Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! | |
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Directed by | Ernest Farino (1, 5) Frank Arnold (2, 3, 6) Mark Manos (4) |
Produced by |
Charles Band Debra Dion Vlad Paunescu Oana Paunescu |
Screenplay by | Ethan Reiff (1, 2, 5, 6) Cyrus Voris (1, 2, 5, 6) Mark Carducci (as Paul Callisi) (1, 2) Nick Paine (3) Patrick J. Clifton (4) |
Music by | Richard Band |
Cinematography | Viorel Sergovici (1, 2, 5) Vivi Dragan Vasile (1, 2) |
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Distributed by | Paramount Home Video |
Release date
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1995 – 1996 |
Country | United States Romania |
Language | English |
Josh Kirby... Time Warrior! is a film series in six installments produced by Charles Band's Moonbeam Entertainment in Association With The Kushner-Locke Company and released between 1995 and 1996, featuring the fictional character Josh Kirby played by Corbin Allred.
The series concerns a device, found by humans in the 25th century, called the Nullifier. This device is said to be capable of destroying the universe. Realising the danger, a man called Irwin 1138 splits the Nullifier into six pieces, which are then dispersed through time. However, a scientist called Dr. Zoetrope finds out where the pieces are located and, with the help of his time traveling armor, sets about reassembling the device. Along with 20th-century teenager Josh Kirby, and a half-human warrior known as Azabeth Siege, Irwin 1138 sets about thwarting Dr. Zoetrope's plans.
Josh Kirby is 14 years of age in 9th grade and his journey starts when he is accidentally pulled into the fight between Irwin and Zoetrope when a piece of the Nullifier lands in his time. He has to overcome his homesickness for small-town America, helped by befriending the alien warrior-girl Azabeth, and saving her life, a result of this being that she is bound by oath to protect him. After a series of adventures including seeing the year 70,379 where humans have become tyrannical giants, a world populated by living toys, and Azabeth’s home world where humans are the hated enemy of her people, The Kang, he eventually is confronted by a shocking betrayal by Irwin before he discovers that he must choose between Azabeth's survival and fulfilling his Time Warrior destiny.
There are 21 codes of Kang by which all of Azabeth's people live their lives. Kang was a great warrior on Azabeth’s world, after he saved her people when humans colonized and enslaved them in the 21st century. That was over a hundred years ago.