While we still have three months left in 2015, it will be very hard for another movie to top the massivebox officesuccess ofJurassic World. The blockbuster took in $649.8 million domestically and $1.6 billion worldwide, and it didn’t take long for Universal Pictures to announce a sequel,Jurassic World 2.Colin Trevorrowwill come back for this highly-anticipated sequel, and during an interview with theJurassic Cast Podcast, the filmmaker revealed that there are two quotes from the originalJurassic Parkthat essentially inspired bothJurassic WorldandJurassic World 2.
“Honestly, the trilogy is articulated inJurassic Park, it’s all in there.Jurassic Worldis all based on Ian Malcolm’s quote, ‘You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you wanna sell it.’ That to me isJurassic World, that’s why I had all the product placement, that’s what it was. The second one,Jurassic World 2, and as we were driving we tried to find, what is the foundation? ‘Dinosaurs and man, separated by 65 million years of evolution have been thrown back into the mix together. How can we know what to expect?’ That’s why it’s exciting that the movie did well, that leaves us a lot of room to run, and it was part of this design, it had a beginning, middle, and end when we wrote the first movie. Now that the movie did well, we get to play that out.”
Thesequelwill hit theaters on August 03, 2025, withChris PrattandBryce Dallas Howardset to return as Owen Grady and Claire Dearing.Colin Trevorrowis coming back to co-write the screenplay for the sequel withDerek Connolly, although he is not returning as adirector. The filmmaker revealed that the sequel will feature weaponized dinosaurs and will take place off of Isla Nublar. When asked about the follow-up, the filmmaker said the story will be taken to the next level.
“It will get to be a different kind of film. The audience has given us permission to a certain extent to take this to the next level, and I don’t necessarily mean in scale, I feel very strongly that it’s not about more dinosaurs or bigger and better dinosaurs, it’s about using this as a starting point for a much larger story about our relationship with these animals and about animals in general and the dynamic created by bringing them back to life.”
The filmmaker revealed that he mapped out an entire trilogy with co-writerDerek Connolly, during a road trip from Los Angeles to Vermont. While he wouldn’t go into specifics about the third movie’s plot, he did say thatBryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing will evolve the most throughout the trilogy, and that the sequel doesn’t “manufacture” ways to take these characters somewhere else.
“Jurassic Worldwas very much made with the fans in mind, and I’m not going to forget it, but now we’ve seen a lot of ‘dinosaurs chasing people around on an island’ movies. I think you guys and also the general audience is going to be down to explore where else we can go. We know Owen is going to be in it and Claire will be in it and neither will be in the same place that we left them in this movie, Even though Claire is the one who evolves the most over the trilogy, it’s her story that mirrors this changing world, Owen has s**t to deal with. The two of them opened Pandora’s Box in Jurassic World and each of them are responsible for different elements of it in different ways, and I think the way that these characters are connected to the circumstances of what’s happening, it’s different than the previous films. It’s not ‘Let’s manufacture a way to get them somewhere,’ they’re embedded into it now in a way that as story tellers makes it much easier for us to keep them involved and doesn’t feel as contrived.”
Universal hasn’t announced who will directJurassic World 2, and it isn’t known how far alongColin TrevorrowandDerek Connollyare on the screenplay. Who do you think should directJurassic World 2? Or do you hope thatColin Trevorrowchanges his mind and comes back to the helm? Let us know what you think, and stay tuned for more updates.
