Colin Trevorrow Hints at Jurassic World 2 Story

While Colin Trevorrow has now become very busy after having a bit of a hit movie to the tune of Jurassic World's $1.7 billion in worldwide box office. Luckily for Universal Studios, he is sticking around the franchise, not as a director (that duty is going to Star Wars), but as a writer. He's writing the second film right now, and has started to talk about what themes might be seen therein.

"I looked at it as a trilogy from the beginning, we designed the whole thing that way," Trevorrow told the Jurassic Cast podcast. "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?'" He said that makes it fun for them to write. "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. It will get to be a different kind of film."

The writer didn't get into too many specifics about the June 8, 2018 Jurassic World 2 (not final title), naturally, though he did give some updates to the casts' roles.

"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," he said."

The good news is, he doesn't want it to just be another rehash. "We've seen a lot of dinosaurs chasing people around on an island movies," Trevorrow said. "I think the general audience is going to be down to explore where else we can go."

He also talks about Jurassic Park's legacy, the response from the critic he cares the most about - his six year-old son, being made into a virtual minifig in the Lego Jurassic World videogame, and more in the hour-long playtest. Listen above.

(h/t Empire)