Of course, Jurassic World isn’t a mere re-creation of Jurassic Park; it’s a direct sequel to the original, set some 20 years after the events of Spielberg’s film. (According to Trevorrow, the previous sequels aren’t being written out of continuity so much as placed to the side, as they both unfolded on a different island.) In that time, a functioning theme park has been constructed on Isla Nubar, overseen by operations manager Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard) and employing hundreds of staffers, including velociraptor trainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt).
Let’s be honest here, placing both previous sequels to the side is not a bad decision. While The Lost World succeeded in delivering some sense of fan-service, Jurassic Park III was just a downright awful film. Ignoring the storylines from those films will hopefully help Trevorrow recapture the essence of the first film. The director seems driven, too, as his goal is not only to pay tribute to the 1993 movie, but also to Spielberg himself:
“I felt like I had a responsibility to do it,” he explains. “Mostly for Steven, in thanks for all he’s done for all of us and how much his movies meant to me in my childhood. But also, if one is asked to do this, it’s almost insulting to everyone else to say no. We’d all love this privilege — to be able to re-create a film that meant so much to us.”
I mean, we took the original design and obviously, technology has changed. So, it’s going to move a little bit differently, but it’ll move differently because it’s older. And we’re giving her some scars and we’re tightening her skin. So, she has that feeling of, like, an older Burt Lancaster. And this movie is her Unforgiven.
We got to build everyone from the ground up because technology has changed so much that everything is a rebuild. And I got to bring in dinosaurs that I’ve always thought deserved a big scene. There’s an Ankylosaurus in this movie; was a really big scene and that’s just a bad ass dinosaur. And there are others. There’s smaller appearances, some bigger appearances. You know, we have an underwater reptile. I’m sure you’ve heard about that. That thing is pretty cool. We have a new kind of flying dinosaur that no one’s ever seen before, you know, in addition to the Pteranodons that are really scary. And I didn’t want to just throw the kitchen sink at it. Each of these movies has done a good job at just very carefully, in a measured way, increasing the new dinosaurs that you see. But, there’s a lot of dinosaurs in the movie for sure.
This sounds great and all but I’m just stuck on that Unforgiven comment.
Hey, I have an idea! Can someone please make an Old West movie starring nothing but dinosaurs? T-Rex can be the bad-ass no-nonsense sheriff. We can give her a handlebar mustache and make things very confusing. Make it happen, Hollywood!
Jurassic World will be released in theaters on June 12.
As Universal Pictures begins to ramp up the promotional campaign for Jurassic World, Yahoo! Movies has released a new featurette that shows the cast of the film and Steven Spielberg reflecting on the 1993 dino-blockbuster that started it all. Chris Pratt was roughly 13 years old when Jurassic Park hit theaters and he touches on the mind-blowing nature that the film had back when CGI was brand new. Spielberg may have put it best by saying Jurassic World is “almost like seeing Jurassic Park come true.”
Universal Pictures has a month left to promote Jurassic World before it hits theaters. The previous clips have helped paint the broad strokes at what is to be expected in the new film, but at least one lacked an overall sense of danger.
It looks like they fixed that issue with this new extended TV spot. Not only do the stakes once again feel heightened, but we also are given a closer look at the creature effects amidst all the chaotic dinosaur action. Ending the trailer with the iconic Jurassic Park dino roar was a nice touch.
Jurassic World will stomp its way into theaters on June 12th.
I no longer have an inner child. I’m pretty sure he died of pure joy the second it was announced that LEGO and Jurassic Park were teaming up to make a video game. LEGO Jurassic World will feature all the usual brawling and adventure of a typical LEGO game. More importantly, it will also have dinosaurs. Appropriately, the latest trailer focuses entirely on these plastic T-Rexes, Raptors and other assorted prehistoric critters. And yes, you can actually play as the dinos in this game.
