Nightfall

Nightfall is a 1988 American science fiction film written and directed by Paul Mayersberg, based on the 1941 short story of the same name by Isaac Asimov. Cast David Birney as Aton Sarah Douglas as Roa Alexis Kanner as Sor Andra Millian as Ana Production Nightfall was the short story which helped establish Isaac Asimov's reputation when it was published in 1941. Julie Corman became aware of it in 1979 when she read a review of an Asimov anthology in the New York Times. She was attracted by a story "about people who have recognizable moral dilemmas", and bought the screen rights. Roger Corman announced in 1980 he would make the film with a reported $6 million budget, co-producing with a German company. When Asimov turned down the chance to adapt the story himself, Julie Corman approached Paul Mayersberg, then best known for writing The Man Who Fell to Earth. He passed so she tried a number of different writers.