Colin Trevorrow Gives Some Details On Jurassic World Theme Park, Raptors, D-Rex And Much More

Now that the trailer has come out, and while we await for the official synopsis to give us a better understanding of what Jurassic World's plot is, director Colin Trevorrow has offered to comment the trailer thus offering a new insight into the movie is all about.

The director begun by talking about the park itself, saying that "it opened in 2005. Masrani Global, owned by Irrfan Khan's character, bought InGen after John Hammond's passing with a very earnest mission to realize his dream. We have a website that details all that backstory. It will get more interesting as we get closer to June." 

In regards to the spherical vehicle, called a gyroscope that we see in trailer, Trevorrow says that "Steven [Spielberg] loves theme park rides. He wanted to create a way for people to get up close and personal with the animals, to make it a self-driving, free-roaming experience. It loads on a track, but once you're out there, you actually get to navigate around the valley." Later in the trailer, we see that these gyrospheres aren't exactly dino-proof. "I see no way any of that could go wrong," he laughed.

One of the trailer's moneyshots was the big scene in which a shark is being fed to a mosasaur, Colin Trevorrow says it was not intended to be a reference to Steven Spielberg's classic Jaws movies, though it does look very similar to the scene in the first movie where a cow or goat are being fed to the Raptors and T-Rex. "The idea came out in one of our first meetings - I didn't know if Steven and Frank [Marshall, producer on all the Jurassic Park movies] had considered an underwater reptile, so I pitched the mosasaurus and went off on the idea," he said. "I thought it would be cool if we had this massive animal and the park used one of our most fearsome modern predators as food. There could be a whole other facility where they used shark DNA to mass-produce them to feed the bigger beast. Steven gave me this look like, 'You know I get it, right?' And I sunk a little lower in my chair. And then he said, 'Let's do it'."

Jurassic World takes one-step further on the "science" of Jurassic Park, and now humans are basically creating dinosaurs out of thin air.

"There is no shortage of awesome dinosaurs." He continued, "We could have populated this entire story with new species that haven't been in any of these movies. But this new creation is what gave me a reason to tell another Jurassic Park story. We have the most awe-inspiring creatures to ever walk the earth right in front of us, but for some reason that's not enough. We're not entertained. We're always hungry for the next thing, and those who profit from it are always looking to feed that hunger. The focus groups want something bigger than a T-Rex. And that's what they get." Speaking of which, will we see one in Jurassic World? "You can your ass we will," he replied. But what about the new genetically-engineered dinosaur, the D-Rex? "Obviously I'd love to hold back as much as possible. But Universal has to introduce this movie to people all around the world, and in an era where we're contending with superheroes and space epics, marketing has its own set of needs. We're introducing a relatively new idea. No one under 25 has a memory of seeing the original Jurassic Park in a theatre. The last instalment was 14 years ago. We may see little pieces of her as we get closer - in fact, we already have - but I'm confident that we can keep much of that animal under wraps. She's not the only danger. Far from it."

One of the other moneyshots of the trailer was at the end of the trailer when Chris Pratt's character Owen is seen riding a motorcycle with velociraptors running alongside him.

"I like that people aren't sure what the hell they're looking at," he said. "I was concerned about putting this image in an early trailer, but I love that people are as excited about it as they are. It just reinforces that we all want to see something fresh. Those familiar homage shots in our trailer kind of mask how different this movie is from the others, and I'm relieved that people are embracing the new ideas." But how can Owen lead such a dangerous group of animals? "To not dodge the question entirely, Owen's relationship with the raptors is complicated. They aren't friends. These animals are nasty and dangerous and they'll bite your head off if you make the wrong move. But there are men and women out there today who have forged tenuous connections with dangerous predators. That's interesting territory to me."

Source - Empire

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