The Dino King

Speckles the Tarbosaurus
The Dino King
Directed by Han Sang-Ho
Produced by Kim Won-Bum, Song Rak-Hyun, Kim Hyun-Chul, Choi Oh-Shin
Written by Han Sang-Ho, Lee Yong-Gyu
Cinematography Kim Byoung-Il
Distributed by CJ Entertainment
Release dates
 January 26, 2012
Running time
 90 minutes
Budget ₩7 billion

The Dino King is the United States title for the 3D Korean computer-generated film Speckles the Tarbosaurus (점박이: 한반도의 공룡 3D: Jumbagi: Hanbandoui gongryong 3D), first released in Korea in January 2012.

One-Eye, a fictional Tyrannosaurus,
is the villain of the film.

Plot

80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, a young Tarbosaurus named Speckles, for his unique birthmark, lives and hunts with his older juvenile siblings and his mother. Speckles is left alone after a rogue, scarfaced Tyrannosaurus rex named "One-Eye" causes a stampede which kills Speckles family in order to usurp their territory.

4 years later, Speckles has barely survived on his own by scavenging and raiding nests. One day while attempting to steal meat from One-Eye, Speckles encounters a female Tarbosaurus named "Blue-Eyes" and the pair learn to hunt and survive together.

Over the years, Speckles and Blue-Eyes attempt to maintain a hunting territory away from One-Eye. Eventually, however, One-Eye discovers their hunting grounds and again attempts to usurp their territory. Speckles fights and eventually defeats his old nemesis.

After defeating One-Eye, Speckles and Blue-Eyes reclaims Speckle's family's old nest and hunting grounds. Now a mature adult pair with young, the family is happy until forced to flee from their territory by a volcanic eruption. Speckles becomes the de-facto alpha of a large migratory herd of dinosaurs fleeing the natural disaster. During the arduous journey one of the children dies and Blue-Eyes is badly wounded. Seeing this, a pack of Velociraptors attacks the Tarbosaurus family, and though Speckles bravely tries to hold them off, Blue-Eyes dies from her wound and Speckles is forced to leave her body to the Velociraptors in order to save the two remaining children.

Eventually the herd arrives at a new, fertile area in which to settle. However, Speckles once again encounters One-Eye who had been driven out by the same natural disaster. As before, One-Eye causes the herbivores to stampede in order to ambush the Tarbosauruses. One of the children is killed and the last, Speckles Jr. who shares his father's birth mark, is pushed over a cliff into the ocean. Speckles dives into the sea to save his last surviving child, pursued by One-Eye. One Eye is eaten by a Tylosaurus and Speckles reaches Speckles Jr. and returns him safely to shore.

In the closing monologue, Speckles wishes a peaceful, happy life for him and his son.

Voice of Speckles, the narrator

English

Production

In 2008 the Korean TV channel Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) released a three-part CGI prehistoric life documentary dealing with cretaceous dinosaurs in Korea: Koreanosaurus (한반도의 공룡, Hanbandoui gongryong: Dinosaurs in the Korean Peninsula, not to be confused with the dinosaur genus Koreanosaurus). The documentary achieved much success among Korean audiences and the production team of Koreanosaurus launched the production of Speckles the Tarbosaurus. Meanwhile, in 2009, the American 3D science-fiction film Avatar was released and its popularity inspired the creators of Speckles the Tarbosaurus to apply the technology to the film project.[1] Location footage was filmed in New Zealand.[1]

Dinosaurs and other animals in the film

Titles by Country

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Dino King 3D / Speckles the Tarbosaurus in Scifi Japan, an Asian science-fiction films specialized website

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