Re: Jurassic World
rumors confirmed?
rumors confirmed?
Jurassic World (SPOILERS!)
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Re: Jurassic World
Here's the full interview:
Here's the full interview:
What do you feel are the biggest misconceptions from the leaked rumors about the Jurassic World story versus the real screenplay?
That’s the thing about leaks, sometimes they aren’t misinterpreted or false. They’re real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater. But unfortunately, in 2014, you read about it on a computer. Last week was discouraging for everyone on our crew–not because we want to hide things from the fans, but because we’re working so hard to create something full of surprises. When I was a kid, you got to discover everything at once, it washed over you and blew your mind. Now it only takes one person to spoil it for everyone else. I hope whoever leaked it is actively trying to undermine what we’re doing. Because if they’re trying to help, they’re doing it wrong.
So the rumors are true?
Yes. 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. 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 realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there.
How long has elapsed since the third film and how has the world we knew from those films changed in that time?
This film picks up twenty-two years after Jurassic Park. When Derek [Connolly] and I sat down to find the movie, we looked at the past two decades and talked about what we’ve seen. 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.
Those two ideas felt like they could work together. What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. “We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?” Next year, you’ll see our answer.
What are the relationships between the main characters and the dinosaurs? Are there “good guy” and “bad guy” dinosaurs in the movie?
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 hunt them, we cage them in zoos, we admire them from afar and we try to assert control over them. Chris Pratt’s character is doing behavioral research on the raptors. They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings. If people don’t think there’s potential in those ideas, maybe they won’t like this movie. But I ask them to give it a chance.
Will there be crossbred dinosaurs or new species created for the movie?
We were hoping audiences could discover this on their own, but yes, there will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists. The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate—they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get.
I know the idea of a modified dinosaur put a lot of fans on red alert, and I understand it. But we aren’t doing anything here that Crichton didn’t suggest in his novels. This animal is not a mutant freak. It doesn’t have a snake’s head or octopus tentacles. It’s a dinosaur, created in the same way the others were, but now the genetics have gone to the next level. For me, it’s a natural evolution of the technology introduced in the first film. Maybe it sounds crazy, but most of my favorite movies sound crazy when you describe them in a single sentence.
What makes Jurassic World different than the previous three Jurassic Park films?
That’s something you’ll have to tell me after you see it. We’re trying to tell a bold new story that doesn’t rely on a proven formula, because the movies we watch over and over again are the ones that surprised us, that worked when they shouldn’t have.
I understand the risks of leaving the safe zone. We’ve all been disappointed by new installments 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.
That’s the thing about leaks, sometimes they aren’t misinterpreted or false. They’re real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater. But unfortunately, in 2014, you read about it on a computer. Last week was discouraging for everyone on our crew–not because we want to hide things from the fans, but because we’re working so hard to create something full of surprises. When I was a kid, you got to discover everything at once, it washed over you and blew your mind. Now it only takes one person to spoil it for everyone else. I hope whoever leaked it is actively trying to undermine what we’re doing. Because if they’re trying to help, they’re doing it wrong.
So the rumors are true?
Yes. 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. 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 realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there.
How long has elapsed since the third film and how has the world we knew from those films changed in that time?
This film picks up twenty-two years after Jurassic Park. When Derek [Connolly] and I sat down to find the movie, we looked at the past two decades and talked about what we’ve seen. 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.
Those two ideas felt like they could work together. What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. “We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?” Next year, you’ll see our answer.
What are the relationships between the main characters and the dinosaurs? Are there “good guy” and “bad guy” dinosaurs in the movie?
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 hunt them, we cage them in zoos, we admire them from afar and we try to assert control over them. Chris Pratt’s character is doing behavioral research on the raptors. They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings. If people don’t think there’s potential in those ideas, maybe they won’t like this movie. But I ask them to give it a chance.
Will there be crossbred dinosaurs or new species created for the movie?
We were hoping audiences could discover this on their own, but yes, there will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists. The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate—they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get.
I know the idea of a modified dinosaur put a lot of fans on red alert, and I understand it. But we aren’t doing anything here that Crichton didn’t suggest in his novels. This animal is not a mutant freak. It doesn’t have a snake’s head or octopus tentacles. It’s a dinosaur, created in the same way the others were, but now the genetics have gone to the next level. For me, it’s a natural evolution of the technology introduced in the first film. Maybe it sounds crazy, but most of my favorite movies sound crazy when you describe them in a single sentence.
What makes Jurassic World different than the previous three Jurassic Park films?
That’s something you’ll have to tell me after you see it. We’re trying to tell a bold new story that doesn’t rely on a proven formula, because the movies we watch over and over again are the ones that surprised us, that worked when they shouldn’t have.
I understand the risks of leaving the safe zone. We’ve all been disappointed by new installments 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.
beeshaw
Super Freak
Re: Jurassic World
I like it.
I like it.
Irvy
Super Freak
Re: Jurassic World
20,000 visitors per day? Must be a lot of coupons being used.
20,000 visitors per day? Must be a lot of coupons being used.
Re: Jurassic World
He might not be telling the truth on some stuff.
But the interview made me feel at ease. I like his reasoning for doing what they are doing in the new movie
He might not be telling the truth on some stuff.
But the interview made me feel at ease. I like his reasoning for doing what they are doing in the new movie
greygoose
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Re: Jurassic World
It all sounds promising but being one of those 90's JP kids the T-Rex will still be the deciding factor for me. She needs to have her moment of terror again and if the D-Rex fights her and kills her Spino style than the movie will be dead to me regardless of anything else.
