Trivia / Jurassic World

• Accidentally-Correct Writing: Possibly, with a line from Lowery complaining about the idea of corporations naming dinosaurs and sarcastically suggesting "Pepsisaurus" and "Tostitodon". Did the writers know that this has already happened? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... Panamericansaurus , Atlascopcosaurus and Qantassaurus.
• Actor-Inspired Element: Zara’s brutal death, one of the most controversial scenes in the film, was actually a request by the character’s actor Katie McGrath. It was originally written for a random extra, but when McGrath saw it, she thought it was such an awesome death scene that she wanted her character to get it. The production obliged, and McGrath did all of her own stunts for it.
• Approval of God: Sam Neill enjoyed this film.
• The Character Died with Him: Richard Attenborough's health was in rapid decline during production of this film, negating any chance of reprising his role as John Hammond. That said, it is pure coincidence that Hammond was already written out as having passed away, only for Attenborough to indeed pass away in real life. Also an inversion of Character Outlives Actor, as John Hammond is officially said to have died in 1997, sometime during or shortly after the events The Lost World: Jurassic Park, while Richard Attenborough in Real Life lived until 2014.
  • Attenborough's health had been in decline for several years by the time of the film's release, to the point he was confined to a wheelchair, could no longer speak clearly, and was no longer able to live on his own. While he had expressed enthusiasm about returning to the Hammond role during the earlier drafts of the fourth film, it was already clear by the time Jurassic World began production that Attenborough could not possibly appear.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Misinterpetations of statements that the film wouldn't dwell too much on the events of the previous two sequels have resulted in assumptions that they were retconned out entirely. The movie and the Viral Marketing actually make a handful of nods toward The Lost World and III, confirming that World still follows the continuity of the previous three films.
• Creator Backlash: Colin Trevorrow actually agrees, to some extent, with Joss Whedon's critique of a clip that he considered "70's era sexist". He was mainly confused with Universal releasing that type of clip outside the context of the whole film.
• Defictionalization:
  • The Jurassic World website, a website for the park itself rather than the movie.
  • The Masrani Corporation has a slick website of its own touting its achievements in energy and telecommunications.
  • Jurassic World snap bands also exist, similar to the ones visitors to the park wear.
  • The sticker book entitled "The Park is Open" is a variant, since it's sold as a normal kids' book but it's written like a sort of "guidebook" for the park and even comes with Jurassic World visitor's passes.
  • Best Buy distributed Jurassic World brochures along with cool little trading cards to advertise Samsung's involvement with the film.
  • Universal Studios Florida's "Islands of Adventure" is already converting their Jurassic Park section into a sort of pseudo-Jurassic World and it's possible that they'll expand on it even further. Rumor has it that they're also planning to put together a defictionalized Gyrosphere ride, but this is still unconfirmed.
  • Universal Studios Japan has announced a ride based on the film being up for release in 2016, but their only hint to it is a silhouette of a Pteranodon (it's rumored to be both a ride and a defictionalized version of the Jurassic World Aviary).
• Deleted Scene: Shown in an interview with Bryce Dallas Howard (about how her dad posting a picture of her and Chris Pratt together at a party accidentally announced the film ahead of schedule) but not in the film, probably because it might have been too soon after a touching scene with a dying dinosaur. Yet another dinosaur droppings joke is made in the series. This time, it involves Owen and Claire having to put some of the stuff on themselves to mask their scent. Claire is not amused, especially when Owen points out (after the fact) that she didn't need to put it on her face. It's among the extra scenes of the home video release.
• Development Gag: Jurassic World opened in 2005. The film was originally set for release in Summer 2005, before it entered development hell.
• Dyeing for Your Art: Bryce Dallas Howard admitted that playing a character who keeps the high heels on through the whole movie wasn't easy to accomplish, but she insisted on wearing the heels because it fit her character.
• Follow the Leader:
  • The film shares writers with Rise of the Planet of the Apes, which is also a sequel/reboot of a classic science fiction franchise with lots of nods to the previous films, starring a wild animal raised in captivity that is smarter than people expect. It is not a mere coincidence: Jaffa and Silver were hired right after, and because they brought Rise from Development Hell to Sleeper Hit.
  • The documentary Blackfish was cited as an inspiration. It is set mostly in a water park with the word "World" in its name, deals with giant predators trained to perform tricks with human handlers, and in one climatic scene, a handler saves another by releasing a larger, more dominant orca in the pool where another was trying to kill him.
  • The climatic scene of the Mosasaurus and I. rex was done 15 years earlier by a Liopleurodon and an Eustreptospondylus in Walking with Dinosaurs. Art showing similar sea reptiles (mostly Tylosaurus) grabbing unsuspecting Pteranodon flying above were also quite common in paleoart produced in the intervening years, although nobody used it in film yet.
• Enforced Method Acting: As revealed behind-the-scenes, Bryce was not aware of when Chris was going to kiss her (at suggestion of the director), after the scene of Owen being saved from a Dimorphodon attack; that surprise in the film is her real reaction.
• Fake Brit: Zara is British (according to Claire; more specifically she's English judging by her accent) but played by Irish actress Katie McGrath.
• Fandom Life Cycle: Definite Stage X, for both Jurassic Park fans and mainstream dinosaur fans on the whole.
