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About Peculiar Pictures

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French co-producers Florent Mounier and Malika Brahmi with John Needham presenting 1884: Yesterday's Future at Media Cartoon Movie in Lyon.

Peculiar Pictures was formed by John Needham and Leone Connery in 2003 to create and develop innovative television programmes and feature films with exceptional writers and producers. The company is currently developing and producing a number of television programmes and feature films and also provides consultancy services to third parties. 

Picture: Steam Driven Films Limited.

 frontier

Mood Video created by Steve Begg from his original concept art.

frontier is a 26-part live action sci-fi television series created and developed by Steve Begg and John Needham. Commercial pioneers have reached a new frontier with the beginning of a twenty-second century ‘gold rush’ at the other end of the solar system. The unprecedented arrival of an enigmatic and primeval new planet which has been named Maia, hidden deep in the outer solar system, promises vast reserves of resources, now exhausted on Earth, to those who dare claim them. The corporate mining leviathans and family dynasties that rule outer space risk everything in their race to stake their claims to the richest land of the new planet. The planet, however, has other ideas.

1884: Yesterday's Future

Copyright: Steam Driven Films Limited

1884: Yesterday's Future is a full-length animated feature film and the brainchild of its director, Tim Ollive. The film's creative executive producer is Tim's long-time friend, mentor and boss, Terry Gilliam, who has this to say about the film, "It's an extraordinary script, the ideas are extraordinary and the design is amazing and the style is what I think is unique, with this mixture of handmade things and modern computer techniques, so it creates a texture, an ambience that is really special."

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