Anna Friel Scores Female Lead In Land Of The Lost

Anna FrielThis morning we are informed that Anna Friel has been cast alongside Will Ferrell in Land OF The Lost. We get the scoop from the fabled caves of Yahoo:

“Land of the Lost” has landed a female lead, Anna Friel, to star opposite Will Ferrell in Brad Silberling’s adventure fantasy for Universal Pictures.

In this feature adaptation of Sid and Marty Krofft’s 1970s live-action kids show, the “Pushing Daisies” star will play the love interest of Ferrell, a disgraced paleontologist who finds himself in a strange prehistoric world.

I was not alive when this show was on the air, but I always look forward to movies with dinosaurs. I think Ferrell will be outstanding alongside a stegosaurus and look forward to watching them develop their relationship on screen. I am not sure if they are going to continue with the “kids show” theme and gear this film for kids, or if they are just going to use the film as a rough blueprint and make a film that targets the adults that watched this show as children.

Anna Friel is unknown to me sadly, if any of you are familiar with her work – please fill us in on your thoughts. From her IMDB page it appears she has been nominated for a number of awards, including a golden globe nod for pushing daisies.

Until the film comes out, please treat yourself to the intro of the television show posted below.

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6 thoughts on “Anna Friel Scores Female Lead In Land Of The Lost

  1. Land of the fucking Lost! Holy shit. Oh please let it work. I LOVED the Land of the Lost as a kid. The casting leads me to believe there’s a story shift and age of the main characters from the original has been changed.

    In the original the main characters were Will and Holly two teenage siblings who were stranded along with their paleontoligist father (a supporting character)in the title “Land”. Dinosaurs abounded both friendly and dangerous. The real highlights of the show though are Chaka, a Cromagnon kid who hung out with the kids and grunted a lot, and the Sleestaks, a race of lizard men who had once dominated the land with an advanced civilization, but whose society had collapsed and were now mute and just plain nasty and living the ruins of their former capital. There were these cool Sleestak “Pylons” that had mystical crystals that controlled weather and time portals and an ancient Sleestak named Enoch who would pop in from time to time and who would explain Sleestak technologies and customs.

    God I loved that show.

  2. She was in Timeline, which I watched recently only because Gerard Butler was in it. She wasn’t horrible, but she wasn’t anything particularly memorable either. That being said, Timeline was a shitty movie, so for her to make it out unscathed says something. She and the Butler were the best actors in the film.

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