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What Do You Do When Most Of Earth's Land Masses Are Submerged By Oceans?? Salvage It!! Here Come LOST CITY RAIDERS!!
Merrick here...
I thought you might be interested an upcoming TV movie with an agreeably kitschy title: LOST CITY RAIDERS.
SIDE NOTE: The image above was assembled to help presell the movie . If you've ever seen one of the big market round-up issues of Variety or HR, you've undoubtedly seen art like this countless times. I.e. it's not actual/final "promotional" artwork.
Sure…LCR isn't as big as IRON MAN or INDY, but we frequently cover this kind of stuff…and it’s our mission to call your attention to things that sounds “cool”. In premise at least, this sounds like it could be Geeky fun. A Geeky-fun premise + an interesting & accomplished director? Might work…
LOST CITY is directed by Jean de Segonzac, who co-wrote the telefilm’s script with Torsten Dewi. de Segonzac’s impressive credits include (but are not limited to) BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, CSI, OZ, three LAW & ORDER series, and HOMICIDE. Not too shabby.
Set in the near future, LCR is a six million dollar production in which "The Rising" has flooded most of Earth’s habitable areas. People are living on what's left of the planet’s continents. Multiple salvage operations attempt to retrieve “treasure” from sunken cities like Los Angeles, Rome, Paris, and Rio (where the Jesus statue is still sticking out of the water). Visual effects...characterized “massive”...will be deployed to realize this re-written environment, although I haven’t been able to snag any FX shots yet.
Word is there’s an artifact somewhere that could reverse the rising and restore Earth’s land masses. Towards this end, a salvage team is recruited by the Vatican (now located in New Rome) to find said object. However, a billionaire real estate mogul has a different agenda.
So…
We have shades of WATERWORLD (at least LCR will be shorter and, presumably, less plodding), and a touch of a comic called AFTERBURN (about folks who plunder the treasures & resources of an Earth that’s been partially toasted by a mammoth solar flare . More on AFTERBURN HERE).
LCR stars James Brolin, Ian Somerhalder (Boone Carlyle in LOST), and Ben Cross (the CHARIOTS OF FIRE guy) and is being positioned as an “event movie” for the Sci Fi Channel that’ll air later this year. It will also be seen extensively overseas, as this was co-produced by several European TV networks.
I haven’t seen any footage at all from LCR, but from what I hear they’re having a good time with the overall concept & premise (which is cool by me…projects like this often seem to take themselves too seriously).
One example: at one point, our heroes retrieve treasure from a sunken Hollywood. It’s an Oscar…the gang thinks it’s important…then we learn it’s Shatner’s Oscar. I like this…I’ve been saying all along that someday he would get the appreciation he deserves. Too bad most of the world might have to be destroyed before it happens...
Sure…LCR isn't as big as IRON MAN or INDY, but we frequently cover this kind of stuff…and it’s our mission to call your attention to things that sounds “cool”. In premise at least, this sounds like it could be Geeky fun. A Geeky-fun premise + an interesting & accomplished director? Might work…
LOST CITY is directed by Jean de Segonzac, who co-wrote the telefilm’s script with Torsten Dewi. de Segonzac’s impressive credits include (but are not limited to) BATTLESTAR GALACTICA, CSI, OZ, three LAW & ORDER series, and HOMICIDE. Not too shabby.
Set in the near future, LCR is a six million dollar production in which "The Rising" has flooded most of Earth’s habitable areas. People are living on what's left of the planet’s continents. Multiple salvage operations attempt to retrieve “treasure” from sunken cities like Los Angeles, Rome, Paris, and Rio (where the Jesus statue is still sticking out of the water). Visual effects...characterized “massive”...will be deployed to realize this re-written environment, although I haven’t been able to snag any FX shots yet.
Word is there’s an artifact somewhere that could reverse the rising and restore Earth’s land masses. Towards this end, a salvage team is recruited by the Vatican (now located in New Rome) to find said object. However, a billionaire real estate mogul has a different agenda.
So…
We have shades of WATERWORLD (at least LCR will be shorter and, presumably, less plodding), and a touch of a comic called AFTERBURN (about folks who plunder the treasures & resources of an Earth that’s been partially toasted by a mammoth solar flare . More on AFTERBURN HERE).
LCR stars James Brolin, Ian Somerhalder (Boone Carlyle in LOST), and Ben Cross (the CHARIOTS OF FIRE guy) and is being positioned as an “event movie” for the Sci Fi Channel that’ll air later this year. It will also be seen extensively overseas, as this was co-produced by several European TV networks.
I haven’t seen any footage at all from LCR, but from what I hear they’re having a good time with the overall concept & premise (which is cool by me…projects like this often seem to take themselves too seriously).
