Steven Spielberg’s upcoming sci-fi series for Fox may have found a leading man. Deadline reports that actor Jason O’Mara is in discussions to play the lead.
O’Mara is best-known for his work on the U.S. version of “Life on Mars.”
Offers have reportedly been made to two other actors for various roles on the project, but neither of them has gotten to the negotiation stage.
“Terra Nova” would also send O’Mara traveling through time, as the series focuses on an ordinary family from 2149, when the planet is dying, who are transported back 85 million years to prehistoric Earth, where they join a colony of humans with a second chance to build a civilization. O’Mara would play Jim Shannon, a devoted father with a checkered past who guides his family through this mysterious new land.
"mysterious new land"? How about a whole slew of mysterious new diseases that not only already exist in the prehistoric past, but those the modern humans will unleash on an unsuspecting primitive human population. Wonder how Steven will get around that, or even if he will try. Moore pretty much ignored that fact when he had the BSG remnant landing on prehistoric Earth to begin what we have come to know as.....well, ourselves.
It was a good and fertile land.
And they were going to call it, "This Land!"
Judging from that description, and the fact that we are dealing with Fox, I doubt it will make it one season.