Well this should hold us off until “Stranger Things” comes back.
Nostalgia is all the rage in the entertainment industry right now, particularly 1980s nostalgia. Those who grew up in the ’80s are now at an age where they’re fondly looking back on all the awesome movies, shows, and toys we had back then, and countless new movies have come along and attempted to tap into those feels. My Pet Dinosaur, well, it’s doing the trick for me so far.
Directed by the Emmy-nominated Matt Drummond (Dinosaur Island), this year’s My Pet Dinosaur just got its first trailer courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, and it damn sure evokes the feeling of an ’80s Amblin film. It’s got kids riding bicycles, evil government agents, and of course, a creature not of this world that those kids are trying to protect from those government agents, suggesting that Drummond is a big fan of E.T. and films of that sort. Really, who isn’t?
My Pet Dinosaur is set in a town where a military experiment gone wrong results in some unexpected consequences…
Against that backdrop, a young boy discovers and befriends a dinosaur, even as a military leader seeks to kill it.
Jordan Dulieu, Annabel Wolfe, Christopher Gabardi and Tiriel Mora star.
The film will premiere at next month’s European Film Market.
