Bookish, practical yet kind, David is the brother who wants to stay in Dinotopia. He becomes the first human to partner with a Pteranodon ("Freefall").
In fact, some of the dinosaurs, notably a neurotic but friendly Stenonychosaurus named Zipeau, possess human intelligence and speak perfect English. The Skybax squadron leader, Oonu, offers to escort the Brachs to Waterfall. Marion trips and falls, and is nearly killed by a T-Rex when a group of Skybax Riders, humans riding on large, short-tailed pterosaurs, distract and scare away the Tyrannosaurus. Karl, David and Marion run for their lives, as the Tyrannosaurus hunt them down. Later in the night, the group is attacked by the raiding T-Rex pack. For the Brachs's safety, the group spends the night in the village. She begins to sense a strange unbalance, after discovering the destroyed remains of a Dinotopian village. Marion is unsettled by this, as Tyrannosaurus do not usually hunt in packs and that they are "not evil, just hungry by nature". Marion, David, Karl and the Brach bus conductor investigate the forest nearby and find Tyrannosaurus Rex footprints. During the journey, the "Brachs" become distressed by an unseen presence. The two boys befriend her and hitch a Brachiosaur "bus" ride to Waterfall City. There, they witness a young Dinotopian woman, Marion Waldo, pacify a Ankylsaurus with a toothache. Crabb leads the boys to a village, where the boys are surprised to see that they are wearing clothes from different cultures in different time periods. Looking for help, Karl and David meet a man named Cyrus Crabb who informs them that they are in Dinotopia, a hidden civilization where human beings and dinosaurs co-exist peacefully. Karl and David wash up on the shore of a large uncharted island.
Frank saves his sons, but has trouble escaping the crashed plane as his seatbelt fails to release. After flying into a storm, Karl struggles, causing Frank to retake control before it crashes into the ocean.
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It was soon followed by a television series which only lasted for one season.Ī pair of teenage half-brothers, Karl and David Scott, are on a flight with their father Frank on his private plane when Karl takes over the controls, so his father can fall asleep.
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It received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Visual Effects for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special. The miniseries premiered as installments of The Wonderful World of Disney from May 12–14, 2002 on ABC. This score is performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Alexander. The original score was composed by Trevor Jones. The story in the film contains references to many of the characters in the book series, with some of their descendants occupying key roles in the plot. The boys' father's plane crashes into the sea and they get stranded on Dinotopia, where they must adjust to a new society. The main characters are two American teenage boys from a contemporary time frame (unlike the 19th century castaways in the books-the film thus loses some of the classicism of the original books). The miniseries uses plot details from Gurney's first two Dinotopia books, Dinotopia (1992) and Dinotopia: The World Beneath (1995), although it takes place in a time farther into the future. It is based on the fictional world of Dinotopia, a utopia in which anthropomorphic dinosaurs and humans coexist, created by American author James Gurney.
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Dinotopiaĭinotopia is a four-hour (three-episode) TV miniseries co-produced by Walt Disney Television and Hallmark Entertainment. For other uses, see Dinotopia (disambiguation).