The Future Is Wild
| The Future Is Wild | |
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| Genre | Docufiction, science fiction |
| Starring | See Scientists below |
| Narrated by |
Christian Rodska (UK/Europe) John de Lancie (US, Discovery Channel) |
| Composer(s) |
Nicholas Hooper Paul Pritchard |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| No. of episodes | 13 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Jo Adams Television |
| Running time | 20–25 minutes |
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| Original network | BBC, Arte, ZDF, ORF, Mediaset, Animal Planet, Discovery Channel |
| Original release | April 2 – June 25, 2002 |
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The Future Is Wild is a 2002 thirteen-part documentary television miniseries. Based on research and interviews with several scientists, the miniseries shows how life could evolve in the future if humans were to disappear from the Earth altogether through extinction. The version broadcast on the Discovery Channel modified this premise, supposing instead that the human species had completely abandoned the Earth and had sent back probes to examine the progress of life on the planet as time progressed. The show took the form of a nature documentary. It is narrated by John de Lancie in the Discovery Channel version.
The miniseries was released with a companion book written by geologist Dougal Dixon, the author of several speculative evolution books, or "anthropologies and zoologies of the future" (such as After Man: A Zoology of the Future), in conjunction with natural history television producer John Adams. For a time in 2005, a theme park based on this program was opened in Japan. In 2008 a special on the Discovery Channel about the development of the video game Spore was combined with airings of The Future Is Wild.
A documentary film version of the series was originally set to be picked up by Warner Bros., however, the series may be rebooted by production company Vanguard Films and broadcasting at HBO.
Twelve ecosystems were presented, four in each of three future periods.
The early episodes describe a world after an ice age, when giant sea-birds roam the beaches and carnivorous bats rule the skies. Ice sheets extend as far south as Paris in the northern hemisphere and as far north as Buenos Aires in the southern hemisphere. The Amazon rainforest has dried up and become grassland. The North American plains have become cold desert, and Africa has collided with Europe, enclosing the Mediterranean Sea. Without water to replace it in the dry climate, the Mediterranean has dried out into a salt flat dotted with brine lakes, as it has been in the past. Most of Europe is frozen tundra. The part of Africa east of the African Rift Valley has broken away from the rest of the continent. Asia has dried up and is now mountainous. The once warm, tropical area of Central America has been transformed into a dry area. Australia has moved north and collided with eastern Indonesia.
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