"Jurassic World" director Colin Trevorrow, who is a co-writer and producer on the untitled sequel of the dinosaur saga, revealed in a recent episode of the Jurassic Cast Podcast that the next installment in the franchise will be inspired from a quote from the original "Jurassic Park" film.
"'Jurassic World' is all based on Ian Malcolm's quote," Trevorrow said, according to Entertainment Weekly. "It's, 'You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you knew what you had; you patented it, you packaged it, slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you want to sell it.' That to me is Jurassic World. That's why I had all the product placement; that's what it was.".
For the "Jurassic World" sequel, Trevorrow and fellow writer Derek Connolly took inspiration from a line of dialogue from paleontologist Alan Grant (Sam Neil) in the first film. Trevorrow paraphrased the line: "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?"
Trevorrow said that the follow-up to "Jurassic World," which crossed the $1 billion mark at the international box office earlier this month, will not be titled "Jurassic World 2" and will "get to be a different kind of film. I feel like the audience has given us permission, to a certain extent, to take this to the next level," he said, according to IGN.
"I don't necessarily mean in scale. I feel very strongly that it's not about more dinosaurs or bigger and better dinosaurs. It's about using this as a starting point for a much larger story about our relationship with these animals, and with animals in general, and the dynamic created by bringing them back to life," he added.
The "Jurassic World" sequel will see the return of Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and is slated to hit theatres on June 22, 2018.
