Netflix plays the card of nostalgia with this remake of a science fiction series whose existence we had forgotten – News Series

Netflix gives us the card of nostalgia again. While the platform is currently preparing a new series derived from novels La Petite Maison in the meadow, it looks at the remake of another monument on American television: Land of Lost.

Little known in France where she was never broadcast, this family-fiction family series met with a nice success in the United States between 1974 and 1976 on the NBC. She follows the Marshall family, while she was quietly sailing on a small boat, was swept away by a gigantic fall and projected in a prehistoric world, populated by dinosaurs and giant insects … Its creators Sid and Marty Krofft were freely inspired by the novel “Le Monde lost” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (like Jurassic Park).

To measure the popularity of the series over the years, it is enough to take a look at the projects that have emerged thereafter: in 1991, the ABC channel produced a remake centered this time on the Porter family as it unfortunately crosses a time gate. The credits to discover below gives a fairly good idea of ​​the program and its special effects … dated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kglubozpkjy

Lost … in the Cretaceous

In 2009, it was a derivative feature film that was born. And this time, French spectators can discover this fantastic and slightly kitch universe in the cinema: the (almost) lost world is carried by Will Ferrell in the role of a cheesy paleontologist.

Haded by a space-time spiral, it is ejected into a parallel world. He finds himself without weapons or special skills to survive in this universe where dinosaurs in marauding and other fantastic creatures of another world rub shoulders.

But technological advances and the team behind the film (the head of visual effects Bill Westenhofer received an Oscar in 2008 for the crossroads of the worlds) did not necessarily help: it is designed by criticism and is even named to the Razzie Awards, which reward the worst productions of the year.

We therefore wonder what Netflix intends to do with this remake of the world (almost) lost, which for the moment has no attached screenwriter. But on paper, this family fictional series could well become the new lost in the space of the platform (which was itself derived from a series of the 60s). Broadcast between 2018 and 2021, it was acclaimed by spectators and the press. And if the quality is of the same level, then we buy!