Jurassic World: Rebirth director Gareth Edwards thinks “audiences aren’t that interested in dinosaurs anymore”.
Jurassic World: Rebirth director Gareth Edwards believes ‘audiences aren’t that interested in dinosaurs anymore’
The 50-year-old filmmaker helmed the latest instalment in the Jurassic franchise, and has now stressed he wanted to “do something new” with his movie as he believes dinosaurs simply aren’t a big enough selling point for viewers anymore.
He told GamesRadar+: “There’s been many dinosaur films in terms of Jurassics, and the audience, you’ve got to do something new and fresh to give them a reason to come see the movie.
“And so by acknowledging that at the beginning and saying, ‘Look, audiences aren’t that interested in dinosaurs anymore’, I thought it was like, ‘Okay, well, this is an honest beginning. Let’s see where we go from here.’”
Jurassic World: Rebirth – which stars Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali – follows a team of covert operatives who race to stop a rogue biotech group unleashing weaponised dinosaurs across the globe.
As prehistoric chaos spreads, the group must confront a dark secret tied to the original Jurassic legacy.
The Rogue One: A Star Wars Story previously said he wanted to return the “horror” elements to the series with Jurassic World: Rebirth.
Speaking with Vanity Fair, Edwards said: “Jurassic Park [the original 1993 movie] is a horror film in the witness protection program. Most people don’t think of it like that.
“We all…
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