The follow-up to the last year’s “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” will start filming in spring 2020, but already, the rumor mill is churning that original “Jurassic Park” stars Laura Dern (Ellie Sattler) and Sam Neill (Alan Grant) will make an appearance. They would join Jeff Goldblum, who reprised his role as Dr. Ian Malcom in “Fallen Kingdom.”
When asked about their possible involvement at the grand opening ceremony for “Jurassic World: The Ride” at Universal Studios, director Colin Trevorrow responded — in a typically vague manner.
“I can confirm nothing,” he said. “But nothing would make me happier than to be able to work with any of those people.”
The director was similarly cagey about talk that this will be the final film in the “Jurassic World” series. It would form a trilogy, just as the “Jurassic Park” movies did.
“I’m kind of a ‘one movie at a time’ kind of guy, so my eyes are on this one,” Trevorrow noted. “And it’s a celebration of everything that has existed in the franchise up until now.”
“Jurassic World 3” is slated to open in theaters June 11, 2021.
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” may have been one of the biggest movies of the summer, but that doesn’t mean that there hasn’t been criticism. In fact, Honest Trailers got pretty harsh in the series’ most recent video.
Right from the start, it’s clear that the review isn’t going to pull punches. The narrator opens by saying, “Just when you thought the Jurassic franchise couldn’t get any dumber, a sequel will show anyone still clinging to the corpse of the original: You ain’t seen stupid yet.” That’s not even the most cutting comment in the video. That superlative might go to the line “dumb finds a way,” because not only does it insult the film, it does so with a play on a famous quote from the movies.
Watch the video below.
While the “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” Honest Trailer is pretty harsh, fans did still turn out for the film in droves. It brought in more than $1.48 billion worldwide, according to Box Office Mojo. Say what you will, but that’s an impressive figure.
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” arrives on Blu-ray today (it’s already available on digital HD), and with it comes the opportunity to, at the very least, soak up all of the individual details that you might have missed when watching it on the big screen. There’s so much packed into each and every frame — rampaging dinosaurs, exploding volcanoes, oily businessmen — that the ability to stop and re-watch scenes is very much appreciated. It’s a testament to director J.A. Bayona that he was able to make a movie that could have been just another big budget sequel into something richer and more complex.
Everywhere on the special features, too, you get the feeling that he was pushing to creative an experience that was bigger and more expressive than the one that came before it.
So it was a thrill to get to chat with Bayona about what went into certain creative choices and asked him to go into the ending of the movie, specifically, unpacking things that we really weren’t able to talk about when the movie first came out. If you’re one of the three people who somehow missed seeing it theatrically, consider this a very big SPOILER WARNING. We go deep.
Moviefone: On the Blu-ray special features they talk about how you wanted each of these dinosaurs to have its own unique look and personality. Could you talk about what went into that decision?
Bayona: Well, I remember that talking about dinosaurs with kids, I was very surprised to see that when they talk about dinosaurs, they basically talk about texture and color and the skin tones. So I went to the guys at [visual effects house] Industrial Light & Magic and suggested that the dinosaurs have more color. And I wanted a specific personality for each dinosaur. So all of them, they feel a lot more colorful and they very different from each other. And also I suggested that, since it’s been four years into the wild, I wanted them to feel wilder than the previous movies. So you’ll see lots of scars of dinosaurs fighting with each other. They’re not like in a zoo. Some of them you can see them with broken horns.
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They also talk about the movie’s villain, the Indoraptor, and how you wanted it to feel unfinished. Can you talk about how you landed on that idea?
For Dr. Wu creating a dinosaur is trial and error. So we liked the idea of the Indoraptor being an error. It’s a prototype that went wrong. He’s like a discharged animal. I liked that idea. No one is feeling him anymore, no one cares about him anymore. I liked that. It reminded me of Frankenstein’s monster. That’s the same idea.
It’s interesting you brought up “Frankenstein,” because on the Blu-ray you talk about how the scene where the Indoraptor comes into the child’s room being a direct reference to the Frank Langella “Dracula.” What about that version of Dracula spoke to you?
There is this Gothic element that is taken from the classic monster movies. This idea of long corridors … And I like that. Ever since I got the script from Colin Trevorrow, that scene with the Indoraptor coming into the window for Macy, it reminded me of that scene from “Dracula.” I saw that scene when I was 5-years-old and I was so scared. I was afraid of the window after that scene. It reminded me a lot of that. So I wanted to somehow reference that seem. It’s a very classic moments. It reminds me of the world of fairy tales, with the monster at the top of the tower. I liked that image that freaked me out as a child of Frank Langella crawling down and opening the window upside down.
You’re obviously friends with Guillermo del Toro. What did you share with him? He is the foremost authority on monsters these days.
I show Guillermo everything I do. So he came into the editing room and I showed him a rough cut of the movie and he loved it. He gave me a couple of suggestions but he really encouraged me when he saw it.
Do you remember what some of his suggestions were?
Normally with Guillermo you talk about the pace. So we talked about making some scenes shorter or maybe making that one scene longer. But I have been doing that since my very first movie. It’s such a privilege to be able to sit down with him. The same thing I did with Steven Spielberg. When you do a movie and you can get feedback from a legendary filmmaker like Steven Spielberg or Guillermo del Toro, it’s such a gift.
So much of the end of this movie was shown in TV spots. Did you ever push back on that stuff?
Yeah. For sure there were moments we were asking for them to pull back a little bit because as a director, you’re very insecure, and you want the audience to discover the movie for the first time in the theater. But at the same time, you see the job these guys did on “Jurassic World” and it was such a massive success and “Fallen Kingdom” is such a massive success. At a certain point you just have to trust these guys. Because your job is to make the movie and their job is to sell it. It’s always a very delicate situation for a director because you always have the impression that you’re showing too much. But that’s not the way it works for these types of films.
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During that montage of the dinosaurs in the wild, did you shoot anything else?
Yeah, when you think about the movie. There’s not much space to experiment. So the entire epilogue was storyboarded and pre-visualized. And there was a lot of conversation about what scene would be the final scene in the epilogue. A lot of ideas were drawn but not included. There was a moment with the Stygimoloch in a supermarket that felt too comical for that moment so we decided not to include it.
What about the post-credits sting? Why was it important to end on that note?
That was a scene that was included in the epilogue but because it was the only nighttime scene I felt that it broke the chronological in the epilogue. I felt it was out of sync with the other scenes. It was the only nighttime moment and it was only night because we couldn’t catch the sunset. That was a second unit shot and the second unit couldn’t catch the sunset. And I decided not to include. It was a fun shot, because you think you’re in Paris but obviously it would be impossible to be in Paris, and really you’re in Las Vegas because the dinosaurs would be all over that area. So we decided to put that as a bonus for the fans at the very end.
I think it’s great that the person who started it all will finish the trilogy. He is the architect of the trilogy and I think he’s the right one to do it. I would love to do another “Jurassic” movie but I wouldn’t want to do a “Jurassic” movie as my next movie. I always like to change a lot from one movie to the next. When you think about “The Orphanage” to “The Impossible” to “Monster Calls,” they’re very different. I’m not sure if I would like to do another “Jurassic” movie back-to-back.
Just one plot question that has been bugging me: why did they need Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard to come back to the island if Dr. Wu was already working for the bad guys and would have the same security clearance?
I think they have a very limited amount of time because of the volcano and they need the code, the microchip that Blue has, the only person that can locate her is Claire, because she has the hand scan to make the machine work. And at the same time Blue is so difficult to catch, they need Owen to get her as soon as possible, because the volcano is about to erupt. They need to move vey, very fast. Basically, it’s for the urgency.
I accept that.
You’ve been thinking about that since you saw the movie.
Yes!
I hope I answered your question!
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” is out on Blu-ray and digital HD now.
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At a loss for what to watch this week? From new DVDs and Blu-rays, to what’s streaming on Netflix, we’ve got you covered.
New on DVD and Blu-ray
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” Cry for that Brachiosaurus from the privacy of your own home when the “Jurassic World” sequel arrives on 4K Ultra HD, 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on Tuesday, September 18. The release comes with more than an hour of bonus content, including Chris Pratt‘s behind-the-scenes “Jurassic Journals.” A new five-Movie Collection will also be available Sept. 18.
Check out this exclusive clip from the bonus features, as Chris Pratt interviews — or at least tries to interview — director J.A. Bayona:
“Damsel” Robert Pattinson and Mia Wasikowska star in this critically acclaimed Western comedy arriving on DVD, Digital, and On Demand September 18. “Samuel Alabaster (Pattinson), an affluent pioneer, ventures across the American frontier to marry the love of his life, Penelope (Wasikowska). As his group traverses the West, the once-simple journey grows treacherous, blurring the lines between hero, villain, and damsel.”
“The Looming Tower” Based on the book by Lawrence Wright, this 10-part miniseries tracking the events that led to the 9/11 terror attacks arrives on Blu-ray and DVD September 18. The all-star cast includes Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Bill Camp, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Peter Sarsgaard. Extras include audio commentaries and several new behind-the-scenes featurettes on the making of the series.
