T. REX BEGINS PRINCIPAL PHOTOGRAPHY
RELEASING SPRING 2024
From the team behind the NSF-supported prehistoric hits Dinosaurs Alive, Titans of the Ice Age, and Dinosaurs of Antarctica comes the planet’s most famous dinosaur—the hit-maker, the headliner, the apex attraction—TYRANNOSAURUS REX.
Giant Screen Films is thrilled to announce that principal photography has officially commenced on its newest ground-trembling dinosaur adventure – T. REX. Backplate filming is underway in New Zealand, with additional shoots planned for North America in the coming months.
For over a hundred years dinosaurs have inspired and thrilled audiences, commanding blockbuster status in museums and at the box office. But among them towers a king—a tyrant lizard king. With leaps in CGI wizardry and revolutions in tyrannosaur paleontology over the past twenty five years, the time has come to revisit rex in the world’s prestigious museum cinemas.
Working with top tyrannosaur scientists, a coalition of natural history institutions, and pioneering paleo and visual effects artists, GSF’s original giant screen production on this iconic dinosaur—and its carnivorous Cretaceous cousins—aims to be the most dazzling and accurate T. rex documentary ever made.
With hat tips to famous specimens, landmark discoveries, and wild cinematic depictions over the last century, the film will explore the interplay between speculation and evidence, and reveal how the process of science refreshes and reimagines our understanding of this legendary dinosaur.
“We’re eager to bring T. rex back to life in fun and surprising ways,” says David Clark, Director. “The film will be covering a lot of new territory while delivering on the promise of a T. rex cinematic experience— the dinky arms, T. rex super senses, tyrannosaur fights, pack hunts, young rexlings, a climactic face-off with a three-horned nemesis, giant pterosaurs, the extinction cataclysm, and much, much more.”
“T. rex has long been an A-list film star, so our approach is to shine a new light on this animal, this ultimate predator: how it evolved over 100 million years, how it grew from a puppy-sized hatchling to a hulking carnivore in its lifetime, and why this particular species rose to iconic status over the 20th century,” adds Andy Wood, Producer. “Along the way, we’ll meet a remarkable cast of supporting characters, animals that inhabited Hell Creek in the presence of the Tyrant King. This family-friendly film will present thrilling new ideas to all audiences, including the most devoted dino enthusiasts.”
T. REX roars into theaters in late spring 2024. The film will be supported with a suite of curricular materials and merchandise, including a companion graphic novel, educator packages, social extensions, action figures, and more.
For pre-leasing and production coalition inquiries, please contact Giant Screen Films.