Jurassic World Director Speaks About Film Leaks

By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)

Director Colin Trevorrow is neck deep in the production of Jurassic World. Rumors of what the plot is, and the revelation of who the big bad dinosaur is had leaked out onto the internet and have thrown many fans off.

Recently, Trevorrow spoke with /Film about these rumors and pretty much try to alleviate some of the fears fans have of the sequel.?I'm opening the gates to spoilers now, so if you've been avoiding them, now's the chance to back away.

Are the Rumors True?

We'll just start off with this one. Trevorrow could have been coy about this, but when asked whether the rumors were true he responded with the following:

Yes. 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.

That matches the world map photos that were leaked, showing some of those park locations and the description we heard about the park. Talking more about the theme of the film, Treverrow described humanity is taking for granted all of the scientific advances that surround us daily:

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 Tyraptocuttlesnake Rex

We reported the inclusion of a new hybrid dinosaur and this is what a lot of fans have taken issue with. Treverrow responded to that with:

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 mandatethey want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that's what they get.

I still think that adding a brand new dinosaur by splicing the DNA of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Velociraptor, a snake, and a cuttlefish is a bit of a copout.

The Dino Army

It’s weird that most people have an issue with the hybrid creature, because the thing that worries me the most is the aspect of trained dinosaurs. The whole deal of Jurassic Park is that nature can’t be controlled and that “life finds a way,” so having dinosaurs under our control subverts the entire core concept of the series. (The first Jurassic Park 4 ideas had mutated, human-like/soldier dino-hybrids… )

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.

That actually makes me feel a little bit easier. It feels like Treverrow is exploring more of a relationship with dinosaurs as opposed to man’s dominance over them and that is interesting to me.

As for who may be leaking key plot details and spoilers, it’s a safe bet to say it could be someone on the crew, an assistant to a cast member, perhaps. It wouldn’t be a surprise if the leaks stop, or the person is caught.

Jurassic World premieres June 12, 2015, after script issues caused a delay by a year.

Big hat tip to /Film, where they have some cool photos!

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