TERRA NOVA - USA TODAY: 'Terra Nova' aims to be a dinosaur-sized hit
Dinosaurs are far from the only big thing about Fox's Terra Nova.
By Bill Keveney
September 26, 2011
With one of the most expensive TV pilots ever (roughly $15 million), Steven Spielberg as an executive producer, location shooting in Australia and state-of-the-art special effects so complex that they delayed production, the prehistoric drama is one of the most anticipated new shows of the fall season, with a two-hour premiere Monday (8 p.m. ET/PT).
Fox is taking an expensive gamble that viewers will take a shine to the Shannons, a 22nd-century family that time-travels to a dinosaur-age colony designed to give errant mankind a second chance on Earth.
Could it become television's Avatar— or perhaps the next Lost? Or will it become the next Lone Star, last season's hoped-for hit that quickly got lost?
Avatar's Stephen Lang, who plays Terra Nova's colony leader Nathaniel Taylor, likes the fact that Fox is going big. "I do have a special affection for stories with sprawl. I like sagas. I like epics," he says. "I'll take a symphony over a minuet as a rule..."
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