Jurassic World director criticises trailer for revealing too much of film

First, it was Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow openly questioning the release of a “sexist” clip to promote his film. Then it was Terminator Genisys director Alan Taylor criticising the trailer campaign for revealing too much of the film’s plot. Now Trevorrow has had another pop at the Jurassic World marketing team, saying “they have shown far more of this movie than I would ever have wanted” in the film’s trailer.

In an interview with IGN, Trevorrow referred to a shot in the Jurassic World trailer that showed Chris Pratt riding his motorcycle among a flock of velociraptors, a bonding-type image at odds with the original films’ positioning of raptors as vicious predators – one that seemed to baffle potential audiences. Calling it “bananas”, Trevorrow added: “Your suspension of disbelief has to be earned. We’ve been earning it [in the movie], by the time that happens, for an hour and a half ... Every movie has its own logic, and if you’re introducing a new set of rules, to just show people snippets of something without them understanding the set of rules that define the movie, can be challenging for an audience.”

Trevorrow also appeared to criticise the expectations the trailer may raise as to the nature of Jurassic World, even as he agreed it would be successful in its purpose. He said: “This kind of marketing has historically been able to get a lot of people into theatres; I trust a lot of people will be calling their friends and saying: ‘It’s not like [the trailer] at all, it feels much more like Jurassic Park than we thought it would.’”