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WorldMags.net DIRECTOR COLIN TREVORROW THROWS OPEN THE GATES OF JURASSIC WORLD, AND GIVES EMPIRE AN EXCLUSIVE TASTE OF THE DINO-CARNAGE TO COME… WORDS NICK DE SEMLYEN PORTRAIT ART STREIBER 78 EMPIRE JUNE 2015 WorldMags.net empireonline.com WorldMags.net subscribe at www.empireonline.com/sub WorldMags.net JUNE 2015 EMPIRE 79 WorldMags.net his is a classic day to be here on set...” of Dr. Henry Wu. Clearly a man with Jurassic World producer Frank Marshall a penchant for the exotic, Wu keeps “MONSTER!”YELLED knows a thing or two about classic days avariety of rare creatures in a display the cover of Empire #50 back in 1993. on set. He was there when Harrison case, including a bright-blue lizard Celebrating Jurassic Park, it was the Ford shot the Arab swordsman. He and a two-headed albino snake. very first issue of this magazine whose was there when the DeLorean went We’re expecting some fiddling with cover star (the T-Rex) was not human back to 1955. He was even there when microscopes, perhaps a heated debate (the origins of Gérard Depardieu are, Roger Rabbit got framed. So when about ethics. Then we spot the phrase admittedly, debatable). The rest of the he leans across and whispers the above at the top of the call sheet: “LAB world, of course, went just as nuts. Steven to Empire, we sit up straight and ATTACK.” Before we can ask what’s Spielberg’s tropical nightmare, which pay attention. going on, there’s commotion across used scientific theory to bring dinosaurs It’s Wednesday, July 16, 2014. the floor. A life-size velociraptor appears back from extinction with bloody results, Cameras are being prepped for Scene out of nowhere, borne by three crew grossed over $900 million, becoming the 162 in the Hammond Creation Lab, members. And, thrillingly, Empire suddenly most successful movie in history until a scientific workshop of ludicrous high- finds itself nose to snout with an apex Titanic sailed along four years later. techness. There are giant coolant vats, predator. There’s a lot to take in: the But spinning Jurassic Park into animal spines in fizzing blue liquid, an gimlet green eyes, the mottled stripe a franchise has not proven easy. Despite egg hatchery, an entire wall of gleaming across the left side of the face, the Spielberg himself returning to direct amber. But this morning’s action takes teeth. Especially the teeth. The Lost World, both sequels proved place in the smaller chamber next “Meet Blue,” grins Marshall. timidly plotted and short on memorable door. This is the secret genetics lab “And don’t worry... she’s tame.” characters, either hot-blooded or cold. 80 EMPIRE JUNE 2015 WorldMags.net empireonline.com The kids roll through the park WorldMags.netin the Gyrosphere. EXPENSE Note the advanced invisible fence technology. SPARED HOWMUCHAFAMILYTRIP TO JURASSIC WORLD WOULDREALLYCOST… WORDS OWEN WILLIAMS FLIGHTS TO COSTA RICA £3,000 The usual route from BASIC London to Costa Rica is £12,000 CLASS through Miami. Round FIRST trip prices for a family of four travelling on June 12 (Jurassic World’s release date) start at about £3,000 (or £12,000 first class). TRANSFER TO £1,600 ISLA NUBLAR BASIC Boat-trips to Cocos, Isla £N/A FIRST CLASS Nublar’s closest real-life counterpart off the south coast of Costa Rica, cost £3,500 per person for ten days. Yet while further, the journey from Chile to Easter Island is perhaps a better comparison at around £400 per ticket. ACCOMMODATION £1,080 Cocos has none: you live BASIC on the boat. But Nublar £5,520 APEX BRIEFING looks more like a Florida theme park. Jurassic JURASSIC World offers deals from WORLD basic to ‘Apex Predator’ blow-out. So going by Universal Studios’ RELEASED: June 12 Orlando prices, a basic DIRECTOR: Colin family room can run to Trevorrow £1,080 for four nights; the most luxurious, £5,520. STARRING: Chris Pratt, The series faltered. Behind the scenes, budget debut Safety Not Guaranteed, Bryce Dallas Howard, Ty however, feverish brainstorming went on. about a time-travelling grocery clerk, and Simpkins, Jake Johnson, ATTRACTIONS £600 In 2007, news broke of a Jurassic Park 4 fell in love with it. “I live in Vermont and BD Wong Nublar’s dino experience BASIC script by American indie king John stay on the outside of the business. I’m includes a sea park and £1,200 STORY: More than APEX Sayles, in which trained raptors take a real believer that my work will speak for two decades after the aquarium; jeep safari and on a drug baron’s army. The project itself, and fortunately in this case, it did.” disastrous events at ‘Gyrosphere’; canoeing, Jurassic Park, it’s now and monorail travel. The stalled, but this