Given the internet’s reaction to the climactic scene in Jurassic World where Bryce Dallas Howard in heels, you’d think that the last thing anyone wants is more heels. While it’s totally true that she insisted on wearing heels the entire time as a character choice (one that I totally respect), there was something kind of … off about the decision.

Yeah, well, try telling that to the fine folks over at XVP Comedy. They answered the question we all were wondering: what if every single character in the history of all the Jurassic Park movies wore heels? Through the magic of editing and a good sense of humor, they digitally edited heels onto the feet of every character throughout Jurassic Park‘s history.

Best part? Dr. Ian “I’m Actually Jeff Goldblum Playing Jeff Goldblum Playing A Doctor” Malcolm sexily strutting over to a giant pile of shit. Those boots are killer, Doctor. Your fierceness found a way into my heart.

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Artist William Stout has released some early concept art over on his blog for a “mature” Jurassic Park cartoon that he was hired to work on soon after the movie was released.

Stout writes:

Towards the end of all of this merchandising I got a call from artist Will Meugniot, asking if I’d be interested in designing a Jurassic Park animated series. This was not going to be a kiddy show (although kids of all ages, including myself, could enjoy it). They wanted the show to be a mature prime time series with top writers and state-of-the-art television animation augmented with quite a bit of CG animation. Universal Cartoon Studios wanted a “graphic novel look” to the series. I came in, showed my portfolio and was hired.

We made a trailer to communicate the look and feel of the series, also showing how we would combine computer animation with traditional animation. All we needed was Spielberg’s approval.

I heard through the grapevine that he never bothered to watch what we had done. By that time the word was out that he was burnt out on Jurassic Park merchandising and all of the film’s commercial exploitation. So, it never got made.

*Shakes fist* Spielbeeeerrg!

Personally, I love these illustrations; they look like pages from a supremely creepy Robert Munsch book. What do you think?

(via io9, images via William Stout)

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Who wouldn’t want this spiffy number on their wall? Prints will be available soon here.

• Want to host a Jurassic Park party complete with, uh, jello shots? FunFictionFandom has all the instructions you need.
• A post on Untitled Film Blog gives some insight into Thor‘s obsession with Dutch angles: “Thor director Kenneth Branagh felt that the dutch angle would be be appropriate for nearly every single scene in the film.”  (via Polygon)

Yesterday ReedPOP announced the launch of the 2015 Brooklyn Defender IPA, the official beer of New York Super Week and NYCC 2015. The Defender will be available in select New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut bars and restaurants leading up to Comic Con. To your health!

• GeekDad explains how to deck a bedroom out, Portal-style.
• Next-level cake game: a transforming Optimus Prime birthday cake. (via Topless Robot)

Want lustrous tentacle locks of your own? Head over to Etsy shop TPF Faerie Wear!(via Fashionably Geek)

That’s what we saw today. What did y’all see?

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Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow made some rather intriguing comments about future sequels (the first currently being written and slated for release on June 22nd, 2018). When asked about Bryce Dallas Howard’s character, operations manager Claire Dearing, he said, “Claire is the one who evolves the most over the trilogy; it’s her story that mirrors this changing world.” I’ve come to the defense of the character recently, this awkward (at first) yet ambitious woman whom gets in touch with her inner hero (in those glorious heels I might add), so I’m excited at the prospect of seeing her journey continue. The Jurassic Park franchise has never been about the characters, but with Claire as the central figure moving forward, Jurassic World II and III (and beyond) have an incredible opportunity to say something new. I’ll explain.

While we loved the adventures of Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), and Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) in the original Jurassic Park, these characters were thrown into a situation beyond their control. Like a disaster movie, our heroes scraped and scrambled through the narrative, fending off hungry raptors, rexes, electrical fences, and even Newman himself. The film was a morality tail, and a warning—our heroes pointing fingers at the men whom had science’d too far. As those characters made it out alive, they were only involved in the subsequent sequels (The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III) because they were either manipulated into going or were outright kidnapped, meeting face-to-snout with these terrible lizards still putzing about (because life finds a way, of course, and so do movie sequels). These first two sequels continued with the themes of the original but felt like cynical exercises, because the protagonists themselves didn’t feel any culpability for what was happening around them. At least Jurassic Park had the “Oooh,” the “ahhh,” and then the running and screaming.

