Jillian Share for Teton Ridge Entertainment and Michael Dougherty are also on board as executive producers.

Filmmaker Sophie Todd (Formula 1 Drive To Survive) has joined the project as showrunner.

Their work in de-extinction is fascinating and whats coming up is unbelievable.

Wooly mammoth rendering

Wooly mammoth renderingColossal Biosciences

I feel very privileged that we have the opportunity to bring this story to the world.

Colossal Biosciences says it will use CRISPR gene splicing technology to restore the planets shrinking biodiversity.

Extinct species, some of which havent walked the earth in thousands of years, are about to return.

From left: Robert Duvall, Anjelica Huston in 1992’s ‘Lonesome Dove’

Illustration of a thylacine, also known as a Tasmanian tiger.Getty Images

Colossal was founded by Lamm and biotech entrepreneur George Church, a professor of genetics at Harvard Medical School.