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John Travolta Civil Action" (1998), a Bill Clinton-esque presidential candidate in "Primary Colors" (1998), and a military investigator in "The General's Daughter" (1999). In 2000, Travolta starred in and co-produced the science fiction film "Battlefield Earth", based on the novel of the same name by L. Ron Hubbard, in which he played the leader of a group of aliens that enslaves humanity on a bleak future Earth. The film had been a dream project for Travolta since the book's release in 1982, when Hubbard had personally written him to try to help make a film adaptation. The film received almost universally negative