FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 17, 2024
The GOAT roars to life at Cincinnati Museum Center's OMNIMAX® Theater
The Greatest Of All Tyrants thunders onto screen in T. REX, showcasing thrilling story of fossil discovery by three young boys; opens Oct. 25
CINCINNATI – For over a hundred years, dinosaurs have inspired and thrilled audiences, commanding blockbuster status in museums and movie theaters. But one dinosaur towers among them all as a king – a tyrant lizard king. With leaps in graphics technology and revelations in tyrannosaur paleontology, T. REX revisits the GOAT in a captivating science adventure. T. REX brings the Greatest Of All Tyrants to Cincinnati Museum Center’s OMNIMAX® Theater starting Friday, October 25.
T. REX is a love letter to the iconic dinosaur, anchored by the true story of three young fossil hunters who made the discovery of a lifetime – and every child’s dream. On a walk one day on public lands in North Dakota in 2023, the three boys spotted a large, fossilized leg bone peeking out of the ground. T. REX intercuts the remarkable fossil dig with cutting edge graphics that bring prehistory’s most famous dinosaur to life – from hatchling to hulking adult. Narrated by Jurassic Park actor and 90s childhood idol Sam Neill, T. REX explores the newest science that has helped reinvent our understanding of the iconic predator.
While Sam Neill merely (but memorably) played a paleontologist in film, CMC’s real life paleontologist Glenn Storrs, Ph.D., makes an appearance in the film, along with cameos from the museum’s Dinosaur Hall and Paleo Lab, in a special cut exclusively screening in CMC’s OMNIMAX® Theater.
“Dinosaurs have become synonymous with museums, often forming both anchors and entry points to scientific discovery and possibilities for children,” said Dave Duszynski, vice president of featured experiences at Cincinnati Museum Center. “That’s true here at Cincinnati Museum Center as well, so it’s thrilling to be able to have a cameo in an incredible film like T. REX that blends those two worlds together so beautifully – children making groundbreaking scientific discoveries through dinosaurs.”
Starring alongside the T. rex in the film are a cast of prehistoric characters including its archrival Triceratops; Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest animals ever to take flight; and the 25-foot-long Sinraptor, a species that likely fed on young tyrannosaurs. Hat tips to famous specimens, landmark discoveries and wild cinematic T. rex depictions over the last century help bring the film to life.
“We never could have planned the inspiring story that unfolded in front of the cameras,” said producer and writer Andy Wood. “Kids finding any large dinosaur is remarkable, but as the shoot progressed, the team realized that we were witnessing something even more rare – a truly historic T. rex discovery. This is the kind of story that documentary filmmakers dream of capturing.”
T. REX pairs the thrilling discovery by the young boys at Hell Creek with top tyrannosaur experts, a coalition of natural history institutions and pioneering paleontology and visual effects artists in the most dazzling and accurate T. rex film ever made.
“This is more than just a documentary – it’s a chance for families to experience the thrill of discovery through the eyes of these young explorers in a format that makes you feel like you’re right there with them,” said co-director/writer David Clark.
T. REX opens in CMC’s Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater on Friday, October 25.
T. REX is produced by Giant Screen Films and D3D Cinema, in partnership with the Field Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Houston Museum of Natural Science and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, in association with Cincinnati Museum Center, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Museums Victoria and New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science. The T. rex fossil featured in the film was collected on land under the jurisdiction of the US Bureau of Land Management, permit ND2023-00084.
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Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC) at Union Terminal is a nationally recognized, award-winning institution housed in a National Historic Landmark. CMC is a vital community resource that sparks curiosity, inspiration, epiphany and dialogue. CMC was awarded the 2009 National Medal for Museum and Library Service from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and received accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums in 2012, one of a select few museums in the nation to receive both honors. Organizations within CMC include the Cincinnati History Museum, Museum of Natural History & Science, The Children’s Museum, Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX® Theater, Cincinnati History Library and Archives and the Geier Collections and Research Center. Housed in historic Union Terminal – a National Historic Landmark restored in 2018 and recognized as the nation’s 45th most important building by the American Institute of Architects – CMC welcomes more than 1.8 million visits annually, making it one of the most visited museums in the country. For more information, visit cincymuseum.org.
