FIRST LOOK: STEVEN SPIELBERG'S "TERRA NOVA"

A new dawn beckons for the cast of Steven Spielberg's big budget Human/dinosaur drama: TERRA NOVA. Images: FOX

Steven Spielberg's enthusiastic, almost carnivorous (excuse the pun!) obsession with dinosaurs continues long past the mega-success of his world popular JURASSIC PARK film series, as he brings the amazing creatures that once mightily walked the Earth to the scale of the small screen, but with a new high concept sci-fi twist in the epic upcoming TV series TERRA NOVA, where humans from a dying Earth of the year 2149 travel back through a specifically created time portal to a purer living prehistoric past, so as to begin life anew.

AVATAR"s great character actor/star Stephen Lang plays Human Colony Leader Nathaniel Taylor.

Made entirely within the stunning exterior climes of sunny Australia in a production deal with the FOX channel-who have boldly ordered thirteen episodes right from the off-set, the series looks set to have the same kind of filmic, high production standards of JURASSIC met with the kind of futuristic look and technology seen in other previous hits like James Cameron's AVATAR, and especially with regards to that films stunning and evocative creation of a unique and beautiful realm. The series also shares one of AVATAR's popular main stars, Stephen Lang, though fortunately this time he won't be playing a ferocious, revenge fuelled baddie; instead he's Commander Nathaniel Taylor, a true pioneer and leader of the human settlement. Fighting what will surly be the charismatic star power of the dinosaurs themselves, the series other main leads include lead Jason O'Mara, from the US version of the acclaimed time travel/mystery/fantasy series LIFE ON MARS, playing scientist Jim Shannon, a man with an apparently complicated past, whose newly arrived family are at the core of the evolving (hopefully involving) drama, along with up and coming British actress Shelly Conn as his wife, Elizabeth, and another Brit, Christine Adams, playing Mira, the leader of a rival Human group that opposes the leadership of Taylor.

Trailer: TERRA NOVA - First Look Trailer‬‏ - YouTube

Three great teaser posters for the series from FOX.

With a behind the scenes team that includes 24's David Fury and Jon Cassar, as well as 24/THRESHOLD/STAR TREK's bold and controversial ideas man Brannon Braga, and with a series opener directed by the reliable FRINGE/ THE WEST WING veteran Alex Graves, let's hope that the series (which debuts in September in the US on FOX and on SKY ONE HD in the UK), which looks set to add a little bit of LOST, OUTCASTS and PRIMEVAL into the mix as well, doesn't have the kind of cutesy educational tone that marred a lot of the first series of Spielberg's earlier high production values underwater series SEAQUEST DSV (starring the late Roy Scheider) and that we get some serious, possibly thought-provoking and clever storytelling amidst some great mega action from lots of hopefully rampaging dinosaurs!

Look out for more on TERRA NOVA on KOOL TV soon...