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TERRA NOVA, Steven Spielberg’s Time-Hopping Dinosaur Series For Fox, Gets Its Premiere Pushed From May To Autumn!!
The premiere of Steven Spielberg’s time-traveling Fox dinosaur adventure “Terra Nova,” originally targeted for midseason then delayed until May 23, has been delayed again.
The premiere is now headed to autumn.
Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly blames the series’ ambitious special effects.
Jason O’Mara (the ABC version of “Life On Mars”) and Shelley Conn (Princess Pondicherry in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”) star in "Terra Nova" as the Shannons, a couple who take their three kids and use a hole in time to escape from Earth’s ecologically ravaged future into the dinosaur era.
“Terra” also stars Alison Miller (“Kings”) and Stephen Lang (“Avatar”) as a pair of humans who have been living in the Cretaceous era longer than the Shannons.
Brannon Braga, co-creator of “Star Trek: Enterprise,” “Threshold” and the TV version of “FlashForward,” is series showrunner.
Spielberg, who also has TNT’s sci-fi drama “Falling Skies” this year, is one of "Terra Nova's" many executive producers.
Find all of James Hibberd’s Entertainment Weekly story on the matter here.
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I'm concerned that when the show finally airs, we'll get 3 episodes, and a 2 month delay before we see any more. And so forth.
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Mar 11, 2011 6:21:13 PM CST
Shelley Conn (Princess Pondicherry in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory”)
by ginge_muppet
And often found on UK TV looking fucking hot ...
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that this is gonna suck...Why don't they do this a Movies vs series? do a Mini Series instead of dragging this out.
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Was there a theatrical version?
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season 2 will look odd, if it makes it that far.
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to be an expensive failure.
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If Fox is on its game it will air them out of order too, and change the time slot around as well
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No, but there was a book by Robert J. Sawyer and Brannon Braga (thank God) was not co-creator of that.
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Spielberg already did this series in early 90's..."Earth 2", remember? And it sucked.
Annoyed that we have to wait several more months to see what this is going to be, however... -
How can we have SeaQuest without Roy Scheider? He was awesome.
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the whole third season was sans Roy.
Master Chief took his place and it was lame. -
writefortheedit, I owe you a beer.
Well plaid, sir. Well plaid. -
2032 had Michael Ironside playing a violin loving captain...that show was finally finding it's groove when it was cancelled.
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Mar 11, 2011 10:54:33 PM CST
Time-Hopping Dinosaurs AND kids firing high-powered weapons?! Maybe I'll see it now...
by mrmysteryguest
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The trailer clearly showed that this is just more unimaginative cliche ridden nonsense.
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The trailer clearly showed that this is just more unimaginative cliche ridden nonsense.
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BA DUM BUM CHING!
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And the brainiac marketing execs at FOX decided to put the premiere on a friday night, but decided to air episode 3 instead of the pilot, to give people a bit more action without all that story line messing it up....
ok, not really. but just wait. -
...the mounting delays do not inspire confidence, the hiring of Brannon Braga does not inspire confidence, and the involvement of Steven Spielberg does not inspire confidence (his record in TV is spotty because he basically just gets the pilot sold and goes back to his film projects; he's not going to be helping break stories or directing episodes, no way, his time is too valuable).
I'll be interested to see if they put together a nice reel for Comic-Con; it certainly couldn't hurt... -
I imagine they will put out a reel for Comic-Con. And the fanboys in attendance will rave about how awesome it is on the internet.
Fast foward two months or so, and those same fanboys (and everyone else) will probably be on the internet yelling about how the show sucks just like they did with The Event and Flashforward. -
I feel sick
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is either a woman or a child devoured by a dinosaur. The Jurassic Park films failed to deliver on this, so make it happen. It's only fair.
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Pushed back, episode-order cut, and finally abandoned without ever airing more than a 3 minute teaser.
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I'm especially eager to watch the intense life-or-death dance-off depicted in picture #2.
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Mar 12, 2011 6:23:43 PM CST
Land of the Lost rip off or Robinson Carusoe lost in time
by larrylongballs
Either way sounds about as tasty as Emu shit on toast.
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"....for they shall Not be disappointed."
No reason to "worry" about this at all, simply because it is almost certainly destined to stink on ice. Re-treaded Spielberg dino's under Braga's Alchemy of Crap dooms this from day 1.
So, the worst that can happen is that this will be just as bad as we expect. No surprise. If it is even 1% better than that, well, odds are against even that, so why worry?
This delay signals that the suits who were stupid enough to fund anything associated with Braga are now realizing their fate. The delay is probably as much to give them several months to "transfer" to other programs, responsibilities, and had this show off to some unsuspecting Newbie-Suit to oversee.
The fundamental premise of the show is ludicrous. Let's go back to the time most inhospitable for humans in Earth's history to save humanity. Oh, wait, there is a an ice age and then an Extinction Event Asteroid coming AFTER we establish our lowly colony? Ooops. My bad.
