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EXCLUSIVE: Avatar co-star Stephen Lang is eyeing time travel in the opposite direction. I hear Lang, who played the baddie in James Cameron’s futuristic sci-fi tale, is in talks for the lead opposite Jason O’Mara on Fox’s prehistoric drama series Terra Nova. He was an early favorite for the role but his feature commitments prevented him from pursuing it until he just became available and received an offer from the Terra Nova producers. (A fun footnote: Terra Nova is originally set in 2149, just 5 years before the events in Avatar.) Lang would play the role of Frank Taylor, the charismatic and ruthless leader of the Terra Nova settlement. Alex Graves is set to direct the pilot for the series.
PREVIOUS 4PM: Terra Nova executive producer David Fury has departed Fox’s upcoming pre-historic drama over creative differences. “He was beloved by the producers on the show, but it just didn’t work out,” a source close to the series said. Showrunner Brannon Braga, who brought Fury over, will now be the drama’s sole writing executive producer as no direct replacement for Fury is planned. Production on Terra Nova, from 20th TV, Chernin Entertainment, Kapital Entertainment and DreamWorks TV, is scheduled to begin in October in Australia. The series, starring Jason O’Mara, will launch in fall 2011 after a preview this coming May.
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Total douche. It’s about time.
Wow, David Fury leaves and Brannon Braga stays?
Note to anyone who cares: this does not bode well creatively.
Delayed production, multiple rewrites, 12 non-writing EPs, and the loss of Fury…things are looking worse and worse over there.
Fury joins a long list of writers who couldn’t stand working alongside Braga’s massive ego and utter lack of talent.
OMFG! Not another loin cloth grunt saga!
Anyone interested in a small wager?
My bet is that Terra Nova never sees the light of day, er, a TV screen. Anywhere, ever. We’ll be reading press releases and casting/auspices speculation ad infinitum, but the actual show? Not so much.
Seriously,
I accept your wager and I’ll see you in May 2011 when they premiere the first episode. Then I’ll see you again in Fall 2011 when the series is in full swing.
Production starts next month in Queensland Australia.
Sorry, correction preview not first episode of the series. I venture to guess they’ll preview it after American Idol.
Oh great Queensland Australia…just hammer another nail in the runaway production coffin!!!!!
I’ll take a piece of that. It’s goona be a disaster and is only going because of the money against it.
At some point they will cut their losses and dump it as a VOD original.
Question is who a Fox will lose their head for this clusterfuck.
I’m gonna flash forward and say this series doesn’t get a second season like Braga’s last.
“I’m gonna flash forward and say this series doesn’t get a second season like Braga’s last.”
braga had nothing to do with the demise of flashforward, he just wrote a pilot, which was pretty high rated. ha was working at that time on 24. for years.
Pretty sure he ran that one into the ground too… 24.
It seems like Fury leaves a lot of projects. Too bad he left Lost… Maybe we wouldn’t have gotten that stupid finale.
Australia!? I thought the show was going to be shot in Hawaii.
Is it just the pilot that’s being show in Australia? I was hoping that some of my friends in Hawaii could get some work on the show…
No all thirteen episodes are being shot in Queensland Australia (Gold Coast area).
Another uninspired casting choice. Says Fox — “Let’s recreate Avatar.” Typical network mentality.
Fury was the only thing that didn’t already smell mediocre about this upcomer. Given the powerful odor of Brannon Braga and Jason O’Mara together, and the clockwork predictability of Stephen Lang’s casting, it seems almost certain that this baby’s gonna have all the depth and interest of say, Dinotopia.
I still don’t get the premise of this show. If they can time travel, why time travel back to the dinosaurs (yes, the stupid special effects), why not travel 10,000 when civilization began? So silly.
Stephen Lang is a fabulous actor and starring in my client’s film WHITE IRISH DRINKS (which premiers tomorrow at TIFF). He’s a great guy and a pleasure to work with. Let’s give him a chance on Terra Nova…
~Swifty
Hi, I know of people working on costumes now. Tell me has the young girl been cast yet. ? Thanks. I personally can not wait.
Stephen Lang is an incredible actor who has given some of the finest performances of all time. Who can forget his turn as the slovenly Ike Clanton in Tombstone, or as the charismatic Stonewall Jackson in Gods and Generals? He will make any scene he is in a riveting time for the viewer.
Brannon Braga did a superb job on the various incarnations of Star Trek, and capped off 24, with Manny Coto, in fine style. I like the fact that he will be the major creative showrunner. It is rare that any form of entertainment succeeds when done by committee.