The found footage genre is alive and well, and, according to Screen Daily, it’s about to capture some prehistoric lizards in a movie called THE DINOSAUR PROJECT. That’s just a working title, but it pretty well explains what you can expect from this feature, which will shoot in the spring.
StudioCanal is financing and producing the adventure film, which is being described as “JURASSIC PARK meets BLAIR WITCH in the style of DISTRICT 9.” Producer Nick Hill adds: “It’s not grainy, grainy hand-held, it will look beautiful and crisp and clear.”
THE DINOSAUR PROJECT is about a father-son expedition in the Congo, being followed by a TV documentary crew. After all the parties mysteriously go missing, recovered footage shows stunning images of dinosaurs thought to be extinct for 65 million years.
The film will start its six-week shoot during the second week of May in South Africa. South Africa-based Moonlighting is expected to co-produce.
Getting into the spirit of the genre and displaying some showmanship, Studio Canal exec Harold van Lier said, “They are not extinct. They are real and I am genuinely terrified of what is going on down there. I realise dinosaurs are hugely popular and people are going to make a lot of money on this. But maybe this is going too far. I wish we had nothing to do with this project. God have mercy on us.”
If you guys make a good movie, we’ll all have mercy…
Something else from South Africa: model Jenna Pietersen
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