Common/Amblin’s Jurassic World Dominion lately crossed the $1B mark on the international field workplace, one in all solely three movies to hit that milestone because the begin of the Covid pandemic, a feat all of the extra spectacular contemplating that its director appears to have had some severe doubts concerning the viability of the franchise from the beginning.
In a brand new interview with Empire journal, director Colin Trevorrow calls Steven Spielberg’s authentic 1993 film “inherently unfranchisable.”
“I particularly did one thing completely different than the opposite movies to be able to change the DNA of the franchise,” Trevorrow, who additionally directed Jurassic World (2015) and wrote 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. “The earlier 5 movies are plots about dinosaurs. This one is a narrative about characters in a world by which they coexist with dinosaurs.
“For the franchise to have the ability to transfer ahead – as a result of it’s inherently unfranchisable, there in all probability ought to have solely been one Jurassic Park – but when we’re gonna do it, how can I enable them to inform tales in a world by which dinosaurs exist, versus, right here’s one more reason why we’re going to an island?”
The movie’s field workplace suggests Trevorrow disproved his personal “unfranchisable” principle, however you possibly can decide for your self: Jurassic World Dominion is streaming on Peacock.