And remember, LEGO Jurassic World actually covers the entire Jurassic Park quadrilogy. I think it’s about time we got an all Dr. Ian Malcolm trailer…
Universal continues to elbow us and say, “Remember how much you like Jurassic Park?” with their newest TV spot from Jurassic World. This one features familiar scenes of dinosaur Shamu, of Katie McGrath being snatched by a flying dino, and of poop photography enthusiast Chris Pratt vaguely referencing the ethics of engineering giant mutant dinosaurs (Actually, it’s about ethics in dinosaur cloning.)
But this TV spot gets even more familiar by utilizing Jurassic Park clips in the form of a voiceover by John Hammond himself, the late Sir Richard Attenborough. They must have enlisted an impersonator to help them change the voiceover from “Welcome to Jurassic Park!” to “Welcome to Jurassic World!” In which case, can we have that impersonator’s phone number? We need him to record our outgoing messages. We will spare no expense, provided three dollars in pennies is sufficient.
As we saw in a video earlier this week, Chris Pratt loved doing some of his own stunts on the Jurassic World set. The newest video diary released this morning picks up with Pratt preparing to do a motorcycle stunt: “It’s been nice working on this movie. Tell all my friends and family I love them.”
“As you can see, there’s mud on my pants,” he says, pointing out that sometimes the wardrobe department will add it, but in this case it was his own contribution. “This I actually added myself by eating sh*t on the motorcycle about 10 minutes ago.”
He explains, “Never let your confidence outgrow your skill,” sagely adding, “I should never have a motorcycle. If you ever see me in the tabloids driving a motorcycle, find me and kick me in the nuts.”
Then, because he’s basically Andy Dwyer, he looks into the camera and asks the Triumph people to give him a free motorcycle.
After the recent surge of new footage, clips and trailers to hit the web, Universal Pictures is about to start the official press tour for Jurassic World. Let’s be honest here, press tours can be exhausting and often times will result in celebrities saying something dumb and/or offensive.
I’ve tried this routine multiple times with my wife over the years and it has always failed. Then again, Pratt’s got charm for days that he really can do no wrong.
While everyone’s favorite drunk actor Chris Pratt is busy showing off his fancy stunt work, executive producer Steven Spielberg and director Colin Trevorrow have plenty more to say about Jurassic World in the latest featurette. The two men discuss the film’s merits in between cuts of footage both new and old.
In a much-repeated line, Spielberg claims that “To see Jurassic World come to life is like seeing Jurassic Park come true.” A fine sentiment, no doubt, but nowhere near as telling as Trevorrow’s statement:
“My goal with this movie has always been to make adults be able to feel like they’re kids again.”
Of course, what Trevorrow doesn’t say is that he wants us all to feel like frightened-into-wetting-the-bed kids again. In 3D, no less.
There’s a little over two weeks remaining until velociraptors wreak havoc on the big screen in Jurassic World. In the new featurette from Universal Pictures, executive producer Steven Spielberg and director Colin Trevorrow discuss the merits of the new movie while reminding viewers of the sheer awe Jurassic Park brought to audiences 22 years ago.
Spielberg’s full support of the long awaited sequel can be felt with his statement that, “To see Jurassic World come to life is like seeing Jurassic Park come true.”
Between that and Trevorrow’s goal to make adults feel like they’re kids again, Jurassic World may be the redemption the film franchise has been looking for.
Spielberg and Pratt, the star of Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment’s “Jurassic World,” will share their respective memories of “Jurassic Park.” They will also introduce a two-minute, exclusive sneak preview of “Jurassic World,” which arrives in theaters on June 12.
Following Friday’s network broadcast, a “roadblock” presentation of the movie will air the next night on Bravo, Syfy, USA Network, and E!, along with a Spanish-language version of the movie set to hit NBC Universo as well.
We have about 12 more days until Jurassic World hits theaters, and with all the buzz behind the movie it wouldn’t be out of the question for Universal to already be working on a sequel. With most of their focus on promoting the film, it’s possible they are biding their time to see how well the new dino flick will do on the big-screen.
“Jurassic Park is like Star Wars. Different directors can give a different taste to each movie. I would be involved in some way, but not as director.”
