Life found a way in 2015;
Jurassic World was a billion dollar hit at the box office and while it broke some new ground for the franchise, some have wondered how the sequel -
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom - plans to move past the series trope of being stuck on an island with dinosaurs.
The film's first trailer certainly made it appear like it was more of the same, specifically in regards to the first
Jurassic Park sequel,
The Lost World. In an interview with
Sebas Tebany,
Fallen Kingdom writer
Colin Trevorrow (who directed
Jurassic World) elaborated on how the sequel goes beyond the surface level comparison.
“To me it’s about greed. The first film is about how if there’s money on the table, there will be somebody who will do the worst imaginable things, or in a lot of case, the dumbest imaginable thing in order to get that money. This film focuses a little bit more on our responsibility for these animals that we’ve made as a result of that greed, but also just the darkest and worst instincts of humans, again, if there’s money involved.”
“It looks like it is [similar] because they all go to a fog-covered, scary island with dinosaurs on it, but it goes to a very, very different place than anyone expects," he continued.
"Really the heart and soul of the movie, the turn of the story, is not what we’ve shown in this trailer. It’s very much not like The Lost World."
Trevorrow also explained that the new series was designed with a bigger story in mind, and that each film will leave the audience with an idea of where the sequel will go, though it won't necessarily leave them hanging.
“At the end of this movie, it’s not a cliffhanger, but it’s designed for people to want to know what’s going to happen next, whereas the earlier Jurassic Park movies had pretty clear definitive endings. They were much more episodic. In working with Derek Connolly, my co-writer, we were also thinking about where it was gonna go in the future.”
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom roars into theatres on
June 22, 2018.
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