Here’s a cool little TV movie on the way.  It sounds like Waterworld, but it isn’t.  Lost City Raiders is a cool little concept and its directed by a very experienced and accomplished person, Jean de Segonzac.  Directing television episodes from Battlestar Galactica, CSI, Law and Order and many other things, now directing Lost City Raiders. 

Set in the near future, LCR is a six million dollar production in which “The Rising” has flooded most of Earth’s habitable areas. People are living on what’s left of the planet’s continents. Multiple salvage operations attempt to retrieve “treasure” from sunken cities like Los Angeles, Rome, Paris, and Rio (where the Jesus statue is still sticking out of the water). Visual effects…characterized “massive”…will be deployed to realize this re-written environment, although I haven’t been able to snag any FX shots yet.

Word is there’s an artifact somewhere that could reverse the rising and restore Earth’s land masses. Towards this end, a salvage team is recruited by the Vatican (now located in New Rome) to find said object. However, a billionaire real estate mogul has a different agenda.

So movies like this are usually stupid and not very good, but when they are on TV, hey… why not watch it.  Hell, this could be a really entertaining TV movie.  I’ll keep an eye out for when this comes out.  Its not going to be for a long while, because its apparently filming as we speak.

I think the concept of this movie is pretty cool.  Hopefully they can turn it into something that will keep me from changing the channel, unless it goes direct to DVD but I don’t think it will.  From the sound of it, this will air some time later this year on the Sci Fi Channel.

You should read the full article at Ain’t It Cool.  They have an example of whats in the film and it involves William Shatner.

-Phil