This past week, audiences began to question and doubt the upcoming Jurassic World film due to a leak by JoBlo. While we tried to ensure that context is everything, some fans were upset by the spoiler of a genetically mutated dinosaur, as well as "tamed" dinosaurs that was suggested in the article.
It's a real pity that the director of the film who is busy shooting Hawaii has to take time to "calm" the fandom, but he certainly does it in a justified way. Here are some tidbits from SlashFilms' exclusive interview with the man - be aware that he talks spoilers:
"What do you feel are the biggest misconceptions from the leaked rumors about the Jurassic World story versus the real screenplay?
That’s the thing about leaks, sometimes they aren’t misinterpreted or false. They’re real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theater. But unfortunately, in 2014, you read about it on a computer. Last week was discouraging for everyone on our crew–not because we want to hide things from the fans, but because we’re working so hard to create something full of surprises. When I was a kid, you got to discover everything at once, it washed over you and blew your mind. Now it only takes one person to spoil it for everyone else. I hope whoever leaked it is actively trying to undermine what we’re doing. Because if they’re trying to help, they’re doing it wrong."
Colin confirmed that the film focusses around an operational Jurassic Park which is now a worldwide destination for families and the like. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. It's a luxery resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course and it includes the most important thing - REAL dinosaurs. "It’s the realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there."
"Those two ideas felt like they could work together. What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. “We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?” Next year, you’ll see our answer."
Colin Trevorrow also discusses the spoiler leak, which suggest the dinosaurs were good and bad. It was also suggested that the dinosaurs are trained.
"Chris Pratt’s character is doing behavioral research on the raptors. They aren’t trained, they can’t do tricks. He’s just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings. If people don’t think there’s potential in those ideas, maybe they won’t like this movie. But I ask them to give it a chance."
The recent leak of the Diabolus-Rex was also discussed - it was intended to be a surprise for the audience. It does include the DNA of a snake and a cuttlefish, but Colin ensures it's not going to be a mutant as some fans have suggested. It's a dinosaur, made in the same way the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park were; spliced with frog DNA.
"I know the idea of a modified dinosaur put a lot of fans on red alert, and I understand it. But we aren’t doing anything here that Crichton didn’t suggest in his novels. This animal is not a mutant freak. It doesn’t have a snake’s head or octopus tentacles. It’s a dinosaur, created in the same way the others were, but now the genetics have gone to the next level. For me, it’s a natural evolution of the technology introduced in the first film. Maybe it sounds crazy, but most of my favorite movies sound crazy when you describe them in a single sentence."
Colin also directly responded to the suggestions from fans and audiences who claims that their childhood is ruined by recent leaks.
"I understand the risks of leaving the safe zone. We’ve all been disappointed by new installments of the stories we love. But with all this talk of filmmakers “ruining our childhood”, we forget that right now is someone else’s childhood. This is their time. And I have to build something that can take them to the same place those earlier films took us. It may not happen in the same way everyone expects it to, but it’s the way I believe it needs to happen."
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