'Jurassic World' Director Confirms Leaks And Talks Plot

Last week, pockets of the web were involved in alternately heated and excited discussion over a series of leaks that had apparently spilled out of the Jurassic Park 4 - officially Jurassic World - camp, all over the internet. The leaks revealed - or purported to reveal - several key plot points about the film, and now its director, Colin Trevorrow, has stepped forward to speak with renowned movie-blog site Slashfilm to clarify a few things.

"That's the thing about leaks, sometimes they aren't misinterpreted or false," he told Slashfilm via email. "They're real story elements that the filmmakers were hoping to introduce to the audience in a darkened movie theatre."

"Last week was discouraging for everyone on our crew – not because we want to hide things from the fans, but because we're working so hard to create something full of surprises," he continued.

While the merits of film leaks and the positive or negative effects they wreak could efficiently fuel a debate way longer than the dinosaurs themselves could hope to, that's not really the point of Trevorrow's statement.

The point is that those leaks you saw, about the film taking place in a theme park and prehistoric creatures not only being trained but also possessing "good" and "bad" personalities ... well, at least some of those were spot-on.

"Jurassic World takes place in a fully functional park on Isla Nublar," Trevorrow said. "It sees more than 20,000 visitors every day. You arrive by ferry from Costa Rica. It has elements of a biological preserve, a safari, a zoo, and a theme park. There is a luxury resort ... And there are dinosaurs."

"It's the realization of John Hammond's dream, and I think you'll want to go there."

However, starting to chip away at the more ridiculous aspects of the leak, he said, "There's no such thing as good or bad dinosaurs," citing the T-Rex's unlabelled behaviour in the first film as both antagonist and ultimate saviour as evidence of the lunacy of such a charge.

In addition, "Chris Pratt's character is doing behavioral research on the raptors," he continued. "They aren't trained, they can't do tricks. He's just trying to figure out the limits of the relationship between these highly intelligent creatures and human beings."

Confidence levels in the fourth instalment of the JP franchise, set 22 years after the first, are rising steadily, as Trevorrow also discusses the thematic cornerstones of the film - the power of money in getting people to do things even when history points to it being a bad idea, and the everyday ubiquity of technology.

"We imagined a teenager texting his girlfriend with his back to a T-Rex behind protective glass. For us, that image captured the way much of the audience feels about the movies themselves," he said.

Finally, Trevorrow admits that the leak that raised the most red flags - a genetically enhanced new breed of dino - will be in the film, but maintains the creative decision is in line with developments hinted at by the late author Michael Crichton in the original Jurassic Park novel.

Besides - you don't want to just see the same movie over and over again. "We're trying to tell a bold new story that doesn't rely on a proven formula, because the movies we watch over and over again are the ones that surprised us, that worked when they shouldn't have," Trevorrow summarised.

"Will this one be different from the other movies? You bet it will. And I'm not going to pass the buck if it doesn't work. This one's on me."

Jurassic World is due for release on June 12 next year.

In lieu of a new trailer, enjoy this audio from the 2014 Godzilla remake put to a bunch of footage from the original Jurassic Park, creating a film that we'd all watch in a heartbeat.