Director J.A. Bayona has big plans for “Jurassic World 2”.
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Rumors about “Jurassic World” being a trilogy started a year ago, but director Juan Antonio Bayona, who will be helming “Jurassic World 2”, confirmed the news of the trilogy at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) early this month. The increase of the budget for the film is a positive note since they are willing to spend on effects that can make the film better.
A $260 million budget would place Jurassic World 2 in the top-six of the most expensive films of all-time, behind only Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($378.5 million!), Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and John Carter, and tied with Tangled. The director has revealed that the Jurassic World 2 budget will be $260 million, which is more money than most of us will ever see in our lifetime.
Bayona did not talk about the filming schedule of his movie or about when the production will begin. But according to Juan Antonio Bayona, who will direct the next installment of the planned trilogy, Jurassic World 2 – or as it should be called, Jurassic Galaxy – will have a much bigger budget than the original.
Bayona said that he only accepted the position of director for “Jurassic World 2” after Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall confirmed their involvement. It has already been confirmed that main stars Chris Pratt, who plays Owen Grady, and Bryce Dallas Howard, who plays park manager Claire Dearing, would be returning to reprise their roles in the sequel. The production of the film is expected to begin by early 2017.
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About a week and a half after Jurassic World dominated the box office last summer, Universal Pictures announced that Jurassic World 2 would arrives a few years later on June 22, 2018.
