin Wright-Penn, and Mad City, co-starring Dustin Hoffman. He starred in Primary Colors opposite Emma Thompson in a Golden Globe nominated performance for director Mike Nichols and in the box office hits, A Civil Action and The General's Daughter.

In the upcoming film adaptation of L. Ron Hubbard’s science fiction epic, Battlefield Earth, aside from being a co-producer, John Travolta stars as the machiavellian Terl, a nine-foot-tall alien from a race that has dominated future Earth for a millenium.

Forest Whitaker is one of Hollywood’s most accomplished actors/directors. No stranger to working with John Travolta—he did so in Phenomenon—Forest has also worked in the science fiction genre, starring in the hit thriller, Species.

For Battlefield Earth, Forest and John Travolta both take roles as alien Psychlos, evil dominators of future Earth and the remnants of mankind. Forest plays the Psychlo Ker, who is one of the most intriguing alien characters in a book which is filled with a variety of alien races and distinctive personalities. In the film, Ker becomes especially important as he comes to the forefront as Terl’s partner in various schemes and plots while at the same time offering another view of the nature of the Psychlos. The Travolta-Whitaker combination that sparkled in Phenomenon is set to ignite in Battlefield Earth.

In addition to two films releasing in 1999, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai and Light It Up, Forest recently completed production for HBO on Witness Program, starring Tom Sizemore and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio.

Forest earned wide-spread recognition as an actor for his performance in Neil Jordan’s Academy Award-winning film, The Crying Game. Earlier, in 1988, Forest was named best actor at the Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of jazz legend Charlie Parker in Clint Eastwood’s Bird, a role for which he also received a Golden Globe nomination. Other film credits include: Smoke, Platoon, Good Morning Vietnam, Consenting Adults, Stakeout, The Color of Money, Body Snatchers, and more.

A busy actor and director, Forest has a multi-media company, Spirit Dance Entertainment, for which he will also be producing films, television shows and music. He will direct and produce feature films under deals with Propaganda Films and Columbia Tri-Star Television.

In just a few short years, Barry Pepper is becoming one of the most in-demand young talents in Hollywood.

Barry is currently co-starring opposite John Travolta in L. Ron Hubbard’s epic science fiction story Battlefield Earth, as the hero, Jonnie Goodboy Tyler. As Jonnie, Barry challenges the dark forces on planet Earth in the year 3000 harnessed by Travolta’s evil alien character, Terl. The movie is slated for a year 2000 release.

Most recently, Barry has been seen in Enemy of the State, with Will Smith and Gene Hackman, and in the Academy Award-winning Saving Private Ryan, where he had "an indelible presence as the stoic marksman-sniper," according to Entertainment Weekly.

And, upcoming in December 1999, Barry will appear in the Stephen King thriller The Green Mile, also starring Tom Hanks and Sam Rockwell.

At the age of five, Barry and his family took off for five years on a 50-foot sailboat, voyaging to the islands of the South Pacific. After returning to Canada, the family lived on a farm, and after two years in college studying marketing and graphic design, Barry discovered theatre, his true passion, by becoming involved in a Vancouver Actors Studio. He was hooked and has never looked back.

His favorite pursuits, following acting, are surfing, sky diving, riding horses, hockey, fly fishing, rock climbing and mountain biking—all of which have prepared him well for the very physical role in Battlefield Earth of Jonnie Goodboy Tyler.

"The pace starts fast and never lets up. This is a shoot-'em-up adventure of the kind that has the hero fight an air battle in the morning, whip a gang of aliens in hand-to-paw combat in the afternoon, crack an unbreakable code in the evening and find time at odd moments to settle a couple of tribal disputes and run a lab experiment or two."

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution