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.

Nightfall was the short story which helped establish Isaac Asimov's reputation when it was published in 1941.

[2] Roger Corman announced in 1980 he would make the film with a reported $6 million budget, co-producing with a German company.

[3] 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.

Mayersberg wrote the script in five weeks in London and the film was shot over an eight-week period in October 1987.

Mayersberg created the female character of Roa, who was once married to Aton but left him to become one of Sor's disciples.

[11] Mayersberg said, "Instead of hardware and lasers, I used strings and elastic bands and crystal swords, whatever the people who lived on the planet could find that might exist or, in the case of something like a kite, could build.

Genre fans and reluctant dates alike may find it as insufferable a sit-through as any science-fiction movie this decade.