WB Set for a Primeval Movie

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I've never seen this show. Has anybody seen it? Would it make a good movie?

IT'S NOW been confirmed that Warner Bros is to make a movie version of ITV's Primeval series.

A month ago I brought readers of The Geek Files a report that Warner Bros had snapped up the screen rights to the Saturday night adventure series, which airs in the US on BBC America and Sci Fi Channel.

Trade magazine Variety today says that, following a six-figure deal, Akiva Goldsman and Kerry Foster will produce the new film through Goldsman's Warner Bros-based Weed Road banner.

Foster said: "There is a solid mythology to the series, but the movie has the dinosaur element of Jurassic Park and the time travel element of Lost and it just feels like the kind of big movie that Warner Bros does well."

Goldsman, who scripted Angels and Demons with David Koepp, will hire a writer to pen the Primeval screenplay, which will transplant the story to the USA.

In the series, prehistoric and futuristic creatures appear through rifts in time called anomalies, with a covert government-sponsored team on the alert for the portals and the monsters.

The movie is part of an expansion bid by the show producers who are planning a further series with a more international feel, to reflect the global success of the show. The producers want to have adventures set outside the UK.