Scenes were also shot in Cosanti, just outside Scottsdale, and in the Tonto National Forest. The film was shot in an organic architectural development in Arizona called Arcosanti.
The number of suns was reduced from six in the story to three. As for the Day of Judgment, do you believe the religious view or do you subscribe to the scientific view that it's nothing more than an eclipse and is a part of the movement in the universe?". Maybersberg said the two men stood for "the relationship between science and religion as a means of explaining the world. Mayersberg created the female character of Roa, who was once married to Aton but left him to become one of Sor's disciples. The only characters retained from the story were Aton, an astronomer and leader of the city, and Sor, leader of the Believers (called the Cultists in the story). Movies don't work well when it comes to picturing large landscapes, and so forth film can only show you what exists, that which we can already see with our eyes, If you want to imagine a city in space, you have to build a model- and frankly, it looks like a model."
Mayersberg said "I'm of the belief that, in general, film is not a very good medium for science fiction, it's visual, and therefore not very imaginative. Mayersberg wrote the script in five weeks in London and the film was shot over an eight-week period in October 1987. Mayersberg agreed to write the script if he could direct. In July 1987 Corman eventually went back to Mayersberg after seeing his directorial debut, Captive (1986). we encountered the usual money problems, so the project was put on the back burner." In other versions, the characters were incredibly good but Asimov's philosophical war of words had been played down. "Some of the scripts that we developed were excellent on the science-fiction elements, but they weren't very visual. "The problem was getting a script that had the essence of Nightfall and also had good, involving characters", says Corman. He passed so she tried a number of different writers. 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. Roger Corman announced in 1980 he would make the film with a reported $6 million budget, co-producing with a German company.
She was attracted by a story "about people who have recognizable moral dilemmas", and bought the screen rights. Julie Corman became aware of it in 1979 when she read a review of an Asimov anthology in the New York Times. Nightfall was the short story which helped establish Isaac Asimov's reputation when it was published in 1941. 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.
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