Trevorrow’s involvement in another go-round would probably be in a producing capacity of some sort. It’s a bit refreshing to see the director’s openness to hand off the baton to someone else down the line. Trevorrow already has other projects lined up including The Book Of Henry and the quirky sci-fi flick Intelligent Life.
Given his mention of Star Wars, could it be possible he’ll take over that stand-alonefilm that Josh Trank recently abandoned? That’d be interesting.
Jurassic World is set to hit theaters next Friday, so it only makes sense that the folks at Cinefix would look back over the film series to talk about some facts you (probably) didn’t know about the Jurassic Park series of films. We’ve been saturated with so much information and teaser junk at this point, it almost feels like we’ve seen the movie and it is a part of our pop culture existence by now.
That’s not the case, of course, but the original movie certainly is a pop culture staple. Along with The Lost World (they ignore Jurassic Park III), the series features plenty of facts that you can investigate from the screen. Seven seems like only the tip of the iceberg, but you have to keep these videos short.
The production gets the praise it deserves in this video. We’ve all heard the tale about the rain screwing up the T-Rex animatronic, but you sometimes forget the gravity of the CGI special effects with the current film climate. It was a big deal, and something I didn’t grasp at the time in 1993. It is fun to look back at what might’ve been if the computer effects had failed and we got stuck with the stop-motion animations that were being planned. Would it be as classic as it is now?
With a mere 10 days to go before the film’s release, the Jurassic World marketing machine is kicking into high gear with TV spots, clips, and featurettes. Even NBC networks will be airing Jurassic Park this weekend to stir up interest before June 12. But aside from all of these, the latest behind-the-scenes look at the film introduces audiences to Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow, the man behind the camera.
Two immediate takeaways from the above video:
The animatronic dinos look pretty damn awesome. Too bad their use (most likely) pales in comparison to all the CGI.
If everyone’s accolades are to be believed, Trevorrow got the job because “he’s a fan.”
Steven Spielberg, Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt — they all talk about Trevorrow’s fandom for the first Jurassic Park film, and boast it like a badge of pride. “Yeah, we all watched it, and so did our director, so you know it’ll be good.” Right, okay.
Some of you may already be aware of the dinosaur-erotica genre of smut literature, which is why I didn’t get to be the first writer here to create the “dinosaur erotica” tag. Thanks a lot, Burnsy.
Christie Sims and Alara Branwen are two of the most popular self-published authors on Amazon peddling stories of sexy times with T-Rex. (Not the band. That’s a totally different category of smut literature.) Crashing to the forefront of the celebration of extinct beastiality is San Francisco’s The Booksmith, with their monthly interpretive blind fanfic readings.
“Shipwreck” is a series created by Amy Stephenson and Casey Childers that takes one popular piece of literature a month and has six different authors write erotic stories based on one character (each) from the book. The stories are then read by performer Baruch Porras-Hernandez without naming the author, and the audience decides the winner based solely on, I guess, the strength of the ship described. Shipwreck has already destroyed forever such beloved classics as Little Women and The Wizard of Oz, and now they’re stomping in to the “Monster Sex” arena with Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park.
Hey, what better way to promote Jurassic World than with, I presume, a vivid description of Ian Malcolm making out with a hadrosaurus?
Featured writers for the prehistoric event are Molly Jane Rosen, Sean Kennedy, Chase Kamp, Rebecca Rubenstein and Christopher Wieland. The event takes place tonight at the Booksmith. Admission is $10.
It’s currently standing-room only, of course. Because dinosaurs f*cking.
In the original Jurassic Park, InGen scientists manufacture their dino “products” via a clever combination of digging for fossilized amber, harvesting miraculously viable genetic tissue, and a lot of other complicated laboratory maneuvers. This happens in both the book and the film, and while it’s made to appear feasible, the process is still very much a fiction.