nucleus of an idea stuck A die-hard fan of Jurassic Park, a fully operational theme around, making its way into the next Trevorrow first saw it on a Thursday night park named Jurassic Apex Predator package commissioned draft, by Rise Of The in 1993, after sneaking out of his parents’ World. In order to make it adds a concierge, behind- an even bigger attraction, the-scenes access and Planet Of The Apes’ Rick Jaffa and house: “I actually put pillows under the the owners work on Amanda Silver. And this is where Colin blankets, like in a cartoon, and rolled the creating their own, even helicopter. Based again on Trevorrow, the man chosen to head up car down the hill.” One can only imagine more fearsome dinosaurs. Orlando, let’s say £600 for What could possibly four days at the basic rate, Jurassic World, comes in. how excited he was to be presented with the go wrong? “I felt, ‘I know how to make a Jurassic latest script by the threequel’s producers. £1,200 for the Apex. Park movie,’” the 38 year-old director tells He sat down to read it. Flipped through NEW DINOSAURS?! Yes, Empire during a pause on set (the two- every page. Then said thanks, but no thanks. there’s the lab-created £6,280 Indominus Rex. Also GRAND BASIC headed snake is acting up). “I got a call “It was as difficult to decline as you’d the slimosoaurus (half- from Frank Marshall, then was flown in think,” he recalls. “But I knew I couldn’t slug), the pteroducktyl £20,320 TOTAL COST FIRST CLASS/APEX to meet with Steven for about two hours.” make that film. So I said, ‘I’m honoured, (half-duck) and the mondosaurus (half-Russ Amazingly, this is only Trevorrow’s second but if we’re going to do this we really need Meyer). Though we may THANKS TO HARLOW SALVADOR NEWTON OF TICO feature film; Spielberg saw his micro- to build a different movie that can also > have just made those up. GUIDE TRAVEL — WWW.TICOGUIDETRAVEL.COM subscribe at www.empireonline.com/sub WorldMags.net JUNE 2015 EMPIRE 81 WorldMags.net Omar Sy’s Barry looks enviously at boss Owen’s (Chris Pratt) cool motorbike. be called Jurassic Park 4.” Trevorrow was asked to cook up his Zach (Nick HOLEDUPINAN ocean-view Robinson) and Gray own story. But there were a couple of (Ty Simpkins) get suite in Santa Monica’s Hotel Shangri-La concepts that he wanted to keep. One lost in the jungle. with screenwriting partner Derek Connolly was Sayles’ audacious notion of raptors (“We’d act out the dinosaur bits and scare working alongside humans. “Dinosaurs the guy bringing room service”), Trevorrow hunting down drug lords? I couldn’t go had a brainwave of his own. “I emailed there,” he says. “But I could rewind all Steven one of the most carefully worded the way back and make a movie about emails I’ve ever written and explained the very tenuous relationship between every single reason why we should change a man and a vicious animal. There’s stuff the title from Jurassic Park 4 to Jurassic on Animal Planet where you have guys World. It’s like changing the recipe of out running around with lions. That someone’s favourite cereal, but I wanted fascinates me. So replacing a lion with people to know that this is going to be a raptor is a very cool idea. Straightaway a bold movie. It’s going to be different.” I could see the first scene, with the Every tourist’s first stop in Jurassic raptors resisting eating a live pig.” World is the visitors’ centre. Topped by The other very cool idea, which “THIS IS A BOLD an 80-foot pyramid, with a design motif came from Spielberg himself: what if described by producer Pat Crowley as “Abu John Hammond’s dream of a fully Dhabi meets Fiji”, it functions as a kind functioning dinosaur theme park came of eye-wateringly high-end museum. Full- true? Thousands of tourists milling MOVIE. IT’S scale holograms of dinosaurs appear at about a potentially lethal Disneyland, the push of a button. Kids can excavate Instagramming a triceratops or tweeting fossils in a dig-site play area, enter an art about the T-Rex (#tinyarms). High DIFFERENT.” competition (Empire notices that one beast in concept, higher in stakes, it’s an COLIN TREVORROW was crayoned by Dante Spielberg, one of obvious but brilliant way to push Steven’s grandkids) or, more likely, hassle the series forward. their parents to buy them a Mr. DNA > 82 EMPIRE JUNE 2015 WorldMags.net empireonline.com WorldMags.net TYRANNOSAURUS REX THE JURASSIC PARK SERIES’ DEADLIEST DINOSAURS… AND WHO WE SAW THEM CHEW ON, SPIT AT OR JUST BASH AROUND WORDS JULIAN MARESCH SPINOSAURUS JURASSIC PARK THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK III: TOTAL KILLS: 23 5 kills (goat, Donald JURASSIC PARK N/A TOTAL WOUNDS: 2 s, 18 kills, approx.