Discovery and Spielberg to debut 'Future Earth'
Created: Apr 13, 2010 11:00 AM
(AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, file)Director and executive producer Steven Spielberg.
NEW YORK (AP) — The Discovery Channel says it is working with Steven Spielberg on an animated series imagining life in the future.
The network said last Thursday that "Future Earth" will be a miniseries showing what life might be like in 25, 50 and 100 years. Futurists and scholars will be consulted for their predictions to incorporate in the series.
The miniseries is expected to air in late 2011.
Clark Bunting, president of both the Discovery and Science channels, says he hopes to work Spielberg and his DreamWorks production companies on future projects as well.
FILE - In this Aug. 11, 1966 file photo, John Lennon of the Beatles, center, is flanked by bandmates George Harrison, left, and Ringo Starr as he apologizes for his remark that "the Beatles are more popular than Jesus," at a Chicago news conference. The Vatican newspaper in its weekend editions April 10-11, 2010 said the Beatles' "dissolute" lives and John Lennon's boastful claim that the band was more popular than Jesus are in the past, while their music lives on. (AP Photo)
