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Jurassic World director: 'there probably should have only been one Jurassic movie'


“For the franchise to be able to move forward – because it’s inherently unfranchisable, there probably should have only been one Jurassic Park – but if we’re gonna do it, how can I allow them to tell stories in a world in which dinosaurs exist, as opposed to, here’s another reason why we’re going to an island?”
https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/jurassic-world-director-admits-the-franchise-probably-should-have-been-one-and-done/

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Yeah but...

To paraphrase a line from Jurassic Park:

“The filmmakers were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”

..Joe

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Can understand what he's getting at, basically the First movie can exist inside the 'real world' as it all took place in secret, no one outside the main characters and a few workers knew what was going down. It all ended in disaster, most likely hushed up after, no way the park will ever open, rumours etc of what mightve happened but no proof. Thats it. Man playing god dabbling with forces he should not be dabbling with. Then the sequels open it up so the entire world knows about the island, until we get the belated 4th movie - the park is open! Then by the 6th they live among us! (with the slightly surreal imagery of the original cast interacting with the new cast in this new Jurassic 'World')

But that First movie not only the best/classic (like Jaws) it can exist unto itself in the real world. all taking place in secret. similarly other franchises had this to varying degrees where the first movie is kind of plausible, takes place off the grid, a world only very few know of, before sequels opened it up to wider world and thereby lost some of that realism (Blade, The Matrix, Terminator, Alien, Predator, Highlander, Batman, Apes)

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I agree, this is why I don't get the sequel-haters who think a conceptual "Jurassic Park 2" could have been "much better". None of the sequels are trash if we are to accept JP as being a franchise. If this person steadfastly believes JP should have NO sequels period, then fair enough.

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