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Total Film
Total Film
Entertainment
Amy West

Jurassic World: Rebirth writer "didn't have a single idea" how to continue the previous movies' 'dinosaurs in the our world' thing – so he backtracked using a key moment in Michael Crichton's novel

The T-rex in Jurassic World Rebirth.

Jurassic World Rebirth's David Koepp "didn't have a single idea" how to continue the previous movie's exploration of humans and dinosaurs co-existing in the real world... so he scrapped it entirely using "a great speech" from Michael Crichton's original Jurassic Park novel. 

The screenwriter returns to the franchise with the series' most recent outing, having penned the script's original 1993 film and its sequel The Lost World. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, he was asked why it was so important for him to make the giant reptilian baddies... well, baddies again, to which he candidly replied: "They took that idea all the way. Dinosaurs were nesting on the Chrysler Building and renting apartments downtown. I didn't have a single idea about where to go with that. 

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