One example: at one point, our heroes retrieve treasure from a sunken Hollywood. It’s an Oscar…the gang thinks it’s important…then we learn it’s Shatner’s Oscar. I like this…I’ve been saying all along that someday he would get the appreciation he deserves. Too bad most of the world might have to be destroyed before it happens...
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Smart Sharks will rule the world.
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Capt America, and Avengers movies more interesting than THIS.
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Didn't Waterworld tank well enough? Must we reopen old wounds?
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Even if it is "promotional," you wouldn't sell me with a line like that.
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I hate to tell you this, but if half the US suddenly sank below the sea, the dollar wouldn't be worth squat and having a billion of them would just mean you were set pretty well for toilet paper for the rest of your life.
OK, maybe this guy made ANOTHER billion quatloos or whatever the new currency became, by selling toilet paper made of his FIRST billion dollars. -
A six million dollar budget? The Vatican? LAME.
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Damn skippy he deserves one! Totally robbed for Wrath of Kahn! KAAAAHHHHHHHHNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Especially for the SciFi network.
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If the coastal waters rose at a moderate pace, there's no reason to presume any first world's economy would collapse. Businesses would just move inland.
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S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y. Night!
(Remember, you can't spell Saturday without TURD.) -
On a Lost Room spin off? I was all down for these Sci-Fi mini series every year until Tin Man, huge let down. Hopefully this'll be better then Triangle, which was ok, but kind of lame in the end.
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I'll stick with continuing to roll my eyes and wondering why why why in the world of all things sane and rational these things continue to get made.
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and ended up learning how to love.
Love theme from Lost City Raiders Of The Lost Ark by Celine Dion. -
This looks like complete Sci-Fi channel fodder. I smell a "professional favor."
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AICN should be covering *more* stuff like this, not less. There's a lot of great geek stuff out there that this site doesn't care about because there isn't a former Buffy writer on the staff. They should be spending more time on reports like this.
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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!
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just wonderin
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The statue of liberty (which is at sea level) is up to her waist in water, but the Christ statue in Rio (way up on a mountain) is party underwater also?
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per Veidt.com
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Do any of you people actually enjoy movies?? cause you fuckers don't sound like you like anything. Quit yer bitchin'.
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If you took the time to use your eyes you'd see that "it's not actual/final "promotional" artwork."
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I think you need to read the article closer; Merrick said "(where the Jesus statue is still sticking out of the water)". Which makes it sound like it's not submerged at all. Which makes sense, because it's on a cliff that is 2,296 feet above sea level. I don't think it's suggested that it's partially underwater by that statement.
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The disembodied head of Malcolm McDowell. "He'll apologize, but the shades stay on."
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That's a good joke.
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Actually, the 40-minute-longer TV version of WATERWORLD is superior to the theatrical cut, and makes the film (paradoxically) a far better experience than the studio-shortened version. Sure wish they'd put this cut out on Blu-Ray someday...
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Seriously, I don't get it. I just don't see somebody coming up to me and saying, "man, Raiders of the Lost City sucked, but there's this one scene where they pull out an Oscar and they think it's all important and it's... wait for it.. William Shatner's Oscar! Get it!? HAHAHHAHAA!" Is it supposed to be funny like the Cubs winning the World Series ('cus that'll never happen) in Back to the Future? A scene that doesn't take itself to seriously in an otherwise crappy movie and is funny on its own would be like the parakeet getting shot in Crank.
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That in the post-global-warming-apocalypse people will still be able to have flawless hair and clothes.
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Good god please somebody let me run that channel...do they actually ever try and make anything aimed at what the people who should be watching that channel want...we want more stuff like Battlestar, manga/anime, the old classic serials (Flash Gordan, good movies like both versions of Solaris, Forbidden Planet, 2001 and good documentaries like they make on the History and Discovery channels....shit even have Futurama on it...Its not that difficult to make that into the best Channel on the planet please let me have a go
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is what AICN should be doing. They should be covering all the $5 million dollar sf, fantasy, and horror movies. If they're cramped for room, they can stop covering stuff like "made of honor."
That said, this movie sounds terrible. -
The premise sounds like it could be a five-star with the right script, cast, and production. But considering SciFi's track record (Frankenfish, anyone??) I have little faith.
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I concur with the general sentiment that we need MORE coverage of admittedly marginal stuff like this, rather than "Baby Mama" and crap of that ilk.
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They shot this bitch in Cape Town, South Africa. When he told me the name, I laughed in his face. Apparently Ian Somerhalder is a bit of a dick, you heard it here first.
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well, thank god Boone died in season one. I could kinda tell, though.
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His role was to sit by the bar with two hot girls under each arm. Now, if I ever see this film (I plan not to) I'll probably go into cardiac arrest from laughing so hard at this scene. My friend's a great guy, don't get me wrong, but he's the furthest thing from a Columbian drug lord chick magnet (although he does have long hair and a beard... and we all know chicks are attracted to that shit). Also, to be fair, I asked him why he said Somerhalder was a dick and he couldn't really give me a real answer, something about hitting on all the girls on the set (and you can't really blame him for that). Having said that, Somerhalder does give off an air of dickness, so fuck him.
