Remember that large, vicious, angry Tyrannosaurus rex that wreaked havoc during the original Jurassic Park, leading to countless sleepless nights among the youth of America? According to media reports, she’s back and looking for revenge in the upcoming Jurassic World.
As both Slashfilm and Mashable reported Wednesday, filmmakers have revealed that the same T. rex that terrorized the tour group and devoured Martin Ferrero’s character Donald Gennaro in the first film will play a role in the sequel, though she’ll be a lot older this time around.
Considering that the dinosaur was full-grown when Jurassic Park came out in 1993, and in light of the fact that a T. rex is only half grown by age 15 and has an estimated lifespan of less than 30 years, the dinosaur is question is pretty much a fossil by this point (figuratively, not literally). But as director Colin Trevorrow explained, she hasn’t mellowed with age.
“This movie is her Unforgiven”
“The T. rex that’s in the film is the T. rex from the original Jurassic Park. She is 22 years older. But she’s not limping around,” he told Slashfilm. “We took the original design and obviously, technology has changed. So, it’s going to move a little bit differently, but it’ll move differently because it’s older. And we’re giving her some scars and we’re tightening her skin. So, she has that feeling of, like, an older Burt Lancaster. And this movie is her Unforgiven.”
Trevorrow added that new dinosaurs would also be introduced in Jurassic World, the fourth movie in the Jurassic Park series. Among those new species will be the Ankylosaurus, which the director refers to as “a bad ass dinosaur,” as well as a “new kind of flying dinosaur that no one’s ever seen before” and an underwater reptile that is “pretty cool.”
“We got to build everyone from the ground up because technology has changed so much that everything is a rebuild,” the director told Slashfilm. “I got to bring in dinosaurs that I’ve always thought deserved a big scene… [but] I didn’t want to just throw the kitchen sink at it. Each of these movies has done a good job at just very carefully, in a measured way, increasing the new dinosaurs that you see. But, there’s a lot of dinosaurs in the movie for sure.”
Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and is due out June 12.
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