Jurassic World, being set in the fully operational theme park that John Hammond always dreamed of, attempted to rectify the nihilistic exhaustion of the previous sequels. At the center of it all was Claire Dearing, the operations manager who keeps the place running until it all falls apart. By making Claire implicitly part of the plot [she started the evacuation of the island; she got hunky raptor geek Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) to come along with her to rescue her nephews; she it is essential to continue her story into the next one. At the end of Jurassic World, she doesn’t go off and have kids; she leaves with Owen to go have more adventures. She’s tied to these dinosaurs in a way that previous franchise characters haven’t been before, and I think she feels responsible for ushering in this brave new world where dinosaurs and man actually co-exist. (Woman inherits the Earth, anyone?) So now, Jurassic World’s story is her story. What does this mean for Jurassic World II?

Speaking with Wired, Trevorrow mentioned, “[It will not be] just a bunch of dinosaurs chasing people on an island.” My bet? It’ll be people chasing dinosaurs. Flash forward to five years after Jurassic World. Dinosaurs are somehow spreading across the planet, and Claire has assembled a team of “dino wranglers” to go around the world and deal with problems caused by our scaly (and feathery!) friends on the loose. Her team includes Owen, of course, dino hipster Lowery (and Vivian too because Lauren Lapkus is the best), and returning from the depths of the Jurassic Park franchise, Julianne Moore as Dr. Sarah Harding from The Lost World. So Jurassic World II could essentially be Ghostbusters, but with dinosaurs. In light of Bryce Dallas Howard’s comments in a recent interview, I also think any new Jurassic World sequels will use this possible globetrotting element as an excuse to bring back any and all franchise heavy-hitters. Perhaps Jeff Goldblum’s saucy chaotician Ian Malcolm shows up at the end of Jurassic World II (a la Geoffrey Rush’s Captain Barbossa in Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest) to help take on whatever challenges Claire and company face in Jurassic World III. Please make it so.

Jurassic World reawakened the dormant Jurassic Park franchise with the first sequel since 2001’s Jurassic Park III and is currently the number one movie of 2015 and the number three movie of all time. Your mileage may vary on how much pleasure you got from it, but make no mistake that Claire Dearing is a new kind of character in this franchise and presents wonderful new opportunities to reinvigorate this old dinosaur in future Jurassic World sequels. By focusing on a person with a complex relationship to the dinosaurs equaling the film’s premise, we may learn not only how life finds a way, but why as well.

Steven Ray Morris is a Los Angeles-based author and an okapi in his next life. He cohosts a podcast about cats called The Purrrcast and his book about the Jurassic Park franchise, Molding A Jurassic Universe, was released earlier this summer via Thought Catalog Books. You can find him on Twitter @StevenRayMorris.

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In what I guess was an “homage” to Jurassic Park, Jurassic World‘s script apparently featured a scene in which Bryce Dallas Howard’s character Claire is forced to smear herself with dino poop in order to cover up the scent of her vanilla lotion.

The scene was cut from the movie, probably because it’s utter nonsense and no one wants to watch two leads fall in love while performing a dung facial, but thanks to today’s DVD release, it’s been preserved for poosterity.

(via Comic Book Resources)

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BD Wong recently spoke to Spinoff Online about his role in the Jurassic movies as Dr. Henry Wu, the sinister scientist. Wong talks about his favorite moments of both films and how he felt Jurassic World finally gave his character the development he wanted. Dr. Wu, who plays a large part in the original books, had his role significantly reduced in Jurassic Park, something that took Wong by surprise:

The part plays rather large in the original novel. And so imagine my surprise when I was booked for like two days or one day on a movie. And I was really confused by it.

