It looks like we won’t have to wait very long for plot clues to the inevitable third installment in the Jurassic World franchise. In an interview with YouTuber Sebas Tabany, Colin Trevorrow — director of Jurassic World and writer/producer of the upcoming Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom — stresses the importance of having a plan, and giving fans a glimpse at what’s next for the franchise:
“I knew where I wanted it to go. I remember telling Steven Spielberg even while we were making the first movie, ‘This is the beginning. Here is the middle. And here’s the end of the end. And this is where we want to go.’ I feel like that kind of design is crucial to a franchise like this if you really want to bring people along with you and make sure they stay interested. It needs to be thought through on that level. It can’t be arbitrary, especially if we want to turn this into a character-based franchise with people who you lean in to follow what they’re going to do. 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. So in working with Derek Connolly, my co-writer, as we designed this film, we were also thinking about where it was gonna go in the future.”
It’s very unlikely that Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will make anything less than boat-load of money in its opening weekend. There simply isn’t enough dinosaurs on-screen these days; we have to take what we can get, after all!
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It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.
When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.
With all of the wonder, adventure and thrills synonymous with one of the most popular and successful series in cinema history, this all-new motion-picture event sees the return of favoritecharacters and dinosaurs—along with new breeds more awe-inspiring and terrifying than ever before. Welcome to Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom is set for release on June 22nd, 2018 and sees J.A. Bayona directing a cast that includes franchise veterans Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, BD Wong and Jeff Goldblum alongside newcomers Toby Jones (Captain America: The First Avenger), Rafe Spall (Black Mirror), Justice Smith (The Get Down), Ted Levine (Silence of the Lambs), James Cromwell (The Young Pope), Daniella Pineda (The Detour) and Geraldine Chaplin (A Monster Calls).
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Originally published December 28, 2017. Updated December 19, 2019.
