Lost City Raiders

Lost City Raiders (2008)

They set out to salvage the past, and ended up fighting to save the future.

The year is 2048, and global warming has flooded much of Earth's land areas. A father and his two sons try to salvage treasures from sunken buildings when they are given an important assignment by the New Vatican.

Date of release
2008-10-31
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (74)
Runtime
1h 42m
Genres
Adventure, Action, Science Fiction, TV Movie
Director
Jean de Segonzac

Casting

Interesting facts

Lost City Raiders is a 2008 made-for-television science fiction film written and directed by Jean de Segonzac. It starred James Brolin, Ian Somerhalder, Jamie King, and Bettina Zimmermann.

Production

German commercial television station ProSieben, the American cable television network Sci Fi Channel, Austrian production company Tandem Communications produced the film. Its budget was US$6 million.

The film was first announced in March 2006. Tandem Communications intentionally picked an international cast, part of the company's successful strategy of making films easily marketable around the world. Within weeks of the announcement of the production, the film had already been pre-sold in Germany, France, and Spain.

Principal cinematography was to have begun in the summer of 2006, but did not begin until April 2008.

The 90-minute film was intended to air in two parts. The Sci Fi Channel hoped that it would lead to a series. The film had its worldwide television debut on 31 October 2008 in Germany. It debuted on the Sci Fi Channel on 22 November 2008.

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