Dinosaur

Dinosaur (2000)

Timing: 1:22 (82 min)

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Release date

2000-05-19

Country

United States

Production

Walt Disney Pictures, Walt Disney Feature Animation, The Secret Lab

Genre

Family, Animation, Adventure, Drama

Budget

$127 500 000

Revenue

$354 248 063

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Director

Ralph Zondag, Eric Leighton

Actors

D.B. Sweeney, Alfre Woodard, Ossie Davis, Max Casella, Hayden Panettiere, Samuel E. Wright, Julianna Margulies, Peter Siragusa, Joan Plowright, Della Reese
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Pam Marsden

Operator

Steven Douglas Smith

Composer

James Newton Howard

Artist

Audition

Ruth Lambert, Mary Hidalgo

Editing

H. Lee Peterson, Pam Marsden
All team (48)

• The coastline over which a pteranodon flies with an egg resembles the landscape of modern Australia.
• Initially, it was assumed that the film would not have any dialogue at all, however, the head of Disney, Michael Eisner, insisted on including it in the script.
• The backdrop of the film consisted of photographs of exotic locations in Venezuela, Tahiti, and Hawaii superimposed onto the image in the frame.
• Directors Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag initially intended to make the Tyrannosaurus Rex the main antagonist, however, due to the release of Steven Spielberg's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' in 1997, they changed it to a Carnotaurus, but the Carnotaurus was made larger than it actually was.
• A plot hole that some pointed out concerned a herd of dinosaurs that produced offspring, but for some reason did not remain in the area after the birth of the young. The reason was that severe cold set in during the winter period, and the land was barren, forcing the herd to leave.
• Originally, the film was intended to open with a meteor traveling through space, but this idea was abandoned after it was used in Michael Bay's adventure film *Armageddon* (1998).
• An Oviraptor steals a surviving egg from Aladar. According to modern research, Oviraptors, contrary to their name (literally “egg thieves”), did not steal eggs from other nests.
• Initially, directors Eric Leighton and Ralph Zondag intended to make a Tyrannosaurus Rex the main antagonist, however, due to the release of Steven Spielberg's 'The Lost World: Jurassic Park' in 1997, they switched to a Carnotaurus, but the Carnotaurus was made larger than they actually were.
• Initially, the film was to open with a shot of a meteor moving through space, but this idea was abandoned when it was used in Michael Bay's adventure film "Armageddon" (1998).