{"id":10932,"date":"2011-09-25T13:47:56","date_gmt":"2011-09-25T02:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=10932"},"modified":"2011-09-25T13:48:56","modified_gmt":"2011-09-25T02:48:56","slug":"the-dinosaur-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/25\/the-dinosaur-project\/","title":{"rendered":"News: The Dinosaur Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billed as &#8220;the most exciting dinosaur action movie since <em>Jurassic Park<\/em>!&#8221;, <em>The Dinosaur Project<\/em> is a UK CGI-driven &#8220;lost world&#8221;-type adventure thriller. It&#8217;s directed by Sid Bennett, whose resum\u00e9 includes the semi-fictional\u00a0prehistoric TV documentary series, <em>Prehistoric Park<\/em> (2006) &#8212; in particular the episodes &#8220;Saving the Sabre Tooth&#8221; and &#8220;Dino-Birds&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_17.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10937 aligncenter\" title=\"main_17\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_17.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_17.png 905w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_17-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Filmed in the &#8220;camera verit\u00e9&#8221; style made famous (in more recent times anyway) by <em>The Blair Witch Project<\/em> (1998), <em>Paranormal Activity<\/em> (2007), <em>Cloverfield<\/em> (2008), <em>The Zombie Dairies<\/em> (2006) and <em>The Troll Hunter<\/em> (2010) &#8212; to name but a few &#8212; <em>The Dinosaur Project<\/em> follows the fortunes of a film crew traveling deep in the Congo, who discover that assorted 65-million-year-old dinosaur species are alive, thriving and generally predatory, as is their wont.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_12.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10935\" title=\"main_12\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_12.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_12.png 905w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_12-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Below is a dead one, caught at ground-level by a dropped camera.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Dead-dino.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10933\" title=\"Dead-dino\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Dead-dino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Dead-dino.jpg 420w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Dead-dino-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film stars\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm3307588\/\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Loring<\/a> (pictured below), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0111730\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Brooke<\/a> (<em>Spooks<\/em>, <em>Doctor Who<\/em>, <em>The Wild West<\/em>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1753038\/\">Matt Kane<\/a> (<em>The Cut<\/em>). It is produced by Moonlighting Films and will be distributed through StudioCanal, with digital SFX by BAFTA award-winning effects house Jellyfish Pictures, who got some dino practice in via the TV movie <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0433367\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Last Dragon<\/a> (2004) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0486160\/\" target=\"_blank\">T-Rex: A Dinosaur in Hollywood<\/a> (2005).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/natasha-loring.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10939 aligncenter\" title=\"natasha-loring\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/natasha-loring.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"410\" height=\"594\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/natasha-loring.jpg 631w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/natasha-loring-207x300.jpg 207w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Going on the dinosaurs featured in some of the production shots the Backbrain acquired, all dino lovers out there are in for a treat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_18.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10938 aligncenter\" title=\"main_18\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_18.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_18.png 905w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_18-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_14.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10936\" title=\"main_14\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_14.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"905\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_14.png 905w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/main_14-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 905px) 100vw, 905px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film is currently in post-production for release in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lineup_829_dino.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10934 aligncenter\" title=\"lineup_829_dino\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lineup_829_dino.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"290\" height=\"436\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lineup_829_dino.jpg 290w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/lineup_829_dino-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: via Avery Guerra; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.studiocanal.com\/en\/international-sales\/line-up\/in-postproduction\" target=\"_blank\">StudioCanal<\/a>; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1907779\/\" target=\"_blank\">IMDb<\/a>. Written by Robert Hood.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billed as &#8220;the most exciting dinosaur action movie since Jurassic Park!&#8221;, The Dinosaur Project is a UK CGI-driven &#8220;lost world&#8221;-type adventure thriller. It&#8217;s directed by Sid Bennett, whose resum\u00e9 includes the semi-fictional\u00a0prehistoric TV documentary series, Prehistoric Park (2006) &#8212; in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2011\/09\/25\/the-dinosaur-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48,126,4,44,104,3],"tags":[759,760,762,761],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10932"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10941,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10932\/revisions\/10941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}