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[strafer]

Confirms a few things we knew.

"'Jurassic World' takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar," Trevorrow confirms. "It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. Real ones. You can get closer to them than you ever imagined possible. It’s the realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there."

Trevorrow goes on to reiterate that the story takes place 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park and explains that the script came about while trying to incorporate two important themes: economic greed and mankind's relationship with modern technology.

"[O]ur relationship with technology has become so woven into our daily lives," he explains. "We’ve become numb to the scientific miracles around us. We take so much for granted... What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. 'We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?' Next year, you’ll see our answer."

Trevorrow goes on to correct a recent internet rumor that suggested that we'll see "good" dinosaurs in Jurassic World.

"There’s no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs," he says. "There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in Jurassic Park took human lives, and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad. This film is about our relationship with animals, how we react to the threat they pose to our dominance on earth as a species. We hunt them, we cage them in zoos, we admire them from afar and we try to assert control over them. Chris Pratt’s character is doing behavioral research on the raptors. They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings."

He also confirms that the film will feature a brand new species.

"[T]here will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists," he says. "The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate—they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get."

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=118830

 

[antonz]

I appreciate his honesty in the interview. He doesn't stonewall or try and BS his way out of the leaks. He addresses them in the best way he can.

 

[The Technomancer]

Chris Pratt is in this also? Damn, dude is getting around.

Liked him in everything I've seen so far

 

[CountAntonius]

 

[crops55]

Fully functional? Real ones? Look dude, spin any kind of dinosaur story you want. Can your budget and/or collective talent make the dinosaurs look like the ones from twenty years ago?

 

[block tower]

oh those kooky dinosaurs, what will they do next

 

[ZeroGravity]

I appreciate his honesty in the interview. He doesn't stonewall or try and BS his way out of the leaks. He addresses them in the best way he can.

Seriously, it's really refreshing. Nice change of pace from people like Abrams who do the exact opposite.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

Honestly, you should quote the whole thing and highlight key points. It basically addresses ever major criticism and worry that has been consistently brought up. I would do so myself, but am at work.

 

[HeySeuss]

So is this just a reboot or is this a real part 4?

I hate the trend of starting over again from the beginning.

 

[antonz]

So is this just a reboot or is this a real part 4?

I hate the trend of starting over again from the beginning.

Real Part 4. Takes place 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park 1.

 

[bengraven]

OHTHANKGOD @ no pet raptors.

 

[botty]

So is the mutant crossbred rex not happening?

 

[Fudgepuppy]

Will anyone who's ever seen Chris Pratt in anything, believe he's a behavioural scientist?

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

Costa Rica represent!

 

[RustyNails]

Chris Pratt....as a scientist? Are they sure they didn't meant Irfan Khan?

 

[lamaroo]

So is the mutant crossbred rex not happening?

Sounds like it is.

 

[strafer]

Honestly, you should quote the whole thing and highlight key points. It basically addresses ever major criticism and worry that has been consistently brought up. I would do so myself, but am at work.

But all of it is key points tho.

 

[Giger Pilot]

Is Jeff Goldblum going to be in it?

 

[linkboy]

Is Jeff Goldblum going to be in it?

No (if he is, they haven't said anything)

Besides, I can see Malcom telling them to fuck off if they even bring it up.

 

[Kopite]

Real dinosaurs? Jurassic park was at pains to point out the dinosaurs weren't actually real.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

But all of it is key points tho.

That's what I mean, the whole thing is OP material. Especially with the onslaught of poorly phrased story leaks.

 

[botty]

Sounds like it is.

good

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

So is the mutant crossbred rex not happening?

No, it is happening, but it's more of a custom Dinosaur rather than a hybrid/mmutant.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

That "corporate mandate" is so idiotic.

 

[Digital Snake]

Curious, but still cautiously optimistic, but damn I would still love to see a 20 year old abandoned Isla Nublar, curious to hear the explanation on how they managed to reconstruct that island into something habitable.

 

[unholyrevenger72]

That "corporate mandate" is so idiotic.

InGen is taking the OCP approach to problem solving. Can't wait for Cthulhu Rex

 

[thecouncil]

Everything he said makes sense and sounds great.

 

[Aurongel]

They want me to believe Chris Pratt is a scientist? Other than that this actually sounds kind of cool, Trevorow seems like he knows what people want and what to avoid. A fully functioning park is something that I think could be really cool.

 

[wenis]

Will anyone who's ever seen Chris Pratt in anything, believe he's a behavioural scientist?

Of course we all know it's Burt Macklin undercover as a scientist.