“The Purge” origin story arrives on Digital/Movies Anywhere September 18, then on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand October 2. The Purge 4-Movie Collection — including “The Purge,” “The Purge: Anarchy,” “The Purge: Election Year,” and the prequel “The First Purge” — will also be available on the same dates. “The First Purge” extras include a deleted scene and several featurettes with the cast and filmmakers.
“Little Italy” Emma Roberts and Hayden Christensen, star in the romantic comedy “Little Italy,” playing childhood friends who grow up to fall in love, but it’s complicated by their parents’ rival pizzerias. The all-star cast includes Alyssa Milano, Danny Aiello, and Andrea Martin. The rom-com arrives in select theaters and On Demand Friday, September 21.
“Beyond the Sky” This sci-fi thriller will be in select theaters and available on VOD/Digital HD this Friday, Sept. 21. “Chris Norton has been hearing about alien abductions his entire life but, in his gut, he knows they are not real. Setting out to disprove the alien abduction phenomenon once and for all, he attends a UFO convention to meet alleged abductees and reveal the truth behind their experiences. It is only when he meets Emily, who claims to have been abducted every seven years on her birthday, that Chris realizes there may be more to these claims than meets the eye.” Check out the trailer.
“A Greater Society” This political documentary — available on VOD September 18 — follows a group of retirees who vote in Broward County, FL. “It’s the 2014 midterm elections and these residents feel the weight of democracy on their shoulders. In one of the most influential counties of America’s largest swing state, these political kingmakers trade their golf clubs for clipboards and hit the pavement to get out the vote.” Here’s the trailer.
“Sorry For Your Loss” Elizabeth Olsen, Janet McTeer , and Kelly Marie Tran star in this new series launching on Facebook Watch. The drama starts Tuesday, Sept. 18 with four episodes; after that, two new episodes will arrive every Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET on the “Sorry For Your Loss” show page on Facebook Watch. The half-hour drama stars Elizabeth Olsen as Leigh Shaw, a young widow struggling to put her life back together in the wake of her husband’s unexpected death.
Can’t say we saw this coming. But we’re willing to give it a try! Tony Danza and Josh Groban co-star as father and son Tony Caruso Sr. and Tony Caruso Jr. in this police dramedy series. It comes from the creator of “Monk” and it’s adapted from a similar Israeli series. Stream the 10 episodes starting this Friday, September 21.
MANIAC tells the stories of Annie Landsberg (Emma Stone) and Owen Milgrim (Jonah Hill), two strangers drawn to the late stages of a mysterious pharmaceutical trial. Things do not go as planned.
“Violet Jones has a seemingly flawless life – a great job, a handsome doctor boyfriend, and a meticulously maintained perfect coiffure. But after an accident at the hair-dresser, each of these things start to unravel, and Violet begins to realize that she was living the life she thought she was supposed to live, not the one that she really wanted.”
“Quincy” (Netflix Original) “Artist. Father. Visionary. QUINCY is an intimate look at musical icon and influential legend, Quincy Jones.” (He’s also Rashida Jones‘s father, in case you didn’t know.) Watch it on Netflix September 21st.” Here’s the trailer.
“Hilda” (Netflix Original) “Hilda takes on adventure, magical creatures, mystery, and new friends. Based off Luke Pearson’s acclaimed graphic novel, all episodes launch September 21, only on Netflix.” Here’s the trailer.
70th Annual Emmy Awards (Monday on NBC at 8 p.m.)Television Academy
It’s TV’s biggest night! Michael Che and Colin Jost — aka “Saturday Night Live” Weekend Update co-anchors — are tag-teaming the hosting duties this Monday, Sept. 17. Yeah, it’s kind of weird to have the Emmys on a Monday, but it’s happening. Here’s the list of nominations. And check out this Emmy voter’s ballot, which is happily pro-“The Americans” winning the top honor.
“9-1-1” Season 2 Premiere (Sunday on Fox at 8 p.m.) Fox’s hit first responders show is returning for Season 2, with a two-night premiere starting this Sunday, Sept. 23 and then continuing into the following Monday, Sept. 24. Here are the details on Sunday’s Part 1:
“On one of the hottest days of the year, the first responders feel the pressure as harrowing incidents keep happening around the city, including a road rage accident involving a van full of tourists, an emergency at an auto-repair shop and a veteran with a live grenade embedded in his leg. Meanwhile, Buck gets a surprise visit from his sister, Maddie (Jennifer Love Hewitt). Also, Athena questions her relationship with Bobby. Then, at the fire station, handsome new hire Eddie (Ryan Guzman) jeopardizes Buck’s chances of being chosen for a fireman calendar.”
