"Future Earth" speculative scifi docu-series Spielberg producing

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Steven Spielberg is reuniting with DreamWorks Animation to develop an animated miniseries about the world of the future.

"Future Earth" is still considered to be in development, which means there's no airdate yet

Dubbed "Future Earth," the potential project will use animation to speculate what life on Earth might be like over the next 25 to 100 ears. "The mini-series will draw from a vast number of sources, including the leading futurists, scholars and great minds of today, to dramatize and explore how various facets of our daily lives - health and medicine, technology, the environment, the military, the economy and media - will evolve over the next century," Discovery said in a release announcing the show.

DreamWorks TV and DreamWorks Animation -- now two separate companies -- will jointly develop the project.

April 08, 2010
http://www.thewrap.com/ind-column/s...ation-working-toon-miniseries-discovery-16126
It sounds like it will be talking heads and CGI-animated shots of locations discussed. I wouldn't be surprised if they licensed shots from Speilberg's Minority Report (2002).
It sounds a lot like the current series on Discovery Channel's sister channel Science channel: Sci-Fi Science: Physics of the Impossible

an all-new television series, exploring the world of the seemingly impossible. Hosted by internationally-renowned physicist and co-founder of string field theory, Dr. Michio Kaku, this series poses the idea that science fiction may not be so far from science fact.

but with a bigger budget for CGI animation and possibly some live-action actors on green screen placed in them.

Don't get this series confused with the UK's BBC4 TV series: "Planet Earth: The Future" (2006) which was only a 3-part series covering the environment and conservation. A reaction to criticism from environmental groups about Planet Earth series.

Future Earth will cover 7 major topics and the environment being only one part of society in the future and I highly doubt they will get into any conservation details.

 

[Admiral_Young]

I saw this the other day and was intrigued and it reminds me more of the what if the earth had no humans specials that aired last year. I'll be checking this out.