Colin Trevorrow, the director of Jurassic World: The World After, revealed to the American magazine Total Film, the rule he imposed on himself in writing the last part of the franchise.
Four years have passed since the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Dinosaurs have become an integral part of our world and humans must learn to live with these Jurassic era beings.
If in The Lost World, released in 1997, a T-Rex reigned terror in the streets of San Diego, Colin Trevorrow insisted on having a more realistic approach by treating dinosaurs like ordinary animals and not like beasts thirsty for blood.
A more realistic approach
He explains to the magazine Total Movie : “I know there’s something in all of us – probably the inner child – that imagines dinosaurs running randomly through city streets, eating people, crashing cars into each other others… But it was important for me to have a more realistic approach.”
What if this crazy thing actually happened? We have established a rule: to ensure that dinosaurs do not interact differently from the animals that inhabit our modern world.
You know, we have bears, tigers, lions and lots of other animals that can devour you if you enter their territory or attack their young. We have animals in zoos. We militarize them. We put them in our homes as pets. We sell them in the markets. All these realities are found in my film but with dinosaurs.”
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The filmmaker, who relaunched the cult saga created by Steven Spielberg in 2015, specifies that the chase scene that we see in the trailer where Owen (Chris Pratt) tries to escape from Atrociraptors serves of exception.
He explains : “There is a sequence where dinosaurs are everywhere in town, in Malta. But they didn’t come here by choice. In the film, Malta is the hub of the underground black market in dinosaurs. This is where they are imported and exported, bought and sold.
It’s also part of our world, animals are moved from their natural habitat, like in Fallen Kingdom, and brought to other places where they don’t necessarily belong. And chaos can easily set in…“
The final part of the saga therefore denounces, in its way of treating dinosaurs, the way in which humans treat animals.
Led by the heroes of the 2 sagas: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Sam Neill, Omar Sy, BD Wong and the young Isabella Sermon, Jurassic World: The World After will be released in our theaters on June 8 .