• Fanon: It was originally claimed Zach's girlfriend's name was Kalista, and that this would be revealed in an "upcoming novelization." However the only such book released so far, and indeed the only one planned, apparently, is the Junior Novelization by David Lewman, which only identifies her as "Zach's girlfriend."
  • Another Fanon name for her is "Kira Dock."
• In Memoriam: After the death of Richard Attenborough in August 2014, Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow revealed that a statue memorializing Hammond would be featured in the film, though considering filming had been going on for several months, it appears it was always planned to appear.
  • This was both an example of Real Life Writes the Plot (see below) as well as a nod to Hammond's health being in decline canonically in The Lost World, with his death having been the original intended conclusion to the film before being cut.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Mother of two Bryce Dallas Howard plays a woman who has no children, nor wants any.
• Mis-blamed: An unfortunate comment by director Colin Treverrow claiming that Zara was killed off because she was a "bridezilla" and made a derogatory comment about her fiancee's friends led to a vocal section of fans decrying the character's death as misogynist. However, Zara's actress, Katie McGrath, had actually heard about the scene before it was decided which character would be killed and specifically asked if it could be her.
• Multiple Languages, Same Voice Actor: Barry's actor, Omar Cy, also voices his own character in the movie's European French dub (but not the Canadian French dub).
• The Other Darrin: Greg Burson passed away in 2008, so Mr. DNA's voice is provided by the film's director.
• Real-Life Relative: The little boy hugging the Apatosaurus at the petting zoo is played by Bryce Dallas Howard's real life son.
• Refitted for Sequel: Believe it or not, there's still some scenes from Crichton's novels they were able to tweak and add in.
  • The argument between Masrani and Dr. Wu about the realism of the park's creatures is lifted from an argument between Hammond and Dr. Wu about the same topic, as seen in the chapter "Version 4.4" of the original novel.
  • Barry being stuck in a log and attacked by raptors calls to mind a scene where Muldoon is stuck in a pipe and attacked by raptors.
    • Similarly, a raptor being blown to bits by a rocket launcher is how Muldoon killed a raptor in the first novel.
    • The scene where the Jurassic World staff tranquilize the pterosaurs was also drawn from a similar scene in the first novel.
  • The boys and Claire trying to fend off raptors from a moving truck draws from Levine and Thorne doing likewise in a Jeep in the second novel.
  • The camouflage ability of I. rex is based on the ability of the Carnotaurus in the second book. Viral websites even mention Carnotaurus as a source for some of the hybrid's DNA, although the final film attributes the ability to cuttlefish.
  • The Pteranodons attacking a helicopter was taken from a twice rejected climactic scene for the second and third films.
  • Owen's imprinting and raising of the Velociraptors could easily be compared to Clarence, who was a friendly and even cuddly baby raptor from the first novel.
  • Leon (the young worker at the raptor pen) gets yanked off the catwalk by one of the raptors grabbing the pole he's holding. The exact same thing befalls Eddie in The Lost World novel, when the raptors yank him out of the high hide by a bar he's holding to attack them with.
  • A scene that was cut from the original Jurassic Park film would've had the main characters distract one of the Velociraptors by using a Dilophosaurus umbrella; a similar moment occurs in this film where the main characters distract one of the Velociraptors with a Dilophosaurus hologram.
  • The fight with Tyrannosaurus rex and the Indominus rex reuses elements of the original version of the Tyrannosaurus vs Spinosaurus battle from the third film, as the original version of the battle had the Spinosaurus throwing the Tyrannosaurs into the ground multiple times as the Tyrannosaurus tried to get up, along with a scene where the Tyrannosaurus nearly eats the main protagonists as it lays in the ground. In the film, the Indominus rex nearly kills the Tyrannosaurus by choking her before biting down her neck, which is how the Spinosaurus would originally have killed the Tyrannosaurus.
  • The petting zoo scene featuring children riding baby dinosaurs was likely inspired by a scene planned for the original film in which Lex would have done likewise. An animatronic juvenile Triceratops was even built for the scene by Stan Winston's team, but it was ultimately cut for pacing reasons.
  • The Apatosaurus was originally supposed to appear in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, but was replaced with Mamenchisaurus.
• Saved from Development Hell: The film was originally expected to be released in 2005. It wasn't officially released until 10 years later.
• Sequel Gap: Came out 14 years after Jurassic Park III.
• Star-Making Role: Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) showed the world Chris Pratt has what it takes to be a film star. The financial success of this film (which broke the record for fastest time to a billion at the box office) cemented him as a box office draw.
• Throw It In!: Owen and Claire's Smooch of Victory was something Chris Pratt and Colin Trevorrow came up with on their own. As a response, Lauren Lapkus and Jake Johnson came up with Vivian telling Lowery that she has a boyfriend as he goes in for a kiss (their characters were supposed to kiss but the actors felt that it would be redundant).
• Viral Marketing: Websites for both the fictional park and the company that owns it were created. Not to mention the official Facebook page for the park itself (that once the movie came out, started to reply in-character to people "worried" about safety...).
• What Could Have Been: Shares part of a page.
• Word of God:
  • Chris Pratt and Colin Trevorrow regularly say that canonical backstory for Owen is that he was a dolphin trainer in the Navy, making him the ideal candidate to train highly-intelligent animals that people make the mistake of assuming are fully tamed.
  • Trevorrow also confirmed on the Blu-Ray extras that Claire is the true main protagonist of the film, as opposed to Decoy Protagonist Owen.

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