Fan CastingThe Land Before Time 2025

The Land Before Time is a 2025 American musical fantasy film directed (and co-produced) by Jon Favreau and co-produced by Rob Marshall from a screenplay by David Magee. Produced by Illumination and Legendary Entertainment Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures, the film stars the voices of Jacob Tremblay, Ever Anderson, Awkwafina and Alexander Molony with narration provided by David Attenborough. It is a live action remake of the 1988 animated film of the same name. The film features dinosaurs living at the end of the Cretaceous. The plot features a young Alamosaurus named Littlefoot, who ends up alone after his mother is attacked by a vicious carnivore and dies (Tyrannosaurus). Littlefoot flees famine and upheaval to search for the Great Valley, an area spared from devastation, where the adult dinosaurs have moved on to. On his journey, he meets five young companions: Cera, a Triceratops, Ducky, an Edmontosaurus, Petrie, a Tethydraco, Chomper, a Tyrannosaurus rex, and Spike, an Ankylosaurus. The film explores issues of prejudice between the different species and the hardships they endure in their journey as they are guided by the spirit of Littlefoot's mother and forced to deal with a "sharptooth" (Tyrannosaurus). The film was released by Universal on October 17, 2025, to generally positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, grossing $791.7 million.