The unbridled success of Universal’s Jurassic World, which is currently the third top-grossing movie of all time, pretty much guaranteed that we’d be seeing a lot more dinosaur action in the coming years. And now director Colin Trevorrow and producer Steven Spielberg have made it clear that the rumblings of the movie being the first of a trilogy have been confirmed by Universal chairman Donna Langley.
Langley talks with THR about more films, explaining, “There’s no reason why we should [have trouble]. [Director] Colin Trevorrow is busy working on an outline. He’s been working with Steven [Spielberg]. And they have an idea for the next two movies actually. It was designed as a trilogy, unbeknown to us. It’s a happy surprise.”
The second Jurassic World already has a planned release date of June 22nd, 2018 (the day before my birthday!), so it’s going to be interesting to see where they go. Personally, I’m hoping that they ditch the park idea and instead follow BD Wong’s “Dr. Henry Wu” as he goes all mad scientist creating some of the weirdest and most dangerous dinosaur hybrid monstrosities. Even though we’ve seen the dinosaurs out of their paddocks in the films, I want to see them away from the park entirely. I’m that rare guy that loves the T. Rex in San Diego scene in The Lost World, so something like that would be pretty awesome to see again.