The ‘Jurassic World 3’ Shutdown Helped the Production
By George Robbins
Since the beginning of this whole pandemic back in the middle of March, it has been an uphill battle for many to try and come up with solutions for various new situations. For instance, how do businesses adjust to the distancing policy which is currently in place and how many people should be allowed to be together at one time. These have answers, but they vary, sometimes wildly, depending on the location of these places and how well they are handling the current crisis. Hollywood is no exception to this and many studios at this point have had almost no choice but to delay movies and shut down productions. Even if they started up productions again, there would be rules in place which force new work standards to prevent possible viral spread. Now that standards are in place, production crews can actually get back to work again.
One of the first productions to start up production again was James Cameron’s ‘Avatar 2’ because a number of different scenarios lined up perfectly for him. Some other productions have not been so lucky because, for Cameron, he was going to be filming in the country that announced that it had completely defeated the virus. On top of that, he was able to start filming with no issue after the initial 2-week quarantine upon arrival in New Zealand. This means that no one was infected and he was able to immediately get to work and started his production again with no hassle. However, he still had a lot of work to do after starting up again and has devoted all of his time recently to making sure that the film ends up finished in the proper amount of time.
Many productions currently have the issue that they have not managed to get much work done at all because they need the whole production crew to get work done. There is at least one production that has been lucky in this regard and as such has managed to actually get some work done. The upcoming final entry to the ‘Jurassic World’ trilogy, ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ has somehow been lucky during this whole pandemic and apparently so has the crew. They are even starting to resume production now after having to wait so many months, but they have at least managed to get some work done over the hiatus they were forced to take. According to director Colin Trevorrow this ended up being a great thing for all of them because it gave them a chance to take care of things without a looming deadline.
Apparently, the reason for why everything worked out so well for them is because the few weeks of filming that they had gotten in before the pandemic was footage that included the dinosaurs. This means that, unlike most productions, work could be done from home because what they needed done at that point was VFX work to get the dinosaurs in place. Trevorrow went on to state that being able to do this kind of work from home has not only helped the production, but also the crew because it means they didn’t have a deadline they had to make. So now that they are resuming work on the film, it shouldn’t be much of hassle to get right back into things.