“I Feel Bad” (Wednesday on NBC at 10 p.m.) This new comedy comes from executive producer Amy Poehler. Sarayu Blue stars as Emet– “the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend, and daughter. Okay, she’s not perfect. In fact, she’s just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she pretends not to know her kids when they misbehave in public, or when she uses her staff to help solve personal problems. But that’s okay, right? Nobody can have it all and do it perfectly.”
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom”
It’s Labor Day week, but Chris Pratt and his dino buddies are hard at work getting ready for the September 4 release of “Fallen Kingdom” on Digital/Movies Anywhere. The “Jurassic World” sequel will be available on 4K Ultra HD, 3D Blu-ray, Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand on September 18.
The releases come with more than an hour of bonus content — including Chris Pratt’s behind-the-scenes “Jurassic Journals” captured on-set. Also, as a heads-up for “Jurassic Park” fans, you can complete your “Jurassic” library to date when the all-new five movie collection arrives on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD September 18. But don’t forget that a third movie in the “Jurassic” trilogy is still on the way.
“Roy is the nice guy who finishes last. Sick of his current situation, he accepts an invitation to have Christmas dinner with the beautiful and strangely alluring Emilia. Once at dinner, Roy realizes that Emilia and her oddball brother (Edward) are not what they seem.”
Check out this exclusive coffee shop scene with Roy and Emilia:
“A highly contagious biological weapon, created by German forces in WWI, is discovered by Allied troops as they explore an abandoned underground bunker. Realizing they need to contain and destroy the threat, their mission becomes a fight for survival when one of their own is infected by the deadly parasite and begins to violently attack them. The soldiers now need to not only save themselves, but must stop the outbreak before it spreads to the rest of the world.”
“Mara”
Here’s another horror-thriller — must be the season! — arriving in theaters and on VOD/Digital HD this Friday, September 7:
“From a producer of Paranormal Activity and Insidious comes this shock-filled descent into fear. After a man is seemingly strangled in his bed, criminal psychologist Kate Fuller (Olga Kurylenko) interviews the sole witness, the victim’s eight-year-old daughter, Sophie. When asked to identify the killer, Sophie says, ‘Mara.’ As Kate digs into the case, she unearths a community of people who claim to be tormented by a shadowy menace, a centuries-old demon who kills her victims as they sleep.”
“I Love You, America” (Hulu Original)
In this new series, Sarah Silverman attempts to connect with people who may not agree with her personal opinions — using good old-fashioned honesty, humor, genuine interest in others, and not taking herself too seriously. New episodes start streaming on Hulu this Thursday, Sept. 6:
“While it’s great to connect with like-minded people, Silverman feels it’s crucial, now more than ever, to connect with the un-like-minded.”
New Amazon Prime Original Series:
Netflix and Hulu don’t get to have all the fun; here are three Amazon Prime series ready for streaming as of this Friday, Sept. 7:
• “Six Dreams” Season 1: The Prime Original series is a behind-the-scenes look at Spain’s top football league, LaLiga. It follows six contrasting storylines revolving around three players, one coach, one sports director and a club president from various teams, who all offer unique insights into the daily challenges of professional football. • “Wishenpoof” Season 2B: The Prime Original series chronicles the life of Bianca and her magical power of making wishes come true. This season, Bianca learns how to care for others when her best friend teddy bear gets sick and helps the community fix its favorite slide at the local playground. More sing-along music and Wish Magic adventures await, including a family camping trip to Mt. Wishmore and a special dinner with Bianca’s grandmas. • “Pete the Cat” Season 1A: The Prime Original series is based on The New York Times No. 1 best-selling children’s books about exploring your world and trying new things while being smart, accepting, and optimistic. Whether you’re making new friends, or facing all of life’s ups and downs, Pete highlights the groovy lessons life can teach you.
The truth is out there: “X-Files” queen Gillian Anderson co-stars in this sci-fi thriller — alongside Alex Sharp, David Strathairn, Ella Purnell, and Benjamin Beatty — which debuts on Digital and DVD September 4. “UFO” was written and directed by Ryan Eslinger. Here’s the synopsis:
“Derek (Alex Sharp) a brilliant college student, haunted by a childhood UFO sighting, believes that mysterious sightings reported at multiple airports across the United States are UFO’s. With the help of his girlfriend, Natalie (Ella Purnell), and his advanced mathematics professor, Dr. Hendricks (X-Files’ Gillian Anderson), Derek races to unravel the mystery with FBI special agent Franklin Ahls (David Strathairn) on his heels.”
