Anna Nicole Smith's last film due in May

13/02/2007 23:25

By Steve Gorman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The last film made by U.S. stripper-turned-celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, a sci-fi comedy titled "Illegal Aliens," will be released on DVD in May, its distributor said on Tuesday.

The 93-minute film stars Smith, who died last week in Florida, as one of three aliens who transform themselves into "super-hot babes and arrive to protect the Earth from intergalactic forces of evil," according to press materials from the MTI Home Video, which will distribute the movie through DVD outlets.

MTI spokesman Ed Baran described "Illegal Aliens," which is unrated, as a low-budget, deliberately "high-camp" production in which Smith lampoons her own sex bomb image.

No release is planned for cinemas, Baran said.

Smith invested her own money in the project and even took part in scripting her role. Her son, Daniel, who died in the Bahamas in September at age 20, three days after Smith gave birth to her daughter, was credited as an associate producer on the film, Baran said.

"A lot of people really want to make her out to be some idiot but I really don’t think that she was," Baran said. "She’s poking fun at herself within the film so I think it’s pretty damn smart."

The former stripper and Playboy magazine centrefold died Thursday of unknown causes .....continued below

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while enmeshed in a paternity suit over her infant daughter and a long-running dispute over the fortune left by an elderly oil tycoon she married in 1994.

Smith, who was 39, previously starred in her own cable TV reality series, "The Anna Nicole Smith Show." She appeared a handful of movies, beginning in 1994 with "The Hudsucker Proxy" and the 1994 big-screen spoof "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult."

Baran said the timing of distribution of Smith’s last film was coincidental to her death, with MTI having submitted it to retailers for sale this coming spring about a week and a half before she died. Smith had planned to take part in a publicity campaign for the film, he said.

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