Beastmaster 2: Through the Portal of Time

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Jim Wynorski said in an interview that producer/director Sylvio Tabet tried to rip him off after Wynorski worked on the screenplay, but he ended up having his revenge a few years later: "Tabet lured me into the sequel with the prospect of writing and directing," he explained. "He'd made the first film, but then waited close to seven years to make the second. Along with my writing partner, R.J. Robertson, we wrote him a helluva good screenplay. Then at the last moment, he pulls the rug out from under me and says he's directing it himself. And then tops it off by threatening to take our writing credits off the picture. I took the bastard straight to court. He hired big-time attorneys to stall paying out the final script installments. I hated his guts. But I got the last laugh when Republic Pictures picked up the show. They wanted a picture totally clean of legal entanglements. So they came to me to make a deal and I held them up but good. Cleaned up. I still remember Tabet's pained face when I told him what it would take to get me to sign off. Even my own lawyer whined!"