Cryptids’ Vet?
Posted by: Loren Coleman on July 10th, 2008
Variety is reporting on July 10, 2008 that Columbia Pictures has acquired a new motion picture property, Mythological Veterinarian. It is a comic pitch that will be written by Andrew Kurtzman and produced by Jimmy Miller. Principal Entertainment’s Danny Sherman will be executive producer.
Andrew Kurtzman has been a writer on Down Periscope (1996), Camp Nowhere (1994), See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989), and 57 episodes (1982-1985) of “Saturday Night Live.”
Variety says the project is about a modern-day veterinarian who’s recruited by a secret society that watches over the world’s mythological creatures. Now that plot sounds rather strange. Are we to assume that this secret society is able to have contact with these creatures? Oh right, it’s only a movie.
From the working title of the project, it actually sounds like the vet is mythological, not his animal patients.
About Loren Coleman
Loren Coleman is one of the world’s leading cryptozoologists, some say “the” leading living cryptozoologist. Certainly, he is acknowledged as the current living American researcher and writer who has most popularized cryptozoology in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Starting his fieldwork and investigations in 1960, after traveling and trekking extensively in pursuit of cryptozoological mysteries, Coleman began writing to share his experiences in 1969. An honorary member of Ivan T. Sanderson’s Society for the Investigation of the Unexplained in the 1970s, Coleman has been bestowed with similar honorary memberships of the North Idaho College Cryptozoology Club in 1983, and in subsequent years, that of the British Columbia Scientific Cryptozoology Club, CryptoSafari International, and other international organizations. He was also a Life Member and Benefactor of the International Society of Cryptozoology (now-defunct).
Loren Coleman’s daily blog, as a member of the Cryptomundo Team, served as an ongoing avenue of communication for the ever-growing body of cryptozoo news from 2005 through 2013. He returned as an infrequent contributor beginning Halloween week of 2015.
Coleman is the founder in 2003, and current director of the International Cryptozoology Museum in Portland, Maine.
Not exactly the same but it sounds like some of the concepts are shared with those of the web TV series called Sanctuary.
I hope by “mythological” they mean griffins, dragons, and chimerae, not Sasquatch, Nessie, and the Mokele-Mbembe.
I enjoy the mythological shows but they never last very long.
Bigfoot wouldn’t belong in this show, but he has already been on the Six Million Dollar Man, and had a mini-show on the Sid & Marty Krofft’s “Power Hour” called Bigfoot and Wildboy. I guess X-Files did some crypto-work, but it was always way off base.
He, imagine trying to extract a bad tooth from an angry Minotaur 🙂