JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION Director Colin Trevorrow Sets A Course For ATLANTIS

JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION Director Colin Trevorrow Sets A Course For ATLANTIS

Universal Pictures has enlisted Jurassic World: Dominion director Colin Trevorrow to helm a new sci-fi/fantasy adventure based around the mythical city of Atlantis. More details after the jump...

By MarkCassidy - Jun 22, 2020 08:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Sci-Fi

Universal Pictures is set to re-team with Jurassic World: Dominion director Colin Trevorrow for a trip to the mythical city of Atlantis.

According to Deadline, Trevorrow has already committed to helm the project and will also produce through his Metronome Film Co. Described as a thriller, the film will take a slightly different approach to the well-known legend of the lost city.

"Unlike previous incarnations of the mythical city as an underwater kingdom, Trevorrow’s Atlantis is set on a lost continent in the Indian Ocean between Africa, India and Oceania. It is a multicultural civilization with its own advanced technology."

Not many details are known beyond that, but the script will be written by Dante Harper, who worked on the likes of Edge Of Tomorrow, Alien: Covenant and Rogue One. The original story was conceived by Trevorrow and Matt Charman (Bridge Of Spies).

Trevorrow and his crew are expected to resume production on the next Jurassic World movie In The UK soon, so it'll probably be a while before he turns his attention to Atlantis. We'll keep you guys updated on that front, but in the meantime let us know if you like the sound of this one in the comments down below.

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DannRamm113
DannRamm113 - 6/22/2020, 8:35 PM
Didn't this guy make one bad movie that got him fired from star wars?

Kinda funny how this guys career has survived since, as he's still making huge budget blockbusters
NewAtrocitus3
NewAtrocitus3 - 6/23/2020, 12:51 AM
@DannRamm113 - Also because he was a diva during Book of Henry's production just because his first blcokbuster had reach $1billion.
FrankieDedo
FrankieDedo - 6/23/2020, 3:42 AM
@DannRamm113 - Or maybe, just maybe, they thought his ideas were too low-key for the grand finale (imho they were) with no regards to his movies that made them earn big money.

Jurassic world movies: 3 billions total
SW VIII + IX: 2.3 billions total
SW VII: 2 billions

Sadly, they gave both direction AND ESPECIALLY writing to JJ and while it was more thematically connected to VII, it sucked even worse than Trevorrow's version (at least, from what we saw from leaked content)

From a manager/executive board point of view, their choices made and still make sense.

Also, i think that Jurassic World's results are even more notable, since its franchise wasn't profitable as Star Wars. If it was me, i'll try again to put Trevorrow as director to a SW movie, but he won't likely accept (unless different creative freedom arrangements are set)
FrankieDedo
FrankieDedo - 6/23/2020, 3:44 AM
@DannRamm113 - Also, if the viewers' response was the reason for its "firing" from Lucasfilm, Jurassic World is Universal/Legendary, so maybe they didn't care that much about the response, while caring a lot about the billions he made them earn with two movies :D
inkniron
inkniron - 6/23/2020, 1:21 AM
@THEDARKKNIGHT1939 - That artwork is so horribly out of proportion that it's more hilarious than sad. Check out those itty bitty thighs in comparison to everything else. It makes those calves look like the equivalent of Popeye's forearms.
Reasonnnn
Reasonnnn - 6/22/2020, 8:37 PM
So it's not a Namor film
EnergyVamp
EnergyVamp - 6/22/2020, 8:44 PM
So a Jurassic Wakanda named Atlantis...A secret society with advanced tech for dinosaurs? lmao.
This franchise started off grounded in reality but has gone off the rails.
DioFurrrio
DioFurrrio - 6/22/2020, 8:54 PM
@JH24 - Pretty sure they're talking about his next project not tied to the JP franchise BUT you may be onto something.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 6/22/2020, 9:03 PM
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 6/22/2020, 9:08 PM
@BlackBeltJones - I'm sorry Prince, that's exclusionary and xenophobic language. You are CANCELLED.
GhostDog
GhostDog - 6/23/2020, 4:15 AM
@Feralwookiee - Namor wouldn’t make it 5 minutes today haha
jarcastanon
jarcastanon - 6/22/2020, 9:27 PM
I'd rather watch a live action Atlantis from Disney, that's a remake the people is asking for.
globaltravels
globaltravels - 6/22/2020, 11:26 PM
Just set it more than 11500 years ago in North Africa when the Sahara desert was all jungle and rivers and lakes and make Atlantis be a city built on top of the Richart structure at the base of the Atlas Mountains.... you know, like where it probably really was located.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2020, 12:03 AM
@globaltravels - I don't know where you got that from, but you might want to send it back.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/23/2020, 2:05 AM
@Spock0Clock - he's talkimg about the eye of the sahara. And to be honest, that theory actually sounds plausible
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2020, 3:00 AM
@MalseMarcel - You know what, I'm too tired to try to grab peoples' ankles when they want to bury their heads in the rabbitholes of some YouTube video they saw once.

If (after substantial study of Classical and Bronze Age [pre]history) you want to believe the most outlandish interpretation of a heavily mythologized account by Plato (after also reading large quantities of Plato to get a grounding for how literal his stories are to be taken) and try to tie it to a geological formation with (as far as I can tell) no material evidence or reasonable geographical logic to suggest the large scale habitation required for the world-conquering armies depicted in the stories, then... you do that.

But if there's any truth to any of it, I'd put money on Plato receiving a thousand-year-old garbled cultural memory (and exaggeration of) the Minoans or the Nugaric Sardinians or something. Interesting and potentially valuable cultural record sure, but (like the Iliad) just another pre-Hellenic dust-up that got blown out of proportion in the process of myth-making.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2020, 3:04 AM
So, it turns out (to nobody's surprise) spellcheck doesn't do great with *Nuragic*. And I will never, ever, stop misspelling it.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/23/2020, 3:27 AM
@Spock0Clock - I can agree to that. Just like the stories of Er and Gyges, Atlantis is mostly likely just a metaphor or allegory and nothing more. Still, it's fun to speculate in my opinion
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2020, 12:00 AM
Lemuria gets no goddamn respect.



Lemuria was a dumb idea, but if you're going to do a sunken continent story right where Lemuria was hypothesized, why would you just randomly name it after a story about a location where it definitely isn't?
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 6/23/2020, 12:18 AM
...Atlantis may have the established brand, but that just means Trevorrow is competing with all of these other versions of Atlantis in the culture. Nobody has staked out the brand name of Lemuria. Think of the merchandising potential! Not to mention, Lemuria basically means "Monkey Island", and those are some pretty solid games.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/23/2020, 2:20 AM
@Spock0Clock - wanted to say exactly that. If done right, Lemuria can become very popular too
adamcawa
adamcawa - 6/23/2020, 5:55 AM
@Spock0Clock - well Lemuria was scientifically disproved to exist, whereas Atlantis hasn't technically been yet
2013venjix
2013venjix - 6/24/2020, 7:02 AM
@adamcawa - So, technically we don't know where Atlantis is located, right?
coderaven
coderaven - 6/23/2020, 7:59 AM
Would of preferred it to be off the coast of south west Spain like most current historians now believe it was.

No need for history though, that would hurt the multicultural narrative instead of just making them ancient Spaniards.

Going with Lemuria would be a much better approach and would allow for the multicultural narrative a bit more.
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