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tammyy2j
02-06-2010, 12:26
Fox have hired a director for new series Terra Nova.

Entertainment Weekly reports that Alex Graves has signed up to helm the project.

Graves has previously directed the pilots for ABC's The Whole Truth, which was picked up this month, and Fox's Fringe, which has just finished its second season.

Terra Nova is executive produced by Steven Spielberg and follows a family from the future who decide to time travel to the prehistoric era.

Filming is expected to begin in Australia at the end of the summer.

tammyy2j
02-06-2010, 12:26
Kyle Chandler may be closing in on his first post-Friday Night Lights gig.
The actor has been made what one source describes as a “very lucrative offer” to headline Terra Nova, Fox’s big budget pilot from producer Steven Spielberg and Peter Chernin.
Brannon Braga (Star Trek/24/FlashForard) has been brought in to serve as executive producer/showrunner on the project, which centers on a futuristic family that travels back to a time when dinosaurs roamed free. I’m told a 13-episode pickup is a foregone conclusion at this point.
Chandler, who has been fielding numerous TV offers, is currently shooting FNL’s fifth and (likely) final season.

tammyy2j
21-06-2010, 14:30
Jason O'Mara will headline Fox's upcoming drama Terra Nova, according to Variety.

The 37-year-old actor will star as Jim Shannon, a man from 2149 who travels through time with a group of settlers to set up a colony in prehistoric Earth in order to save the human race.

"Writing the character of Jim Shannon, we've thought of Jason O'Mara as something of an archetype," executive producer Brannon Braga told the trade paper. "He has an everyman quality to him, but there's something dangerous underneath."

O'Mara most recently starred in ABC's short-lived Life on Mars, in which he played a modern-day police detective who is transported back to the 1970s.

Terra Nova, also executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, is set to debut at midseason.

tammyy2j
14-07-2010, 15:11
The Terra Nova panel at Comic-Con has been cancelled.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the show's producers and 20th Century Fox made the decision because no footage is ready.

Production on Terra Nova will not begin until September and the team behind the series are also said to be wary about revealing too much about the concept.

Terra Nova, which stars Jason O'Mara, focuses on a group of people who time-travel to the prehistoric era to start a new civilisation.

Steven Spielberg is among the executive producers on the project and it is expected to premiere in the spring.

tammyy2j
03-08-2010, 13:12
Originally announced as part of the 2010-2011 schedule, Fox has moved back "Terra Nova" to the fall of 2011 with a special preview airing in May:

TERRA NOVA, the new family adventure drama series executive-produced by Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga and David Fury, will preview in May 2011 on FOX prior to its series premiere in the fall.

Jason O'Mara ("Life on Mars") has been cast in the lead role of JIM SHANNON, the patriarch of the show's central family. As previously announced, Emmy Award winner Alex Graves (FRINGE) will direct the pilot, and Emmy Award-winning executive producer and director Jon Cassar ("24") has joined the series as an executive producer and series director.

"TERRA NOVA will be one of the most visually stimulating and dramatically grand series to air on network television," said Kevin Reilly, President of Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company. "It deserves to have an equally unique launch to distinguish that the show is unlike any other, and the spring promotional platform will give us the perfect opportunity to introduce this bold show to audiences."

TERRA NOVA, an epic family adventure 85 million years in the making, follows an ordinary family embarking on an incredible journey back in time to prehistoric Earth as a small part of a massive experiment to save the human race. In the year 2149 the world is dying. The planet is overdeveloped, overcrowded and overpolluted. Knowing there is no way to reverse the damage to the planet, a coalition of scientists has managed to open up a fracture in the space-time continuum, creating a portal to prehistoric Earth. This doorway leads to an amazing world, one that allows for a last-ditch effort to save the human race...possibly changing the future by correcting the mistakes of the past.

The series centers on the Shannon family as they join the tenth pilgrimage of settlers to TERRA NOVA, the first colony of humans in this second chance for civilization. JIM SHANNON (O'Mara), a devoted father with a checkered past, guides his family - wife ELISABETH and children JOSH and MADDY - through this new land of limitless beauty, mystery and terror. In addition to blue skies, rolling rivers and lush vegetation, TERRA NOVA offers new opportunities and fresh beginnings to its recent arrivals, but the Shannons have brought with them a familial secret that may threaten their citizenship in this utopia. These adventurers soon discover that this healthy, vibrant world is not as idyllic as it initially appears. The areas surrounding TERRA NOVA are filled with dangerous dinosaurs and other prehistoric threats, as well as external forces that may be intent on destroying this new world before it begins.

TERRA NOVA is produced by 20th Century Fox Television, DreamWorks Television, Kapital Entertainment and Chernin Entertainment. Steven Spielberg, Peter Chernin, Brannon Braga, David Fury, Jon Cassar, Aaron Kaplan, Katherine Pope, Justin Falvey, Darryl Frank, Craig Silverstein and Kelly Marcel serve as executive producers. Alex Graves will direct the pilot episode.

tammyy2j
08-02-2011, 12:19
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvb3H7gKujw&feature=player_embedded