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Yep.
Check this out.
Gore says we will live in Waterworld.
John Edwards claimed the future would be like Steel Dawn.
Jane Fonda's ex recently stated he foresaw a Boy and His Dog future.
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Nihon igai zenbu chinbotsu
"A hilarious film adaptation by Kawasaki Minoru of a parody of the famous 1970s novel Nihon Chinbotsu. Nihon Chinbotsu is the story of the Japanese people losing their homeland and being dispersed throughout the world. Nihon Igai Zenbu Chinbotsu is the opposite: the whole world sinks except Japan. The world's survivors all scramble on the small little archipelago occupied by the xenophobic Japanese. With Team America-like line of characters, all extreme stereotypes of their nation, you can't stop laughing. No one escapes the directors critique, from the traditional Japanese guy (who takes advantage of the situation and eats whale), to the Chinese/Korean leaders who suck up to Japan's Prime Minister, to the American Secretary of Defense who regrets not having started a coup d'etat in Japan, and etcetera." -
Although I'm sure the Limbaugh pill poppers out there think that global warming is a hoax, along with evolution (and they have Ben Stein posters plastered on their bedroom walls). Too bad it is only a TV movie, given a big screen treatment of the same thing would be fun.
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Guess you missed that little bit of news.
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More altar-boys to abuse if they did I guess.
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There was a story in the NY Times a while back about how certain rich people are buying up land in the arctic, realizing that with global warming, the melting of the ice would create new shipping lanes and new docks and harbors to service those ships. Also, unless I didn't make myself clear in the last post, for all you deny global warming types: Give it a fucking rest. I'm sorry you failed science class in seventh grade, but just because you masturbate nightly to that issue of National Review tucked under your pillow doesn't make you an authority on science.
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Dude, did you even read the stories about why those scientists are predicting global cooling, or did you make it no further than the Fox News headline?
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Every side is agendizing, so you can't trust anyone. Deep ocean data returns stable temperatures, and instead of accepting the data, the global warming proponents are trying to spin it as they don't know what the results really mean. Why? Because it doesn't conform to what they expected to see. That's what agendizing does: it causes intelligent people to be stupid. Ditto the polar bears: the evidence is that the population is GROWING, yet that has to be a mistake, right?
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I can ALREADY tell that this thing will have the same logic and reason and sound science behind it that so many of Sci-Fi's utterly CRAPTACULAR films have. Quote from Merrick's article...Word is there’s an artifact somewhere that could reverse the rising and restore Earth’s land masses. Towards this end, a salvage team is recruited by the Vatican (now located in New Rome) to find said object. However, a billionaire real estate mogul has a different agenda.Ok, aside from the groan inducing notion that once again we'll be subjected to a storyline where the Big Corporate business guy is OLDER and thus BAD, while the hip, rag-tag team of YOUNG stars who came straight off the CW are GOOD -- what the hell kind of "artifact" could actually reverse GLOBAL flooding? I'm talking about flooding SO severe that it has reduced actual continental land mass AROUND THE WORLD?What, the search is on to find a giant RUBBER SHOWER PLUG that the hip, young stars can pull, so that all the water races to the center of the earth and we simply drain it all off?Give me a break! The idea behind this ALREADY sounds MANSQUITO-level laughable!
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...and not every one of 'em needs to be Iron Man or Batman. Could be fun.
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DONT FUCK AROUND IN THE O...Z...
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Did no-one learn anything from Waterworld? More seriously though, apparently scientists did work out what would happen if all the ice melted and they think at least a third of the world's land would still be above sea level anyway.
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May 05, 2008 11:37:15 PM CDT
I'm at least interested to see Corcavado (the Jesus statue)
by dogmatic
'cuz I just back from Rio and saw that and it was a pretty flippin' cool statue that looks like over the ENTIRE city...like something out of a cool fantasy movie....anyways...will be interesting to see that FX shot of the top of that mountain sticking out of the ocean since I got a connection with the place now....glad this on TV so I dont have to pay to watch this shite so I can see said shot.
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May 06, 2008 1:20:04 AM CDT
So they find the crystal skull and it restores the ice caps
by mace tofu
...you know your getting old when the WATERWORLD DTV rip-offs start beating a dead horse of an idea. If you can't top WATERWORLD why try?
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Did not see one. Might watch it, but it needs bigger "b" list stars.
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...when your stupid agenda-driving global warming movie sucks more crack than a still cooling corpse of River Phoenix?
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Really? Got any Titanic jokes you want to throw at me, too, as long as we're hitting these phenomena at the height of their popularity?
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