Wong has spoken previously about the role, and how he felt frustrated about it as an actor and an audience. In a previous Vanity Fair interview, he says that not using the role as an opportunity to increase Asian-American representation was disappointing to him. Thus, he was glad to see himself in a much larger role in Jurassic World.

Colin has reacquainted the character or readdressed certain parts of the character that were in the book and kind of brought it back to that. And that makes me feel a little bit more like a three-dimensional guy and someone that’s more invested in the story arc overall, which is really, of course, what you’re always wanting as an actor.

When asked what his favorite part of the making Jurassic World was, you can see how much it means for Wong to see the differences in the two films.

I’m going to cry for some reason. It was the moment when we were in between scenes and Colin came up to me and he says, “You know what? I have an idea for what I think you should say. I think you should say, ‘All of this is because of me.’” And I said, “Are you kidding me?! You want me to say ‘All of this is because of me?’”

And I remember feeling this, like, rush of connecting to the original character and feeling so, like, left out of the party and feeling like, “Shoot – nobody cares about what he was in the book, and that is the kind of thing he would have said in the book. And you’re really helping me make this into a real person. And also, now, I feel really important all of a sudden.” And I said the line. And then I said, “He’s never going to use it.” And guess what? He used it.

And where does Wu see his character ending up in the sequel? Well, he says that they should just “go for it.”

You never know what’s going to happen in that helicopter. It could just crash or something like that, and then that’s it, the end of it, and they don’t pick up with someone else. But yeah, I could see that. I would think that would be really fun. It would be fun to have a great death. Might as well go for it: Ask for a great death if you’re going to be the villain! And I don’t see why not. I have no other knowledge other than that, but I can’t see why not.

Wu gets a pretty gruesome, violent end in the books, what do you think a “great death” for him would be?

(via Comic Book Resources)

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First get a couple of pumpkins, then some paint and grab an 8 ball from a pool table and you’re in business. pic.twitter.com/mpmh8C402K

— alan tudyk (@alan_tudyk) October 28, 2015

Holy heck this BB-8 pumpkin is way too freakin’ adorable. Wait, who made it? Alan freakin’ Tudyk?! Oh gosh, that’s some amazing stream-crossing there. (via Polygon)

• We’ve got some Gotham casting news for you: they’ve found their Mr. Freeze! House of Cards actor Nathan Darrow will be playing the chilly villain. Hopefully sans Schwarzenegger puns. Okay, maybe he can keep a few. Seems chill. (via Entertainment Weekly)
• The #realJurassicParkproblems hashtag on Twitter has really been cracking us up! (via Uproxx)

This medley of Halloween music from Renée Camus is perfect marching and dancing music for your Halloween party! Check it out!

• Eden Full Goh turned a school science project into a full-time nonprofit organization. She created SunSaluter, a company dedicated to developing a more efficient solar panel. Oh, and the panel also produces four liters of clean drinking water throughout the day. How awesome is that?! (via Forbes)
• The Dutch edition of Top Model has just established a groundbreaking world first for the series: they’ve picked a transgender woman as the winner of their latest cycle. Congratulations to Loiza Lameras! (via Jezebel)

That’s a lot of stuff. What did you folks see today?

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God creates dinosaurs. God kills dinosaurs. God creates man. Man kills God. God left a secret weapon behind: Kangaroos rule the Earth.

We’ve known that cats and raptors are basically the same pet, but we had no idea other animals shared such close ties to killer dinosaurs.

These two golfers were reviewing a course in Queensland, Australia when a kangaroo showed up to defend its turf. Luckily, they clearly spared no expense with their golf cart, which was able to outpace the kangaroo—if only because the thing couldn’t come up with an attack plan that would work on a moving vehicle, no matter how comically slow. Good thing it wasn’t quit big enough to go for the Full Rex:

I’ll never call golf a dull game again.

