Exiting the Park
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Director Colin Trevorrow on saying goodbye to a prehistoric franchise with JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION
EDITED BY CHRIS HEWITT
Prehistoric pals: Director Colin Trevorrow calling the shots on Jurassic World Dominion.
FOR NEARLY 30 years now, dinosaurs have ruled the box office. With the concluding chapter to his Jurassic World trilogy, filmmaker Colin Trevorrow gave us evolutions and endings — aconclusion for Chris Pratt’s Owen and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire; the long-awaited Jurassic Park reunion of Sam Neill’s Alan Grant, Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm and Laura Dern’s Ellie Sattler; and prehistoric creatures finally roaming the mainland.
But it also marked an ending for Trevorrow himself, stepping down from the dino-franchise after a decade of recoding its DNA. Empire sat down with the director in Malta for an honest discussion about closing this chapter, Jurassic World Dominion’s 14-minutes-longer Extended Edition, and whether this really is an extinction event for the Jurassic saga, after all.
How are you feeling a few months on about how the film was received? Dominion has a lot of familiar characters returning, but narratively it’s a very unfamiliar Jurassic movie.
This movie has a lot of people to please. You have the general audience who love to go see a dinosaur movie with their family sometimes. Then you have people who grew up on Jurassic Park and know it’s one perfect movie that honestly can never be topped. And then you have a group of people who want to watch it ironically, like, “Let’s mash it together with Fast & Furious and have people getting chomped everywhere!” It really is a tremendous challenge. I’ve always tried to keep all of that in mind, and that was the movie we made. It was challenging for me to release this movie, because [the theatrical cut] wasn’t the film that I made. To be able to have the film that I made be released in its original state, I recognise how rare that is, and I’m so grateful to Universal for doing it.