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First of all, I don’t know if you’ve heard about this project of mine, but I thought you might be interested…
And I, for one, am afraid to spill it out there on the internet, but here are many hints of my vision especially for what such a thing should be:
> It is something of a dinosaur-infused teen comedy action adventure fantasy yarn of a movie.
> It is also something of a spiritual remake of sorts of Paul Hogan’s now-forgotten 1986 Australian blockbuster movie, Crocodile Dundee and/or that sort of thing, but with some of the overtones of a high school teen comedy and dinosaur adventure film, with the Australian animals replaced with prehistoric dinosaurs and other Mesozoic creatures, and with the lowlife that infests 1980s New York City replaced with bullies, mean girls, and other trouble making teenagers that infests a high school campus.
> Not only that, but it will also combine Crocodile Dundee’s fish out of water concept with a vividly realized alternative ecology of a Mesozoic kind of Garden of Eden.
> I envisioned such a thing as more than just a big, glossy, Hollywood studio FX tentpole blockbuster movie, more than just a small, low budget, and scrappy, misfit, idiosyncratic indie film effort, more than just a Maryland movie, more than just a regional Movie, but also a special effects movie.
> And indeed, like all movies involving special effects, this thing is going to be expensive to make.
> I will someday be either in discussion with a film distribution or production company (whether major, like Disney, Sony, Fox, Universal, Paramount, or Warner Bros.; or indie/art house specialty outlets like Fox Searchlight, IFC Films, Open Road Films, or Magnolia Pictures) to finance such a thing, and not to mention distribute the films as well, or else I will do it as an independent production. The choice will be mine, of course.
> The alternate world where dinosaurs and modern humans share the environment (a la Dinotopia or Jurassic Park) will also rival Lord of the Rings, James Cameron’s AVATAR, The Dinotopia books, or even Disney’s recently released Zootopia in all its world building detail
> Of course, the human cast is to be made up of non-professional no-names and relative unknowns (some of them will be locales and extras, but some or many of them from high-school drama clubs, and other high school youth programs) but with few or no big name Hollywood movie stars.
> The teenage parts should be played mainly by actual teenagers, which may made them look very young even by big Hollywood standards, but as long as they follow these three conditions: that
A) They must be clearly interacting with the CG dinosaur animation (and animatronic model closeups of the dinosaurs, too)
B) They must establish eye lines
and
C) They must be consistently involved with dinosaur action that isn’t taking place at the time of filming
> It may obviously present one of the biggest production design challenges in modern movie history; if so, almost everything that may appear on screen–from a paper weight to a gigantic village wall or tree-house–may have to be conceived and made from scratch; a small army of art directors and set designers and illustrators will have to turn the filming locations into the alternate world of modern humans and prehistoric dinosaurs that I had in mind; the prop master and crew should create thousands of props or more while a costume designer and said costume designer’s team should make thousands of costumes pieces–including shoes.
> As for the creatures in such a thing, I want to only include creatures that are known from the Mesozoic fossil record, so I will exclude modern animals living in our own world and also leave out any imaginary beings; and thus, there might be sauropods, tyrannosaurs and trilobites, but no cats, dogs, horses, lions, tigers, bears, dragons, mermaids, or unicorns.
> I will guarantee that even more so than the Jurassic Park series of movies and books, the dinosaurs should be portrayed according to the newest, latest, most current and most contemporary scientific understanding of these creatures, and that includes feathers on dinosaurs like raptor dinosaur species and the occasional tyrannosaur.
