Actor Adam Beach, best known for playing Native-American soldiers in the films WINDTALKERS and FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS, revealed to MTV that a live-action TUROK movie is in the works… Since I’m a sucker for flicks where a human will most likely get eaten by a dinosaur, I see this as a positive development.
“We just finished the animated movie and now we’re going into the feature film movie [which should lens] hopefully in a couple years. We’re about to set up meetings to develop a script and put it out there,” Beach enthused. “I’ll have to beef up, and be a good guy, and save the world!”
Turok’s first incarnation was as a comic book character, created by Western Publishing. In the books, Turok was a pre-Columbian Native American who, along with his brother Andar, became trapped in an isolated valley populated by dinosaurs, which they called “honkers”. (Okay, that’s a little silly.) Then the character reappeared in Valiant comics, and Turok and his bro were now 18th century Native Americans. The isolated valley became the Lost Land – a cosmic anomaly where time moved in a self-contained loop (which meant that while millions of years passed outside of it, inside it, time barely moved at all).
That’s all courtesy of Wikipedia, folks, I ain’t pullin’ this stuff outta my rear.
Hopefully we’ll hear about this thing getting a writer and/or director in the near future… I need to see a T-Rex get its ass handed to him! (Don’t ask why I need this, I just do.)
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