The director of two of the Jurassic World films, Colin Trevorrow, has spoken out about the obstacles inherent to extending the Jurassic Park franchise, and has frankly termed the series "inherently un-franchisable." He did, however, defend his own films, claiming that he sought to introduce some new, fresh concepts into the series.
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Jurassic World and its sequel, Jurassic World Dominion, were both directed by Trevorrow (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom was directed by J. A. Bayona). The three films were enormously profitable, with each grossing more than $1 billion at the box office. Critically, they seemed to become worse with each episode. The release of Jurassic World Dominion was met with mixed reactions, with some calling it the worst in the Jurassic Park series.
In an interview with Empire, Trevorrow said that the Jurassic Park series should have begun and stopped with the 1993 original. "There definitely should have just been one Jurassic Park," Trevorrow said, "but if we're going to do it, how can I enable them to create tales in a world where dinosaurs exist, as opposed to, here's another reason why we're going to an island?" His argument for the such assertion is that the films seemed primarily limited to an island or two that, obviously, should have been avoided.
Trevorrow's issue with the franchise needed to be addressed, so he reasoned about Jurassic World Dominion. "I purposefully created something different from the previous films in order to alter the franchise's DNA." "He elaborated. "The preceding five films all had dinosaur storylines. This one is about characters that live on a planet where dinosaurs coexist with them."
It's disputed if Trevorrow was successful. Changing the franchise's DNA seems like a disrespect to the original Jurassic Park film's lesson: messing with nature may lead to man's demise. Most thought Jurassic World Dominion needed to stress the dinosaur presence, but the narrative about genetically-enhanced, prehistoric locusts took over (it was virtually a metaphor for Jurassic World Dominion's doom).
Finally, Jurassic Park by Steven Spielberg was a spectacle for viewers. The amazing effects were innovative at the time, but there was also a deeper message to be uncovered, which helped to make the picture a classic. Because that lesson only needed to be delivered once, the themes of the subsequent films seemed like retreads. What viewers are tuning in to watch today are just more dinosaurs and their terrible murders. With Jurassic World Dominion failing to deliver on that front, which is one of the franchise's main components, it's easy to understand why it's such a divisive entry.
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