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Jurassic World plot details uncovered by director Colin Trevorrow
Other | Thursday 29th May 2014 | James
Colin Trevorrow, director of the big-budget dinosaur movie Jurassic World has shed some light on the themes of his prehistoric epic. When speaking to Slash Film, he confirmed that the movie will be set on the Island of the original film and will take place approximately 22 years after the past events.
"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.” Comments Trevorrow.
"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 realisation of John Hammond's dream, and I think you'll want to go there."
He mentions that when he and fellow writer Derek Connolly first sat down to discuss the direction of the movie, they thought about what they had seen in the last two decades since the release of the original.
"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.”
He hints to the fact that the blasé attitude that society has developed towards scientific and technological progression is reflected in the film - in a world where dinosaurs have been created and “people are already over it”. The apparent “new dinosaur” in the park is the answer to the requests of its visitors wanting “something bigger, louder and with more teeth; and that’s what they get”.
In response to a question about whether the dinosaurs are to be the villains in the film, Trevorrow replied “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 can see from his words that this movie is being made from a fresh vision and angle, aiming to create something different from the original that doesn’t rely on all of the themes and aims that have been connected with the story so far; certainly a brave effort considering people’s attachment to the previous films.
It seems however that the film could be a brilliant example of well-founded concepts and ideas with the means to come to the big screen with everything behind them.
Trevorrow expresses this by saying “I understand the risks of leaving the safe zone. We’ve all been disappointed by new instalments 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.”
Jurassic World will be hitting cinemas in June 2015 - we’ve still got a year to wait, but it’s certainly looking like it’ll be worth it.
