Colin Trevorrow To Helm ‘Jurassic Park 4’

Once rumored to be directing Star Wars: Episode VII for Disney, Safety Not Guaranteed director Colin Trevorrow stated shortly after “To clarify, there is another film we all love that I’m currently trying not to mess up.” Well, it seems that he was actually referring to the fourth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise. Trevorrow will soon start work on the film, with a screenplay was written by Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes scribes Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, and produced by Frank Marshall, Patrick Crowley and Steven Spielberg.

The site states that Universal chose the director because “they felt he was a good match for the material, having grown up a huge fan of the trilogy and part of a new generation of directors steeped in all things dinosaur. They felt he would preserve and protect the characters in the story they created.”

Jurassic Park 4 is currently set to hit theaters June 13, 2014

Source: Deadline