Director Steven Spielberg may be looking to get back into the dinosaur game. Spielberg and Peter Chernin are negotiating with Fox to bring a weekly series called “Terra Nova” to the network.
The series would follow a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to the strange and inhospitable environment of prehistoric Earth.
Fox is considering giving the project a series order based on the pitch alone due to the expense of creating sets and the visual effects that would be involved in the pilot, reports Variety. The pilot script is by Craig Silverstein and Kelly Marcel.
If “Terra Nova” gets the greenlight, Silverstein and Marcel would serve as exec producers along with Kaplan. Spielberg and Chernin would also exec produce, natch, but sources cautioned that there are no formal deals yet in place for either honcho. If Spielberg comes aboard, DreamWorks TV stewards Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank would also sign on as exec producers, as would Chernin Entertainment TV topper Katherine Pope.
No word yet on whether or not Fox will air the episodes of the show in order or air more than four episodes of the show.
Marshall, will and holly ...............
This is cool I guess, but it reminds me that the only really not-cheesy way to have dinosaurs in your sci-fi story is to genetically engineer them a la Jurassic Park.
"Land of the Lost" ala Spielberg & company.
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