“Hereditary”
It’s horror week, and this one is a biggie. Toni Collette stars in this indie hit, arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, Digital, and DVD this Tuesday, Sept. 4. Gabriel Byrne, Alex Wolff, Ann Dowd and Milly Shapiro co-star in the film, which comes with nine deleted scenes and a behind-the-scenes featurette with the cast and crew.
“Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” Oh, Mister Rogers. This heartwarming and highly acclaimed documentary paints a portrait of the kindly man behind the cardigan. Meet Fred Rogers September 4 on Blu-ray, DVD, and On Demand.
“It’s not a weapon to be held. It’s a weapon to be used.” Danny Rand (Finn Jones) returns for Season 2 of Marvel’s series this Friday, September 7. Check out the trailer.
“Black Panther”
Wakanda can be yours forever, or for at least as long as this Marvel film is on Netflix, starting September 4. Don’t forget that Disney is launching its own streaming service for Disney/Marvel/Lucasfilm titles, so stream these Marvel titles while you can.
“Atypical” Season 2 (Netflix Original)
“Every family is imperfect. Every family is unpredictable. Every family is Atypical.” Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist) and family are back for Season 2 of this coming-of-age series starting this Friday, September 7. Here’s the trailer.
“First and Last” (Netflix Original)
That’s a lot of teen, kid, and superhero stuff. If you’re looking for another one of Netflix’s trademark hard-hitting docuseries, check out this intimate look at the emotionally charged first and last days of new and soon-to-be-released inmates at Georgia’s Gwinnett County Jail. Season 1 streams September 1.
TV Worth Watching
“Kidding” Season 1 (Sunday on Showtime at 10 p.m.)Showtime
Following the premiere of “Shameless” Season 9 is this new dramedy series from Jim Carrey. It’s actually his first series role in over 20 years. Here’s more:
“Jim Carrey stars as Jeff, aka Mr. Pickles, an icon of children’s television, a beacon of kindness and wisdom to America’s impressionable young minds, who also anchors a multimillion-dollar branding empire. But when Jeff’s family begins to implode, he finds no fairy tale or fable or puppet will guide him through the crisis, which advances faster than his means to cope. The result: a kind man in a cruel world faces a slow leak of sanity as hilarious as it is heartbreaking.”
“Mayans MC” Season 1 (Tuesday on FX at 10 p.m.) Kurt Sutter‘s “Sons of Anarchy” spinoff finally premieres this week. The next chapter in the saga is set in a post-Jax Teller world, introducing EZ Reyes (J. D. Pardo), a prospect in the Mayans MC charter on the border of Mexico and California. Start your journey with this club on September 4.
“It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” Season 13 (Wednesday on FXX at 10 p.m.) Mac got ripped and Dennis became a sex doll! Season 13 is already awesome, just from the trailer alone. The Gang’s *almost* all here starting September 5, so don’t miss one of the funniest shows on television.
“The Bad Seed” and “You” (Sunday on Lifetime at 8 and 10 p.m.) “Sharknado” is over, so we need something new for the so-bad-it’s-good file. No promises — ’cause these might be so good they’re good — but Lifetime has a couple of contenders airing September 9:
• Rob Lowe is directing and starring in a remake of the Oscar-nominated 1956 thriller “The Bad Seed.” Mckenna Grace plays the title character bad seed. Patty McCormack, who played the young girl in the original movie, has been cast for a co-starring role in the remake.
• “You,” starring Penn Badgley, Shay Mitchell, Elizabeth Lail, and John Stamos, has already been renewed for a second season. So it’s OK if you get hooked. The story follows bookstore manager Joe, who falls in love with a customer named Beck and quickly becomes obsessed with her.
Chris Pratt is on a roll, with more than $3 billion in box office receipts for 2018 alone. You can blame Star-Lord all the way to the bank.
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“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” may never reach the $1,671,713,208 heights of “Jurassic World.” But it did just crack the $1 billion milestone, thanks to opening early and strong in the international markets. We’ve only had it here for three weeks, since it opened June 22 on the domestic front.
But thanks to the worldwide market, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” now has just over $1 billion. And that’s before picking up more money over this upcoming post-Fourth of July weekend. (“Ant-Man and the Wasp” will surely be No. 1, but “Jurassic World 2” may follow, pushing “Incredibles 2” to third.)
