April Fools!
He’s taken us into our dreams. He’s taken us to the stars. Now Christopher Nolan has been tapped to direct Jurassic World 2, the sequel that was greenlit late last night.
A firm believer in good old-fashioned movie magic, Nolan has revealed that he has also been secretly developing, breeding, and training a pack of living dinosaurs for the film, which is slated for release on July 28, 2018.
The famed Dark Knight director is well known for using practical effects, camera tricks, and elaborate sets in order to achieve his vision, but he ranks this feat among his most ambitious.
“For Interstellar, I had the massive challenge of shooting on location in a number of incredible locales, and I also faced the logical obstacle of building a black hole from just theories and all that,” said Nolan. “But what most people don’t realize is that during the shooting of both The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, I was actually also genetically cloning dinosaurs for this project.”
Universal announced this decision at their annual end-of-March shareholders meeting late last night.
“We’re proud to bring Christopher Nolan into the Jurassic Park-World family,” said Universal President Carl Laemmle. “As always, it is Christopher’s level of ambition, tenacity, and thirst for realism that has brought us to this mutual decision.”
“The hardest part was keeping it a secret for the past four years,” said Nolan, who led the project, which utilized the aid of hundreds of researchers from around the globe.
“I had no idea that he had a background in bio-engineering of this degree,” said Alexander Scientist, the second-in-command of Dinosaur Engineering for the film. His only superior is Nolan himself.
“If it weren’t for Christopher, we wouldn’t have had any idea of where to start,” said Scientist.
“The easy part was figuring out how to do it,” said Nolan, who admitted that he simply used frog DNA as explained in the first Jurassic Park film.
“I was surprised no one had tried it before,” said Nolan.
Although he says he has no regrets, the director admits that going further than any living scientist to replicate dino DNA meant that he had less time to work on the finale to the Dark Knight franchise.
“Unfortunately, the R&D process cut into a lot of the planning for The Dark Knight Rises,” said Nolan. “I still think we made a very good film, but if I hadn’t been defying the laws of creation in that same timeframe, well, then who knows. Maybe it could have been better.”
The director said that when it came time to direct his science fiction masterpiece, he had more time to devote to his film projects. “Most of the raptors were born by the time Interstellar came around,” said Nolan.
There’s no word yet on a potential story, especially since Jurassic World has yet to hit theaters, but we maintain hope that Christopher Nolan will bring his unique vision to this thrilling anthology.
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