Jeff Pinkner (born November 16, 1964) is an American television and movie writer and producer.
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This is a big budget remake of the 1925 silent classic and an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stupendous classic.
The story tells of Professor Challenger who leads an expedition to South America to a plateau that is said to be populated by prehistoric life which leads to them capturing a Tyrannosaurus, a Brontosaurus, and a Pteranodon and bringing them back to civilization where of course things go wrong.