Halmi, who recently saw Disney’s blockbuster computer animated film “Dinosaur,” says his dino-miniseries will be better. “Dinotopia” also features characters (both dino and human) who can read and write in a dinosaur-footprint alphabet and fly around on giant-winged dinosaurs. The machines they use are fantastical 19th century gadgets that were never invented in real-life.
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In the books, dinosaurs mix freely with people and everyone lives in exotic cities (one is built in middle of a series of waterfalls). “Dinotopia,” though, takes a different twist on evolution then Darwin ever did. In the stories, a “lost” continent is discovered by a biologist named Arthur Denison and his 12-year-old son in the year 1862 – around the same time the father of the theory of evolution, Charles Darwin, was alive. The miniseries will be based on a series of best-selling books by upstate New York-based illustrator James Gurney, who created the make-believe world in 1992. Last spring’s 10-hour flop, “The 10th Kingdom,” cost more than $40 million.Īnother Halmi project, “The Bible,” on NBC’s schedule for next year, may eventually cost even more that “Dinotopia,” according to reports that “The Bible’s” budget might top $150 million.īut, for now, “Dinotopia” seems to be the most expensive yet. When necessary, he supplements his big-budget films with money from foreign investors, according to reports. Typically, most of Halmi’s lavish productions, such as NBC’s 1998 mega-hit “Merlin,” cost around $30 million to make. The six-hour ABC show – about a land where dinosaurs and humans live toduction later this summer under the gether in harmony – is set to begin prowatchful eye of Robert Halmi Jr., the brains behind a slew of recent miniseries including “Gulliver’s Travels,” “The 10th Kingdom” and “Arabian Nights.” WITH a big-screen budget of around $70 million, a new mini-series called “Dinotopia” could be the most expensive made-for-TV-movie of all time.
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