In hyped for JP4. This interview got me much more hyped.

 

[Mariolee]

I will watch anything with Chris Pratt in it.

Even...Movie 43.

 

[MisterGrey3000]

Ugh, I still don't know how to feel about this film.
:/
I'm expecting it to be pretty bad, but I love Dinosaurs and JP.
I can't help, but be curious about it.
Hopefully it's to JP1 what MIB3 is to MIB. I can at least forgive the "no feathers, lets keep on rollin' with huge inaccuracies!" stance if it's a halfway decent flick.

 

[Charles Foster Kane]

Even...Movie 43.

Then you are lost!

 

[Soma]

After marathoning several seasons of Parks and Rec this past week, I absolutely cannot picture Chris Pratt as a scientist.

It's like my mind is completely rejecting that concept lol (still looking forward to seeing him in this though!)

 

[brian577]

Real Part 4. Takes place 22 years after the events of Jurassic Park 1.

So what happened to these guys?

Are they declaring 2/3 non-canon?

 

[corn_fest]

Honestly sounds kind of interesting, but after 2 and 3 I'm really hesitant to put any kind of faith in the franchise.

 

[Demoncarnotaur]

So much to bold.

- What do you feel are the biggest misconceptions from the leaked rumors about the Jurassic World story versus the real screenplay?

That’s the thing about leaks, sometimes they aren’t misinterpreted or false. They’re real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater. But unfortunately, in 2014, you read about it on a computer. Last week was discouraging for everyone on our crew–not because we want to hide things from the fans, but because we’re working so hard to create something full of surprises. When I was a kid, you got to discover everything at once, it washed over you and blew your mind. Now it only takes one person to spoil it for everyone else. I hope whoever leaked it is actively trying to undermine what we’re doing. Because if they’re trying to help, they’re doing it wrong.

- So the rumors are true?

Yes. Jurassic World takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. Real ones. You can get closer to them than you ever imagined possible. It’s the realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there.

- How long has elapsed since the third film and how has the world we knew from those films changed in that time?

This film picks up twenty-two years after Jurassic Park. When Derek [Connolly] and I sat down to find the movie, we looked at the past two decades and talked about what we’ve seen. Two things came to the surface.

One was that money has been the gasoline in the engine of our biggest mistakes. If there are billions to be made, no one can resist them, even if they know things could end horribly.

The other was that our relationship with technology has become so woven into our daily lives, we’ve become numb to the scientific miracles around us. We take so much for granted.

Those two ideas felt like they could work together. What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. “We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?” Next year, you’ll see our answer.

- What are the relationships between the main characters and the dinosaurs? Are there “good guy” and “bad guy” dinosaurs in the movie?

There’s no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs. There are predators and prey. The T-Rex in Jurassic Park took human lives, and saved them. No one interpreted her as good or bad. This film is about our relationship with animals, how we react to the threat they pose to our dominance on earth as a species. We hunt them, we cage them in zoos, we admire them from afar and we try to assert control over them.

Chris Pratt’s character is doing behavioral research on the raptors. They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings. If people don’t think there’s potential in those ideas, maybe they won’t like this movie. But I ask them to give it a chance.

- Will there be crossbred dinosaurs or new species created for the movie?

We were hoping audiences could discover this on their own, but yes, there will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists. The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate—they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get.

I know the idea of a modified dinosaur put a lot of fans on red alert, and I understand it. But we aren’t doing anything here that Crichton didn’t suggest in his novels. This animal is not a mutant freak. It doesn’t have a snake’s head or octopus tentacles. It’s a dinosaur, created in the same way the others were, but now the genetics have gone to the next level. For me, it’s a natural evolution of the technology introduced in the first film. Maybe it sounds crazy, but most of my favorite movies sound crazy when you describe them in a single sentence.

- What makes Jurassic World different than the previous three Jurassic Park films?

That’s something you’ll have to tell me after you see it. We’re trying to tell a bold new story that doesn’t rely on a proven formula, because the movies we watch over and over again are the ones that surprised us, that worked when they shouldn’t have.

I understand the risks of leaving the safe zone. We’ve all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers “ruining our childhood”, we forget that right now is someone else’s childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us. It may not happen in the same way everyone expects it to, but it’s the way I believe it needs to happen.

Honestly, the biggest misconception on this movie is that there’s some massive conference room at the studio where all these cynical story decisions are made. There is no committee. Universal has given us the resources to tell the story we want to tell, on the scale we want to tell it. Will this one be different from the other movies? You bet it will. And I’m not going to pass the buck if it doesn’t work. This one’s on me.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

Fully functional? Real ones? Look dude, spin any kind of dinosaur story you want. Can your budget and/or collective talent make the dinosaurs look like the ones from twenty years ago?

