It’s bad enough that Hollywood has to remake all of my childhood memories (yes, I admit my childhood memories are mostly TV shows and movies from the ’70s and ’80s). But when they go and use CGI rather than actors and completely alter the way I remember things (man, that sucked how the Who’s the Boss movie featured a computer generated Mona), I just get so upset I could rant on a blog. So, imagine my relief when I saw this official photo from the set of Universal’s Land of the Lost in today’s USA Today.

Yes, those Sleestak look just as you remember. Only darker, more detailed, and a little (just a little) less like a costume with a human inside. But as much as I’d like to salute director Brad Silberling both for respecting my childhood and for shitting on CGI (which is still just too lazy a tool these days), the choice seems mostly to do with retaining the show’s cheesiness. Anthony Breznican writes for USA Today:

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• It’s hard to pick a single line to isolate from this Variety story about the soon-to-be-in-production fourth Terminator flick–I LOLed throughout. Is the the part where the film’s budget is described as “event-sized”? Maybe the part where the producers shamelessly hint that Governor Schwarzenegger will make a cameo? Or, maybe the meticulous breakdown of the Terminator chronology, ending with financier Derek Anderson’s insistence that “this is set in the future, in a full-scale war between Skynet and humankind” (phew!) Actually, everything you need to know is contained in the proposed title: Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins.
• Brad Silberling will direct Will Ferrell in a big-screen adaptation of Land of the Lost. The project, which is categorized as an “event comedy” (when did ‘event’ become an adjective?) is set up at Universal, who took a bath on their last “event comedy”, the bloated Evan Almighty. Thus, the Lost budget “was recalibrated from $125 million to $100 million in order to earn its start date.”
• Rejoice! Fred Durst’s directorial debut The Education of Charlie Banks is FINALLY coming to theaters and DVD! Caption that photo however you see fit.