Jurassic World: the rebirth has almost had a much darker ending

The successes of the large budget are often built on changing sand. The scripts are optimized on the fly, the plots are transformed during the post and ending are rewritten just before the final cut. Jurassic World Rebirth It was no exception.

According to the director Gareth EdwardsThis chapter full of dinosaurs has almost ended with fans of the fist of a fist that did not expect.

Spoiler warning if you haven’t seen the movie yet.

One of the most pleasant moments of the crowd in Jurassic World: Rebirth It is the surprise return of Maershala aliDuncan Kincaid, the grill mercenary who buys time for a group of trapped children by attracting the terrifying new just changed, distortus rex, away with a glow.

For a few tense minutes, it seems that this is the end of Kincaid, making a noble sacrifice to save others from being eaten. So, just when you think he is digested in the stomach of the monster Dino, he stumbles on the scene in life again. Applause cue.

But it has not always been the plan. Edwards said /movie:

“I tell you, the bit we shot two versions of Is Kincaid Living and Dying. Basically, the version in which he dies, simply you don’t have the other bit [where he reappears]. But because it was so that it was written to begin and we filmed it and did everything as if he were going to die, everything seemed correct.

“As a public,” Oh my God is about to die really, of course it is, “and then he does it. Then, when it was reported, I think it’s a surprise. Then I felt like:” Oh no, what happens if the audience thought that we had eliminated? ”

“I would remember Andwhich is the version of the masterpiece of this, in which I have never heard it at all And I felt really sad [laughs] who had gone, and then euphoric when he returned. It was a bit like a small version of this, in which you pray: “The audience is going to …?”

“And then looking at him the other night [at the New York premiere]He got the best reaction at that moment and I was really like, ‘Oh my God, thank God we shot that version in which he lived because he could have been a nice lower [laughs]. ‘”

It is a rare case in which a recovery has not only solved a problem, he raised the entire ending. But it was not the only thing about the block.

Do you know that moment in every jurassic film in which the T-Rex launches himself as a prehistoric deus ex machina to save the day? Edwards almost gave in to that tradition. But this time, the cooler heads prevailed.

“I thought-it came out. It didn’t emerge in the filming, it arrived in post-production where suddenly, I guess, I woke up with a cold sweat one night and it was like ‘We should, should we have the T-Rex to get up?’ [laughs] I went the next day and raised me with everyone and I expected everyone to go, “yesh” [enthusiastically]And it was only a reaction like “really? But all the others did it. He slightly reassured me as” Okay, I think we did the right thing “.

“But there is this narrative thing called [deus] Ex machina and it is like Latin, I think, for God in practice and save your characters at the end of a story. I think “Jurassic” has this thing called “Rex Machina”, where it is as if the T-Rex arrives and saves everyone.

“I remember David VickeryThe visual effects supervisor was like “but this is one of the things I loved of this film, it is that he did not do what the others did” and all this kind of things. Yes, you juggle – is there, what is the right thing here? Try to choose the right path. “

Instead of another Dino-Vs -ino ending, the Distortus Rex remains a looming threat, Kincaid survives and remains with the type of final indefinitely that leaves the door open for a sequel.