Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "The Beastmaster" in English language version.
I thought it was dreadful. Awful. I made them remove my name from any connection with it the moment I read the script and saw that it bore no resemblance to my book! For one thing, my story was science fiction, set in the future, and this was some kind of sword & sorcery like Conan. Sword fights and sacrificing virgins—the only thing they used from my book in that movie was the idea of a hero who is in telepathic contact with animals. And did you know that the poor tiger they used in the movie died because they had to tranquilize it to dye it black, and it had a reaction to the drug? I was very upset when I heard that! You see, my agent sold the movie rights, but I didn't have script approval. So, they made a movie that had nothing to do with my book.[dead link]
