Although once titled Jurassic Park IV and although once expected to open on June 13, 2014, the since-delayed sequel / potential reboot has been given a new moniker and a new place: Jeff Sneider has tweeted that the project, from now on called Jurassic World, will arrive on June 12, 2015. This development confirms a small report from June, though little (if anything) else rumored about the picture has been made clear, save for the less-than-telling involvement of director Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) and scribes Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes). The rest, I’m afraid, will have to wait.
Update: Check out a pitch video for the project below, which is not part of the film, but gives us a glance at a dinosaur attack. [Shock Til You Drop]
Meanwhile, Edgar Wright‘s much-anticipated Ant-Man has been pushed up, going from a set slot of November 6, 2015 to July 31 of the same year. While Disney and Marvel have provided no reason for this shift of positions, a same-day November slotting for Bond 24 might suggest the respective companies’ understanding that Hank Pym, size-manipulating though he may be, is no box-office match for 007; all that’s noted to be opening that last Friday of July would be Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiars, a potential directing vehicle for Tim Burton. With Wright and Attack the Block‘s Joe Cornish having penned Ant-Man‘s script — and with the latter’s proposed directorial effort, Rust, now handed to another, making him a rarer commodity — the choice is mighty clear.
Last and least, Pirates of the Caribbean 5: Dead Men Tell No Tales has gone from an opening of July 15, 2015 to no opening at all, Disney opting “to have all the right elements in place” before Kon-Tiki helmers Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandber call their first shot. (The summer of 2016 sounds to be in the cards, though this goes unconfirmed.) For a series so frequently tied to the notorious practice of filming before a completed script was in anyone’s hands, some think this action is all part of the pared-down Bruckheimer‘s plans to, in some way, atone for those financial woes which plagued this past summer’s Lone Ranger. I’m obviously coming from an outside perspective, but: if the result is a fifth franchise installment with the same off-kilter sensibilities and strangely subversive qualities that marked Gore Verbinski‘s picture, their troubles will be worthwhile.
Any hopes, still, for Jurassic World? What do you make of the Ant-Man and Pirates shifts?