How much bigger can “Jurassic World” get? That’s the ultimate question when it comes to the newly rebooted franchise, as it gets ready to stretch out into a trilogy. However, it looks like Colin Trevorrow is continuing the very thoughtful approach he took as the co-writer and director of “Jurassic World,” and bringing it to the sequel which he will co-produce and co-write, with J.A. Bayona (“The Impossible,” “A Monster Calls“) helming. But make no mistake, the aim is still to make your hairs stand up on end more than they did last time.
“It will be more suspenseful and scary. It’s just the way it’s designed; it’s the way the story plays out. I knew I wanted Bayona to direct it long before anyone ever heard that was a possibility, so the whole thing was just built around his skillset,” Trevorrow told Jurassic Outpost.
Calling the next film a true collaboration between himself and Bayona, Trevorrow also stresses that the next time out will likely see more practical effects, and he explains why “Jurassic World” leaned more on CGI.
“I think the lack of animatronics in ‘Jurassic World’ had more to do with the physicality of the Indominus [Rex], the way the animal moved. It was very fast and fluid, it ran a lot, and needed to move its arms and legs and neck and tail all at once. It wasn’t a lumbering creature,” the director said.“We’ve written some opportunities for animatronics into [‘Jurassic World 2’] — because it has to start at the script level — and I can definitely tell you that Bayona has the same priorities, he is all about going practical whenever possible.”
However, one thing you won’t see in the follow-up are militarized dinosaurs, which was part of the villainous plan of Vincent D’Onofrio‘s Hoskins. But as Trevorrow reveals, early on, it was another character who had the idea of arming dinos in “Jurassic World.”
“I’m not that interested in militarized dinosaurs, at least not in practice. I liked it in theory as the pipe dream of a lunatic,” he said.“When that idea was first presented to me as part of an earlier script it was something that the character that ended up being [Chris Pratt‘s] Owen was for, that he supported, something that he was actively doing even at the beginning. [Co-writer] Derek [Connolly] and I, one of our first reactions was ‘No if anyone’s gonna militarize raptors that’s what the bad guy does, he’s insane.’ ”
“Jurassic World 2” opens on June 22, 2018. Listen to the full talk with Trevorrow below. [via Collider]