(via Uproxx, featured image via Flying Cloud on Flickr)

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Oscar-winning animator Phil Tippett is the man behind many iconic monsters, beginning with the masks in the Star Wars Cantina scene, to designing various creatures (including Tauntauns, Rancor whom he calls “a cross between a bear and a potato,” and Jabba the Hutt) to working on Starship Troopers, Robocop, Jurassic Park, and more. The video focuses mainly on Tippet’s work in Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and a new project titled Mad God, but also provides a very personal portrait of Tippett who confesses that animating was a kind of therapy for him to manage his depression and anxiety.

I found it delightful to just watch Tippet talk about his love for dinosaurs and taking LSD during Return of the Jedi, which lends a whole new level of appreciation for these characters, but also emphasizes just how much visual effects have changed filmmaking in such a short time.

His describes Mad God as stop-motion film he’s not sure he’ll finish, and he calls the themes a “misanthropic note I’m attempting to play” about “the shame I feel for our privilege in this country that was built on the backs of destroying a lot of other people.” I definitely hope I’ll get a chance to see it. The video is only about 20 minutes long, give it a watch and let us know what you think!

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There’s a very specific group of people who get a nerdy excitement every time a character utters the title of a movie or TV show within that movie or TV show–and I’m one of them. Depending on the group I’m watching with, I’ll even make a point of shouting out, “Title of the movie!” as soon as it happens.

But what if the movie were to end as soon as a character said the name of the film? Someone proposed alternate endings to films like Jurassic Park, Fellowship of the Ring and 300 (among others) that immediately smash-cut to credits as soon as the film’s title is spoken out loud.

Turns out we’d miss a lot of really important movie if most of these ended that way. Can you imagine any films ending a whole lot differently if the title was in the last line of dialogue?

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Last week we learned that Harrison Ford and Steven Spielberg would actually be returning for that long-rumored fifth Indiana Jones movie. At the time, Disney didn’t reveal who would be writing the fifth installment in the franchise, but The Hollywood Reporter claims the movie will be penned by David Koepp.

If Koepp’s name sounds familiar, it’s probably because he’s been involved in a ton of genre products—he’s credited as a writer for Jurassic Park, Spider-Man, Mission: Impossible, and, most notably for this project, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Although Koepp’s association with Kingdom of the Crystal Skull might alarm some fans, it’s worth noting the story of that film was created by George Lucas, who has yet to be mentioned by Disney in connection with the project. Koepp has collaborated with Spielberg on Jurassic Park, one of the latter’s most successful movies ever, so I’m tentatively optimistic here (if you’re also trying to remain optimistic about Indy 5, /Film’s Peter Sciretta has compiled a list of all the reasons this movie could hypothetically be great).

The Hollywood Reporter writes that it’s not clear yet whether Koepp will be working from an existing story, as he did with Crystal Skull.

(via /Film)

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Watching Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum take the screen together in Thor: Ragnarok might be the closest thing we get to a Jurassic Park reunion, as Neill, who played Dr. Grant, has said that he’s not likely to appear in Jurassic World 2. But what was the in-story reason Neill gave as to why Dr. Grant won’t be coming back to fight some dinos again? It came down to one of two things: He’s either an accountant or dead. Yeah, that got super dark, didn’t it?

This depressing hypothesis came about as Neill was being interviewed about Hunt for the Wilderpeople. When asked if he considered coming back to the dinosaur theme park business, Neill said (via /Film):

I think the problem is that no one knows where Alan Grant is anymore. He’s retired from paleontology. He’s sick to death of dinosaurs and running. He’s not quite as fleet of foot as he was, and he’s now retired to Dayton, Ohio, and has a very successful accountancy business… I think that’s what’s happened to Alan. Either that or he’s dead.