It all sounds promising but being one of those 90's JP kids the T-Rex will still be the deciding factor for me. She needs to have her moment of terror again and if the D-Rex fights her and kills her Spino style than the movie will be dead to me regardless of anything else.
Re: Jurassic World
I'm sure the normal female will kill the suped up version because...
I'm sure the normal female will kill the suped up version because...
Re: Jurassic World
I don't like the idea but he convinced me that there's a lot of reasoning behind it and why it might work.
And I love that they want to mock your average modern day consumer, risky but awesome
Same.
I don't like the idea but he convinced me that there's a lot of reasoning behind it and why it might work.
And I love that they want to mock your average modern day consumer, risky but awesome
Re: Jurassic World
It can't get any worse than JP3. Having it set in modern times, and still heavily tied to JP1 makes me feel at ease.
It can't get any worse than JP3. Having it set in modern times, and still heavily tied to JP1 makes me feel at ease.
Re: Jurassic World
Yeah I'd rather have Spielberg directing it, but it's either this or nothing.
Yeah I'd rather have Spielberg directing it, but it's either this or nothing.
Deckard
Super Freak
Re: Jurassic World
The general idea for this movie is solid.
A new company funds a reopened park that works. So far so good.
It's only when you get genetic tampering and tamed dinos you have a problem imo.
You don't even need that ****, these writers don't seem to know dinosaurs. Why not just say instead of a special made up breed, they tried to breed Carnos to see if they had any advantage as a weapon and get loose. It's not perfect but it's better than making up fake dinosaurs like a god damn Jurassic Weapon X movie. The Carno can put up a fight with a Rex and has camo, they already exist in the cannon and real things and were awesome in The Lost World novel.
The general idea for this movie is solid.
A new company funds a reopened park that works. So far so good.
It's only when you get genetic tampering and tamed dinos you have a problem imo.
You don't even need that ****, these writers don't seem to know dinosaurs. Why not just say instead of a special made up breed, they tried to breed Carnos to see if they had any advantage as a weapon and get loose. It's not perfect but it's better than making up fake dinosaurs like a god damn Jurassic Weapon X movie. The Carno can put up a fight with a Rex and has camo, they already exist in the cannon and real things and were awesome in The Lost World novel.
Deckard
Super Freak
Re: Jurassic World
Personally, I blame Kaminski and Lucas for KotCS but little Stevie certainly didn't bark loud enough to change that **** storm.
Personally, I blame Kaminski and Lucas for KotCS but little Stevie certainly didn't bark loud enough to change that **** storm.
greygoose
Super Freak
Re: Jurassic World
There's a long list of great dinosaurs they could put in a dinosaur movie yet we will be seeing something that never existed.
There's a long list of great dinosaurs they could put in a dinosaur movie yet we will be seeing something that never existed.
Re: Jurassic World
I know, but I meant his style of shooting this type of movies today. It's terrible
I know, but I meant his style of shooting this type of movies today. It's terrible
Deckard
Super Freak
Re: Jurassic World
Yeah, see, that's what I blame on Kaminski though. I feel like he should have left out some of the more modern advancements in cinematography and the way certain things can be shot/captured today, in order to have made it felt more in line with the originals and what they had while filming those.
But Spielberg is still every bit responsible for letting that happen and also for the poor direction given to some of the actors. Marion's inability to act should have been noticed before she was even recast, and the delivery of other lines is atrocious in certain spots, even from vets like Hurt and Winstone. Overuse of green screens and CGI etc etc. Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong, did, short of Harrison Ford still being plenty capable of pulling off the action. I even believed Indy could still take a big guy like Dovchenko, though with a little more struggle. Poor bastard had to work with Shia, Lucas, and Karen Allen though.
Yeah, see, that's what I blame on Kaminski though. I feel like he should have left out some of the more modern advancements in cinematography and the way certain things can be shot/captured today, in order to have made it felt more in line with the originals and what they had while filming those.
But Spielberg is still every bit responsible for letting that happen and also for the poor direction given to some of the actors. Marion's inability to act should have been noticed before she was even recast, and the delivery of other lines is atrocious in certain spots, even from vets like Hurt and Winstone. Overuse of green screens and CGI etc etc. Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong, did, short of Harrison Ford still being plenty capable of pulling off the action. I even believed Indy could still take a big guy like Dovchenko, though with a little more struggle. Poor bastard had to work with Shia, Lucas, and Karen Allen though.
Re: Jurassic World
Well this movie is ****ed... Audiences don't want surprises... we get enough from bad writing. We want wonder... excitement and good story that leaves us thinking about a 2 hour movie that we feel the urge to watch again just to see the things we missed or take in awe. Ntm Colin not explaining how this so called film established a 20+ year destroyed site and made it Jurassic World is what is going to leave a bitter taste in my mouth cause how can the park have 20,000 visitors if you didn't explain how you cleaned up the park. I mean what? We go right into a working park with ****s and giggles, something goes wrong and it's Jurassic Park again except with 20,000 people?!?
**** that...
Eat chaos theory Colin.
Well this movie is ****ed... Audiences don't want surprises... we get enough from bad writing. We want wonder... excitement and good story that leaves us thinking about a 2 hour movie that we feel the urge to watch again just to see the things we missed or take in awe. Ntm Colin not explaining how this so called film established a 20+ year destroyed site and made it Jurassic World is what is going to leave a bitter taste in my mouth cause how can the park have 20,000 visitors if you didn't explain how you cleaned up the park. I mean what? We go right into a working park with ****s and giggles, something goes wrong and it's Jurassic Park again except with 20,000 people?!?
**** that...
Eat chaos theory Colin.
