Steven Spielberg will return to executive produce the film.
By Raif Karerat
WASHINGTON, DC: “Jurassic World” has dominated the box office this summer after notching the top global opening of all time and racking up enough revenue to become the third-highest grossing of all time.
In light of its astronomical success, Universal has announced that a sequel to “Jurassic World” will hit theatres on June 22, 2018.
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard will return to star, while “Jurassic World” helmer Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly, who did a rewrite on World, will write the script for the sequel, according to the Hollywod Reporter.
Steven Spielberg will return to executive produce and Frank Marshall to produce. Trevorrow, who is not expected to return to direct, will also be an executive producer on the Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment sequel.
While no plot details have been revealed regarding the impending sequel, Trevorrow previously told Slashfilm that “Jurassic World” was designed to lay the groundwork for the future of the series:
It’s somewhat a plot based setup for the future. And that matters to a certain extent. But if we hadn’t done that, you could easily manufacture that. You know, in a second film. So I find it actually the least functional setup for the future of everything that we do. There are themes and ideas in here that we’re setting up, such as the coexistence of these animals on the planet with humans. In the same way that we exist with animals now. And imagine a world where just like, you know, don’t go into that jungle, there’s tigers in there. They’re gonna’ eat you. Just replace that with raptors. And I think we set up ideas in here. One of them, the one we address the most is the weaponization of dinosaurs and the fact that animals have been used in war for centuries. And there are people with completely bonkers ideas that are always gonna’ step in and wonder how else we can utilize a new technology. And also in this there was a line in the movie that I cut. And sometimes I wonder if I should have, but I needed the scene to move in a certain way. But there was a line where Doctor Wu says to Irrfan Khan or B.D. Wong says to Irrfan Khan, you know, how long do you think you’re gonna’ be able to control her? We won’t always be the only ones who can make a dinosaur. And that idea to me has a lot of potential in it that like nuclear power there could be a something that goes open source and there could be many entities who might have this ability to create these things and use them for various needs and purposes. So there’s potential in there. For something.