T.REX- ROARING INTO CINEMAS SUMMER 2024

[Prehistory Resurrection]

Link to official website: https://trex-film.com/

Behind-the-scenes photos of Blue Rhino Studio's models featured in the shooting of the climactic Fight Night sequence- The Tyrant King versus its legendary Three Horned Nemesis.




Official Poster:


"We're eager to bring the G.O.A.T. — The Greatest of All Tyrants — back to life in fun and surprising ways. The film will cover a lot of new territory while delivering on the quintessential promises of a T. rex cinematic experience — the dinky arms, super senses, rex-on-rex fights, pack hunts, baby rexlings, a climactic face-off with a three-horned nemesis, giant pterosaurs, the extinction cataclysm, and much, much more."

– David Clark, Director

Official merch includes dinosaur action figures by Creative Beast Studios and a companion graphic novel by Rextooth Studios.

[Halichoeres]

Action figures by Creative Beast, that's interesting!

[Faelrin]

Wonder if it's the same Tyrannosaur series figures, or perhaps repainted/retooled? Great to see David has this oppurtunity here. I'm sure we'll probably get an update from him on this.

[crazy8wizard]

Part of me deep down wants a new figure like an Anzu or Hell Creek Azhdarchid but I know it's likely just going to be a repaint of one of the existing T. rex figures, maybe Triceratops. However, considering the designs are done by Blue Rhino Studios, this means another museum based figure on the list! Hopefully it's the 1/35th scale one as well as the 1:18th.

[edu]

That poster is by Mark Witton!
Where does this proyect come from? 

[andrewsaurus rex]

this is exciting but is this going to be a general release in theatres?  I'm not sure what the general public's appetite will be for a feature length documentary film, with no humans and just T. rex going about his/her day to day activities.   I can see many getting bored fast.  Personally I hope it's 3 1/2 hours long, though. 

I hope it doesn't end up being shown only on Netflix or Apple TV...

Interesting they are touting this as the latest science but they are going to feature a fight scene between an adult T. rex and an adult Triceratops.....a classic confrontation perhaps, but scientifically dubious?

[crazy8wizard]

this is exciting but is this going to be a general release in theatres?  I'm not sure what the general public's appetite will be for a feature length documentary film, with no humans and just T. rex going about his/her day to day activities.   I can see many getting bored fast.  Personally I hope it's 3 1/2 hours long, though. 

I hope it doesn't end up being shown only on Netflix or Apple TV...

Interesting they are touting this as the latest science but they are going to feature a fight scene between an adult T. rex and an adult Triceratops.....a classic confrontation perhaps, but scientifically dubious?

It says on the website's brochure that it's for museum cinemas, much like their previous releases such as Dinosaurs of Antarctica or Waking the T. rex: the Story of Sue. Also on the back of the website's brochure, some museums are listed like FMNH, DMNS, and AMNH, so expect museums with IMAX screens to probably have it eventually.
As for the T. rex versus Triceratops battle, there's fossils of both that indicate the two would have fought each other at least some times. There's adult Torosaurus fossils that do too.

[Bread]

Wonder if it's the same Tyrannosaur series figures, or perhaps repainted/retooled? Great to see David has this oppurtunity here. I'm sure we'll probably get an update from him on this.

Probably soon but he will most likely not be able to show much or anything at all, up until there is a trailer (if there is one) or near the film's debut.

I could be wrong though, we'll see I guess.

Interesting they are touting this as the latest science but they are going to feature a fight scene between an adult T. rex and an adult Triceratops.....a classic confrontation perhaps, but scientifically dubious?

Jack Horner moment.

[andrewsaurus rex]

Jack Horner moment?  Don't understand the reference.  I thought the consensus opinion was that an adult T. rex would never take on an adult Triceratops, with so many other food sources around.  Please correct me if i'm wrong.  There is evidence of a pack of sub adult T. rex attacking Triceratops, or maybe it was the other way around?  I'm all for the classic confrontation of a solo T. rex battling an adult Triceratops.  I'm just skeptical it happened, is all.  Even a small wound from a horn could result in an injury making it impossible to hunt, infection and a good chance of death.

crazy8wizard: thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot more sense that it will be shown in museums.   I hope I get the chance to see it.  The only fossil evidence I know of for T. rex vs Triceratops adult is the pack of sub adult T. rex that are thought to have attacked a Triceratops.....although it could have been the other way around.  I am not aware of any evidence of Torosaurus vs T. rex battles.  Please share any info or links you can....I would love to hear/read about it.

[TheCambrianCrusader]

Jack Horner moment?  Don't understand the reference.  I thought the consensus opinion was that an adult T. rex would never take on an adult Triceratops, with so many other food sources around.  Please correct me if i'm wrong.  There is evidence of a pack of sub adult T. rex attacking Triceratops, or maybe it was the other way around?  I'm all for the classic confrontation of a solo T. rex battling an adult Triceratops.  I'm just skeptical it happened, is all.  Even a small wound from a horn could result in an injury making it impossible to hunt, infection and a good chance of death.

crazy8wizard: thanks for the clarification, that makes a lot more sense that it will be shown in museums.  I hope I get the chance to see it.  The only fossil evidence I know of for T. rex vs Triceratops adult is the pack of sub adult T. rex that are thought to have attacked a Triceratops.....although it could have been the other way around.  I am not aware of any evidence of Torosaurus vs T. rex battles.  Please share any info or links you can....I would love to hear/read about it.

There's an adult Triceratops specimen (VMNH 120763) with a broken brow horn and bite marks on the squamosal that match up with a Tyrannosaurus. The wounds show signs that they healed over implying the Triceratops survived the encounter. How it escaped is up for debate but given that a Triceratops prob wasn't a good runner I imagine it fought the rex off or just outright killed it.
Here's the fossils:

[andrewsaurus rex]

I've read about that specimen, but didn't know the details, thanks.

