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In a fascinating (and slightly spoilery) new interview, Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow has revealed plenty of new details about the upcoming movie and what exactly we should expect.

Firstly, he addressed where exactly it takes place, confirming recent rumours that we will return to the island from the original films. However, things have changed an awful lot in the years which have passed, and it sounds as if the park is finally up and running without any problems…for now!

“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.”

As for when exactly Jurassic World is set, it takes place exactly 22 years after the events of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park (which was released in 1993). Trevorrow also addressed how current day technology has impacted the way dinosaurs are viewed in a world where there presence is now commonplace as well as how this parallels our own world and reaction to movies.

“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.”

The director then went on to tease Guardians of the Galaxy star Chris Pratt’s role in the movie and addresses whether or not the dinosaurs in Jurassic World should be considered the “villains”.

T-Rex“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.”

There will be a twist however, and the director confirmed recent reports that as well as some familiar dinosaurs, we’re going to see some all-new creations which sound pretty frightening! This seemingly was meant to be a surprise, but the internet has made that an impossibility, leading to Trevorrow’s openness.

“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.”

As for how this new interpretation should be approached by older fans and what makes Jurassic World different to the previous movies, Trevorrow concluded the interview by saying:

“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.”

Source: /Film