Get some clues on the Jurassic World sequel

After becoming one of the biggest box office successes of all time, Jurassic World was always destined to have a sequel. And it's already in the works, with the major cast returning for some more dino-stories.

One obvious question has to be - where does it go from here? The ending of JW doesn't exactly suggest an obvious sequel-setup, or at least not one that fits within the boundaries of what we've seen from the franchise so far. We were thinking one possible direction was the angle of dinos being weaponised, with the tech available to the highest bidder for whatever nefarious plan they have in place.

That could still happen but director Colin Trevorrow has been talking about his own notions of where the story goes in a podcast with Jurassic Cast. And he's selling it all on a quite from Jeff Goldblum's Dr Ian Malcolm in the original Jurassic Park:

"Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?"

The ideas all stem from that, from this amazing collision between two sets of beings who should never have shared the planet. And there are pletny more plans in place for the film, which won't arrive until 2018.

"It’ll be a different kind of film. And the audience has given us kind of permission to take this to the next level. And I don’t mean in scale. I feel very strongly that this is not ‘more dinosaurs’ or ‘bigger dinosaurs’, it’s about using this as a starting point to discover our relationship with these animals and with animals in general, and the dynamic that was created by bringing them back to life."

He goes on to talk about the return of characters from the first film, including Chris Pratt's Owen and how they're in a very different place to the first film, with the world forever changed by this technology being let loose.

The full podcast is here:

Of course, we have no idea what will actually happen with the film and Trevorrow himself isn't yet attached as director. It's going to be tough to balance giving audiences what they want again and also furthering the story along the lines of the proposed new trilogy.

Jurassic World 2 is out in July 2018.