FILM 1799: JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM
TRIVIA:Sam Neill was asked if he would return to the series as Dr. Alan Grant and responded, "You never say never, but I think it's moved on. It's different times."
During a recent visit to Entertainment Weekly Radio with costar Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt revealed that it was none other than the Spider-Man: Homecoming star who spoiled the entire plot of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom for him. The young actor spilled the beans while he and Pratt were working on the same lot shooting their respective Marvel projects. As for how he became privy to the top-secret details of the blockbuster franchise, Pratt shared that, "Tom, of course, knows [Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom director] J.A. Bayona because of the film The Impossible -- Tom was the young guy in that movie." Soon after Bayona gave Holland a detailed account of the story line, he shared every detail with Pratt. "He told me the whole story, so I heard it right from Tom Holland first. And then when I read the script, I was like, Yeah, he wasn't messing with me, this is all real."
It's unclear how the Mosasaurus is still alive despite being trapped in an empty lagoon for years with nobody to feed it. Even the submersible operators lampshade how anything in the lagoon should have died a long time ago, but Colin Trevorrow explains the beginning of the film is set between a week or month after the first and argues that it could've ate the Indominus Rex slowly or picked off any pteranodon(s) that flew to close to the lagoon.
During a newscast, one of the chyrons on the bottom says "'President questions existence of dinosaurs in the first place'."
When Maisie Lockwood is attempting to hide from the Indoraptor she climbs into a dumb waiter (a lift found in many stately homes and mansions for transporting food and other items from the servant quarters) and tries to pull the door closed in a clear reference to Lex attempting to hide from the Raptors in the kitchen.
Colin Trevorrow pushed Michael Giacchino for an emotional score that would serve as the film's backbone, referring to it as "going to Dino Church." Giacchino found the evolving tone of Bayona's film to be an exciting challenge. "The film starts out like what you expect a Jurassic film to be, but it quickly evolves into a scary, tense, Gothic pool of craziness," said Giacchino. "I was heavily influenced by Bernard Herrmann growing up, and at the end of the film with the Gothic choir you feel like you're in an old horror film."
J.A. Bayona reveals that he had a trick up his sleeve on set to get the most out of his actors for that scene. In a new interview, he talked about the emotional scene from Jurassic World 2 and revealed why it has an even deeper meaning for fans of the Jurassic Park franchise. The Brachiosaurus is the very first dinosaur that was shown in the first Jurassic Park and then the last to be seen on the Isla of Nublar, which was no accident. Bayona reveals that the idea for the scene was planted 25 years ago. He explains. "That scene represents the ending of a dream that started 25 years ago. You are telling the ending of that island and the ending of that dream." While the Brachiosaurus scene was tough on moviegoers watching Jurassic World 2 in theaters, it was a challenge for J.A. Bayona to come up with a way to get the actors prepared for just how emotional the scene was. In order to get the right feel, the director pulled out a very familiar piece of music to play for the cast as they looked at a dot on a green screen. According to Bayona, the music had just the emotional impact that he desired from Chris Pratt and especially Bryce Dallas Howard. The director had this to say. "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. Being there, telling that story, listening to music from John Williams, they were all very emotional."
For Super Bowl LII (2018), Colin Trevorrow directed a Jeep commercial starring Jeff Goldblum and featuring a T. rex. Within 24 hours of its release, the commercial received 39.7 million online views, which was more than any film trailer that was watched online following its Super Bowl LII television debut.
A trio of Pteranodon flew off in the sunset mirrors exactly when Alan took glance on a trio of pelicans after escaping the island at the end of Jurassic Park (1993).
The Indoraptor has several themes relating to wolves: Being semi-quadrupedal, there is a somewhat lupine appearance to its posture and mannerisms. There is a discussion with Dr. Wu where he compares the domestication of dinosaurs with that of dogs. The Indoraptor, being feral and untamable, is the "wolf" of this scenario, which they are planning to breed out their aggression and lack of empathy to make them "dogs". The Indoraptor menaces a little girl, which recalls the Big Bad Wolf of fairy tales, Maisie wearing a red jacket. And of course the scene where it roars/howls at the full moon from the rooftop of Lockwood Manor, and a callback to Jurassic World (2015) when Hoskins told a story of keeping a wolf cub which eventually mauled his wife? Lockwood's vision comes to fruition in this movie, and again, the "wolf" cannot be tamed.
Tom Holland was terrified of the movie, J.A. Bayona explained, "I invited his whole family to a screening, I was sitting with him and it was so much fun to see how he was reacting to the movie, in the emotional moments he was just like, 'No!' and then jumping- he had alot of fun, but the one shot that really got him was the Indoraptor clawing Maisies ponytail through the cage, that is the shot that Tom like shit on his pants!"
J.A. Bayona wanted the Indoraptor to be black, with oily snakeskin, so that it felt like a deadly shadow. Early on in production, he showed the special effects crew a picture of a shell-shocked soldier during World War I, the haunting image of a man with the craziest eyes you'd ever seen he wanted those eyes on the Indo.
The beach that Owen and Claire and Franklin wash up on after the gyrosphere sequence was the same one from From Here to Eternity (1953) J.A. Bayona stated "I said, 'OK we need to do the same shot, the famous kiss shot of Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr, so we did the same with Owen and Claire, without kissing each other."
