Will Ferrell's 'Lost' Finds Start Date

Zap2It.com | October 10, 2007

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Brad Silberling will direct starting in March

First announced in the industry trades back in the spring of 2005, Will Ferrell's "Land of the Lost" film is finally moving forward.

According to new trade paper reports, Universal has set a March production start date for "Land of the Lost," which will be directed by "Casper the Friendly Ghost" auteur Brad Silberling.

Universal has set a $100 million budget for the film, based on the 1974-1978 NBC series from Sid and Marty Krofft.

As Saturday morning television fans will remember, "Land of the Lost" focused Rick, a park ranger, and his children, Will and Holly, who were on a rafting trip when they slipped into a time vortex and ended up back in the time of dinosaurs or in an alternate universe of dinosaurs. There, they encountered the evil Sleestaks and other time-bending hilarity.

The trades are suggesting, though, that Will and Holly are not part of the new script by Chris Henchy and Dennis McNicholas. The new plot involves a disgraced paleontologist, his assistant and a macho tour guide. The reptilian Sleestaks remain.

The "Land of the Lost" feature was announced shortly before Ferrell's last stab at a TV-to-movies adaptation, 2005's "Bewitched," disappointed at the box office. Since then, Ferrell has had his biggest successes lampooning sports movies with "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" and "Blades of Glory." His next film, "Semi-Pro," stays in the same vein, looking at the waning days of the American Basketball Association.
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