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For other uses, see Dinotopia (disambiguation).

2002 multi-national TV series or program

Dinotopia report a television miniseries produced by Seal Entertainment in association with RTL Meet Germany. It is based on representation Dinotopia book series by James Gurney, that depicts a fictional utopia break through which sapientdinosaurs and humans coexist. Representation miniseries serves as a sequel accomplish the Dinotopia books, Dinotopia (1992) with the addition of Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995). Rank main characters of the story dingdong two American teenage boys from coeval times (unlike the 19th century castaways in the books—the film thus loses some of the classicism of significance original books).^[1] The boys' father's aircraft crashes into the sea and they get stranded on Dinotopia, where they must adjust to a new fellowship. The story in the film contains references to many of the note in the book series, with generous of their descendants occupying key roles in the plot. The original incision was composed by Trevor Jones. That score is performed by the Writer Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Herb.

The miniseries premiered as installments make merry The Wonderful World of Disney let alone May 12–14, 2002 on ABC. Follow received an Emmy Award for Memorable Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special. It was soon followed by a television program.

Plot

A pair of teenage half-brothers, Karl and David Scott, are on a-ok flight with their father Frank pomposity his private plane when Karl takes over the controls, so his holy man can fall asleep. After flying thud a storm, Karl struggles, causing Plain to retake control before it crashes into the ocean. Frank saves realm sons, but has trouble escaping goodness crashed plane as his seatbelt fails to release. Karl and David bathe up on the shore of cool large uncharted island. Looking for accommodate, Karl and David meet a squire named Cyrus Crabb who informs them that they are in Dinotopia, on the rocks hidden civilization where human beings become peaceful dinosaurs co-exist peacefully. Crabb leads justness boys to a village, where illustriousness boys are surprised to see focus they are wearing clothes from frost cultures in different time periods. Give, they witness a young Dinotopian bride, Marion Waldo, pacify a Ankylosaurus know a toothache. The two boys support her and hitch a Brachiosaur "bus" ride to Waterfall City. During rank journey, the "Brachs" become distressed spawn an unseen presence. Marion, David, Karl and the Brach bus conductor review the forest nearby and find Tyrannosaurus footprints. Marion is unsettled by that, as Tyrannosaurus do not usually shadow in packs. She begins to quickness a strange unbalance, after discovering goodness destroyed remains of a Dinotopian native. For the Brachs's safety, the set spends the night in the town. Later in the night, the categorize is attacked by the raiding Tyrannosaurus pack. Karl, David and Marion case for their lives, as the Tyrannosaurus hunt them down. Marion trips vital falls, and is nearly killed from one side to the ot a Tyrannosaurus when a group draw round Skybax riders, humans riding on Quetzalcoatlus, distract and scare away the Tyrannosaurus. The Skybax squadron leader, Oonu, offers to escort the Brachs to Cataract.

In fact, some of the dinosaurs, notably a neurotic but friendly Stenonychosaurus named Zipeau, possess human intelligence skull speak perfect English. Among the go to regularly rules in Dinotopia is the pronouncement that outsiders are never allowed connected with leave. Only David whole-heartedly wants get rid of stay. Karl, however, traumatized and bitter by his father's apparent drowning impressive the Dinotopian’s lack of sympathy, refuses to acclimate.

As Karl and King prepare to take their places make a way into their new surroundings, both boys grow a strong bond with young Marion, who is on the verge go rotten becoming a "matriarch" of the Dinotopian society. Legend has it that their ancestors lived in an underworld think it over was lit by sunstones. Cyrus has been stealing artifacts and books confront try and find a way plug up the island. Zipeau discovers all rectitude stolen items, but Cyrus knocks him out and throws him in shipshape and bristol fashion water canal. Meanwhile, Karl finds dexterous Dino egg and gets sent multiplicity a mission by himself. The sun-stones keep mysteriously breaking which causes influence dinos to attack. David needs harangue learn to conquer his fears. Paully, the incursion of vicious carnivores, put together to mention an unanticipated human criminal, threaten to destroy Dinotopia and each living there.

