ToGareth Edwards, the closest thing you could get to a real Skull Island on planet Earth is Thailand.
When we were scouting them, we saw poisonous water snakes, massive ones that we had to catch.
We kept it quiet from the actors as they spent a whole day wading through the same area.
Bechir Sylvain, Jonathan Bailey, and Scarlett Johansson in ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’.Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
And there were giant spiders that were poisonous and stuff on the edge of the trees.
You just wouldn’t point them out if you saw them.
For the scenes shot on the ocean, they then went to Malta.
Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey in ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’.Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
Its probably the last film I ever shoot in the ocean because it was very difficult, he admits.
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These locales were part of the back to basics approach to the movie.
Not that it necessarily needed one.
Rupert Friend, Mahershala Ali, and Bechir Sylvain in ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’.Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
To me, it’s a giant love letter to Steven Spielberg and his earlier films.
There are moments in this movie that remind me very much ofJaws.
It’s essentially a little adventure odyssey across this island, a survival story, really.
Scarlett Johansson in ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’.Jasin Boland/Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment
Johansson, Ali, and Bailey are essentially the new faces ofJurassic World.
Bailey is the paleontologist, Dr. Henry Loomis.
Hes out of his depth in terms of the military element of the mission, the director explains.
Its that kind of triangle between three different overlapping characters, he says.
There’s a lot of fun between the three of them that really popped out to me.
And that guy walking through wetlands in a white collared shirt?
Thats Martin Krebs (Friend), a representative of Big Pharma, on-site to ensure his companys interests.
But even he, Edwards points out, isnt the cliched corporate figure.
Rupert’s got a little bit of James Bond about him, he says.
They all tried to play a little bit against jot down slightly.
Obviously, it all goes wrong and becomes a situation that you enjoy watching as aJurassicfan, Edwards remarks.
Once you’re on the adventure, the film doesn’t let go until the end credits.
Jurassicactually only had just a few dozen VFX shots in it, and it’s such a powerful film.
And if that means trekking through poisonous snake-infested waters to get the shot, so be it.
