Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow tweeted out the above picture with only one word, “Nights”, and the silhouette would seem to suggest this is our first look at the new dinosaur he spoke about in an interview with SlashFilm where he said, “Yes, there will be one new dinosaur created by the park’s geneticists. The gaps in her sequence were filled with DNA from other species, much like the genome in the first film was completed with frog DNA. This creation exists to fulfill a corporate mandate–they want something bigger, louder, with more teeth. And that’s what they get.”
Looking at the photo, the teeth in the shadow certainly do stand out and as much as a genetically modified dinosaur may sound like Trevorrow and team are taking Jurassic World into the realm of silly sci-fi he also made an attempt to calm your nerves adding, “I know the idea of a modified dinosaur put a lot of fans on red alert, and I understand it. But we aren’t doing anything here that [‘Jurassic Park’ author Michael] Crichton didn’t suggest in his novels. This animal is not a mutant freak. It doesn’t have a snake’s head or octopus tentacles. It’s a dinosaur, created in the same way the others were, but now the genetics have gone to the next level. For me, it’s a natural evolution of the technology introduced in the first film.”
Jurassic World hits theaters on June 12, 2015 and stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D’Onofrio, Irrfan Khan, Omar Sy and Judy Greer.
