6. Enter Disney...
In June 1995, the Walt Disney Company announced that Sid & Marty Krofft Productions had entered into an agreement to produce a theatrical film based on the original 1970s TV show.
Very little detail emerged about the Mouse House’s plan for the show, and there was no sign of a script for a long time.
In 1999, Ain’t It Cool reported that, “Sid and Marty Krofft have wrestled the Land Of The Lost movie rights away from Disney, and have raised finances themselves to make the film, presumably independently, although there's no confirmation of a new studio being involved or if they're shopping it around.
“The Krofft bros. are now working with Adam Rifkin, who co-wrote Small Soldiers, on the screenplay, and claim to be in ‘active preproduction.’
“They say the film won't be heavy CGI, but rather, a combination of FX techniques, and that the story will be more faithful to the original '70s show than the crappy '90s remake, and will include the Marshall family and the Sleestaks.”
They might have broken away, but they didn’t get anything going until 2002, when Sony stepped in…
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