BRANNON BRAGA “TERRA NOVA” INTERVIEW
By Abbie Bernstein

Fox’s new science-fiction drama TERRA NOVA, premiering at 8 PM on Monday Sept. 26, has impeccable science-fiction credentials. First of all, it combines time travel, a dystopian future and a dinosaur-filled past. The premise is that in 2049, natural resources are almost non-existent. However, an occasionally recurring time portal has opened, allowing small groups of people to travel eighty-five million years into the past, when there was edible food, drinkable water, breathable air - and the aforementioned dinosaurs. The Shannon family - father Jim (Jason O’Mara, a time-travel veteran from his recent starring gig on LIFE ON MARS), mother Elizabeth (Shelley Conn) and their three children are part of the most recent pilgrimage to the settlement known as Terra Nova. Jim soon comes to clash with the Terra Nova’s military commander Nathaniel Taylor (Stephen Lang, the villainous Col Quaritch of AVATAR).
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