Merrick again...

Brad Silberling (LEMONY SNICKET'S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS) will direct a $100,000,000 (you read the right) adaptation of the Kroft's NBC Saturday morning series LAND OF THE LOST for Universal.

You know I couldn't resist YouTubing this one. Sorry...it was calling me, and I couldn't say "no".

As a kid, I was always terribly confounded by the show's second season re-conception . Check out the Season 2 title sequence for comparison:

WTF is that about? Anyway, back to the movie:

Adaptation by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas revolves around a disgraced paleontologist, his assistant and a macho tour guide who find themselves in a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people and reptilian Sleestaks.

...says THIS ARTICLE in Variety.

So, you read the article clipping: they promised us Sleestacks. We'd better get Sleestacks. I once had a teacher who looked like a Sleestack. She was a real bitch.

I wonder if Haley Joel Osment is too old to play Chaka?

Here's a full episode. It has Skylons in it. Wait...huh?