A Certain Point of View: Writing, Film and Stuff

Jurassic World (2015) Written by: Colin Trevorrow, Derek Connolly, Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver Story by: Amanda Silver and Rick Jaffa  Based on Characters Created by  Michael Crichton Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio,  Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, BD Wong, Irrfan Khan On June 12, 2015 (two weeks after its world premiere at Paris' Le Grande Rex theater), Universal Pictures' Jurassic World hit U.S. theaters in wide release. Directed by Colin Trevorrow under the aegis of executive producer Steven Spielberg, Jurassic World revived the long-dormant franchise after a protracted development that lasted over a decade. Set 22 years after the events in Spielberg's 1993 adaptation of the late Michael Crichton's science fiction novel Jurassic Park, the movie is the first installment of a planned Jurassic World trilogy. Two decades after the disaster at John Hammond's Jurassic Park theme park, a new park created by Simon Mars...

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) Directed by: J.A. Bayona Written by: Derek Connolly & Colin Trevorrow Starring: Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Rafe Spall, Justice Smith, Daniella Pineda, James Cromwell, Ted Levine, Isabella Sermon, Geraldine Chaplin, Jeff Goldblum On June 22, 2018, Universal Pictures' Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom hit theaters in its U.S. wide release. Written by Derek Connolly and Colin Trevorrow ( Jurassic World ) and directed by Spanish director J.A. Bayona, this is the second chapter in the Jurassic World trilogy and the fifth film of the Jurassic Park franchise.   How many times do you have to see the evidence? How many times must the point be made? We're causing our own extinction. Too many red lines have been crossed. And our home has, in fundamental ways, been polluted by avarice and political megalomania. Genetic power has now been unleashed and of course, that's going to be catastrophic. This change was inevitable from...