Trivia / Creation (1931)

• Follow the Leader: Clearly tailored after both The Lost World (1912) (which had already been adapted into film by Willis O'Brien in 1925) and The Land That Time Forgot.
• What Could Have Been: It almost did get made as the test footage proves but it was canceled by Selznick and Cooper themselves when they realized how bad it was. It also sounds like at the time, it would have been very expensive and hard to make in the first place. Thankfully Willis O’Brien and Merian C. Cooper’s next project fared a lot better.