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This all probably started in 2005, when Animal Planet aired a special entitled “Dragon’s World: A Fantasy Made Real”. Unlike most of their regular programs, which seemed to mainly be focused on various law enforcement professionals specializing in animal control problems, “Dragon’s World” took the idea of the dragon as a real, scientifically plausible creature and made a documentary complete with a mummified dragon corpse being unearthed in Romania.

Neil Gaiman served as a consultant on the program. When it aired, there was a mix of CGI animation, “experts” being interviewed, and footage of the dragon being excavated and preserved. Gaiman himself did a couple of blog posts about the work and it was a fun little exercise in idle speculation. It wasn’t anything spectacularly new, after all, similar ground had been covered in the excellent book “Flight of Dragons” by Peter Dickinson and Wayne Anderson concerning scientifically...

-- You know what's pretty crazy? This trailer for "The Crazies," the upcoming remake of George A. Romero's classic horror film. The movie, directed by Breck Eisner ("Sahara"), focuses on a Midwestern town that's gone bizonkers due to a mysterious toxin in the water supply. Timothy Olyphant and Radha Mitchell play the lead roles. (Apple)

-- John Woo is set to bring his Chinese action epic "Red Cliff" stateside on November 20, 2009, and there's a brand new trailer to prove it. I'm still wondering how he'll fit his trademark hero-with-two-pistols into the period piece, but I'm keeping an open mind. (Apple)

-- Remember that horrifying Discovery Channel special about Earth's future millions of years down the line, where humanity is gone and scary hybrid creatures have taken over? It's time to live through that nightmare again, as "The Future is Wild" is coming to the big screen courtesy of "Shrek" producer John Williams.

Warner Bros. has come aboard the feature version of the animated documentary series "The Future Is Wild."The deal was struck between the studio and producer John H. Williams' Vanguard Films and series creator John Adams as well as brand partners Gerhard Sieber and Ettore Botta.The animated/live-action/animatronic project involves a group of scientists and zoologists and their predictions for what Earth could look like over the next 200 million years.According to Variety, Courtenay Valenti and Matt Milam will oversee the project at Warners.The first "Future" TV series (2002) was co-produced with Discovery, Zdf, Orf, Grupo Planeta and Mediatrade. It ran on Animal Planet in the U.S. and overseas on Nhk and the BBC. A second series will be unveiled next week.The...

Warner Bros. Pictures is developing a feature version of animated documentary series "The Future is Wild" with producer John H. Williams' Vanguard Films and series creator John Adams as well as brand partners Gerhard Sieber and Ettore Botta, reports Variety . The animated/live-action/animatronic project involves a group of scientists and zoologists and their projections for what Earth could look like over the next 200 million years. "It's a freaky, fantastical interpretation but also a scientifically based version of what the evolution of Earth looks like -- with or without us," Williams the trade. You can check out the official website for more on the property.

Warner Bros is making a film version of The Future Is Wild, the documentary series and future-imagineering project that consulted scientists and then animated what the far future might look like. For those of you keeping score at home, that makes this the second evolution-linked project of the day.The Future is Wild project includes a successful cartoon / live-action series, books, comics, theme park rides and animatronic exhibits that have travelled around the world, looking at what the Earth might look like (with or without us, and assuming we don't manage to pollute everything) in 5 million, 100 million or 200 million years. That little dude in the picture here is Rufus the Reef Glider, who might be around in 100 million years.The deal was struck between the studio, producer John H. Williams' Vanguard Films (currently working on Space Chimps 2, god help us) and series creator John Adams (no, not that one...

Taken in the right direction this next new project has the potential to be a futuristic version of Jurassic Park: Warner Bros. is developing a movie behind the popular quasi-science The Future is Wild TV shows that hypothesize about what future forms of life on the planet may look like.

The first series of Tfiw debuted on Animal Planet back in 2002 and became a hit. Spinoffs include books, comics, an animated kids show and even a theme park ride (at least that's what Variety said, so hold them accountable.) The show features interviews with real biologists talking about how evolution could unfold for many present day species over the next 200 million years. Needless to say some of the future critters aren't very friendly like the Deathgleaner, a giant flesh-eating bat, or the Snowstalker, something big and furry that you definitely don't want to bump into while out for a stroll.

Warner Bros. has signed on to adapt the animated documentary series The Future Is Wild into a feature film.

According to Variety, the development deal was struck between the studio and producer John H. Williams' Vanguard Films and series creator John Adams as well as brand partners Gerhard Sieber and Ettore Botta.

The animated/live-action/animatronic project involves a group of scientists and zoologists and their projections for what Earth could look like over the next 200 million years.

"It's a freaky, fantastical interpretation but also a scientifically based version of what the evolution of Earth looks like -- with or without us," Williams said.

No production date has been set.

The hypothetical creatures of the far future are on their way to theaters. A few years back, Animal Planet ran a clairvoyant documentary series called "The Future is Wild", which combined science and imagination to speculate and visualize how our planet and its denizens might look in several million years (hint: not a human to be found). Now they're planning to give that extrapolation a bigger budget and a bigger screen, courtesy of Warner Bros. and Shrek producer John Williams....

Warner Bros. is getting wild, teaming up with "Shrek" producer John Williams to develop a feature take on the environmental television hit "The Future Is Wild."

The seven-part series, conceived by John Adams and produced by a consortium of global players including Discovery Channel and German network Zdf, aired on Animal Planet six years ago. It depicted life on Earth hundreds of millions of years into the future, when an ice age has wiped out all humans and new hybrid creatures roam the planet (sample names: the babookari, the cryptile and the shagrat).

The jeremiad, which took the form of a nature doc, used computer imaging to tell its story and relied on a host of scientists to construct its futuristic world. The project also spawned companion books, theme-park rides, DVDs and games. Producers are peddling a new series with similar themes at the upcoming Mipcom TV market.

The Warners film will use live-action,...