The Land After Time (2009)

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The Land After Time (titled onscreen as The Land After Time: The Human and the Dino Herd) is a 2017 epic adventure drama film directed and produced by Peter Ryan from a screenplay by Ryan and Mark Sharron that is a reboot of The Land Before Time franchise.
After a decline in sales with The Land Before Time direct-to-video sequels and with Jurassic World getting back into development in 2013, Universal Pictures eventually greenlit the reboot in 2014, with Ryan and Sharron’s production company, Great Valley Pictures, making the film, with the help of Amblin Entertainment, the company that helped with the Bluth’s 1988 original. Filming occurred from March to July 2016 at locations including New Mexico, Hawaii, New Zealand, and Abu Dhabi. Some scenes were shot on soundstages at Universal Studios.
The film first premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on May 5, 2017. The film received generally mixed to mostly positive reviews from critics, with praise for the visual effects, cinematography, worldbuilding, live and vocal performances, character development, and Newton Howard's musical score, but criticism for its screenplay. The film was a sleeper box office success, grossing $577 million worldwide against its $80-$100 million budget.
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* John Sharron as Roland Bluth, a 14-year-old teenage boy who spends his life for 4 years traveling across the Post-Historic Earth, hoping to find the last of human civilization since he was a survivor of the Goliath Impact of 2026 after waking up from a hypersleep in a pod at the age of 10.
* Scott Damon as Littlefoot, a brown male Apatosaurus, or "Long Neck" who after his mother’s death protects him from a Sharptooth, travels through the harsh wilderness along with Roland and several other young dinosaurs along the way who would become his best friends, to find The Great Valley.
* Anndi McAfee as Cera, an orange female Triceratops or "Three Horns" who was separated from her parents and sisters during an earthquake and reluctantly joins the group despite her stubborn attitude butting heads with Littlefoot.
* Aria Noelle Curzon as Ducky, a green female Saurolophus or colloquially as a "Big Mouth", "Duck Bill" or "Swimmer" who is Littlefoot and Roland's first friend they made on their journey and who later would adopted Spike as his foster younger brother.
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** Petrie, a male brown Pteranodon, or "Flyer" who travels with Littlefoot to find his mother and siblings in the Great Valley while learning the basics of flight along the way.
** Spike, a male green Stegosaurus or "Spiketail"
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The film’s development began in 2012 when Peter Ryan and his friend Mark Sharron wanted to do a film that was loosely based on Don Bluth’s 1988 animated film, The Land Before Time and began writing their script under the working title, The Land Before Time: Lands After Time. In August 2013, Ryan and Sharron founded their small production company called Great Valley Pictures, to not only make their film, but to also, as Ryan said in an interview with Collider, “maybe develop future Land Before Time content depending on the film’s success”.
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Category:Adventure-drama
Category:Universal Pictures distributed films
Category:The Land Before Time characters