No matter how great your dinosaur fatigue may be, the Jurassic franchise just keeps delivering the only thing that really matters – money.
In an age of suppressed box office, Jurassic World: Rebirth pulled in $870 million against a $200 million budget. It got a vague awards halo from a VFX Oscar nomination, too.
So a new instalment has seemed inevitable, and reports said that Universal Pictures is all over another instalment.
Screenwriter David Koepp is working on the script, and Gareth Edwards is expected to return along with the lead actors – Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett, Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis, and Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid.
Kincaid was originally supposed to die in Jurassic World: Rebirth but last minute changes let him live.
Now Koepp has spoken about the project in an interview with Screen Rant:
“You can’t say trilogy. You got to make one good movie. So now what about another good movie? How would we do that?
I think that the challenge of Rebirth was the franchises have become very big, very spread out. Let’s make the dinosaurs special again by restricting them.
So we restricted them to this thing, and then the challenge becomes, okay, now how do we logically and in a scientifically believable way expand? That would be the question. If somebody can answer that, I think you’ll have a next movie.”
I was surprised by the sheer amount of Jurassic World toys on the shelves when in a toy shop with my kids this weekend, and they both remain fascinated by these movies, and dinosaurs in general.
It seems this franchise will always be able to run on the fuel of dino-fascination.