> Without greatly changing their appearance, I also want to endow dinosaurs with personalities and probably give them a limited ability to communicate; I hate to have too many dinosaurs to be able to speak human languages, for I fear that I might lose the dinosaurs’ essential mystery, but regardless, I will pick only two saurians: the adventurer’s pet Troodon [Tearak] and the teenage reporter leader’s pet Archeopteryx bird thingy [Avia] as the only two saurians that could most convincingly mimic human speech [and could most convincingly speak human languages]
> Among my possible candidates for the voice actor who might voice Tearak the Troodon will probably be, for example, Eddie Deezen, whom you best remembered as the voice of Dexter’s Laboratory’s Mandark or Snipes in Don Bluth’s long forgotten Rock a Doodle:
> Among my possible candidates for the voice actress who might voice Avia the Archeopterx will probably be, for example, Cathy Cavadini, whom you best remembered as the voice of Blossom of the Powerpuff Girls fame or Fievel’s sister Tanya in the An American Tail sequel, Fievel Goes West:
> As for the songs and background music score in a thing like this, I would guarantee a fresh musical sound that will not replicate any previous dinosaur movie score (especially the Jurassic Park movie music) and any teen comedy music sound–something more along the lines of Phil Collins and Mark Mancina’s music work on the Disney version of Tarzan:
> Or rather, a Phil Collins/Mark Mancina soundtrack or maybe a Phil Collins/Mark Mancina-inspired soundtrack that may recall in places but not merely rehash Phil Collins and Mark Mancina’s Disney Tarzan music work; in other words; something not heard in a dinosaur adventure movie or even a teen comedy movie before
> I think it is in the planning and thinking stages in my head right now.
> The young eccentric teenage adventurer in question is a Mr. Jack Skyler, also known to some as ‘Mighty Jack’ or Mighty Jack Skyler, who may have greater abilities and more acute senses than any ordinary human–for example, he can smell bullies or dangerous dinosaurs up to a mile away, can master or even communicate with dinosaurs of all shapes and sizes great and small and in between, and can successfully wrestle deadly and dangerous dinosaurs and bullies and mean girls
> Jack Skyler in my movie will show a bunch of high school kids who happened to be on a field trip expedition to report on Jack Skyler around his playground/backyard/neighborhood which turn out to be primeval landscapes where–to the amazement and discovery of these kids–prehistoric dinosaurs roam–before he himself gave up wrestling the mighty Mesozoic saurian creatures for a while to tangle with the bullies, mean girls and other troublemakers that infest the high school group’s native faraway high school campus.
> Jack Skyler’s faithful pet Troodon is the aforementioned Tearak
> The leader of the high school student expedition field trip to report on Jack Skyler is Dexter Zarus, a reporter for the local high school newspaper whose field trip’s purpose is to investigate the mysterious legends surrounding ‘Mighty Jack Skyler’, a eccentric teenage adventurer guy who supposedly lives in a tree-house situated in the middle of the Mesozoic wilds that lays beyond a town or village sealed off from the rest of the lush dinosaur valley by a mighty wall behind which is the aforementioned town or village that the high school field trip went to
> Apparently, Dexter Zarus must have learned of Jack Skyler, his legendary field-craft, the village and the giant village wall and Jack Skyler’s tree house and all that probably from the high school principal or some teacher or the school’s superintendent, and following the dictum that all legends must have a basis in some fact, Dexter Zarus determines to find Jack Skyler, discovers Jack’s field craft that lie at the heart of the Mighty Jack Skyler legend and interview him and invite him to his high school campus
> Dexter Zarus’s faithful pet Archeopteryx is the aforementioned Avia
> Hopefully, the sound work will incorporate more sound elements (whether dialogue loops or sound effects elements) than any movie in history, whether animated or live action or both; I know we’re living in a day and age when there are still ongoing advances in motion picture and television sound and growing public awareness of such immersive 3D audio formats like Dolby Atmos, DTS : X and Auro 3D 11.1 and things like that
> The special effects in such a movie project of mine is going to be a diverse cocktail of diverse special effects techniques from practical stunts to miniature sets to CGI animation to animatronic models to even the odd human being in a creature suit–all in a similar manner to the first three Jurassic Park films and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies
> And oh! It’ll be more a dinosaur filled action adventure fantasy yarn of a movie (and dinosaur filled spiritual remake of sorts of Paul Hogan’s Crocodile Dundee) than Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Mean Girls are high school teen comedy movies
> Now, The title for such a movie project of mine shall be: why, “‘Mighty Jack’ Skyler”, of course!
Now, I don’t want to be too judgmental, and neither do you, but what do you think?
Would it be good, great, grand, epic, or wonderful, or would it be bad, terrible, awful, or even controversial even when it comes out someday?