Spielberg Produces Sci-Fi TV Show on Fox

Terra Nova will air on Fox

Fox television has announced that, at the end of May, they will be airing a preview of their most expensive television series to date, based on first season cost estimates. The series is called “Terra Nova” and will be produced by Oscar winning filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Also working behind the scenes as an executive producer is Rene Echevarria.

Echevarria is one of the top TV Sci-Fi writers in the business, known for his work as a writer on “Star Trek”. Echevarria will be working, along with writer Brannon Braga and Spielberg, on the story which is set initially in the future, and then in the very distant past. After the 2 night preview, on May 23^rd and 24^th, the series will pick up in the Fall when audiences will follow a group of time travelers who leave the struggling earth in 2149 and go back some 85 million years to a time when dinosaurs still roamed the planet.

Throughout the 13 part series, writers plan to use the story as a backdrop to explore the question of whether the human race is capable of creating a Utopia. The series will play on a host of current environmental concerns, and viewers will tune in to see if the characters can avoid the mistakes of the past, and avoid the damaged future from which they came.