Jurassic World 2: Colin Trevorrow spills plot details for the forthcoming sequel.
Jurassic World 2 will arrive in 2018
Filmmaker Colin Trevorrow has been talking about the planned sequel to the year’s biggest hit Jurassic World. Trevorrow sadly won’t return to direct Jurassic World 2, as it is being referred to at the moment (he’s off to direct the third Star Wars sequel for Disney/ Lucasfilm), but is scripting along with Derek Trevorrow.
“We looked at it as a trilogy from the very beginning,” he told the the Jurassic Cast podcast. “We designed the whole thing that way. And, honestly, the whole trilogy is articulated in Jurassic Park. Jurassic World is all based on Ian Malcom’s quote: ‘you stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could and before you knew what you had, you’d packaged it and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox and now you want to sell it.’ That, to me, is Jurassic World. That’s why I had all the product placement, that’s what it was. So with Jurassic World 2 it’s: “dinosaurs and man separated by 65 million years of evolution have been thrown back into the mix together – how can we know what to expect?’. That’s not the exact quote, but you get the idea.”
“And that’s why its exciting the movie did well”, he continued. “I had a beginning, a middle and an end and it was designed this way. So now we get to play that out.”
So, what about the sequel. Trevorrow continued. “It’ll be a different kind of film,” he says. “And the audience has given us kind of permission to take this to the next level. And I don’t mean in scale. I feel very strongly that this is not ‘more dinosaurs’ or ‘bigger dinosaurs’, it’s about using this as a starting point to discover our relationship with these animals and with animals in general, and the dynamic that was created by bringing them back to life.”
“We made [Jurassic World] with the fans very much in mind,” he continues. “And I’m not going to forget that, but we’ve seen a lot of ‘dinosaurs chasing people around on an island’ movies. And I think you guys and the general audience are going to be down to explore where else we can go. Owen is going to be in it, Claire is in it and neither are going to be in the same place we left them in the first movie. And even though Claire is the one who evolves the most over the trilogy, it’s her story that mirrors this changing world. Owen has shit to deal with. They’ve both opened Pandora’s Box in Jurassic World and both of them are responsible for different elements of it. And I think the way these characters are connected to these circumstances of what’s happening, it’s different than previous films. It’s not ‘let’s manufacture a way to get them somewhere’, they’re embedded into it now in a way that us storytellers are able to keep them involved without it feeling contrived.”
Jurassic World has taken over $1.6 billion at the worldwide box-office, sending Universal’s stock through the roof. A sequel was always going to happen, and it looks like we’ll be expecting something very different come 2018 when Jurassic World 2 is released.
