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A Startup’s Mission to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth Is Being Made Into a Docuseries
Colossal Biosciences has started work on a five-year-long docuseries that follows its de-extinction efforts. That’s just the beginning of its small-screen plans.
On February 1, Colossal announced its new chief marketing officer would be Emily Castel, a former Hollywood executive who worked on monster movies including Pacific Rim, Godzilla, Kong: Skull Island, and, uh, Jurassic World. Colossal is working with My Octopus Teacher director James Reed on a five-year-long documentary series that will follow the startup’s efforts to use gene editing to bring back extinct species—or, more precisely, tweak existing species to more closely resemble their long-dead relatives. Reed: We went out to visit the labs in Dallas and hung out with them for a couple of days and met some of the technicians, and we started to see how this might feel from a filming point of view, the characters we could follow in this journey.
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