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Spielberg To Develop Fox Sci-Fi Dinosaur Series TERRA NOVA??
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Fox is pursuing Steven Spielberg to come aboard a new time-travel drama that would reteam the “Jurassic Park” director with dinosaurs.
Variety has the premise:
… is described as following a family from 100 years in the future who travel back in time 150 million years to the strange and inhospitable environs of prehistoric Earth.
The pilot was scripted by “Standoff” creator Craig Silverstein (“K-Ville,” “Bones”) and British actress Kelly Marcel (“Strong Language”).
Find Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Speilberg doth confuse me sometimes
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I'm intrighed by this lost land. I think I've dreamt of this or something . . .
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and Fox will cancel it on the 5th episode after rearranging the order of the episodes so they make no sense and then Sci-Fi Channel will show repeats of it for the next 5 years.
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The Universal Studios ride only brings in so much revenue. The overSpielberging of the series has left it dead after JP3. Kids and relationship issues don't need to be the focus of a dinosaur movie. I loved the idea of a higher evolution velociraptor that could use tools and maybe even talk being created and enlisted by the military idea from forever ago. JP could be strong if it took itself as a suspense, sci-fi, adventure, action, or even horror franchise, but it just has not worked as a melodrama franchise.
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Hmmmm...
A Family travelling back 150 Million Years to where Dinosuars rule the earth? Lemme guess..there are going to be furry little Ape Humanoids who speak broken english? (One will be named Shakka?) Evil Reptillian Beings who walk upright like humans and prey on all mammals (Let's call them Sleasy-stacks?) and there where be dinos with cute fuzzy feel good names..like Alice and Dopey?
Yawwwwwnnnnnn...hate to sound pessimistic...but this almost sounds as good as those other syndicated sacks of shit kind of shows like "Legend of The Seeker" and anything with the name "Stargate" in it... -
Feb 17, 2010 8:42:50 AM CST
Whoa, someone actually liked the "superraptors in the military"
by solanine
I assumed such people existed, but I never figured I'd run across one.
I'd go for it if they had some kind of rockets or lasers attached to them as well. Oh, and jetpacks. -
. . . Herculoids show. Don't know why . . .
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Mixed with the first season survival themes from LOST.
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Sounds like a cute premise but what would be more interesting is if their being there changes earth's history and what they have to do to fix it. Oh that's been done. Never mind.
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Nothing is more awesome than a T-Rex wearing missile launchers. NOTHING.
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Diiiiinosauceeeeeee-eeeers!
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Let's see...Some good stuff ("Band of Brothers," "Taken" and some crap ("On the Lot"), and some guilty pleasures ("SeaQuest DSV," "Amazing Stories") -- I'll give Spielberg the benefit of the doubt and see what he can do with a dinosaur series! Bring it on. -- nick from City of Kik http://nickleshi.blogspot.com
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It'll have a banjo in the theme, and about halfway through the series the father goes home and is replaced by "Uncle Jack".
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...lasts 2 seasons and has inexplicably creepy vibe?
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Danger Wil Robinson, Velociraptor approaching!!!
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so might as well make use of it.
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Could you imagine that story in the hands of say....Roland Emmerich, or Peter Berg, or even Stephen Sommers? Oh the insanity!!!
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I have to admit, even though Uncle Steve is one of my top directors, I am usually underwhelmed by his TV efforts - with the notable exception of Amazing Stories, which to this day, I still consider to be, well... amazing. But other stuff like Taken I find just a retread of his early cinematic work.
Stick to movies Uncle Steve, leave the TV stuff to the David Simon's of the world. -
Don't forget ER, which was originally supposed to be a movie.
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Just do JP4, Spielberg! Do Jurassic Park The Series! Do Bones of the Earth, Sky People, Neozoic, a new Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, River of Time, a new Land Unknown, Ka-Zar, or whatever! This bad Land of the Lost Knock-Off sounds horrendous!
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Or Cadillacs and Dinosaurs!
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...use the fundy-christer version of history. The family from the future, where Jesus reigns for 1000 years on a perfect Earth, prays themselves back to 6000 years ago where dinosaurs are used as beasts of burden by the ancient Isrealites. Future family has to teach the peaceful Hebrews to use the friendly, coconut-eating T-rexes as weapons of war against the evil Children of Cain, who, of course, are all black. (Hey, religious people, it's your bible, I didn't write it!) Lessons are learned and hugs are shared.