However, according to Dr. Jack Horner — the real-life paleontologist who served as the basis for the character Dr. Alan Grant — another bit of geneticist magic just might make making dinosaurs possible. No, seriously — he’s not kidding. As HNGN reports:
Birds are direct descendants of avian dinosaurs, according to Dino Buzz. Dinosaur birds, like the turkey-sized velociraptor, had feathers, like modern birds. Scientists have even discovered a 3-D fossil of a dino-bird that shows tail feather detail….Over time, snouts turned into beaks, tails disappeared and wings evolved into modern wings of flight, but the DNA that existed previously in the snout-bearing, tail-wearing bird didn’t disappear – it just became inactive, according to Business Insider.
“If the newer genes can be suppressed and the atavistic genes could be expressed,” it continues, “Horner thinks a dinosaur could be possible.” So yeah. Modern science can supposedly concoct a dinosaur via a bird’s suppressed, ancient, still-hanging-around-for-some-reason genes.
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No word on whether or not the general public would be willing to fork over thousands to attend the grand opening of “Jurassic Farm.”
Jurassic Park arrived in 1993, and it’s pretty much thrilled everybody with the idea of dinosaurs walking around in the real world ever since. Jurassic World is even going one better and engineering its own dinosaurs. But is this even possible in the first place?
In theory, yes. This is an actual branch of scientific endeavor, albeit a fringe one, variously called resurrection biology, de-extinction and species revivalism. And, if you’ve seen Jurassic Park, you actually know the basics: Find the DNA, create an embryo with the DNA, transplant it to a surrogate, and boom! De-extinction!
The issue, as you may have guessed, is with actually getting it to work. The closest we’ve gotten to this is with the Pyrenean ibex, which was hunted to extinction. The last known member was found dead in 2000, and attempts to re-engineer it in 2003 and 2009 failed: Only one clone was born alive and it only lived for seven minutes due to a defect in the lungs.
Other projects are ongoing, like an attempt to revive the woolly mammoth, but the truth is that we need to understand far more about biology than we do to get this to work. But considering resurrection biology might be one of the few ways to bring back the biodiversity of the planet, a lot of money and time is being thrown at this idea. Sooner or later, we’ll crack it… but then we’ve got the issue of actually finding dinosaur DNA.
So, that’s the end of it, right? Well… not necessarily. This is where another fringe science comes into play: Synthetic biology. Granted, we’re talking early days, here: So far, the big achievement is re-engineering yeast. However, the potential of synthetic biology is vast; building chromosomes and entire genomes from the ground up can help eliminate disease, create better crops and allow us to colonize other worlds.
That said, we’re going to have to work our way up to that, learning how to engineer the building blocks of life and trying to avoid creating any Xenomorphs or nightmare fuel along the way. But the money will be there; some incredibly rich guy is going to want to build a dinosaur petting zoo sooner or later.
So, yes, Jurassic Park will be reality one day. It’s just that we might not see it for a century or two.
Jurassic World may have dropped its “final” trailer, but that doesn’t mean Universal can’t continue to give us extended first looks at the movie. What’s the difference between a trailer and an extended first look? Honestly, I’m not sure. This first look is cut just like a trailer, is the same length as a trailer and contains some new footage. If I had to speculate (and I do) I’d say this was supposed to be the final trailer, but they decided to go a different direction at the last second, so this became an extended first look.
Terminology aside, you should watch this new trailer. It’s got adorable baby pigs in peril! And ankylosauruses! Also, the whole thing is a lot less faux-serious than the real final trailer. I’d go so far as to say I actually prefer this extended final look. What do you folks think?
Dr. Jack Horner, who served as Michael Crichton’s basis for the character of Dr. Alan Grant — played by Sam Neill in the Jurassic Park film — served as a consultant to Steven Spielberg in 1993. He also helped with the two sequels, and came back to help out with Jurassic World under Colin Trevorrow’s direction.
So maybe the new film has a totally made-up dinosaur in it, but that’s okay, according to Dr. Horner. Then again, so is the idea of a “chickensauraus.”
To date, only two particular demographics have unsuccessfully faced death in the Jurassic Park novels and films: adult males and dinosaurs. In both of Michael Crichton’s books, as well as Steven Spielberg’s classic movie and his and Joe Johnston’s lamentable sequels, these two groups often bite the dust — usually via being bitten.