See? I wasn’t kidding when I said the explanation got pretty dark. While Dr. Grant certainly is a bit of a hero in his own right, he’s not impervious to tragedy. It’s possible (however sad and hopefully unlikely) that he met his end saving some other poor tourists from the misguided business plans of another wealthy investor elsewhere. Or, you know, he just retired and met a nice, gentle end surrounded by family and friends and maybe a raptor butler or two. I don’t know.

What I do know, though, is that life, uh … finds a way, and however unlikely it might be, I would be unsurprised (though thrilled) to see Dr. Grant pop up in one form or another in a future Jurassic World movie. Or maybe that’s just wishful thinking at this point.

(via /Film)

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All of this has happened before, and it will all happen again. Wait, that’s a totally different revamped 1970s sci-fi property, but the major point still stands. Michael Crichton loved him some amusement parks where the attractions go haywire.

In the above video from College Humor, we get to see the adaptations of two of Crichton’s sci-fi creations — Jurassic Park and Westworld — contrasted and compared for maximum comedic effect. Because seriously, Westworld is basically just Jurassic Park with robots.  Amusement parks? Check. Corporate greed? Check. Park attractions that can totally kill you? Absolutely.

I can’t wait for the scene where Maeve and Dolores surround some horrible Westworld visitor, and he says, Clever girls…

(via Nerdist, image via screencap)

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Here’s the latest entry into the “you were so preoccupied with whether or not you could, you didn‘t stop to think if you should” file.

ON-ART Corp. in Japan has designed and created a set of robotic, life-size dinosaurs as part of a proof-of-concept for a park that would allow guests to interact with the massive, terrifying proto-chickens. They were unveiled as part of a show in Tokyo last Thursday, according to Reuters. They’re made of carbon-fiber and reach up to 26 feet high.

While showing off how realistic they are, they even had a moment during the “show” in which the T-Rex model bent down and ate its handler, ensuring that nobody left the demo with a clean pair of pants. It looked a lot like that scene in Jurassic Park where the lawyer gets eaten after running to the bathroom. Don’t you hate it when that happens?

Anyway, I think we need less Jurassic Parks and more… well, this:

(via The Daily Dot)

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— Bad Robot (@bad_robot) December 27, 2016

So, yeah, there’s pretty much only one story that’s really resonating with us today, and that’s the passing of Carrie Fisher. As the day has gone on, Fisher’s friends and colleagues have been reacting to the news of her death publicly. Above, J.J. Abrams, who worked with her on The Force Awakens, said via the Bad Robot Twitter account, “What an unfair thing to lose her. How lucky to have been blessed with her at all.” Harrison Ford told Variety that “Carrie was one-of-a-kind…brilliant, original. Funny and emotionally fearless. She lived her life, bravely. We will all miss her.” And in a heartbreakingly simple tweet, Mark Hamill responded with a photo of himself and Fisher saying “no words #Devastated.”

• In other not-great news, Watership Down author Richard Adams died at age 96 on Christmas Eve. (via BBC News)
• And in even more sad news, Vera Rubin, an astronomer who played a significant role in our understanding of dark matter (and really should’ve won a Nobel Prize, but never has!), passed away on Christmas Day at the age of 88. (via Gizmodo)
• OK, and now in not-terrible news, ComingSoon.net has some cool preview images from Alien: Covenant, The Mummy, Blade Runner 2049, and John Wick: Chapter 2.

If you’ve ever wanted your very own Jurassic Park velociraptor, today is your lucky day! Check out this velociraptor bust from Chronicle Collectibles. (via /Film)

• Want to make sure your drone is warm as it flies around during those cold winter days? San Francisco-based artist Danielle Baskin makes sweaters for drones. (via The Verge)
• Someone figured out how much the Ghostbusters’ business would actually be worth IRL. You know, in case you’ve been thinking about going into the ghostbusting business. (via Nerdist)
• If you’ve been wondering what happened to the Kickstarted sequel to the indie game Frog Fractions, guess what? It’s been hiding inside another game! (via The Verge)

Well, that’s it for today. What have you seen today? Or alternately, feel free to talk about what Carrie Fisher means to you in the comments. That’s all we’ll be talking about.

