Battle Beyond the Stars

James Cameron, who worked as a model maker and art director on this movie, was actually fired and re-hired twice during production. He began to notice that producer Roger Corman would always be displeased with the sets when he came to inspect and found set decorators still working on them, and started firing people; however, if Corman arrived on a half-finished set without anyone working on it, he would always like them anyway. So finally, Cameron had someone on the lookout for Corman's car, and whenever it was spotted, he would clear the set of crew members, no matter what state it was in. Corman would come in, and invariably like what he saw.

During Saint Exmin's final battle against Sador a crewmember can be seen on the left-side of the screen (over Sybil Danning's right shoulder). The crewman is visible during the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th cut to her during the battle. The crew person appears to be sitting just behind the wall immediately behind Sybil.

In the original ending a faction of pacifists leave Akir, feeling that their society has now become part of the violent universe. The sequence was scrapped after the fx shop delivered poor shots of their spaceships departing from the planet.