Jurassic World star Chris Pratt reveals that director and frequent collaborator James Gunn once pitched him an idea for the dinosaur franchise that would change everything. After three Jurassic Park movies in the 1990s and early 2000s, the franchise was rebooted in 2015 with Jurassic World. The reboot trilogy introduced new characters like Pratt's Owen and Bryce Dallas Howard's Claire and came to a conclusion with last year's divisive Jurassic World Dominion.
In a recent interview with Collider, Pratt now shares where he would like the Jurassic World franchise to go next, revealing that Gunn, whom he worked with on Guardians of the Galaxy, once pitched him a fairly wild idea. While Pratt expresses interest in exploring more deep-sea dinosaurs, Gunn's idea would involve a fairly radical addition to the franchise. Check out Pratt's full comment below:
“I would say just given the advent of what we can now do underwater, I’m curious to see more about the Mosasaur. I thought that dinosaur was a wonderful creature, but I’d be curious a little bit more about the life of that fabulous creature. Maybe some more underwater dinosaurs. […]
One time James Gunn ['Guardians of the Galaxy' director and screenwriter] gave me a pitch; he was like, ‘What about cavemen?’ Isn’t there a caveman version of the Jurassic thing where a caveman — like the remake of 'Iceman' or something like that? Where maybe the DNA they extract is — I don’t know!”
The Next Jurassic World Movie Needs To Be A Reinvention
Although it's unclear how the introduction of caveman DNA into the franchise would play out, it is clear that the next Jurassic World movie should be a fairly substantial reinvention of the franchise. Both Jurassic Park sequels are generally considered lackluster additions to the franchise and, while 2015's Jurassic World proved popular, both of its sequels arguably also delivered diminishing returns.
Jurassic World Dominion is by far the most disappointing entry in the franchise thus far for a variety of reasons, but it also leaves the franchise with little room to grow. By the end of the film, humans and dinosaurs are essentially living in harmony. In order to avoid repeating Jurassic World Dominion's mistakes, the franchise should take a hard left turn, introducing new characters and either wiping the slate clean or drastically evolving it.
Instead of once again trying to tell a story about humans and dinosaurs co-existing on a grand scale, perhaps going smaller in scope would be an interesting departure. The next film could tell a more contained story in a top secret underground lab or private island, bringing the franchise back to its roots. Alternatively, of course, as Gunn suggests, maybe introducing some caveman DNA into the Jurassic World universe would be just what the franchise needs.
Source: Collider