As Deadline noted, this makes “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” the seventh film ever to reach $1 billion for Universal:
“Crossing the $1B threshold makes Universal the only studio apart from Disney to have at least two titles in three separate franchises reach these heights. For Uni that’s both recent Jurassic World movies, the last two Fast & Furious entries and Despicable Me 3 and Minions.”
Only 35 films have ever passed $1 billion at the worldwide box office. As of this moment, “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” is ready to replace “The Dark Knight” as No. 34 on the list of highest-grossing films of all time. And it’s not done yet.
Colin Trevorrow, who wrote and directed “Jurassic World,” co-wrote “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,” and will be directing the third “Jurassic World,” says he’d love to bring back Ellie Satler (Laura Dern) and Alan Grant (Sam Neill).
On MTV’s “Seen It, Spill It,” Trevorrow said, “We felt like [“Fallen Kingdom”] was Malcolm’s return, this was his moment… let him have his moment. I feel that way about everyone, especially Laura [Dern] in that she never got to have her own movie… that’s important.”
So, would the focus be on Dern in the third film? We’d be down with that, but given how little screen time Goldblum got in “Fallen Kingdom,” that’s highly doubtful.
What about the return of Dr. Grant? Trevorrow said he felt fans would feel “robbed” if Sam Neill didn’t return also.
Getting those two understandably dinosaur-wary doctors back on board would require some major plot calisthenics, but “Jurassic” movie plots are usually not heavy on believablity.
Director J.A. Bayona explained to The Hollywood Reporter that the scene “represents the ending of a dream that started 25 years ago” with 1993’s “Jurassic Park.” The first dinosaur we saw in that movie was a Brachiosaurus. And she was the last one we saw on Isla Nublar, helpless and abandoned as the island is destroyed by a volcano.
Bayona explained to THR how he staged that devastating callback scene, considering there was no real dino for the stars to watch:
“I played a very sweet and a little sad version of the ;Jurassic Park; melody. So that was very effective for the actors, especially for Bryce [Dallas Howard]. Being there, telling that story, listening to music from John Williams, they were all very emotional.”
The scene totally effed up a lot of fans, who vented on social media:
i guess i can kind of understand people so enraged about luke skywalker’s trajectory in TLJ now that i’ve seen what JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM have the fucking nerve to do to the brachiosaurus.
Stuff the people who thought that shipping dock scene with the brachiosaurus was a good idea. You had me crying over a CGI animal #JurassicWorldFallenKingdom
Also speaking of being sad I cannot believe Jurassic World 2 had the AUDACITY to make that Brachiosaurus scene so goddamn sad. Seriously if I remember nothing else from that movie it’s that one Brachio ????????????
There’s a scene in #JurassicWorldFallenKingdom that ABSOLUTELY broke me. I am traumatized. I am emotionally scarred. All I wanna do is cry. And all I want is a giant hug right now.
That scene had no business ruining my emotional life.
In other news (and despite promising myself I would not cry over any more CGI creatures) it’s been a whole week since I watched #JurassicWorldFallenKingdom and I’m still emotionally traumatized over that poor Brachiosaurus. ???????????? #JurassicWorld
Still emotionally traumatized by the Brachiosaurus’ dramatic death on Isla Nubar in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. I’d be less emotional if @prattprattpratt ‘s character was eaten by an Allosaurus which is then eaten by a Tyrannosaurus Rex which is then eaten by a Mososaurus.
In a way, it’s good to see so many fans care this much. It shows you guys have big hearts and working empathy — you feel for a living creature in distress, even if you know logically that the suffering creature is just a CGI image.
Good for you.
But bad for the “Jurassic” team to break our hearts like that. Don’t do that again when the third movie comes out in 2021! (They probably will.)
There’s something really interesting happening in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom“: it seems like a better movie than “Jurassic World,” but it isn’t.
When you take even a passing look at the script from Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, it features just as many shockingly bad, unexplained or implausible choices as its predecessor — except that director J.A. Bayona‘s considerable style turns this fifth installment in the storied franchise into something just scary enough to ignore them, at least while they’re unfolding.
Nevertheless, we decided to go through the movie with a fine-toothed comb — or to be more accurate, just thought about it for five more minutes — and put together a list of some, and probably not all, of the many things that “Fallen Kingdom” thinks that it gets away with, but absolutely does not.
From start to finish: 1. Why would a giant underwater gate, protecting the park’s biggest dinosaur from unfettered access to the world’s oceans, need to be wifi enabled to operate?
2. Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell), a guy with limitless wealth — whose name we’ve never heard before — hires former Jurassic World employee-turned-animal rights activist Claire Dearing to go back to the park to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from being destroyed by a volcanic eruption. Was there not one other surviving employee at her pay grade, much less one who might be less scrupulous than her — given the events that subsequently unfold — who could plunk down their handprint and grant Lockwood’s team access to the island’s tracking system?
3. Also, Franklin — Clarie’s de facto computer nerd employee — basically works as an IT guy for the Dinosaur Protection Group. What remotely qualifies him to go to an exploding island to hack into a computer system that Lockwood needs Claire’s handprint to get access to?
4. And if they could basically get any skilled computer hacker to crack into the former park’s security system, why do they need Claire at all? 5. Dr. Wu still lives and is still very clearly committed to genetically engineering any kind of dinosaur that his employers ask. Would he maybe have the security clearance that, say, the head geneticist would absolutely need that Mills could utilize to get access to Jurassic World’s computer system?
6. Speaking of Wu and the survivors of the park, how many are there? Is he the only person in the world with the scientific knowledge to clone dinosaurs?
7. Was the plan always to kill Owen, Claire, and the rest of the rescuers after they helped acquire Blue? Or did they make that decision on the fly? And if it wasn’t, what was the plan? How does the tranquilizer that Owen gets shot with work less well on humans than it does on dinosaurs?
8. How exactly would one capture a T. Rex while it is still awake, as the mercenaries seem to do when they fly it off the island?
9. Did Rafe Spall and Ted Levine know that they were playing dumber, broader versions of characters (Arliss Howard and Peter Stormare, respectively) from “The Lost World?” 10. How does Owen, Franklin, and Claire go off a cliff, where there is no visible shoreline, and wash up on the beach in a sandy cove?
11. Although Spall’s character, Eli Mills, intends to sell the dinosaurs to the highest bidder, Lockwood was apparently sincere about his desire to protect them. What was Mills’ plan to deceive his employer — hope that Lockwood just died before finding out? Because his seemingly improvised solution when Lockwood’s “granddaughter” finds out what’s going on is to murder his employer.
12. Then again, how long could Mills be developing this plan to sell and exploit dinosaurs in Lockwood’s own house — where he lives basically as a shut-in — without being found out? Was Lockwood aware of the super-secret basement lab? Or the “Blade II,” Blood Pack-looking security team of mercenaries carrying assault rifles outside his home?
13. Speaking of the “granddaughter,” what is the presumption we are to make about her with regard to Mills after Lockwood’s death? He views her as property? Mills fires Lockwood’s assistant, who leaves without a fight — despite having loved and raised this child — and then announces that he will be her guardian.
14. It’s unclear how much an individual dinosaur costs to “raise” — starting with the price of the technology and manpower to clone, feed, and train them, not to mention the massive undertaking of hiring a team of mercenaries to go in and bring them back to the mainland. In three years, The Masrani Corporation already paid $800 million in settlements to victims of the park. Dinosaurs sell for $10-20 million apiece, and the entire auction in the film earns $125 million. What is Mills’ business plan?
15. Basically, why would Mills sell dinosaurs for millions when they likely cost billions to clone?
16. Since Wheatley left them for dead on the island and they not only survived but completely uncovered Mills’ plans for the dinosaurs, why wouldn’t Mills not immediately kill Owen and Claire after locking them in one of the dinosaur cages? 17. How long does it take an Indoraptor grow to full size? Even if they were able to successfully take DNA from the Indominus Rex bone retrieved from the Mosasaurus lagoon, how much time could have elapsed between then and the dinosaur auction to raise and train it with the laser targeting device?
18. There is no indication whatsoever to the evil consortium of black-clad animal traders that dinosaurs can be trained or controlled, minus Owen’s work with Blue. Why would they think it’s a good idea to drop a Velociraptor (much less the Indoraptor) into combat situations — or at least good enough to pay tens of millions of dollars to try it out? And it’s JUST one dinosaur – how would that be cost effective to any military?
19. And who do they plan to find to train these dinos? Outside of Owen, are dino-combat trainers a thing?
20. And, if not, if Owen is the only expert in his field, why kill him? 21. Is Wheatley (Ted Levine) a big-game hunter or just a garden-variety mercenary? Either way, was he not prepped about the behavior of dinosaurs before going to Isla Nublar, or at the very least, would he really have absolutely no instinct to avoid leaving open the door to the cage of a very dangerous-looking dinosaur when he went in to retrieve his trophy (a tooth for his necklace because REASONS) from its mouth?
22. Early in the film, Claire says that a Velociraptor can track its prey from more than a mile away. Why can’t the Indoraptor make a snack of Claire, Owen, and Maisie in about five seconds — in a room where the creature is on one side of the only obstacle in the room — and the humans on the other?
