The new trailer for Apple TV+’s five-night natural history event series, Prehistoric Planet, features a dinosaur narrator Sir David Attenborough describes as magnificent, monstrous, and misunderstood – the Tyrannosaurus Rex. In the two-minute trailer Sir Attenborough promises the series will take viewers on a story we’ve never heard on a scale we’ve never witnessed.
The new trailer features two new species of tyrannosaur: Qianzhousaurus and Nanuqsaurus. The trailer also features what Apple TV+ says is a more accurate version of Velociraptors. Contrary to popular opinion, these lethal dinos were closer in size to a big turkey than the large creature previously depicted.
Prehistoric Planet will air over a one-week period, beginning on Monday, May 23, 2022 and concluding on Friday, May 27.
Jon Favreau, Mike Gunton, and BBC Studios Natural History Unit (Planet Earth) executive produced and Oscar winner Hans Zimmer, Anze Rozman, and Kara Talve for Bleeding Fingers Music composed the score.
Apple TV+ offered the following description of the event series:
The highly-anticipated nature docuseries Prehistoric Planet will transport viewers over 66 million years in the past to discover our world – and the dinosaurs that roamed it. Prehistoric Planet features real-life footage taken from icy mountains, dense forests, arid deserts, freshwater regions, and expansive coastlines all over the world to bring audiences to uncharted territory, up close with new species of dinosaurs.
Rolling out with one new episode per day, the series combines award-winning wildlife filmmaking, the latest paleontology learnings and state-of-the-art technology to unveil the spectacular habitats and inhabitants of ancient Earth for a one-of-a-kind immersive experience. Prehistoric Planet presents little-known and surprising facts of dinosaur life set against the backdrop of the environments of Cretaceous times, including coasts, deserts, freshwater, ice worlds and forests. From revealing eye-opening parenting techniques of Tyrannosaurus rex to exploring the mysterious depths of the oceans and the deadly dangers in the sky, Prehistoric Planet brings Earth’s history to life like never before.
