Steven Spielberg returns to executive produce the long-awaited next installment of his groundbreaking Jurassic Park series, ‘Jurassic World’. Colin Trevorrow helms the epic action-adventure from a screenplay he wrote with Derek Connolly. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley join the team as producers.
Jurassic World will be released in 3D by Universal Pictures on 12 June, 2015 globally.
And even if you don’t know Phil Tippett by name, you certainly know his work. He was hired by George Lucas to work on the original ‘Star Wars’ trilogy and was responsible for creating and stop-motion animating the AT-ATs, the tauntauns and later some of the creatures in ‘Return of the Jedi’ (for which he would win his first Oscar).
He also was hired by Steven Spielberg to supervise the animation of the dinosaurs for ‘Jurassic Park,’ a large part of what that film was so successful that he would land himself another Oscar for his work. While none of the subsequent ‘Jurassic Park’ or ‘Star Wars’ films would bring him back, director Colin Trevorrow was confident that Tippett was his go-to man if the upcoming Jurassic World would want to capture the imagination of its loyal fan base.
Speaking on the blog post of Jurassic World Tippett had earlier said that since technology has improved drastically over the years, there’s going to be a lot more computer graphics coming into play and less of dinosaurs. And he also stated that it was wishful thinking on the director’s part to get most of the ‘Jurassic Park’ alumni to return on this installment in a hope to recreate the magic.
Trevorrow, who is writing and directing the fourth ‘Jurassic Park’ film, had confirmed on Twitter that Tippet would be returning for his upcoming movie.
That’s Tippett posing with a maquette of the T-Rex from the ‘Jurassic World’ production office and a sign that the upcoming sequel wants to do things the right way. The exact responsibilities of Tippett on this film remain to be seen but his “Dinosaur Supervisor” credit from the first ‘Jurassic Park’ will likely remain intact.
Tippett was originally hired to use his “go-motion” technique perfected in ‘Empire Strikes Back’ on the ‘Jurassic Park’ dinosaurs, but Spielberg eventually made the decision to use CGI dinosaurs. Tippett was kept on board to supervise the animators and ease the transition from traditional FX to CGI.
‘Jurassic World,’ which stars Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt and Ty Simpkins, opens in theaters on 12 June, 2015.