We Can Blame Dr. Ian Malcolm for the Jurassic World Movies

Although there were a lot of things I didn’t love about Jurassic World (particularly its female characters), I appreciated that the movie was pretty much what it said on the tin: dinosaur-on-dinosaur action.

But I’m not sure dinosaur-on-dinosaur action can sustain another movie; a Jurassic World sequel was inevitable given the film’s box office success, but personally I’m not sure I have the patience for another Jurassic movie unless it does something really unexpected.

Speaking on the Jurassic Cast Podcast, Colin Trevorrow, co-writer of the sequel, explained what fans can expect:

It will get to be a different kind of film. The audience has given us permission to a certain extent to take this to the next level, and I don’t necessarily mean in scale, I feel very strongly that it’s not about more dinosaurs or bigger and better dinosaurs, it’s about using this as a starting point for a much larger story about our relationship with these animals and about animals in general and the dynamic created by bringing them back to life.

[…] Jurassic World was very much made with the fans in mind, and I’m not going to forget it, but now we’ve seen a lot of ‘dinosaurs chasing people around on an island’ movies. I think you guys and also the general audience is going to be down to explore where else we can go. We know Owen is going to be in it and Claire will be in it and neither will be in the same place that we left them in this movie, Even though Claire is the one who evolves the most over the trilogy, it’s her story that mirrors this changing world, Owen has s**t to deal with. The two of them opened Pandora’s Box in Jurassic World and each of them are responsible for different elements of it in different ways, and I think the way that these characters are connected to the circumstances of what’s happening it’s different than the previous films. It’s not ‘Let’s manufacture a way to get them somewhere,’ they’re embedded into it now in a way that as story tellers makes it much easier for us to keep them involved and doesn’t feel as contrived.

Trevorrow also revealed how he was inspired by an iconic Dr. Ian Malcolm quote:

Honestly, the trilogy is articulated in Jurassic Park, it’s all in there… Jurassic World is all based on Ian Malcolm’s quote, ‘You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you wanna sell it.’ That to me is Jurassic World, that’s why I had all the product placement, that’s what it was. The second one, Jurassic World 2, and as we [co-writer Derek Connolly and Trevorrow] were driving we tried to find, what is the foundation? ‘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 why it’s exciting that the movie did well, that leaves us a lot of room to run, and it was part of this design, it had a beginning, middle, and end when we wrote the first movie. Now that the movie did well, we get to play that out.

I don’t know, gang. Are you at all excited for the sequel?

(via Coming Soon)

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