T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous
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Directed by | Brett Leonard |
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Cinematography | Andrew Kitzanuk |
Edited by | Jonathan P. Shaw |
Music by | William Ross |
Distributed by | IMAX |
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Running time | 45 minutes[1] |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $14.5 million[2] |
Box office | $104 million[3] |
T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous is a 1998 American
Plot
16-year-old Ally Hayden is the daughter of Dr. Donald Hayden, a world-famous
A mysterious accident at the lab revolving an oblong fossil egg happens while Ally's father and sister Jesse are away at a dig site with Donald's assistant, and Ally is
During her adventure, Ally accidentally drops the fossilized egg (which her father and sister had originally dug up from the fossil dig site). Further exploration during the
Cast
- Liz Stauber as Ally Hayden
- Peter Horton as Dr. Donald Hayden
- Kari Coleman as Elizabeth Sample
- Charlene Sashuk as Jesse Hayden (Ally's older sister)
- Dan Libman as The Guard
- Tuck Milligan as Charles Knight
- Laurie Murdoch as Barnum Brown
- Joshua Silberg and Alex Hudson as Young boys
- Chris Enright as Dig assistant No. 2
Dinosaurs and other animals
- Tyrannosaurus (both living --mother and a hatchling-- and a skeleton)
- Struthiomimus (both living and a skeleton)
- Pteranodon (both living and a skeleton)
- Parasaurolophus (both living and a skeleton)
- Dryptosaurus (both living and a painting)
- Albertosaurus (skeleton)
- Allosaurus (skeleton)
- Brontosaurus (skeleton)
- Camarasaurus (skeleton)
- Centrosaurus/Monoclonius (skeleton)
- Chasmosaurus (skeleton)
- Daspletosaurus (skeleton)
- Dimetrodon (skeleton)
- Edmontosaurus (skeleton)
- Euoplocephalus (skeleton)
- Hypacrosaurus (skeleton)
- Megacerops (museum banner)
- Lambeosaurus (skeleton)
- Oviraptor (skeleton)
- Smilodon (skeleton)
- Stegosaurus (skeleton)
- Triceratops (skeleton)
- Woolly mammoth (both skeleton and a painting)
Production
Principal photography began on September 22, 1997, on location at Dinosaur Provincial Park in the Badlands region of Alberta, Canada, and near the town of Brooks. Filming began by capturing the scenes in which Ally Hayden time-travels back to the turn of the century to go on expedition with famous bone-hunter Barnum Brown.
Filming continued for two weeks on location in Dinosaur Provincial Park. Yet the filmmakers faced a challenge in finding a realistic environment to set the live-action filming portion for the Cretaceous period sequences when Ally finds herself wandering amidst the lush vegetation of 66 million years ago. The location used to film Cretaceous period scenes in the end was in the Olympia rain forest in upper
The special considerations that must be made when working with IMAX 3D presentation also made it crucial that the background features of the shooting locations were ideal.
Besides shooting locations, extensive computer-generated imagery was also employed to ensure the realism of the dinosaurs depicted in the film. Models had to be sculpted and digitized, with details such as texturing crucial to the process. The filmmakers of the next year's television documentary series Walking with Dinosaurs also faced similar challenges.
Reception
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The film received positive notices from critics. On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 70% rating from 20 critics, with an average rating of 6.2/10.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "T-Rex Back to the Cretaceous (U)". British Board of Film Classification. November 11, 1998. Archived from the original on April 26, 2015. Retrieved April 25, 2015.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on January 12, 2017. Retrieved October 5, 2016.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous (IMAX) (1998)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on April 29, 2016. Retrieved June 3, 2016.
- ^ T-Rex: Back to the Cretaceous at Rotten Tomatoes