A T-Rex Named Sue is the Focus of Dinosaur 13 Coming to CNN

CNN Films and Lionsgate have picked up the North American rights to the documentary Dinosaur 13 premiering at Sundance Film Festival. Directed by Todd Miller (Gahanna Bill, Scaring the Fish), Dinosaur 13 is the story of South Dakota’s Black Hills Institute of Geological Research paleontologist Peter Larson’s discovering of an almost intact 65 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus Rex that was ultimately named Sue.
 
“As CNN Films passes the milestone of its first year, returning to Sundance underscores the strength of our commitment to bringing high quality documentary features to our platforms,” said Jeff Zucker, president of CNN Worldwide. “Our acquisition of Dinosaur 13 is a great way for us to kick off the Festival this year, and we think our audience is going to love learning the incredible story of Sue.”
 
Lionsgate will released the film theatrically. CNN has the rights to the North American broadcast premiere.
 
“It’s a great honor to be partnered with CNN Films and Lionsgate,” said director Todd Miller. “Dinosaur Sue now has another incredible home!”
 
The Plot:
 
Two years after Larson’s team made the world’s greatest dinosaur discovery – the National Guard and FBI showed up. Larson and his team spent a decade engaged in an epic “David and Goliath” battle, defending their rights to the discovery – and, at times fighting for their own freedom – battling competing paleontologists, Native American tribal nations, and museums.
 

 
Source: CNN/Lionsgate
 
-Posted by Rebecca Murray

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