![]() ![]() There are a few scenes where you push the envelope in terms of bizarre behavior and questionable bodily fluids is there anything you were surprised that you were able to sneak into the final cut? ( TIME reviews Will Ferrell in Talladega Nights) So in this movie, Chaka's this really sketchy character who always bails whenever they're in trouble, and Marshall is always eyeing him up because he doesn't trust him. Even when it came to Chaka, I took the facial proportions of the original kid who played the character and imagined what would happen if this kid, who just freaked me out as a viewer, became an adult. We were very specific in honoring the show down the shape of the mouth of the cave they are sleeping in to the crevasse they need to run across as the dinosaur is chasing them. You're a little irreverent when it comes to the humans here, but with the other characters, you're still pretty faithful to the show. We're the adults who were watching this show as children, now imagining what else could happen in the land of the lost. That's essentially what this is: A taboo version of the original show. TIME: I don't think it's giving away much to say that the movie takes more than a few liberties with the original show.īrad Silberling: It turns out Will and I shared a lot of the same memories of the show, and we thought with all these summer adventure films out there, what would set this one apart? And we thought there would be nothing funnier than if you brought back all these obstacles but then stuck the wrong group of people in there, who would make stupid choices. ( Richard Corliss reviews Land of the Lost) TIME spoke with him by phone the day before the film's release. They're the sloppy stars of a profoundly silly movie and Silberling couldn't be prouder. Marshall and Stanton are a bumbling pair they provoke dinosaurs, overindulge in exotic beverages, and generally make a mess of place. Rick Marshall ( Will Ferrell), but instead of his family he buddies up with scientist Holly Cantrell (Anna Friel) and Will Stanton (Danny McBride), owner of a desert fireworks store. The story still centers on disgraced paleontologist Dr. The movie, which hits theaters Friday, reimagines the space-time of this alternate universe with an eye toward the absurd. Follow dusting off the 1974 television show Land of the Lost, director Brad Silberling's goal was not to craft a PG-rated romp through the educational terrain of Sid and Marty Krofft's original series, but to tweak and distort all the various elements that made the series a cult sensation in the first place. ![]()
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