Parks and Recreation star confirms he was cast in Jurassic Park sequel.
Chris Pratt from NBC’s Parks and Recreation confirmed that he has been cast in the upcoming Jurassic World, which is being directed by Colin Trevorrow. The Jurassic World casing news was rumored earlier this month after Ron Howard let it out, but who listens to Ron Howard?
In the new film Jurassic World, based on the Michael Critchen book and film Jurassic Park, Chris Pratt will play Owen, an ex-soldier who goes up against a corporate scientist played by Ron Howard’s daughter, Bryce Dallas Howard.
At a recent press event for The Lego Movie, Chris Pratt says he’s “thrilled about” Jurassic World. He was a huge fan of the first movie and has been since he was young. He told Peace River Record Gazette “For me, Jurassic Park was really kind of my Star Wars. I lined up at the theatre to see it, I saw it opening night, I saw every sequel, I’ve seen it a whole bunch of times… for me that was my big movie, I think I was 13 or 14 when it came out. And so it’s a big deal for me to be any part of that, let alone this part I’m going to be playing. I’m thrilled about it.”
We don’t know much about Jurassic World except that it’s not a reboot, it’s a sequel set 22 years after the opening and closing of Jurassic Park. The new film will have a set of characters. According to Trevorrow, Jurassic World will take place in Isla Nubar. According to media reports Ty Simpkins and Nick Robinson have also been cast as a pair of brothers.
Chris Pratt was first noticed on the WB drama Everwood and has since been seen in The Lego Movie and Guardians of the Galaxy.
Jurassic World is scheduled to hit theaters on June 12, 2015.
SOURCE: Slash Film
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It's simple! We make Dodgson's BioSyn (the guy with the hat who want the embryo's) the new dino company, which makes sense because they where years behind of InGen (that's why they wanted the embryo's). You can also explain the sudden appairence of the Spinosaurus in JP3, who wasn't seen in 'The Lost World' and who wasn't on InGen's index list, as one of the first cloned dinosaurs of BioSyn.
And there you have it! Connectivity from the first to the fourth JP movie and a lot of possible storylines.