That premise + Braga =Double Down Doom
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It's either gonna show not enough of the dinos and piss us off a la LOST. Orrr show too much dino for us to pick at the FX shots. Or maybe Spiel will simply blow his whole load on a 90m season opener where they fight one dino only to climb a hill and see a group of 10 t-rexs playing a first round NCAA game. Assuming Joe Lunardi has them through of course.
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at key points that would change the past so that the environmental disaster never occurs.
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Sorry I'm still sad about that one
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And we know how well that turned out.
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No matter what you think of Spielberg, you are WRONG to think him a worse influence to any show than Braga. He's THAT bad. Just go sit in the corner and wank off as you cry your salty tears of shame, bitch!
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How much better would the show Stargate have been if it wasn't fake ass military cliches. I have less and less interest in this with every new update.
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does not exist in this dojo! It's Fall, dammit!
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That and your masturbating. But seriously, Braga IS worse even than Spielberg at his worst. No, not even for the sake of a "Spielberg is just so bad" lame talkback header he is not worse than Spielberg. Even Hitler is subordinate to the Devil, and Braga will always be the Devil in ANY comparison to someone else. All other creatives are better than him even if they suck.
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Don't think it'll solve any of the problems... But, as a fine point, the pilot script makes it clear that they are traveling to a "parallel" universe that's identical to ours -- just a million years behind us or something -- which is why it's an unspoiled Earth with dinosaurs and whatnot. So they don't actually have "time travel" ability in the show.
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Mar 13, 2011 11:58:36 AM CDT
I'm thinking that they're underwhelmed with the results. We've already seen CG dinosaurs on film.
by planetran_fan
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Mar 13, 2011 4:04:43 PM CDT
Have we jumped the plesiosaur already?
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
Spielberg's dabbles into the world of TV always have and always will... SUCK!
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...everything from the backgrounds to the sets to the clothes people wear have that same blue, gray and olive-green drabness that he cloaked everything in Star Treks TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise with. It definitely has that special Braga "touch of fail" so maybe I shouldn't blame Spielberg... even though every TV show he's ever produced has sucked ass!
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when it comes to live-action sci-fi television. You guys forget that this is the brainiac behind such wonders as Earth 2 and Seaquest DSV?
His only good stuff for television was the animated stuff including tiny toon adventures, pinky and the brain, animaniacs.
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Mar 13, 2011 6:44:17 PM CDT
Seaquest is a lot like the original Battlestar, its not very good at all, but...
by rebel scumb
...could be rebooted into something brilliant
The main problem with Seaquest was always that Seaquest and the united earth oceans (can't believe I remember that!) organization they serve is super powerful, and faces no particular threats that can be of any consequences.
Here's what I would do:
-make the the show about environmental disasters.
-multinationals control most of earths resources, and governments are not doing anything to protect the earth
-ex-navy captain and group of strangers, all with unique skills and talents are brought together on an expiditions by mysterious forces and find the Seaquest vessel hidden somewhere at the bottom the ocean
-its a techno-organic ship, both alive and machine.
-The seaquest crew then go around the world righting wrongs, saving lives, exploring mysteries of the deep, and attacking toxic waste factories, ruthlessly torpedoing whaling boats, and stopping oil spills, etc
-but their outlaw heroes, so the companies send out merc teams and whatnot after them
and hell I'm just spinning that off the top of my head. There's probably better ideas to, but you could easily reboot seaquest into a cool show -
...is the fact that you can go backwards and foward... I hope they'll keep that in mind when structuring the series...
We've already seen many dinasours stuff both on the big screen and on tv, and I'm growing a bit tired of them (Dinotopia, anyone?).
Having said that, I do trust Steven Spielberg and Braga has been on 24, so he can't be too bad... -
sucked eggs. The problem with SeaQuest was that the ship was in service to the UN (or UEO in the show's conceit). That and most of the plots read like something out of a Greenpeace playbook. The Ironside season at least set the stage for some decent conflict. However, the plotters failed them utterly at that point. That and the recycled FX for a ship that was supposed to be completely rebuilt, and smaller, yet strangely looked the exact same as the original.
I don't see much good coming out of Terra Nova, but comparing it to Earth-2 gets my hopes up. -
.... sounds like the same basic premise, only interesting.
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Mar 13, 2011 10:27:36 PM CDT
That shot of the magazine-cover-pretty Twilight kids firing machine guns?
by wookie_weed
That guarantees I won't be watching this crap. That scene looks so fucking ridiculous and awfully choreographed.
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Roy's dead, dude. 2008.
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Mar 13, 2011 10:31:20 PM CDT
I bet you the teenage girl is "strong-willed, intelligent, sensitive"
by wookie_weed
Same old same old. Fuck it, I just can't get over how bad that scene is of the magazine-model kids firing machine guns on their backs. Fucking awful.
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is kids and young people looking like they were built in a laboratory or on some assembly line. Seriously. How are you supposed to relate to that.. even if you are a young kid? I saw an ad for the new 90210 while watching Nikita online and was just aghast. That and The Vampire Diaries just look absolutely wretched. The show themselves might not be that bad, its just the look makes you want to puke.
