Colin Trevorrow explains how the animated show fits into the scheme of the movies.
WhenJurassic World: Camp Cretaceousreturns this Friday on Netflix, the kids will get a glimmer of hope.
They’ve been through a lot, even the loss of a friend.
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They aren’t alone on the island after all.
Yet the fire doesn’t necessarily mean what they think it does.
Making the show “really relatable on an emotional level was the most important thing,” Trevorrow says.
As Trevorrow puts it, they “take control of their own survival” in the new episodes.
Doing so also helped tee up, in however subtle ways, what is coming in futureJurassic Worldstories.
“Honestly, it’s because I love it,” Trevorrow says.
“I don’t really have a better answer than that.
I was genuinely moved by the experience.
I was going through a tough time myself.
Dominion, the filmmaker says, is “a celebration of the whole franchise.
“Sam Neill,Laura Dern, andJeff Goldblumwho starred in the originalJurassic Parkmoviereturn forDominionalongsideChris PrattandBryce Dallas Howard.
But this trilogy is not that way.
It’s very much a serialized story.
It’s what Trevorrow hopes for withCamp Cretaceousas wellthat it stands as its own saga.
“What these movies are is changing in a way,” he says.
That’s really our same exercise on the show.”
All eight episodes ofCamp Cretaceousseason 2 will release Jan. 22 on Netflix.
