Calling the SyFy Network, Part 11,935…

Updated on August 5, 2010 By Ken Begg 14 Comments

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  • Ericb

    Let’s have Leviathan vs. Meg.

  • Ericb

    And while they’re thinking of movie ideas I think the time has come for a movie about a giant anomalocaris.

    http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/virtual-wonders/vranomalocaris.html

  • The Rev.

    I saw that pic a while back and should’ve thought to alert you for this feature, Ken. Sorry!

    I’m still waiting for someone to make a gulper eel movie. They gave me goblin sharks (albeit in a very crappy movie), now give me gulpers!

  • fish eye no miko

    Ok… wow, this is a terribly misleading picture.
    The whale on top appears to be a blue whale; the largest living creature on earth today. They reach about 100 feet long. According to the article, this ancient sperm whale, despite its large bite, is only about as long as sperm whale living today, which is about 60-70 feet. Uh… doesn’t that picture make the leviathan look bigger than the blue whale?

    Don’t get me wrong; Superwhale! wold be a great idea for a monster movie (though I’d go with larger-the-normal, super-aggressive orcas myself), but this article is from some place “Nature”, you’d think their depictions of animals would be a little more scientifically accurate…

  • BeckoningChasm

    Some of the prehistoric whales, with their alligator like rows of needle teeth, are pretty scary-looking. Heck, if someone bought the Sci-Fi network a set of those “Walking with” DVDs, they could have several years worth of movies right there.

  • Ericb

    fisheye, if you read the article you will see that it discusses the fact that the baleen whales of that era were smaller than those of today. The article says that they were an average length of 7-10 meters. It’s an ancient baleen in the picture not a blue whale.

  • Ericb

    Those “Walking With …” programs are great. The ones with the pre-dinosaur stuff are my favorite.

  • BeckoningChasm

    Yeah, those are my favorites too. Giant sea scorpions, salamanders big as a boat (though not as big as a battleship), good stuff…

  • Rock Baker

    Didn’t an episode of Voyage the the Bottom of the Sea already have a super-whale? I haven’t seen the episode, but I thought I saw clips on an Irwin Allen retrospective.

    And am I the only one who finds animals lose their menace when they get TOO big? And what would the super-wahle do? Splash around and make tidal waves? Because otherwise it seems pretty easy to avoid its menace. Godzilla can come up on land and be a pest. With a giant whale, you just bait a powerful explosive and make him eat it, his innards get blown to bits, it dies, then the Japanese can come in and clean the thing. There’d be enough whale oil for the whole Pacific rim.

    (Think of it this way, which would creep you out more: a spider the size of an aircraft carrier or one the size of a coffee table?)

    (Also, cats are evil beyond words, have they done one yet with a dinosaur-sized tabby? I can just see it pawing people like they were mice, and giving chase to -and horribly wrecking- cars, and using buildings as scratching posts, and spreading allergy-inducing dander, turning on those that love it for no reason whatsoever, staring at entire cities as the people try to sleep, just being generally evil in their feline way…)

  • Not on topic, really, but did you see the trailer for Venture Brothers Season 4.2?

  • BeckoningChasm

    Um, Ken, you might want to update the link for Lyz. She’s been at aycyas.com for kind of a while, now. I know, I know, I am a terrible person for pointing that out…

  • Heli

    MegaWhale vs. MegaShark vs. Sharktopus!

  • Grumpy

    “what would the super-wahle do?”

    Here’s your plot: biologists land on a mile-long whale to study it. While spelunking down the blow-hole, the beast has a coronary and capsizes. Now the biologists must survive a journey through the whale’s anatomy to escape through its ventral surface. That would be out the butt, Bob.

    I call it “The Leviathan Adventure.”

  • John Campbell

    If the giant cat movie, is set in the U.S. it can only exist out west.

    ‘Cause you know that’s where all the sand is…

    Also you could have some awesome scenes of people drowning/melting as it marks it’s turf.

    I’m thinking about this far too much…