JURASSIC WORLD co-writer and director Colin Trevorrow, who is co-scripting the next installment of the dino franchise with JW cohort Derek Connolly (he also worked with Trevorrow on SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED), has offered a few hints about what’s waiting for us in the coming picture.
And, it seems, there was already a nugget of the next film’s idea planted within this Summer’s mega-grossing adventure…
"And this isn’t something necessarily that was in the book but is a seed that I wanted to plant in this movie, is that might be able to grow in more of these movies if they decide to make more of them, is: What if this went open source? It's almost like InGen is Mac, but what if PC gets their hands on it? What if there are 15 different entities around the world who can make a dinosaur?"
"And Dr Wu says in the film, when he's warning Dr Mesrani, 'we’re not always going to be the only ones who can make a dinosaur’...
…says Trevorrow to Wired via Coming Soon.
Hmmm…
JURASSIC WORLD made no small meal of the notion of deploying dinos onto a battlefield or somesuch. Might those particular seeds, combined with Trevorrow’s statement above, suggest we might be getting something along the lines of…say…JURASSIC WARS? A totally nutty idea to be sure, but I seem to recall hearing rumors that…somewhere early in JURASSIC WORLD’s development…one concept considered essentially pitted corporately engineered battle dinos against each other. So, there may be some precedent for such conjecture?
We’ll see soon enough - the next JURASSIC movie has been set for a June 2018 release date. Pratt and BDH will reprise their JURASSIC WORLD roles, although Trevorrow has already indicated that he’ll likely not be back in the director’s chair (he’ll be around in other capacitates, though).
Enter Brett Ratner. I’m kidding, I’m kidding. I hope.
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Glen Oliver
“Merrick”
