After actually going so far as to release a teaser for the upcoming trailer itself, Universal decided to drop the Jurassic World trailer today, three days earlier than they’d first promised. This might have been to plug a leak, as with the Age of Ultron trailer or they might just have been too excited to hold it in any longer. The film shows us an open-for-business, exaggerated new rendition of Hammond’s original park, complete with an on-site resort, rides and a Shamu show featuring something that definitely isn’t Shamu (it’s either a mosasaurus or a liopleurodon, if I had to hazard a guess).
Unsurprisingly, something goes horribly wrong. The genetics department so prominent in the original film are swinging their brass balls about because they’ve created some kind of new, hybrid dinosaur. Starlord is less than impressed. Then it gets out, because of course it does. Other sources indicate that the hybrid is something called a D-Rex or Diabolus Rex, a bigger, badder T-Rex spawned in order to reignite the jaded world’s interest in live dinosaur attractions. Much like frog DNA was used to complete the genetic code in Jurassic Park, this one contains a heady cocktail of T-Rex, raptor, snake and cuttlefish DNA, with the latter allowing it to camouflage itself by changing colour. Michael Crichton touched on a similar idea in The Lost World. This film is supposedly aimed at a new generation of fans above all else, but will still have all the hallmarks of the classic. Personally I’m skeptical, but even still, seeing the raptors and hearing that overture again is enough to make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
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