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This awesome installment of Musical Hell‘s “Know the Score” series shows us how chillingly relevant the musical Cabaret still is, considering our current political climate. If you’ve ever wondered why art is so important, wonder no more. (via YouTube)

• Apparently, there’s even more to the Warner Bros. Batman drama than we thought. According to Jezebel, sources say that Ben Affleck is actively looking to get out of being Batman anymore.
• 41 House Democrats criticize the FCC for limiting low-income broadband subsidies. Thank you, House Dems, for standing up for equal internet access for everyone! (via The Verge)

I don’t hate them. That’s YOUR method. I love. Try it. It’s stronger than hate. It unites us. I promise it’s in you under the anger and fear https://t.co/RGnH4rrblq

— Chris Evans (@ChrisEvans) February 13, 2017

Chris Evans seems to be making a career out of being Captain America in real life by continuing to fight real-life white supremacists like David Duke. We’re with you, Cap. (via The Huffington Post)

• Director Denis Villeneuve calls Blade Runner 2049 “The Biggest Artistic Challenge I’ve Had In My Life.” Bigger than squid aliens speaking through coffee stains? Whoa. (via Deadline Hollywood)
• This 145,000-Piece LEGO Jurassic Park roller coaster will make you wish it were real. (via io9)
• 45’s Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder was accused of domestic violence by his former wife, who had once appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show in the past. Now, Winfrey has turned over the tape of the show to the Senate. However, Puzder’s ex wife has gone on record saying that what she said on the show was not true. Yowza. (via The Slot)

Well, that’s it from us, friends! What have you seen out there today?

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A couple days ago, former TMS editor Victoria McNally wrote an article over at MTV that brought up one of Jurassic Park‘s most enduring mysteries: who is that kid at the beginning? And where does he go?

The boy, played by Whit Hertford, is only credited as “Volunteer Boy” in the original film. However, a theory has been circulating that the boy grew up to be Chris Pratt’s Owen in Jurassic World! Apparently, he does come back, just a few years late. Peter Sciretta at Slashfilm lays it out:

The theory is that that kid not only went on to respect raptors, but he grew up learning everything he could about them. And when it was announced that Jurassic World would be opening, he applied for a position on the island working with raptors. Remember how Grant showed the kid to “show a little respect” to the raptors. In Jurassic World, Pratt’s character Owen even describes his relationships with the parks raptors as “a relationship based on respect”

He goes on to trace the rumor to Community creator Dan Harmon, the first to share it with a large audience. Finally, Sciretta went straight to director Colin Trevorrow who responded ambiguously.

I’m not sure I want to answer because the speculation is so much fun. Let’s not kill the fun.

Meanwhile, Hertford tweeted this in response to the rumors:

for the record, @prattprattpratt is not playing a grown up version of my character in @JurrasicWorld. that role is mine, dammit!

— Whit Hertford (@whithertford) June 11, 2015

Moral of the story: respect raptors and you’ll grow up to be Chris Pratt.

(via Slashfilm)

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BD Wong, the only actor to appear in both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, sat down with Vanity Fair to talk about how his role as Dr. Henry Wu evolved in the 22 years between the two.

When talking about his Jurassic Park nostalgia, Wong expressed some frustration at the untied plot lines and shrinking of his character who plays a much larger role in the books. When asked if the first film was “not an experience you look back on fondly” Wong touches on the diversity problem in movies and television and the way characters of color are either white-washed, erased, or diminished.

No, not at all, I didn’t mean that at all. I don’t mean to elaborate on it any more than I’m about to say, but, it does happen a lot that they’ll pick an ethnic character that’s huge in a book or in some source material and either cut it, turn it into a white person, or whittle it down to nothing. And that’s how I kind of felt about the original movie like “oh come on,” you know, “you could’ve made this part a great opportunity for an Asian-American actor” and it didn’t happen. And back then, the whole lack of Asian-Americans in movies was really not an issue anybody was talking about and now, people are a little bit more outspoken. So, then, I did feel a little mad about it, as an audience member and as an actor, and this happens a lot. You feel that way, you feel the industry shuts you out.