23. Also, how is it impervious to tranquilizer darts?
24. If a Velociraptor can smash through metal and glass without any trouble at all, why wouldn’t it be able to easily break through the wooden door of a dumbwaiter?
25. Why does Owen risk his life to save the little girl from a raptor brawl raging in her bedroom, only to curl up in bed with her to watch in awe as the dinos go at it?
26. And why does Lockwood’s granddaughter, when faced with the the threat of a dinosaur in her house, retreat to hiding under her bed sheets? After we saw her scale the outside of her very tall home, in the rain, simply because she suspected weird sh** was afoot? 27. When we first see Ian Malcolm, he is giving a speech to Congress. Then, at the end of the film, we seem him again. Addressing Congress, in the same clothes and at the same time of day as last time. So is Malcolm giving part of the same speech from the beginning of the film at the end? Or does Congress just have him on retainer to deliver ominous speeches about mankind’s hubris and the dangers of genetic engineering?
“Fallen Kingdom” surpassed the $147.1 million opening of “Furious 7“ in 2015. So that’s impressive. But it pales in comparison to the $180 million “Incredibles 2” picked up last weekend for its opening. That’s OK, “Jurassic World 2” was never expected to open THAT big either.
Still, the dinos pushed the supers to second place for Disney-Pixar’s second weekend. “The Incredibles” made $80.9 million, a drop of more than 55 percent from its first week. So far, “Incredibles 2” has $350.3 million domestic and $134.7 foreign for a current balance of $485M. But it’s just getting started on the world stage.
“Jurassic World 2” decided to open overseas a few weeks before the domestic release, pushing the entire “Jurassic” franchise over $4 billion last week. In total, “Fallen Kingdom” has made $711.5 million worldwide so far — $150M domestic, and $561.5 at the foreign box office.
“Incredibles 2” is taking a very different release path. It just opened overseas in a few locations this week — including the major market of China — and it’s rolling out slowly across July and August in many countries around the world.
So as “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” starts to wind down from here, “Incredibles 2” is going to stay steady across world markets all summer. In the end, “Incredibles 2” is likely to come away with the larger number.
That’s not a huge shock since it has been 14 years since “The Incredibles“ came out, building anticipation, and it has been only three years since “Jurassic World.” That’s why the 2015 “Jurassic” movie made such a killing at the box office — launching a brand new trilogy — and was only recently displaced by “Avengers: Infinity War” as the fourth highest-grossing movie of all time. A third movie in the “Jurassic World” trilogy is coming in 2021.
Good for you, Mister Rogers. That’s an 87 percent boost for his movie, after adding about 250 more theaters. “American Animals” also saw a 173.5 percent boost from adding a similar number of theaters, making $576,215 this weekend.
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1. Why would a giant underwater gate, protecting the park’s biggest dinosaur from unfettered access to the world’s oceans, need to be wifi enabled to operate?
5. Dr. Wu still lives and is still very clearly committed to genetically engineering any kind of dinosaur that his employers ask. Would he maybe have the security clearance that, say, the head geneticist would absolutely need that Mills could utilize to get access to Jurassic World’s computer system?
10. How does Owen, Franklin, and Claire go off a cliff, where there is no visible shoreline, and wash up on the beach in a sandy cove?
17. How long does it take an Indoraptor grow to full size? Even if they were able to successfully take DNA from the Indominus Rex bone retrieved from the Mosasaurus lagoon, how much time could have elapsed between then and the dinosaur auction to raise and train it with the laser targeting device?
21. Is Wheatley (Ted Levine) a big-game hunter or just a garden-variety mercenary? Either way, was he not prepped about the behavior of dinosaurs before going to Isla Nublar, or at the very least, would he really have absolutely no instinct to avoid leaving open the door to the cage of a very dangerous-looking dinosaur when he went in to retrieve his trophy (a tooth for his necklace because REASONS) from its mouth?
27. When we first see Ian Malcolm, he is giving a speech to Congress. Then, at the end of the film, we seem him again. Addressing Congress, in the same clothes and at the same time of day as last time. So is Malcolm giving part of the same speech from the beginning of the film at the end? Or does Congress just have him on retainer to deliver ominous speeches about mankind’s hubris and the dangers of genetic engineering?
The supers couldn’t hold on to their butts.
“Incredibles 2” is taking a very different release path. It just opened overseas in a few locations this week — including the major market of China — and it’s rolling out slowly across July and August in many countries around the world.
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