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I hate everthing Braga has done. Guess time will tell , but it looks a bit shit imo.
These big budget T.V things always seem to fail. I just watched the last of the BBC's "Outcasts". That also was a kind of Earth 2 type thing , but it was shit , and it could have been amazing.
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Totally agree, they all look plastic...
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Spielberg's (or anyone else's) fascination with dinosaurs. Just a bunch of really big lizards.
Just sayin'.
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Mar 14, 2011 5:32:22 AM CDT
If you want decent scifi, help Nathan Fillion bring back Firefly!
by wookie_weed
http://helpnathanbuyfirefly.com/
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Mar 14, 2011 9:55:58 AM CDT
Are we forgetting the shitfest that was "The young indiana jones chronicles"
by wilford_brimleys_diabetes_rage
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Whatever happened to developing our own shows? Must everything be imported from the UK?
I believe this show was called "Primeval" when they did it in England.
http://www . imdb . com/title/tt0808096
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Based on most of the comments, I guess nobody here has actually read the pilot. So lemme break it down for y'all.
This show is pretty blatant ripoff of Lost. Or at least what we all thought we were watching the first few seasons of that show. Replace "Island" with prehistoric parallel Universe. Replace Polar Bears and Smoke Monster with Dinosaurs. Replace Dharma with out of control Military Advisors...
Throw in a group of "crash-victims" who all hail from different walks of life.
And watch as they attempt to survive and build a new life for themselves on their "island" from the ground up...
Only difference with Terra Nova is that they're not trying to get off the island. Just survive the freaky stuff to build a new society. -
But Serenity the movie was a hot fucking mess. They *really* didn't do the fanbase any favors with that thing. I understand the homers gotta love it unconditionally but seriously... ouch. Not to say it didn't have its moments, but... ouch.
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I knew nothing about Firefly other than it was a cancelled tv show that I had never seen when Serenity came out. I was on a first date with a girl and we were checking rottentomatoes to see what was decent in the theatres, and we couldn't figure out why this movie based on a show that had a dozen episodes and nobody watched had such rave reviews. We agreed to check it out just on curiousity, neither of us knowing what the premise was other than some sort of scifi, and we both loved it.
I ended up getting into the show as a result, which lead to all of my friends getting into the show.
So the movie worked for me in getting me onboard, and at least a dozen other people I know.
The movie is definitely a bit different in pace than the show, but I think as movies go its a lot of fun, really wonderful brevity, interesting villian, good fx.
I would love for the show to come back, I'd even settle for an animated show provided Joss Whedon does the writing, and all the cast come back to voice it. Or a live action show where every week is a bottle show. I just really love the cast chemistry and the characters. I would just watch them eat dinner together and do maintenance to the ship and what not, I don't even really care if they have lavish adventures or not. -
..... was Godamn awful. How could a show that combined dinos and time travel fail? Just watch it and find out.
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3 main problems with the movie. First and foremost, if you watch the series and then the movie.. it is absolutely clear that the black dude is intended to be Jubal Early, god amongst men. But somewhere along the way they got told they couldn't have Jubal Early. Instead we get a renaming to The Operative who in turn has the same style of look, mannerisms, and what not as Jubal Early.. but isn't Jubal Early. So from the get go the entire movie is thrown off its axis if you've watched the series.
Second is the dealing with Shepard Book, or lack thereof. Could his Alliance background have played into the story being told.. sure it could have. Instead, we get 2 scenes with him, one of which is your customary Shoot the Dog scene to play up non-Jubal Early as a villain. The other is there so people see him so that when we have the Shoot the Dog scene people know who he is.
Third is the non-resolution of the relationship between Inara and Mal. What chemistry they did have in the series is gone here, this was just awkward scenes and basically consisted of going nowhere fast to going nowhere fast.
Now, i know there are people like yourself, that as long as you get 2 hours of the cast reading the phone book you're happy as clams, after all.. its about seeing and experiencing the characters. But those 3 things really boiled down to a mess of a movie for me which is what I tend to gravitate towards whatever the media be it book, movie, poem, or whatever.
Last, I'm well aware Whedon has said both Early and Book were going to be addressed in a sequel but the problem with that is that they both have allready been addressed. Book in that he died, and Early in that his persona and what not were allready lifted for the original. -
Simon personally breaking River out of the lab.
Part of it is my own assumption that, going by what was said in the series about him getting her out, he simply paid someone to do it for him. However, I find there to be a huge discrepancy in the character we first meet in the series (and watch throughout) and the "super cool action hero to the rescue" type he is portrayed as in the opening of the film, which obviously occurs before the series.
To me, him being the one to go undercover in the lab and bust her out with fancy gadgets and a high-adrenalin escape is not consistent with the Simon in the series (particularly the pilot). -
Mar 16, 2011 8:10:37 AM CDT
"Don't worry, just follow my lead...
by harryknowlesnonexistentinceptionreview
...Raptors get confused and won't attack if you do the Charleston. And'a one, and'a two and'a cha-cha-cha..."
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