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Timothy McKenzie's Land Before Time Remake

A while back, I submitted to this blog Timothy McKenzie’s ideas for his ToonTalker movie. But did you know he’s had many ideas for movies over the years? Behold, his plans for a Land Before Time Remake on his Flickr account from early 2008:

In 2011 or 2012 or 2013, Universal, my Tim Box Production Company, George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, Lord of the Rings and King Kong (2005) director Peter Jackson, Don Bluth, Gary Goldman, Barrie M. Osborne (all 5 of which will be producers.), New Zealand-based VFX companies, Weta Workshop, and Weta Digital, a director like Napolean Dynamite’s Jared Hess or somebody else and I as producer/writer, will remake the Land Before Time, and it’ll be based on the 1988 original.

It will blend Realistic CGI (Littlefoot and his friends and some of the long necks, especially Littlefoot’s mother, as it turns out, will remain unchanged, even though they’ll be CG in my remake) characters and creatures seamlessly with VFX wizardry, and a blend of Live Action/Miniature/Digital environments, to groundbreaking effect.

It will be shot entirely on 24-P digital high defintion video and in an aspect ratio of 2.35:1. It will feature a music score by Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard (but no musical numbers, please!) (although it will sound like the music of Disney’s Dinosaur, Jerry Goldsmith’s music for Congo, and the music for The Lion King).

It will be budgeted for $325 million, and will have a theatrical running time of 3 hours (that is 180 minutes) (or if extended for home video, 3 hours and 52 minutes, that is 232 minutes), and it will recieve a very, very, VERY MILD PG-13 rating, so it’s gonna be different than the original, though.

The dinosaurs in the remake, except for Littlefoot and his friends, and the Brontosaurs, will reflect the latest scientific and paleontological theories on dinosaurs, ala Jurassic Park, so they had to be as scientifically accurate as possible.

There will be three Tyrannosaurs chasing Littlefoot and his friends, Sharptooth, Redclaw and Darkclaw. In the remake, not only, the earthquake will separate Littlefoot from his grandparents, but also a meteor shower caused by the impact of an asteroid six miles as wide as Mount Everest. And There will be a protector for Littlefoot, Cera, Ducky, Petrie and Spike after the Asteroid strike and the earthquake cause by it, a brave, faithful and heroic Iguanodon named Argos.

My remake is gonna be the remake to end all Land Before Time sequels. And it will be, like Lord of the Rings and Peter Jackson’s King Kong, an outstanding effects and animation achievement. and It’ll be greater than the 1988 original.

And so, for now, until Universal, Tim Box and I will release my ambitious, groundbreaking remake of Land Before Time, Just stick to the original 1988 film, not the pointless sequels that followed it.

Bonus Idea: His plans for “Dinosaurs: An Epic Prehistoric Tale”, here and here. It’s facinating what you’ll find on the internet if you look hard enough.