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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Catherine Shoard

Reboots and remakes: why is Hollywood stuck on repeat?

Sam Neill being approached by a dinosaur in Jurassic Park III from 2001, directed by Joe Johnston.
Sam Neill in Jurassic Park III from 2001, directed by Joe Johnston. Photograph: ILM/Amblin/Universal/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

On Monday, the director of the new Jurassic Park movie explained his aim for the seventh film in the series. Innovation it was not. Rather, said Gareth Edwards, it was karaoke. To prepare, he binged Steven Spielberg clips on repeat, hoping to accomplish genre cloning.

“I was trying,” he told BBC’s Front Row, “to make it feel nostalgic. The goal was that it should feel like Universal Studios went into their vaults and found a reel of film, brushed the dust off and it said: Jurassic World: Rebirth.

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