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| Released | 2002 |
| Director | Marco Brambilla |
| Written by | Simon Moore based on the books by James Gurney |
| Music | Trevor Jones |
| Studio | Hallmark Entertainment |
Author James Gurney holding the Creature Shop puppet of 26
Dinotopia is a three-part miniseries/TV movie based on the book series written and illustrated by James Gurney. The plot follows teenage brothers who are stranded in the land of Dinotopia after a plane crash.
While most of the dinosaurs were computer animated effects produced by others, Jim Henson's Creature Shop supplied animatronic dinos, notably the baby dinosaur named 26 and the water-based mosasaurs.[1]
Cast[]
- David Thewlis as Cyrus Crabb
- Katie Carr as Marion
- Jim Carter as Mayor Waldo
- Alice Krige as Rosemary
- Tyron Leitso as Karl
- Wentworth Miller as David
- Colin Salmon as Oonu
- Hannah Yelland as Romana Denison
- Stuart Wilson as Frank
- Anna Maguire as Samantha
- Geraldine Chaplin as Oriana
- Patrick Monckton as a senator
- Lee Evans as the voice of Zippo
- Terry Jones as the voice of the messenger bird
Additional Credits[]
- Animatronics & Creature Scanning Maquettes: Jim Henson's Creature Shop
- Creative supervisor: Verner Gresty
- Producer: Piers Hampton
- Art dept. co-ordinator: Sharon Smith
- Animatronic sculpt supervisor: Barry Sutton
- Sculptors: Brendan Lonergan, Carol de Jong, Chrissie Overs, Sam Broadbent, Steve Jolley
- Maquette sculptors: Chris Fitzgerald, Emma Jackson, Gary Pollard, Kevin O'Boyle, Paul Catling, Roland Stevenson
- Mould shop supervisor: Kenny Wilson
- Mould shop labourer: Dave Kelly
- Mould shop assistants: Steve Bettles, Chris Howes, Chris Coxon, Dave Dunsterville
- Senior mechanical designer: Richard Darwin
- Animatronic engineers: Andy Bowman, Dan Burnett, Guy Stevens, Jamie Lawrence, Karen Purvis, Mark Hunter, Mike Scanlan, Simon Hewitt, Stuart Robinson
- Art finish: Emily Phillips, Graham High, Martha Fein, Tacy Kneale, Waldo Mason
- Electronics department supervisor: Julian Manning
- Control systems engineer: Pete Bell
- Stunt players included David Forman
Muppet Mentions[]
- The 2007 book Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara includes Jim Henson's Creature Shop in the acknowledgements. As reference for illustrating his character Bix, James Gurney has used a maquette produced by the Creature Shop earlier in the development of the Dinotopia adaptation. The character did not appear in the final film.[2] The maquette also appeared and was briefly described in Gurney's 2009 book Imaginative Realism: How to Paint What Doesn't Exist.
Sources[]
- ↑ Gillies, Judith. The Washington Post. "Finding the Light of a Lost World." May 12, 2002.
- ↑ James Gurney's blog. November 2007.