Jurassic World 2 to be directed by J.A. Bayona
 

J.A. Bayona to direct Jurassic World 2, he previously directed The Orphanage, and The Impossible.
http://www.comicbookmovie.com/sci-fi...rector-a139674

So so hyped for this.

Too bad they couldn't get Trevorrow back for this.......simply to keep him away from Episode IX.

Must be a way to upvote this.

The good news is that like JP4 aped JP1 and SW7 aped SW4, like SW8 will likely be a different beast entirely, JP5 will more than likely too.

But I'm not sure some kind of Rogue Nation-style, different countries creating dinosaurs for military purposes and Chris Pratt and friends going around the world trying to stop them is really anything people will be interested in (because... what else can they do, at this point? no one is going to ever open another park, ever). Time will tell.

Haha, best post of the week. Don't care if it's only Monday.

Jurassic Park is my favorite movie so I'm pretty damn excited. Unlike many I enjoyed JW a lot and was satisfied. Most of my worries like the trained Raptors or hybrids ended up working for me, I can definitely nitpick the movie but the only thing I didn't like was the final fight which seemed very superhero movie inspired and shouldn't have been that long. I also didn't like the subplot of using dinosaurs as weapons for the army but was glad when it seemed to finish when Hoshkins is killed, however...
Trevorrow has hinted many times before and after JW about the military wanting dinosaurs. Most of the fandom is against the nicknamed Jurassic War and that's a movie I would not want to see. I'm holding hope since JW had such a surprise box office that they'll be extra careful about what they do, I mean this movie did SW VIII numbers. So here's hoping they come to their senses or that it is done in a way that I can get behind like with the trained raptors and hybrid.

As far as other hints some fans had speculated that it could be about an "ice age" park since the viral website implied this was being worked on. That would be cool but I think it was just a reference to the Jurassic Park Builder mobile game which has an ice age park, that same website also had references to JP:The Game which came out in 2012 or so. I mean it's something new and I'd be up for it but of course there's the problem ice age creatures not being dinosaurs.

There's also the rumors that they're filming in London. While I'd prefer the films to stay in one of the two islands I'd be ok with this as well since if done right it could work and it'd be a nice reference to the classic novel The Lost World. Sure TLW:JP already tired the T-Rex in the city and to me that was terrible but the original book already had a nice scene of dinosaurs in the mainland as did two comic series so if written well it can definitely work. It has to be kept in a small area though for it to work better and if not written well then it'll be a mess.

Finally its worth noting that there's an official "Hybrids" list by Univeral. At first everyone thought the hybrids you could create in the JW mobile game were original from the developer and the Stegoceratops an original from Hasbro toys that the game later copied but we saw that this wasn't the case. A kids book about hybrids came out which basically had all the hybrids from the JW game and pretty much at the same time a JW Hybrids toyline started coming out with the same hybrids from the book/game. I would love a movie based on hybrids since they're pretty cool but I doubt JW2 will be about this since they wouldn't blow their plot 2 years before the movie comes out with tons of merchandise about it but I'd totally be down for that, this was the idea of a previous toyline JP:Chaos Effect back in 1998 with the same premise.

I don't know... he seems like a capable director. It's not his fault he had a sh*tty script for JW. And "Safety Not Guaranteed" was awesome in what he was able to achieve with a pretty low budget.

How long until they make Jurassic Park vs Predator?

He had a big hand in the JW script. He wouldn't come on board as director until he got approval to change things in the script.

Will this movie finally solve the epic cliffhanger from the previous film about if the kids parents settled through with the divorce? How are the kids going to handle the divorce? I want to know about the two teenage brothers!

They more than likely wont be in it

Really? I'd be surprised if they weren't.

If they're in it it'll be in the beginning like a cameo since they're filming in Hawaii then the majority is being filmed in England for some strange reason.

can't tell if cubed is being sarcastic again.

So they're gonna introduce other parks around the world? That sounds pretty cool. I enjoyed JW but it does need a change of environment. It's been literally 4 jungle themed movies.

I'd still like to see dinosaurs running around in civilization. I know it wasn't very interesting in Lost World but it was so short. It'd be more exciting if they had more than one dino loose in the city.

This. Must feel good to direct a small film then get F*CKING JURASSIC PARK and then F*CKING STAR WARS. How many dicks do you reckon he sucked for this?

What in the name of heaven will they be spending 260 million bucks on??

Half will probably be for the FX and building practical sets.

But that's more than the budget for TFA!

The other half will be to for paying the actors, the production crew and such.

Confirmed fake, it will have a huge boost in the budget though and that's because JW did nearly as good as Star flippin' Wars.

Well since its supposed to be about multiple parks, or at least one other one, a bigger budget is not a surprise.

I hope Bryce Dallas Howard returns.

Her and Chris Pratt are gonna be in this and the 3rd one.

It mentions animatronics but really JW's cgi was great.

People complain but I think because we see the dinosaurs move around so much is what makes the cgi apparent. Not the quality of the cgi.

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i really hope they do right by this one.

Goldblum, Dern, or Neill or bust.

Neill and Goldblum have already said they wouldnt be in it and that it was time for others to have the part.

I thought they said that the last time around (JW1). I haven't heard anything from them this trip around the merry-go-round.

What they mentioned is more along the lines of they haven't made any effort to contact them and they don't seem to mind, Neil jokingly said that Grant might've died already in the JP movies but they've all said they'd be willing to return .

Should they return though?
I love them and wouldn't mind at all if they were main characters again but if you think about it, it just doesn't make sense storywise that theyd return after the events of TLW with Malcolm and JP/// with Sattler/Grant. It'd only make sense if they had a cameo or something in a TV interview discussing the events of Jurassic World or something but not in the middle of the action. I don't think they will do it either but I would love it if they were in the sequel though.

It would make about as much sense as another company insuring a park for dinos after what happened the first time. They could easily find some in-story reason for why they'd need Malcolm or Grant's expertise.

Not much to comment on the image but it does its job at teasing, I'm guessing we'll get a teaser trailer at SDCC but who knows since the movie would still be a year away from SDCC. For JW we didn't really get a teaser until it was like a few months away, they really didn't expect it to be the huge success that it was, I mean it beat Avengers 2.

Hard to believe that Jurassic Park V is coming out in a year and a half, I mean I waited nearly 15 years for Jurassic Park IV. And yet they're taking their time, since it was scheduled 3 years later after JW and not the usual "2 year" wait to cash in on the franchise. The first trilogy did the same with a new movie every 4 years.