The Lost World

January 30th 2012

Wild 1969 Japanese magazine art imagines the hellhole at Earth’s core

Here’s something that should appeal to fans of Gōjin Ishihara’s profoundly weird children’s art. In 1969. a Japanese magazine published these exceedingly intense depictions of life at the center of our planet. Taking cues from Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Lost World, these drawings and diagrams are the strange remnants of…

io9 Cyriaque Lamar Jan 30

September 22nd 2011

The makers of Jurassic Park talk about the future of (scifi) dinosaurs

We recently asked three of Jurassic Park’s special effects wizards what they’d do with dinosaurs today, using all-new technology and cutting-edge paleontological knowledge. Here’s what they had to say, and how it will affect the new Jurassic Park blu-rays. As part of the launch for the new Jurassic Park trilogy blu-ray, we had the chance…

io9 Alasdair Wilkins Sep 22

October 5th 2010

The 3-D craze comes to classic science fiction book covers

It’s not enough that Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit will be filmed in 3-D — now your favorite science fiction books will have 3-D covers too. Are you excited yet? Vintage Classics is reissuing five books with 3-D covers: Planet of the Apes by Pierre Boulle, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 5

November 24th 2009

Scariest Dinosaur-On-Dinosaur Violence Ever Filmed?

Just how crazy were film-makers willing to get to convey the awfulness of dinosaur combat, back in the day? Check out this horrendous sequence from 1960’s Irwin Allen spectacular The Lost World, in which lizards covered with makeup battle. When I watched this film on TV a while back, I was on the fence about…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Nov 24

November 9th 2008

The Lost World Gets a Makeover and a City Full of Readers

Claymation characters Wallace and Gromit have a new gig: encouraging Scots to read. The plasticine pair grace the covers of thousands of copies of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World, which are available for free in libraries and schools throughout Edinburgh. It’s part of the city’s annual campaign to foster literacy, community engagement, and local…

Books & Comics Lauren Davis Nov 9

October 15th 2008

The Original Cloverfield Had Less Yuppie Drama

The 1925 movie The Lost World is the precursor to everything awesome in the world. Based on the Arthur Conan Doyle novel, the movie follows a group of explorers beyond the edge of civilization, where they encounter cute sloths, camp-follower bears… and a weird apeman. Then they find dinosaurs, leading to cute claymation fights between…

io9 Charlie Jane Anders Oct 15

Wild 1969 Japanese magazine art imagines the hellhole at Earth’s core

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The Lost World Gets a Makeover and a City Full of Readers

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