Mysterious Island
- by Cameron Larson, directed by Mark Sheppard
- Feature Film
- Fantasy
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- Mysterious Island by Cameron Larson, directed by Mark Sheppard (at limited movie theaters, USA, 11 February 2012).
I wonder whether all eighteen executive producers (yes, I counted them) of this movie were sitting around (maybe in a hot air balloon with no burner), trying to come up with a movie idea.
“Let’s do a movie of Lost,” said one. “It’s a big hit.”
“No, we can’t do Lost,” said another. “We don’t have the rights.”
“Then let’s find some old sci-fi thing—you know, by one of those old French dudes—and rewrite it so that it’s like Lost with time travel.”
“Wait, didn’t Lost have time travel?”
“Maybe, but not with Civil War dudes and hot chicks in a crashed plane.”
“Let’s do a movie of Lost,” said one. “It’s a big hit.”
“No, we can’t do Lost,” said another. “We don’t have the rights.”
“Then let’s find some old sci-fi thing—you know, by one of those old French dudes—and rewrite it so that it’s like Lost with time travel.”
“Wait, didn’t Lost have time travel?”
“Maybe, but not with Civil War dudes and hot chicks in a crashed plane.”
—Michael Main
Well honestly, to me ma’am, it looked like a flying locomotive.
Variants
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- Mysterious Island by Cameron Larson, directed by Mark Sheppard (at limited movie theaters, USA, 11 February 2012).
Jules Verne (story)
Sholom Gelt as by Scott Salter (other contribution)
Indexer Notes
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- Credits—from IMDb:
- Cameron Larson (screenplay)
- Jules Verne (novel)
- Sholom Gelt (colaborating writer) (as Scott Salter)
- Mark Sheppard (director)