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Spielberg doesn't produce TV series; he allows people to pay him vast sums of money to put his name on them. Fox must really be desperate here, figuring that The Beard's marquee will sell the show.
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Ziggy says...
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apparently there is a season unaccounted for, dvd-wise which is why i still don't have it in my collection.waiting for the idiots to get their act together. which reminds me, what's the deal with the final season of night gallery (3rd) still not released. geez....
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I want to know that in 100 years mankind has evolved into looking like Patton.
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That shit was awful.
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lying low after he was caught up in the bernie madoff ponsy scheme.
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lying low after he was caught up in the bernie madoff ponsy scheme.
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then the stuff they do now on the cheap on the discovery channel docs.
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He was great, then he was good, now he's shit. Indy 4 was crap, and speil is old. Never trust a director whose pubes are grey. Take some viagra, old man, or fuck off.
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Haven't we already seen this idea? Oh wait, 100 years in the future instead of people from today? Whoa, now that is something new! (rolls eyes)
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How about Spielberg concentrate on OTHER Dinosaur projects, like, um, say, FREAKING JURASSIC PARK IV?
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Thats a show title for the ages.
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Feb 17, 2010 2:55:00 PM CST
Spielberg: "We have big plans for Jack, Kate, and Locke..."
by mrmysteryguest
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good luck with that
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Holy cow, that makes me hungry.
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A brand new movie set for 2011 that will feature Tom Hanks playing Steven Spielberg developing and producing 50 movies each year and then cancelling 49 of them in the process, with a faux campy Mel Brooks vibe where he frequently attends gin sessions.
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He's being pursued, not exactly one of his pet projects. Ole Steve-O is still the king in my book, but his record on tv has not been stellar. I love "Amazing Stories," but the rest- "Sea Quest" was eye rape.
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some sort of "futuristic" 100 years in the future technology in the show that is really only a few years away from being common, and will cause the show to look silly and dated in 10 years.
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it better be
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Feb 17, 2010 10:22:04 PM CST
Steven Spielberg should get out of the executive producing
by anyangbluth
business and get back to the basics of directing amazing movies like Jaws, ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark. If he's unwilling or incapable of doing that, he should find a quiet place in one of his spacious homes and put a very sharp carving knife through his head.
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getting raped in the ass by Lucas in a dirty basement on a cheap camcorder.
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remake did so freakin' well last summer! That's just what we need...another version of that!(???) Oh, and JURASSIC PARK IV...who the fuck really cares about that too?!!! It's dead Jim, er, Steven.
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And the Dinosaurs get lose and eat people...oh wait...they did that before too.
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You guys, come on, this is the new math! This won't be so much LAND OF THE LOST, but more like LOST with characters appearing mysteriously and saying things like "The dinosaurs must be protected here, they are a resource that humans are destroying!" or "The secret to the valley is inside your own heart!" And the reality is the Big Director Man won't have anything to do with this except his name. Yeah, he "created" EARTH 2, remember? Suuuuuuuuure!
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HA! Good one. I always picture major studio meetings sounding pretty much like Gleep and Gloop talking. this writer shows up saying see I have this idea here and then all he hears for two hours is AYAYAYAYAYAYAY! YAYAYAYAYAYAYA! AYAYAYAYAYAAY!
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Newfie Dino's? or maybe Newfie Dino riders?
"B'y da'lard tunderin Jesus b'y's that dere Dinosaur is getting my Jib draw...."
"What'odd's me'son, we'll take to our boats and fight them in the water...get dem Jiggers ready boys"!
Jarge, we're gona need more than dem dere boats and Jiggers...Release the Zombie Joey Smallwood
Joey Smallwood - "Rawrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr" -
Stop fucking around, Mr Spielberg!! Focus!
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Three episodes air in non-consecutive weeks on different nights and timeslots, the last being at 9P on fridays, Fox executives said to be "disappointed with its failure to find an audience" as they shitcan it.
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Nothing!
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to celebrate my anniversary. It's a big surprise to my wife. C'mon Spielburg, sign on!
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