"Lost No More?"--An Interview with screenwriter Teddy Tenenbaum, author of a Land of the Lost feature screenplay. (Year 2000-2001)"The plot will sound remarkably like the television show, but with some important differences. A fractured family: Holly, Will and their father, Rick Marshall, travel to a Maya archaelogical site in Mexico to bury the ashes of their recently deceased, archaeologist mother. Once there, they experience the greatest earthquake ever known, and tumble through a wormhole into a parallel universe, all of which falls under the multi-verse theory that is popular in physics today. That's the scientific hook we hang all this on, and the script is very much about evolution, the evolution of societies, and the evolution of culture."
A proposed Land of the Lost feature film will also answer a long-standing historical mystery. "What happened to the Mayans?" Tenenbaum wonders. "They disappeared as a civilization almost overnight, and the question is, where did they go? We explain the disappearance of the Mayans, play into the multi-verse theory, and explain how the Marshalls end up in this alternate world."Comment: This project is supposedly dead, at least for now.
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Writerfella here --
There have been burbles in the sci-fi community on this big-screen version of THE LAND OF THE LOST for several years. What writerfella knows is that you will see no Mayans as 'the wormhole' isn't always coinciding with Earth or the Sleestak world. The Mayans likely went into the wormhole but ended up in a galaxy far, far away...
Similarly, in ANASAZI The Screenplay, you meet only one Anasazi: The Great Gambler of Navajo legends himself. He was the medicine man who re-sought spirits from which his powers derived and instead was heard by ancient, evil things banished from earth long before man appeared. These beings sent their power to him and instantly he was the most powerful and the most evil man on earth, and so he conquered his people (in Navajo, his name was He-Who-Owned-Everything). Thinking to pierce that dimensional barrier and bring his new mentors back home, he asked for more of their power but they wanted humans to play with, to do with as they wanted. And so he traded his Anasazi people across the dimensional barrier, becoming all the more powerful until one day, as he just is on the verge of being able to bring the ancient evil things back, he runs out of people...
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Russ Bates
'writerfella'
I'm sure this project would have treated the Mayans the same way that "Stargate" treated the Egyptians. Whatever that means.
Writerfella here --
'Whatever that means' is this: STARGATE simply extended the 'Ancient Astronauts' principle to mean that the Egyptians didn't build the pyramids. Those and the StarGates were built by Ancients, who are the oldest and most mysterious space-going race in the galaxy.
writerfella also used that principle in his STAR TREK concerning the Mayans, except they did build their pyramidal city-estates, using Kukulkan's knowledge according to the cycles of his calendar, as did all other races of man that Kukulkan contacted worldwide. But humans, ever being the clever and meddlesome anthropoid sub-contractors, used only portions of that knowledge and so no one race of people got the city exactly right, with only the Mayans coming the closest. If built correctly, any one city itself would have called Kukulkan back to live with his human children but, alas, the failures prevented that. Thinking of them thousands of years later, Kukulkan sends a probe to check on Earth in STAR TREK's time and is enraged when he seems to see his ways of peace were perverted, with advanced technological humans scattering out to conquer the galaxy. And he rushes in his ship toward Earth System, intent on wiping out mankind entirely...
All Best
Russ Bates
'writerfella'
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