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Props to Cinematical for scoring the first look at the teaser poster for this summer’s Land of the Lost, starring Will Ferrell and based on the television show from thirty years ago…

Friday night I watched Elf for the first time. It’s a very funny movie! And it reinforced what I said a year ago when I first reported on this movie: that given a serious treatment of the plot, Ferrell could expand on the perception most folks have of him, ‘cuz he would prove that he’s capable of being a legitimate action star. Though from what I’m hearing Land of the Lost is still being produced as a comedy… which the original TV show was anything but.

Nice poster. I like the giant carved Sleestak especially. But color me “overly cautious” about this for the time being....

This sucks donkeys balls to no end.

Yeah you read that right: I did dare to use my personal “worst epithet ever” for this. Because everything about this project (with the possible exception of Will Ferrell which I’ll get to later) screams out “wrong” in every way possible.

I was 5 years old and in kindergarten when WFMY out of Greensboro started showing Land of the Lost on weekday afternoons at 3:30. Land of the Lost, even before I ever saw a Star Wars movie, was my first serious exposure to what I would come to appreciate as epic storytelling within a broad mythology. The weird landscape, the dinosaurs, the Sleestaks, the Lost City, the Pylons, the Civil War soldier, the ape dudes, the spaceship… and Rick Marshall and his two kids trying to get home: I ate it all up and wanted more. Here’s the first season’s opening ...

First poster for LAND OF THE LOST

Universal turning LAND OF THE LOST into a comedy starring Will Ferrell?!