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Producer: Safety Not Guaranteed. Born in San Francisco and raised in Oakland, Colin Trevorrow started making short films when he was 12 years old. He studied film and dramatic writing at New York University. After graduation, he wrote and directed "Home Base" a digital short that became one of the early viral successes on the internet.
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Colin Trevorrow ( US: / trəˈvɒroʊ /; [1] born September 13, 1976) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He made his feature directorial debut with the science fiction comedy Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) to critical and commercial success. Trevorrow achieved mainstream recognition for his work on the Jurassic World entries ...
Feb 4, 2023 · Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow is diving into the deep end and developing a feature film around the myth of Atlantis. The Hollywood Reporter brings word of the project which had...
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By Matt Purslow
Updated: Nov 23, 2021 8:35 pm
Posted: Nov 23, 2021 4:00 pm
The prologue for Jurassic World Dominion takes us back 65 million years, rewinding time to when the dinosaurs ruled over the Earth. Its beautiful, almost serene depiction of natural dinosaur habitats was first seen in IMAX ahead of showings of Fast 9, but Universal has now released it for all to see. To get a deeper understanding of what that prologue means for the full movie, we spoke to Jurassic World Dominion director Colin Trevorrow, who revealed just how much of a dinosaur nerd he is while breaking down each scene.
“Initially we had considered that this would be part of the film,” he says of the five-minute prologue, which now stands alone as a short film rather than being part of the final cut of Jurassic World Dominion. It’s a novel way to get these scenes out into the world, rather than leave them on the cutting room floor.
“It's extremely important for me, as a storyteller, because I believe the dinosaurs are characters, and so this is the origin story for the T-Rex,” he says. “I wanted it to be told, and so Universal was totally down with experimenting with sharing five minutes of finished move as a ‘prologue’ six months in advance.”
It was important to show this side of dinosaurs in order to reinforce one of Jurassic World Dominion’s themes. “A big part of this movie is making the connection between animals that live on the planet today and how we treat them, and how they coexist with us and dinosaurs,” says Trevorrow. “For us to really be able to see them in their natural habitat, just see them drinking water and moving in herds. The first time you watch it might almost seem a little quiet, it's not the kind of aggressive action that we show in our blockbuster movies. But that was the opportunity in [the prequel] for me. As a dinosaur nerd, I found that very exciting.”
Talking of Trevorrow being a dinosaur nerd, you may notice in the prequel that the tyrannosaurus is covered in a coat of feathers. Science has discovered many new things about dinosaurs since the creation of the original Jurassic Park, and so setting the prequel in a time before genetically engineered dinosaurs gave Trevorrow the opportunity to make something more scientifically accurate.
“I think we have a really good logical explanation for why these are dinosaurs that look different than the other Jurassic dinosaurs have looked in the past,” he says. “In this case, it's that we're showing them in their original habitat. There was no frog DNA used to bridge the gaps in the genomes, so it gave us an opportunity to show dinosaurs with feathers.”
That feathered tyrannosaurus is an important character in the legacy of Jurassic Park; one day its DNA will be reconstructed used to create a living, breathing T-Rex in the year 1993. “It's an origin story, in the way we might get to do in a superhero film,” says Trevorrow. “The T-Rex is a superhero for me. It really allows us to take this brilliant concept that [Jurassic Park author] Michael Crichton conceived, that is the foundation that all of this has been built on, and show it in its absolutely purest form.”
There was no frog DNA used to bridge the gaps, so it gave us an opportunity to show dinosaurs with feathers.
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- Matt Purslow
Jun 8, 2022 · Drew Taylor. June 8, 2022 @ 9:30 AM. “Jurassic World: Dominion” is finally here and for director Colin Trevorrow marks the end of a very long saga that began with the original “Jurassic ...
Feb 4, 2023 · Colin Trevorrow, who's best known for directing the two-thirds of the new "Jurassic World" trilogy, has reportedly closed a deal on a film called "Atlantis" with Skydance Studios, according to...
Mar 18, 2014 · By Chris Tilly. Posted: Mar 18, 2014 6:55 am. Writer-director Colin Trevorrow is about to head to Hawaii to start work on his second feature film – namely the Jurassic Park sequel Jurassic...
