Gareth Edwards sees Jurassic World Rebirth as a metaphor of the film industry

Gareth Edwards It is not foreign to the creation of stimulating science fiction, whether it is building its worlds Monsters OR The Creator or work within consolidated universes such as Godzilla AND Rogue One.

For Edwards, science fiction never only concerns spaceships, robots or dinosaurs. Instead, it is what is under the surface: the hidden metaphor, the deepest meaning that makes these stories truly resonates.

While preparing for the release of Jurassic World RebirthEdwards revealed that the underlying theme of the film is something deeper than the simple prehistoric creatures that run. For him, dinosaurs are a support for something bigger … the same nature as the film industry itself.

Edwards explained to I9:

“[Sci-fi] The films are never truly on astronavians, robots or dinosaurs. They feel useless if they are. They [only] Having a meaning when everything is a kind of analogy for something else. “

Then continue to explain it Jurassic World Rebirth It concerns the decline of cinema, the challenge of maintaining the public engaged in a panorama of the media in constant evolution.

“The idea that people don’t slowly go to the cinema, do you know what I mean? They started trying different things to make them more fun, they changed them, they have created these things that people cannot look or watch.

“And I felt like this, in a strange way, I was getting a kick, was it a strange version of the situation in which we find ourselves as filmmakers, where, how, how do you get the people of these things to excite?”

It is too familiar feeling to those of us who have witnessed change in the habits of the public from the rise of streaming services to the explosion of content on platforms such as YouTube, Tiktok and Twitch.

The film industry had to adapt to these new needs and, in some way, also the Jurassic Park franchise. When the original Jurassic Park The success theaters, the public was surprising by the revolutionary special effects. But over time, those effects have become a standard rate and what was once a dazzling show was now expected in every success.

In Jurassic World RebirthEdwards takes up that turn and takes him to the foreground.

“My first film was a monstrous film set in Central America. It had to be like, at the end of King Kong, King Kong falls in the middle of New York and dies … imagine a film in which they are now trying to tidy up and clean it up. How do you move King Kong for traffic?”

For Edwards, it is the idea of ​​exploring the consequences, facing the relapse of something great, something that has already been seen. It is a way to inject a new perspective in an old idea, something that is becoming increasingly important in the current panorama of cinema.

AS, Jurassic World Rebirth It is a comment on the current state of cinema and as well as the greatest successes can start feeling stagnant. The dinosaurs, once impressive and mysterious, are now just another part of the newspaper, just like the formulaic nature of the films of great budgets today.

The industry changed, tried to keep up with the public question, yet, says Edwards, which the same mutation led to a disconnection between what the filmmakers are creating and what the public really craves.

As Edwards sees, this film is his way of exploring the “end of another film”, but in doing so, he is drawing on the greatest question of what happens when magic vanishes and the show becomes routine. It is not just the dinosaurs of the film, but of the whole sector, struggling to find his next great thing.

With Jurassic World Rebirth Set up to hit cinemas on July 2nd.