45 Years Ago, A Forgotten Sci-Fi Gem Revived A Long-Dead Genre

45 Years Ago, A Forgotten Sci-Fi Gem Revived A Long-Dead Genre

Ladd Co/Warner Bros/Kobal/ShutterstockWhen journeyman director and screenwriter Peter Hyams expressed a desire to make a western — just a few years after his 1977 sci-fi hit Capricorn One — the response he got was less than enthusiastic. “Everybody said, 'You can’t do a Western; Westerns are dead; nobody will do a Western,’” Hyams told Empire magazine. “I remember thinking it was weird that this genre that had endured for so long was just gone. …