Many of the kids growing up in the 1980’s had Star Wars as a fundamental inspiration for gaming. Filmmaker Colin Trevorrow (Oakland, 45) was no different. In his case, his dinosaur puppets, which he loved to fantasize about, must be added to the equation. When he saw Jurassic Park in the cinema at the age of 17, he was stunned. Both productions were present in his life then, and they are also in the present. As for the galactic adventure, he was about to start filming the ninth and final episode of the saga – eventually directed by J. .J. Abrams – although fate ultimately led him to the dinosaurs, he became the director of the first part of the new trilogy, Jurassic World, and the third, Jurassic World: Dominion, which launches worldwide this Thursday.
In this new installment, the filmmaker, who is attending the interview via video call, presents a world in which these gigantic reptiles are already integrated into the landscape. And that was one of the main points I wanted to capture, what would it be like for people to live with them and “how to bond as if they were pets and present them as beings with feelings and not just monsters trying to devour things.” “. There are also issues such as food shortages, the secret market and the identity crisis.
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As in the other episodes, the dinosaurs are still present in the film and are the main attraction. But in this case, the spotlight is additionally shared with the protagonists of Jurassic Park – played by Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum – who return to the action along with the new faces of the franchise, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. .: “Bringing everyone together was an opportunity and at the same time something that could very easily be squandered by nostalgia, but I don’t think the public sees that. As much as we adore these characters as icons, we don’t want to see replicas of whoever played them in the first film. We want to see how they have changed and grown over time and what perspective they are taking in this new world.” The hardest to integrate was that of Dern, paleobotanist Ellie Sattler, given her specific job after a world catastrophe had to look for in which they could legitimately intervene.
Director Colin Trevorrow at the Los Angeles premiere of “Jurassic World: Dominion” on Monday, June 6th. MARIO ANZUONI (REUTERS)
The new direction the franchise should take is what Trevorrow has dedicated his life to for the last 10 years. And while he wasn’t responsible for the second installment, which fell into the hands of Juan Antonio Bayona, he was involved in both co-writing the screenplay for the new triad of films and producing the last two. The American admits that being on the set of Bayona was one of his most rewarding experiences as a filmmaker: “To see him direct as a cinema buff was an incredible gift. But I was also able to learn a lot about our own franchise and history by seeing it through the eyes of another filmmaker that I respect. So I know I brought a lot of what I learned to Jurassic World: Dominion. And I’m so proud of this film, this film and how they fit together.”
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Trevorrow agrees that he’s always been fascinated “by all kinds of creatures that existed on the planet before us,” and says he’s chosen all the dinosaurs that have appeared on screens in the last 10 years, “one of the… Parts he has enjoyed the most. From his job.” So the saga partially took him back to his childhood, “something we all need at some point,” and reminded him of “the power of cinema” to help him achieve that. “As a kid, I was in Oakland growing up where we had a house in the back yard that was like a forest it never snows there although i remember it snowing once in my entire childhood i would run out with my star wars characters so i could in the snow could play like it was Hoth [un planeta helado], but it was very sad because it melted and I only had about 45 minutes. So I started playing with my dinosaurs, and that’s when I started thinking about what an idea of dinosaurs would be like in our world,” says the filmmaker.
The main cast of ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’, at one point in the film.
He still has George Lucas’ galactic saga in his head, albeit with a bittersweet aftertaste of his heartbreak with the ninth part, which left him with honey on his lips: “Back then it was about people who wanted to tell a story and they could not find a common path through the forest. And that happens often. It’s the nature of creativity in the film business.” But Trevorrow, who sees the glass as half full, uses the experience to learn from what happened and apply it to his work at Dominion: “Not only did it give me the opportunity to do a lot Lessons to be learned, but to really validate certain instincts I had about how the characters and story would be handled in the third part of a trilogy based on something bigger that we all loved as children.There’s a real mirror between Jurassic Park and Star Wars, and now I feel like I have a PhD in managing these very challenging endeavors.”
Looking ahead, Trevorrow is currently working on a trilogy about Atlantis, the underwater city 12,000 years ago before it was submerged. And what happens to Jurassic World leaves it to the public. He’s quiet about the work he’s done — “I don’t think I crashed the Ferrari,” he jokes — and has made it his mission to plant some seeds in the films in case other directors continue with the saga want. The dinosaurs will continue their journey on platforms with the animated series Jurassic World: Cretaceous Camp (Netflix), which celebrates its fifth and final season in July. For now, they’re saying goodbye to the big screen.
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