RadioTimes.com<\/strong>.<\/p> \u201cBut when you actually think about what that actually means, it doesn\u2019t really feel real. And so I think that we\u2019ve made a movie that is hopefully richer and more thoughtful and approaches things in a way that maybe people won\u2019t expect.\u201d<\/p>\n
Later, he added: \u201cInstead of something that feels sci-fi or you know, dinosaurs in the city and eating out of Starbucks, like whatever that is. I just wanted to make it feel like \u2018What if this actually happened?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
We also caught up with Trevorrow on where the Jurassic franchise could go next, which comedy actor almost made it back into the film for a cameo and why the film could have survived even without the return of some Jurassic Park legends. You can read our full Q&A below.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n Colin Trevorrow (Getty)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/div>\nSo, Colin, was it always the plan for you to come back to finish the trilogy? You know, you sort of stepped away a little bit for the second film.<\/strong><\/p>\nTo a certain extent if I continued doing the [Star Wars movie] that I was doing during Fallen Kingdom, maybe scheduling wouldn\u2019t have worked out, but it was definitely something I wanted. And so when I realised I would have the opportunity to do it, I didn\u2019t blink.<\/p>\n
What was it like kind of coming back and taking charge? What was the story you really wanted to tell here?<\/strong><\/p>\nI don\u2019t really feel like I went away, just because I worked so closely with [director JA] Bayona on the second film, and the challenge for me here was knowing I wanted to tell a larger story about genetic power, knowing that I wanted the legacy characters to be the engine of that story. And also being able to explore Claire and Owen being parents in the guardianship of a child whose unique existence is related to everything they have guilt over in their lives.<\/p>\n
So a lot of things I wanted to do and working with [co-writer Emily Carmichael] to really streamline it into a story that is structured in a way that maybe most blockbusters aren\u2019t, but then really invest us more and more into these two parallel stories until they collide.<\/p>\n
Did this film really depend on getting back those legacy characters \u2013 \u00a0the great Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, Laura Dern \u2013 or was there a version you could have made if they\u2019d said no?<\/strong><\/p>\nWell, you\u2019ve seen it. I mean there\u2019s a film in there, where it\u2019s just two parents trying to find their daughter.<\/p>\n
And yet the way that those stories ultimately weave together and how they become so reliant on each other\u2019s adventure\u2026 I think actually, the film will benefit from rewatch value if you know that going in and you see how it\u2019s built.<\/p>\n
I know these movies get watched again and again by kids. And so I don\u2019t think about the first time, I think about the fifth time watching a movie and how it plays then. And it\u2019s easier for me, because I have to watch it 100 times.<\/p>\n
(from left) Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), Owen Grady (Chris Pratt), Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon) and Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise) in Jurassic World Dominion, co-written and directed by Colin Trevorrow.<\/span><\/figcaption> Universal<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n We also have some returning characters from earlier in your trilogy like Omar Sy. Was there anyone else you wanted to get, but couldn\u2019t?<\/strong><\/p>\nWell, I mean, I would always love to work with Jake Johnson again, and that didn\u2019t work out this time around. But I also felt, you know, he and I are friends. So we see each other a lot. And we also we have a feeling now that you know, what we did in Jurassic World was just special. And maybe that\u2019s okay. That that\u2019s all it was.<\/p>\n
There was a little photo cameo from him, right?<\/strong><\/p>\nOh, of course. Yeah, absolutely. Hey, you caught that.<\/p>\n
We also have the return of a significant villain in Dodgson, who appeared in the original movie \u2013 was the idea to bring it back to the start?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\nWe always felt like Dodgson and BioSyn\u2026.which isn\u2019t mentioned in the first movie, it\u2019s only people who\u2019ve read the book who even know that BioSyn exists. But for fans of Crichton, BioSyn as an entity felt like an important thing to define. And this movie gave us that opportunity.<\/p>\n
But we also didn\u2019t want to make it an evil corporation. Because I don\u2019t think that\u2019s a real thing. I think corporations are made up of people who work for somebody who is making decisions very high up. And so to make that guy, someone who feels like a betrayal to the values of all the young people working in the company felt like something a lot of us are feeling now and we could connect to.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s interesting, I hadn\u2019t thought about that.<\/strong><\/p>\nIt\u2019s a big thread. I mean, you know, Mamadou Athie\u2019s character is a young man who feels betrayed by this icon that everybody looks up to who turns out to be a pretty shady guy. And I think that\u2019s it\u2019s a very current idea.<\/p>\n
Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing in Jurassic World Dominion, co-written and directed by Colin Trevorrow.<\/span><\/figcaption> Universal<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n This might be tricky for you to answer, having seen it 100 times \u2013 but what do you think might surprise people about this film? <\/strong><\/p>\nI think what I think there\u2019s a sense that this is a movie about dinosaurs and humans battling for dominance on the planet, and only one can win. And you know, it sounds cool.<\/p>\n
But when you actually think about what that actually means, it doesn\u2019t really feel real. And so I think that we\u2019ve made a movie that is hopefully richer and more thoughtful and approaches things in a way that maybe people won\u2019t expect.<\/p>\n
But once they realise what we\u2019re after, hopefully, they\u2019ll accept it as part of our whole trilogy.<\/p>\n
Obviously, there\u2019s some big action sequences in the film \u2013 I especially enjoyed the cage, when the whole cast\u2019s in the forest being attacked. What was the most difficult to shoot? And what was your favourite?<\/strong><\/p>\nI mean, they\u2019re all challenging. That one that you\u2019re talking about is with everyone. And so being able to have that many people feel constantly in danger is really challenging. We had a big animatronic, it was night, it was cold, it was a pandemic, there was a lot going on.<\/p>\n
My favourite personally is the sequence I did with Bryce where she goes underwater. She and I had never had a chance to just do a dinosaur sequence together with her alone on screen, plus a dinosaur. And so it felt like a drum solo.<\/p>\n
After all these years, we got to just do something exactly the way that we would want it to be. And she\u2019s a director. And so it felt like a really cool collaboration.<\/p>\n
I noticed a lot more practical dinosaurs in this film, and animatronics. Was that a conscious change?<\/strong><\/p>\nI mean, it\u2019s something I always wanted to do, but it was it was about resources and honestly, trust. You know, trust in the filmmaker to make choices on set, as opposed to have the ability to make them later. When you make an animatronic,\u00a0 whatever you shoot is what it is.<\/p>\n
And I think more and more these days, producers and studios are used to being able to create a lot of things in post and having a lot of conversations about that. And here, it\u2019s trusting me to get it on the day as if I\u2019m there with actors.<\/p>\n
So each time we\u2019ve been able to make more and more, we\u2019ve had more resources to make more. If it was up to me, they\u2019d all be animatronics, but they do have to run sometimes. So you can only do so much. You can\u2019t throw them underwater. They don\u2019t like that.<\/p>\n
Laura Dern and Sam Neill in Jurassic World: Dominion.<\/span><\/figcaption> Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n Were there any moments that you shot that you ended up having to cut from the film that you really regretted losing?<\/strong><\/p>\nYes, there\u2019s about 14 minutes of movie. I know, it sounds very specific, because it is. But we\u2019ll all get a chance to see that. And actually, the first five minutes of the movie we put online six months ago, the prologue was the opening of the movie. So you can see how that might go right into the beginning.<\/p>\n
But I actually really like how the prologue does pay off at the end of the film. So if, if you\u2019re a kid, and you\u2019ve been watching that for a long time, I know a lot of kids have, you\u2019ll recognise that you\u2019re seeing the end of the story when you go.<\/p>\n
I think and correct me if I\u2019m wrong, was this the first Jurassic film not set at least partially on one of the two islands in Costa Rica? Did you clock that early on, and was there any thought given to slotting one in?<\/strong><\/p>\nYou know, it wasn\u2019t the story we were telling. Obviously Nublar went through a serious tragedy [in the last film]. And it felt like the natural trajectory of this was to fundamentally change what the franchise is, in certain ways, because every movie has just been on an island that may or may not be safe when people go to it.<\/p>\n
I think we\u2019ve just gotten into this pattern of assuming that that\u2019s what a Jurassic movie is, but to me, it felt like especially you know, if there are future stories to be told to give a little bit more room for people to be creative and to create a really natural, believable dynamic between dinosaurs and humans on the planet.<\/p>\n
Instead of something that feels sci-fi or you know, dinosaurs in the city and eating out of Starbucks, like whatever that is. I just wanted to make it feel like \u2018What if this actually happened?\u2019<\/p>
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