New sleestaks revealed!

And they look refreshingly like old sleestaks! Not that I'm necessarily looking forward to see another cheesy nugget of my youth remade into a film that misses all that was charming about the original. But I'm probably not dreading it as much as our bloggin' friend Sleestak over at Lady, That's My Skull.

USA Today reports:

The Land of the Lost film is now shooting on multiple sound stages at Universal Studios, and the Sleestak surface in a temple where Ferrell's character and his two companions (comedian Danny McBride, Pushing Daisies' Anna Friel) are hoping a giant crystal will return them to their own dimension.

The plot involves three adults (not a dad and two kids as on TV) accidentally thrust into a realm ruled by dinosaurs, monkey-men called Pakuni and the murderous Sleestak.

Director Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events) says he fought to keep the human shape of the Sleestak from Sid & Marty Krofft's original production, and not give into the urge to render them as spindly computerized beings.