Considering tech has advanced in twenty years? Yes.

 

[Spineker]

I will remain cautiously skeptical about this.

 

[Byakuya769]

That dispelled none of my skepticism. And what he said about predator/prey isn't true... Otherwise we'd hear a lot more about orcas snacking on humans. Animals react and relate to each other in surprising and complicated ways. I expect to see more of the same Dino rampage from the other films.

 

[Bobby Roberts]

Honestly, the biggest misconception on this movie is that there’s some massive conference room at the studio where all these cynical story decisions are made. There is no committee. Universal has given us the resources to tell the story we want to tell, on the scale we want to tell it. Will this one be different from the other movies? You bet it will. And I’m not going to pass the buck if it doesn’t work. This one’s on me.

I like this whole paragraph. I like he said that.

 

[Anton Sugar]

I like this whole paragraph. I like he said that.

Yup. That interview did a lot to help my skepticism, especially the direct comparison to how the Rex in JP killed and saved...like a wild animal.

I actually find the themes that they're trying to hit pretty interesting, even if they sound broad. I hope they can pull it off.

 

[Defenestrated Donut]

Honestly, the biggest misconception on this movie is that there’s some massive conference room at the studio where all these cynical story decisions are made.

That dispelled none of my skepticism. And what he said about predator/prey isn't true... Otherwise we'd hear a lot more about orcas snacking on humans. Animals react and relate to each other in surprising and complicated ways. I expect to see more of the same Dino rampage from the other films.

Transient orcas might eat humans without wetsuits, they're more than happy to attack moose and deer.

 

[Kyleripman]

I REALLY like his honesty and obvious passion for the project. But I still don't like the made-up dinosaur business.

We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. “We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?” Next year, you’ll see our answer.

CG monster? We've seen those, too...

Here's hoping I'm wrong. At the very least, it's obvious that he is very sincere in trying to make a good movie.

 

[The Technomancer]

We were hoping audiences could discover this on their own, but yes, there will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists. The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate—they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get.

Okay, this line is actually really promising to me. When it first leaked it sounded like that was what was happening in the real world, the studio demanding that they make "scarier" dinosaurs, but if the whole point is that the fictional company running Jurassic World made that decision and its dumb...that could be interesting thematically. Along with the whole "bored of dinosaurs" thing

I think I'm onboard now

 

[Allforce]

I found this to be an interesting idea, and probably one that WOULD be realistic in today's world

Those two ideas felt like they could work together. What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass.

And with that said, having corporate execs brainstorming "NEW AND EXCITING SCARY DINOSAURS" to be cooked up doesn't even seem that far-fetched or silly.

It would fucking happen. I have a teenager, I see how apathetic they still are to the most amazing shit. I could totally see kids going to a Jurassic Park that's been around for 10 years and only wanting to hang out at the hotel pool the entire trip.

 

[Snaku]

So what happened to these guys?

 

[Calamari41]

It would fucking happen. I have a teenager, I see how apathetic they still are to the most amazing shit. I could totally see kids going to a Jurassic Park that's been around for 10 years and only wanting to hang out at the hotel pool the entire trip.

Think about it: if someone is born after Jurassic Park opens its doors, the idea of a theme park with dinosaurs in it would be something that, to them, has always been there. To them, it would be just like a more exciting version of going to look at the lions and rhinos at the zoo.

 

[Laieon]

I think this is just going to be the story of a t-rex that was angry because his little arms wouldn't let him take the perfect selfie.

 

[NR1]

Every time I hear Colin Trevorrow discuss this film, I feel more and more at ease about the eventual outcome. He gets it and doesn't mess around with people. I really enjoyed Safety Not Guaranteed and I liked what he had to say about the Flight of the Navigator remake. He basically said the exact same thing about Navigator as he just did about Jurassic World:

I understand the risks of leaving the safe zone. We’ve all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers “ruining our childhood”, we forget that right now is someone else’s childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us. It may not happen in the same way everyone expects it to, but it’s the way I believe it needs to happen.

It's a 30 year old movie and there's another generation... there's been like 5 generations since, but my son, who is 4, there is a version of this movie that is for him. I think that there is this whole other layer of these things that kind of grab you and were indelible for one reason or another. As an adult, you are kind of pulled back in to your childhood and sort of see it through those eyes again.

 

[Byakuya769]

Transient orcas might eat humans without wetsuits, they're more than happy to attack moose and deer.

And they might use fire.