Ahead of next month's home entertainment release of this year's most successful blockbuster, Jurassic World, director and die-hard Jurassic Park fan Colin Trevorrow has revealed the direction its sequel, 'Jurassic World 2' will take. Speaking to the fans at Jurassic Cast, Trevorrow teased that Dinosaurs and Humankind will co-exist, by referencing the basis for which they created Jurassic World's own plot:
"We looked at it as a trilogy from the very beginning. 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. I had a beginning, a middle and an end and it was designed this way. So now we get to play that out."
"We made [Jurassic World] with the fans very much in mind. 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."
So all in all, Trevorrow has confirmed not only the direction for Jurassic World 2, but also confirms very early reports that Jurassic World would spawn a new trilogy of films.
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