Netflix has released the trailer for upcoming documentary series The Dinosaurs, with executive producer Steven Spielberg – and right from the first few seconds, we can tell it’s going to show us plenty of action.
Voiced by Morgan Freeman, the four-episode limited series will feature a plethora of prehistoric creatures in stunning CGI, including early ancestors like Marasuchus, along with giants including Plateosaurus and Mamenchisaurus, and of course favourites like the Tyrannosaurus rex. The series also features marine and feathered species, such as Pliosaurus, Anchiornis, and Longipteryx.
Here’s the official description:
Welcome to The Dinosaurs — an epic journey into a lost world. From Amblin Documentaries and the award-winning team behind Life on Our Planet, this groundbreaking documentary series follows the rise and fall of the dinosaurs across hundreds of millions of years.
The below trailer gives us just a glimpse of what’s on offer, but it seems like from that glimpse, it’s going to cover absolutely everything! Check it out:
Showrunners for The Dinosaurs are Dan Tapster, Keith Scholey, and Alastair Fothergill. Nick Shoolingin-Jordan is named as the director, with Spielberg serving as executive producer, and music composed by Lorne Balfe.
Now, I’ve gotten to the empathic evolution stage of me where I struggle to hear about any sort of animal cruelty on the news, or get through most nature documentaries without crying/having to switch the channel. It’s even true that I find dinosaurs dying on Jurassic World to be a hard watch (oh, and don’t even get me started on House of the Dragon!).
Sure, the dinosaurs aren’t going to be real in this documentary, and it looks super cool, but getting a glimpse of the extinction event that ended everything has me questioning if I can watch it (spoiler: as a dinosaur fan, I probably will).
Anyway, you too can cry over dinosaurs when The Dinosaurs is released on Netflix next month – 6th March, to be precise!
What do you think of the trailer for The Dinosaurs – will you be watching? Comment below to have your say.