This makes complete sense, given that male characters have generally outnumbered women and children in the books and movies produced thus far. However, Jurassic World isn’t just another example of the “let’s send a small group of people to an isolated island” scenario. It involves a large, fully operational destination where hundreds of workers and thousands of visitors will be when everything falls apart. Or, to quote Hoskins (Vincent D’Onofrio), “You got 20,000 people. You got no more boats. You don’t have enough guns.”So will Jurassic World simply repeat its predecessors, or will it raise the stakes for characters like Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), Gray (Ty Simpkins) and Zach (Nick Robinson)? In order for the film’s main premise to work — that “The Park is Open” — at least one woman or child, or both, must die. If the film follows the setup promised by its ginormous marketing campaign, this will happen. Then again, that’s a big “if.”
Let’s Do A Head Count
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A re-read of the Jurassic Park and The Lost World novels, a marathon of all three Jurassic Park films, and a skim of the death counts over at the Horror Film Wiki, reveal that Velociraptors lead the pack with a phenomenal tally of 13 kills. Jophrey (the “gatekeeper”), John Arnold and Robert Muldoon in Jurassic Park; eight nameless hunters and Roland Tembo’s right-hand man, Ajay Sidhu, in The Lost World: Jurassic Park; and Udesky in Jurassic Park III.
Meanwhile, the Tyrannosaurus Rex comes in second with 10 kills, although a few of these are weird technical counts. Ol’ Rexy eats Donald Gennaro (the toileted lawyer) and kills two raptors in Jurassic Park; swallows Eddie Carr, Robert Burke, an unfortunate resident of San Diego (a cameo by screenwriter David Koepp), and steps on Carter in Lost World; and chews on some carrion (before getting its neck snapped) in Jurassic Park III. Technically, the captured male in
Technically, the captured male T-Rex in Lost World is responsible for the death of the ship’s crew in the second film, though even as a 12-year-old, I thought that particular premise was bullsh*t. And let’s not forget John Hammond’s nephew, Peter Ludlow, who’s torn apart by the infant Tyrannosaur.
Throw in a few randos with the Dilophosaurus, the compys, and the Spinosaurus, and you’ve got yourself a helluva death toll. One that includes, as it turns out, a lot of adult males and the occasional dinosaur. No dead kids or women on this list, but that’s to be expected.
It’s All A Numbers Game
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Remember when I quoted Vincent D’Onofrio’s character Hoskins? That line about “20,000 people” and “no more boats” comes from the film’s second major trailer. Of course I’ve taken it out of context since (a) I pulled it from a trailer, (b) there’s a chance it might not even be in the final cut, and (c) the movie isn’t out yet. But the point still stands — now that the park is open, there will be a lot of people on Isla Nublar when things go wrong.
We’ve already seen a significant amount of death in the countless teasers, trailers, and TV spots, and it’s all been the same — park workers who happen to be adult males. But as the above GIF indicates, visitors of all shapes, sizes and sexes are fair game for the animals — especially the flying Dimorphodons. In fact, if you dig through the final trailer and a few others smaller spots, you can watch the moment when the woman the Dimorphodon picks up is dropped into what looks like the Mosasaurus water paddock. Jaws, anyone?
Why It Matters
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What this comes down to is that wonderful(ly ambiguous) critical word, “realism” and not some desire to see children get sacrificed for my amusement. Yes, this is a science fiction film about genetically-engineered dinosaurs that — despite the highly publicized attempts of people in the real world — aren’t currently possible. That being said, it’d be nice if the movie followed its own logic and allowed us a chance to feel as though all characters are really in jeopardy when they are put into dangerous situations, not merely disposable male supporting players and extras.
Or, to paraphrase Drs. Ian Malcolm and Ellie Sattler:
God creates dinosaurs. God destroys dinosaurs. God creates humans. Humans destroy God. Humans create dinosaurs. Dinosaurs eat everyone and everything, indiscriminately, because they’re dinosaurs.
