Colin Trevorrow sets up Halcyon at Amazon, a sci-fi thriller series about Witness Protection families relocated through time.
Deadline reports that Amazon is developing Halcyon, a sci-fi thriller based on Christopher Long’s graphic novel Hiding In Time. Halcyon comes from Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow, who will executive produce through his Metronome Film Company alongside Andrew Mittman’s 1.21 banner.
Halcyon is a “paranoid sci-fi thriller in which the Witness Protection Program relocates families to various eras in time. The series unravels a conspiracy that emerges when this seemingly infallible system is breached.” Sounds interesting. In addition to producing Halcyon, Colin Trevorrow will also direct the pilot of the series. Davey Holmes (Shameless) will serve as showrunner of the project, and will executive produce alongside Trevorrow, Mittman, and Lloyd Braun.
After helming Jurassic World, Colin Trevorrow stepped back for J.A. Bayona to take the reins of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, but he returned for Jurassic World: Dominion. He’s remained with the franchise, executive producing the upcoming Jurassic World: Chaos Theory for Netflix. The animated series is a sequel to Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous. The first series follows young dinosaur fanatic Darius Bowman as he is given the opportunity to visit an exclusive dinosaur camp on Isla Nublar. However, when the dinosaurs break free from their habitats, Darius and five other campers are left stranded and forced to venture across the island without any help in the hopes of finding a way out alive. Chaos Theory will pick up with an older Darius, “after the park has closed, after the kingdom has fallen, and a new era of chaos begins…” The series is expected to drop on Netflix sometime in 2024.
Colin Trevorrow has also been working on a movie revolving around the mythical society of Atlantis. The director has previously said that the myths of Atlantis are actually rather relevant to today’s world. “For a generation right now to be able to enter a world that is not unlike their world – where their elders have basically gifted them a civilization that is dying – I think it is the right moment for that story,” Trevorrow said. This story won’t depict Atlantis as a ruined city at the bottom of the ocean, but rather one on a lost continent in the Indian ocean occupied by a “multicultural civilization with its own advanced technology.” Atlantis is a story that has always fascinated Colin Trevorrow, who said that it’s the “only thing that equals dinosaurs for me.“ The director said, “I guess I tend to go back to the past. But, you know, it was the first time that we had technology. And it’s at a time when we had other kinds of creatures that aren’t around anymore There are just so many things about it that are fascinating to me. So yeah, I’m a deep nerd for it.“
