Monday night was episode 2 of
Terra Nova, the new Spielbergian dinosaur time-travel TV series. For those not familiar with it, the premise is that in a dystopian twenty-second century, a time portal has been discovered which allows travel to an indeterminate location some 85 million years in the past. Humanity has established an outpost there and is sending colonists back in "waves."
My only comment at the moment?
Needs more dinosaurs.
Thank you.
That is all.
At last week's Comic Con in San Diego, Steven Spielberg announced that
JURASSIC PARK IV is in the works! They have a story and a screenwriter and are hoping to make it "within two or three years."
In the meantime, go check out
Jurassic Park Legacy, a resource on all things
Jurassic Park, and an
interview at Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs with its founder, Terry Alan Davis, Jr.
Also, Spielberg is producing
TERRA NOVA, which premieres Monday, September 26, 2011, at 8/7c. It's the story of a family who are sent back 85 million years from a future where humanity is faced with extinction and, apparently, features all kinds of Cretaceous (and other) critters.
As producer
Brannon Braga (of
Star Trek: Voyager fame) put it, "we have dinosaurs we know from the fossil record but you get to make up your own dinosaurs as well." (I think the "slasher" falls into the latter category :-)).
Paleontologist
John ("Jack") Horner from the Museum of the Rockies is a consultant on the show (he also did
Jurassic Park).
Those dino-birds flocking and attacking freaked me out! The BIRDS prehistorically! Ack! ;) Am enjoying the show though! :)