Everything Mesozoic is new again: Jurassic World, the hotly anticipated fourth instalment in the dinosaur-theme-park thriller franchise, has its first official trailer.
Due for release on June 12, 2015, the Steven Spielberg-produced film, which has taken a circuitous route to the big screen, is the long-awaited follow-up to 2001's Jurassic Park III. The film had originally been planned for a summer 2014 release, but script and story squabbles pushed it back a full year.
What we already know: No Jeff Goldblum. No Julianne Moore. But yes, we have Chris Pratt as the paranoid dino-hunter, Bryce Dallas Howard as the genetic scientist and Vincent D'Onofrio as the profit-driven money boss of the park. With a US$150-million budget (vs. US$63-million for the original in 1993, which raked in more than a billion dollars back then), fans can and should expect special effects fireworks.
What we know now: striking, Avatar-esque visuals using a lot of CGI. Emphasis on monorails and other ridiculous theme-park and zoo tropes from the 1980s and '90s. And, uh, that familiar Hollywood loose grasp of science. To wit, from the two minute, 40 second trailer, this gem: 'We have learned more in the past decade from genetics than we have in the previous century digging up bones.' Cue the angry archeologists' brigade ...
But such is life in the pseudo-science world where dinosaurs being brought back to life (and bred to fill a theme park) is so, well, '90s. This time out, the operators of an island park that shares the movie's title have to find a way to keep people coming to a park with dinosaurs (they've grown bored, you see). So the on site geneticists who work at Jurassic have 'cooked up in a lab' (Chris Pratt's words, not ours) a genetic mutant dinosaur whom we mostly only see in the trailer in the form of horrified people looking up, way up. People run around in terror for the last 30 seconds of the trailer, and to be fair, we see the beast's feet (CGI team worked from the bottom up?). Fade to black, Jurassic logo, chase scene. Done.
Something tells us that if this were an up and coming filmmaker and the title was the prosaic 'Genetically Modified Dinosaur' that the box office expectations might just be a bit lower. But now the new Jurassic has its beast, and in the words of female lead Bryce Dallas Howard:
'Oh God.'
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