EXCLUSIVE: Warner Bros has purchased a sci-fi action pitch about a rapidly evolving species of dinosaurs who attack modern Los Angeles. John Clisham, a longtime employee at James Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment and who recently worked on the Titanic 3Dconversion, is directing and will write the script with Mike Bayman. The rest of the plot is being kept under wraps, but the project was developed by online network Break Media as a large-scale web series. Warners’ Greg Silverman and Sarah Schechter saw early tests and stepped up to acquire it as a feature film. Bayman will produce; Scott Nocas and Break Media’s Greg Siegel will executive produce. Break Media creates and distributes male-targeted content online. The company reaches more than 200 million consumers through its portfolio of owned and operated web properties and mobile applications.


Ideally with all the god awful drivers being eaten by T-Rexes.
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Or with the all the godawful T-Rexes being eaten by drivers. Would solve our hunger problem right there.
sequel to Evolution?
This is one of those ideas which, IF i’d conceived it myself, I’d assume it was too wacky to EVER sell.
The dinosaur breeding site should be the construction area for the new Farmer’s Field project. At least some immediate use can be achieved while waiting for an NFL team to come to LA.
Eventually Hollywood will run out of the combinations of aliens/dinosaurs/zombies attack Los Angeles/the White House/the world. Or maybe when the variations have all been done they’ll be ripe for re-boot.
Just wait for the sequel to this…when the defeated dinosaurs come back as….zombie dinosaurs!
And then the threequel when the Dinosaurs mutate into Vamposaurs and start draining the blood from the Zombiesaurs.
This sounds absolutely ridiculous.
I guess no one remembers Jurassic Park 2 any longer? Yawn.
Pitch sale! Hooray!
Clisham rocks! Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
Because Terra Nova was such a great success on TV.
Some commentors appear to forget a little thing called Jurassic Park. Also, Primeval on BBC. This could be fun if it’s a throwback to the classic 50′s movies.
I remember JP2. I also a much more recent clusterf#*k called “Terra Nova”. Something something about studying history or being doomed to repeat it, etc.
Can’t wait for the amazing plot twist…..”the dinosaurs are actually ZOMBIES” and then they can tick off all of the boxes.
“about a rapidly evolving species of dinosaurs who attack modern Los Angeles” followed up with “the rest of the plot is being kept under wraps”
Really? What else is there to keep “under wraps”?
The dinosaurs are really from outer space they come from another galaxy.
This was the studio that was smart enough to bring us ‘Harry Potter’, so I’m going to reserve judgement until I at least see a trailer. Yes, it sounds a lot like your average tentpole, but hopefully it will be well done.
And the only thing protecting earth from them is a BATTLESHIP.
WB LOVES DINOSAURS!
Between this, that film version of Primeval and that thing Kevin Misher is producing over there Warners are chomping at the bit for a dinosaur movie.
But the ‘dinosaur genre’ is like the ‘pirate genre’. There really is only enough room for one hit (like Pirates Of The Caribbean) and whoever gets it will reap the rewards (and sequels) for ages to come.
Let the race begin….,
Couple things.
The problem with Terra Nova really wasn’t the dinosaurs.
The dinosaur genre has at least five viable franchises; Jurassic Park, Xenozoic Tales (AKA Cadillacs And Dinosaurs), Turok, Dinotopia and Dinoriders*. There’d be six, if Will Farrel hadn’t shat upon Land Of The Lost and it’s too soon for a reboot.
Movies like Valley Of Gwangi, Beast Of Hollow Mountain, Land That Time Forgot and the original Lost World are viable for remake as well.
*… and I hear you scoffing at the idea of a Dinoriders movie, but I remind you that there have so far been three Transformers, two G.I. Joes, Thundercats is on TV again and Hasbro Presents BATTLESHIP® is currently playing in theaters.
Dinoriders is a question of when, not if.
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