Director Colin Trevorrow Dishes ‘Jurassic World’ Plot Details!

Briefly: Jurassic World is just over one year away from theatres at this point, and last week major setting and plot details from the film leaked online. Nobody knew what to believe, but director Colin Trevorrow has just officially revealed plot details from Jurassic World.

In a just-published interview with SlashFilm, director Colin Trevorrow has detailed the plot of Jurassic World, stating that “Jurassic World takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar. It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort with hotels, restaurants, nightlife and a golf course. And there are dinosaurs. Real ones. You can get closer to them than you ever imagined possible. It’s the realization of John Hammond’s dream, and I think you’ll want to go there.”

He continues, revealing that the film will take place more than two decades after Jurassic Park. He speaks of two main ideas that came to light when deciding the film’s setting:

One was that money has been the gasoline in the engine of our biggest mistakes. If there are billions to be made, no one can resist them, even if they know things could end horribly.

The other was that our relationship with technology has become so woven into our daily lives, we’ve become numb to the scientific miracles around us. We take so much for granted.

Those two ideas felt like they could work together. What if, despite previous disasters, they built a new biological preserve where you could see dinosaurs walk the earth…and what if people were already kind of over it? We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves. “We’ve seen CG dinosaurs. What else you got?” Next year, you’ll see our answer.

There are some other great revelations here, so be sure to read the full interview over at SlashFilm. It really sounds like Trvorrow and the team are trying to turn the franchise around, and I really can’t wait to see what they come up with.

Are you looking forward to Jurassic World? Be sure to let us know! The film hits theatres on July 12th, 2015.