One siren poster features Jane Fonda as "Barbarella" in the 1968 erotic science-fiction film.

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' epic science-fiction film series explodes on cinema screens around the world.

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Steven Spielberg said Harryhausen's inspiration "goes with us forever", while James Cameron said Hollywood's science-fiction film-makers had been "standing on the shoulders of a giant".

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The CIA cooked up a plan to spirit the six out of the country on a scheduled flight from Tehran's Mehrabad airport, masquerading as Canadians working on a non-existent science-fiction film.

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She then describes the major surgery two weeks later where breast tissue was removed, saying it felt "like a scene out of a science-fiction film, " then writes that nine weeks later she had a third surgery to reconstruct the breasts and receive implants.

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In the movie, in which Affleck plays the lead role, the CIA operation is shown outwitting Iranian authorities through an elaborate plan based on pretending that the U.S. diplomats fleeing the country were part of team scouting locations for an outlandish science-fiction film.

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Spielberg said Harryhausen's "inspiration goes with us forever" while Cameron said Hollywood science fiction film-makers had been "standing on the shoulders of a giant".

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The chairs also showed up on the sets of Tim Burton's remake of science fiction classic Planet of the Apes and Bryan Singer's second X-Men film, X2.

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