I should probably clarify my point.  I'm sure T. rex probably attacked Triceratops, including adult Triceratops (and Torosaurus for that matter).  Hadrosaurs may have been difficult to catch as they may have been faster.  But my belief is that if/when T. rex attacked Triceratops, it would have been in numbers.....ie pairs or even groups.  I am skeptical that a solitary T. rex would take on a full grown, healthy Triceratops by itself.  But I think 2 or 3 working together could handle an adult with a good chance of success.

But the classic confrontation between a solitary T. rex and a Triceratops, which is what the movie is portraying, while exciting, I think is very unlikely.  But I would love to be proven wrong some day.

[crazy8wizard]

I know it's a reversal of the all powerful Tyrannosaurus cliche but I'm getting tired of the reoccurring trend that T. rex would never ever go for anything threatening. Are we forgetting it has a bite that could crush bone?

[TheCambrianCrusader]

We still have no idea if T.rex was social or not, so if it wasn't than that specimen is darn good evidence that it absolutely occurred. If they were social than it must have happened from time to time. It's rare but sometimes modern social predators will take on dangerous game by themselves like lions taking on buffalo alone.

Personally I doubt that T. rex (or most dinos) were cooperative hunters, its just not a behavior that really occurs in any living reptile or bird save for Harris hawks. Honestly I think the only dinosaur that has any solid evidence for pack hunting is maaaybe Deinonychus, but thats its own discussion.

[Crackington]

Personally I doubt that T. rex (or most dinos) were cooperative hunters, its just not a behavior that really occurs in any living reptile or bird save for Harris hawks. Honestly I think the only dinosaur that has any solid evidence for pack hunting is maaaybe Deinonychus, but thats its own discussion.

Not sure about this,I've seen Corvids collectively attack other species, in particular a Grey Squirrel which some Jackdaws were taking it in turns to stab with their beaks. My daughters were younger at the time and watching the horror show so I intervened and chased them off from our flats. They were definitely trying to kill it though.

There's also their mobbing behaviour, often interspecies and usually led by by Crows - I often see them chasing off Kites and on one occasion, around 20 Jackdaws, Magpies and Crows mobbing a cat who had taken one of their number (this was extremely noisy!).

Not exactly pack hunting behaviour in the way of a wolf hunt, but definitely social and cooperative. I believe crocodiles and Komodos "gang up" together at times too, perhaps this is how the therapods brought down larger prey?

[andrewsaurus rex]

very interesting stuff....yeah, it dawned on me last night that if the Triceratops that survived was attacked by 2 or more T. rex then it must have fought them all off somehow, which would be quite a feat, in my view, so that could well indicate that, at least in this case, it was attacked by a solitary T. rex.  Is there any sense as to how large the Triceratops was?  Was it adult? sub-adult?  And i thought evidence of social behaviour had been found in Albertosaurus?

My spider sense is still that T. rex, like all predators, would be wary attacking large prey.  Bone crushing jaws or not, if it's injured, it's probably toast.  But I saw a video of a starving polar bear attacking a beach full of adult walrus.  It was desperately trying to get to one of the calves.  The video went on for some time and eventually the polar bear was gored by a male's tusk and died within a couple of days.   So, there were no doubt occasions when a solitary T. rex may have attacked an adult Triceratops, but I just feel it was probably quite uncommon.  Now if the adult Triceratops was ill or obviously old, that could change the equation again.  I've also seen a video of 2 wolves take down a MASSIVE male Bison because the Bison was ill and could not put up much of a fight.

A previous poster mentioned that there has been evidence of Torosaurus encounters with T. rex.  While this seems perfectly likely, I have yet to find the barest mention of it, so if someone can post some info or links I would really appreciate it.

[crazy8wizard]

A previous poster mentioned that there has been evidence of Torosaurus encounters with T. rex.  While this seems perfectly likely, I have yet to find the barest mention of it, so if someone can post some info or links I would really appreciate it.

That was me. A specimen of Torosaurus from the Tate Geological Museum (albeit undescribed for now but at least two different researchers are publishing about it currently, and it's publicly displayed) TATE V 3145 aka Nicole has a partially healed wound at the lower margin of the squamosal that very closely matches the front row of teeth on a Tyrannosaurus and the tips of which fit perfectly into the openings. We know it isn't a scavenging attempt or something after death because the edges are healing.

[Bread]

Jack Horner moment?  Don't understand the reference.

My apologies, I really am sorry.

I assumed you were pushing the idea that Tyrannosaurus is a scavenger, which is a theory Jack Horner was pushing for the longest time.

[Cretaceous Crab]

I doubt a single tyrant would confront a herd of trikes. But a full-grown adult could feasibly tackle a single Triceratops.

Three points to be made:
1. Trike doesn't necessarily have to kill the rex. It just has to survive without serious injury.

2. The rex has a more challenging goal. Not only survive the attack without sustaining a serious injury itself, it has to at least inflict a mortal wound, to guarantee an eventual meal.

3. Another factor to consider is: personality. A more experienced or cautious rex may avoid a risky endeavor and wait for less risky opportunities, while a more rash individual may take the risk for the reward. Likewise, a particularly feisty trike may be too aggressive for even the largest rex to try and land a bite to the haunches. But a more timid trike may be more incline to turn tail and run, exposing its hind end for a rex bite.

Oh, if only we could take a hop back in time to witness one of these scenarios play out.

[Carnoking]

T. rex doesn't always have to be the aggressor 

[Carnoking]

Excited for this project. Sounds like it's got a lot behind it!