Twenty-two years after the events of the first Jurassic Park, a theme park filled with cloned dinosaurs has been running on Isla Nublar for years and welcomes visitors daily. Two nephews of the park's operations manager, Zach and Gray, arrive for a visit and soon drift away from the planned tour. Meanwhile, park management pushes for a new attraction, a hybrid engineered to draw even bigger crowds, and animal behaviorist Owen Grady warns about the dangers of an animal raised in isolation. When the creature gets loose, the complex descends into chaos, and the main characters must survive and find the boys.

How it was made

The project spent nearly a decade in development hell as the script went through repeated revisions. Universal wanted a fourth film in 2005, and Steven Spielberg suggested that the story show a fully functioning park. Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver developed that premise, and Colin Trevorrow, hired as director in 2013, wrote the final screenplay with Derek Connolly. Filming took place from May to August 2014 in Louisiana and Hawaii. The dinosaurs mixed digital animation by Industrial Light & Magic with animatronics from Legacy Effects, a studio founded by former collaborators of Stan Winston, who had created the dinosaurs of the original film. Michael Giacchino composed the score.

Reception and legacy

The film opened in June 2015 and set a record for the biggest opening weekend, with 500 million dollars. By the end of its theatrical run it had earned more than 1.67 billion dollars, placing it among the eight highest-grossing films of all time. It received a Kids Choice Award nomination for favorite movie. Its success led to a sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, released in 2018, and helped establish the franchise as one of the most profitable adventure series of its era.

Stills

Trailer

Clicking loads the video from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode). Open on YouTube

Trivia

A 1992 Jeep

The boys repair an old 1992 Jeep Wrangler that they find among the ruins of the original park's visitor center, a nod to the franchise's history.

Former Stan Winston collaborators

The animatronics were built by Legacy Effects, a company formed by former collaborators of Stan Winston, while ILM handled the digital animation.

More films by Colin Trevorrow

Jurassic World Dominion2022

Safety Not Guaranteed2012

The Book of Henry2017

Original Cinematopedia text based on Wikipedia (es) and Wikipedia (en) and Wikidata.