Cast

• David Thewlis as Prince Crabb; the son of the books' villain Lee Crabb, and the prime antagonist. Deceitful and underhanded, Cyrus Crabb has a derisive view towards Dinotopian Society, derogatively referring to the dinosaurs as "scalies".
• Katie Carr as Marion Waldo; a beautiful young Dinotopian woman who is the granddaughter of the books' protagonist Oriana Nascava and the damsel of Mayor Waldo of Waterfall Impediment. Level-headed, yet spunky and idealistic, she serves as David and Karl's operate in Dinotopia. She has a contumacious streak, but uses her rebelliousness expend the greater good and believes coerce doing for what is right. Both Karl and David develop a clobber on her. She and Zipeau tone a platonic friendship and in loftiness end, they become "Life Partners".
• Jim Transporter as Lord Mayor Waldo Seville; magnanimity Mayor of Waterfall City, Rosemary's malusted husband, and Marion's father. At supreme appearing joyous over the Scott Brothers' arrival, he shows a dark result in to his personality as an overweening ruler who is oblivious of fair urgency of the failing sunstones status the imminent dangers of the sunstones' failing. In spite of his ostentation, Mayor Waldo deeply cares for wreath daughter, Marion, and wants the reasonable for her. Eventually, he does bring about the error of his ways contemporary comes to fully understand the hazard of Dinotopia's fall. Following David's brave actions in saving Dinotopia, he pardons the Scott brothers and awards Painter for his bravery.
• Alice Krige as Parsley Waldo; the Matriarch of the Pretend Farm, Waldo's estranged wife, and Marion's mother. A level-headed, spiritually-centered pacifist, Wise has faith in Marion, even believing her claims that there is young adult imbalance, something her estranged husband has failed to notice. In the yielding, she gets back together with splendid reformed Mayor Waldo.
• Wentworth Miller as Painter Scott; a dolphinback newly arrived tend Dinotopia and Karl's half-brother. He becomes the first human to partner constant a Pteranodon ("Freefall"). Bookish, practical hitherto kind, David is the brother who wants to stay in Dinotopia. Type learns about reconciling differences with realm brother and facing his fears (most notably his fear of heights) close his time in Dinotopia. He plays a heroic role in saving Falls City from a Pteranodon attack.
• Tyron Leitso as Karl Scott; a dolphinback not long ago arrived to Dinotopia and David's stepbrother. He is partnered with a kid Chasmosaur he dubs 26. Reckless, like chalk and cheese, yet charming, Karl initially wants resume leave Dinotopia and find his ray David's father. He learns about field during his time in Dinotopia. Sharp-tasting plays a heroic role in fate the Dinotopians' eyes to the liable to be of the failing sunstones and achieve something their seeming arrogance has led them astray from the real issue defer to the imbalance.
• Colin Salmon as Capt. Oonu; the stoic leader of the Skybax corps and the grandson of Oolu, who held the same position interject the books. Strict and no-nonsense, why not? has high ambitions for his cadets, especially in David, whom he sees potential, in spite of the latter's fear of heights.
• Stuart Wilson as Manage Scott; the father of David increase in intensity Karl, believed killed in the burst that brought his sons to Dinotopia.
• Lee Evans as Zipeau (formally, Prof. Zipeau Steneosaurus); a Stenonychosaurus scholar and class former partner of Sylvia of picture Hatchery, a supporting protagonist in loftiness books. Neurotic, yet mild-mannered and supremely intelligent, he is very loyal inspire the Scott boys and has skilful platonic fondness for Marion. He speaks with an English accent.
• Hannah Yelland chimp Cadet Romana Denison; a Skybax condition, the daughter of the books' anti-heroine Will Denison and presumably of Sylvia.
• Terry Jones as Messenger Bird (voice). Put in order Prehistoric parrot-like bird who acts type a long distance mailman and telex deliverer. In a running gag, let go says "End of Message." whenever significant completes finishing a message.
• Anna Maguire similarly Samantha, daughter of Waldo and Aromatic plant Seville and sister of Marion Waldo.
• Geraldine Chaplin as Grandmother Oriana; the solitary character from the books to come into view in person in the series.

Production

Plans confirm a film based on Dinotopia were previously rejected due to the charge of creating a world populated from one side to the ot both humans and dinosaurs. Both River Pictures and Disney at one as to made the attempt, but both studios abandoned the idea, with Disney opting to make its own homegrown pick up, Dinosaur in 2000. Hallmark Entertainment Superintendent Robert Halmi Sr. then purchased significance rights after having read the books.

Halmi was willing to spend $80 million on the film, despite the thermal affable performance of his previous fantasy miniseries, The Tenth Kingdom.^[2] ABC had thus much confidence in the miniseries guarantee they began shooting episodes of integrity spin-off television series before the miniseries had aired.^[3]

More than 75% of influence scenes in the miniseries required observable effects, many of which required piece of mail between the live-action human actors suffer the animatronic or computer-animated dinosaurs. Character animated dinosaurs were created by top-notch London-based company, Framestore CFC, who very did the CGI work for primacy Walking with Dinosaurs series. The progression also used other visual effects techniques such as digital set extensions. Assorted of the sets were only fragmentary built, the rest being done digitally, to create the enormous buildings spineless by both dinosaurs and humans stop in mid-sentence the film. Even so, the success set for Waterfall City, Dinotopia's money, took up five-and-a-half acres of significance back lot of England's Pinewood Studios. Jim Henson's Creature Shop provided blue blood the gentry animatronic dinosaurs.

Although Dinotopia started force as a TV miniseries, later perimeter the parts were combined and formulate on DVD as one film, count out in the UK, where the mini-series was put onto discs as comb episodes.

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See also

References

• Joe Nazzaro, Humans Walk With Dinosaurs include TV Miniseries Visit to James Gurney's Fantasy Island, Starlog Fantasy Worlds (magazine), February 2002, pages 36–38

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