And so I felt that way and then I felt “wow, this is such a half-way job of what should happen to this character.” He just simply vanished from the movie. He has a lot to say at the beginning of the movie and then when they’re evacuating the island, they don’t really say what happened to him, it just felt a little bit like they just let it go. And, you know, at that time I was really kind of down on it and then it was this really huge door that was left open.

Wong says that he’s completely for the inclusion of his character in Jurassic World “whether it was me or not” because Dr. Wu returns as a more developed and three-dimensional figure. Wong also elaborates on his character’s “ethical dilemma,” something he calls an “identifying feature” of the franchise.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it seems logical to me that someone in his position would be rather delusional because what he’s doing is something so incredibly unbelievable. He’s doing things that no one else can do. He’s pushing the envelope of science to the point where in some way, in some situations, he could really make the world a better place if you use the technology in the right way. I think he knows that and I think he knows that credit is due to him for that. And because of that, he’s completely turning a blind eye to all of the bad things that are going on. I can’t imagine actually being that person, I don’t have that expertise—I’m not a brilliant mind. But I can justify that feeling of power and that the feeling of cracking the code of life is so intoxicating. All he says when the guy says “people are dying” is “well that’s unfortunate” and he does believe that that is unfortunate but he doesn’t really take it to heart to the point where he feels guilty about it at all.

It’s kind of a sinister characterization (and also, I personally find BD Wong very brilliant). When asked if Dr. Wu is actually the “true villain” of the franchise, Wong responds that while Wu is villainous, he doesn’t see Wu as the villain.

I don’t think of him as evil at all. I just think of him as extremely misguided or just in denial. But, you know, I think that nobody would argue that the real villain of this movie is Vincent D’Onofrio’s Hoskins. That’s a bonafide villain. And this other character that I’m playing is more of an accessory to Hoskins whole trip. I think a good villain is someone that has more than one dimension, two-dimensions. Someone who makes you understand something about where they’re coming from and why they are the way they are.

What do you think of the new, older Dr. Wu in Jurassic World?

(via Vanity Fair)

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Jurassic World may have been on huge success over the weekend, but it was standing on the shoulders of a giant to achieve that greatness. Reminisce with us while watching this video of all the subtle and not-so-subtle references the new Jurassic movie made to the original. Truly, they… spared no expense. *Ducks.*

(via Laughing Squid)

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The inimitable Jeff Goldblum has shared the first teaser for Independence Day: Resurgence with the world via his Facebook page! Now, if only he’d explain those weird-ass Apartment.com ads.

• Check out this awesome interview over at The Daily Dot with Christie Golden, writer of the highly-anticipated Star Wars: Dark Disciple, which takes 13 unaired episodes of The Clone Wars and turns them into a canon novel.
• This Google Chrome extension gives everything you read gender neutral plural pronouns, which is actually a practice in English going back to the 16th Century, rather than a sign of the deterioration of the English language, as many believe. The gender binary is so 15th Century.

Check out what Jurassic Park would’ve looked like if the park were the home to resurrected extinct animals from other geological periods. Also, the velociraptors should’ve been half the size and had feathers. (via Laughing Squid)

• So, apparently Duke Nukem has a long lost sister…..? Named Bombshell….? K. (via Polygon)
• Still debating Star Trek vs. Star Wars? Watch as Jean Luc Picard and Darth Vader go head-to-head to finally settle the score. (via Krafty Kuts on Facebook)

Artist Federico Aristimuño loves awesome female characters in sci-fi/fantasy, and he pays homage to them over at his DeviantArt page, where he has flags just like this badass Ripley one above that are the perfect size for a Facebook cover photo. Which is your favorite?

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