7. Sony Takes A Stab

Entering into its own deal with the Kroffts, Sony tried in 2002 to get another version of the movie made.

Sony immediately began efforts to make a Land movie.

This was intended to keep the same basic elements of the original Krofft show but was geared for an adult audience.

The plans for the movie remake included far more vicious dinosaurs, fierce Sleestaks with claws and fangs who posed a very real threat, and grand, computer-generated environments. Sid and Marty Krofft reviewed the draft script and loved it.

Sony released a synopsis: "Before Mom dies, leaving the Marshall family shattered, she makes one last request that her ashes be brought to a Mayan archaeological site in Mexico, where she was working as an archaeologist to discover how one of the greatest civilizations known to mankind (the Mayans) simply disappeared.

“Once in Mexico, Rick, Will and Holly Marshall stumble into a wormhole, the same one through which the Mayans left our Earth, and journey to an alternate parallel universe, in which the dinosaurs never perished 65 million years ago and have continued to evolve all this time.

“It is there that they are tasked with travelling through this strange world, encountering bizarre creatures along the way (Pakuni and Sleestaks, of course), so that they may find their way back home."

But funding issues meant it never quite found its way to the screen. At least not until another studio picked it up…

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