Colin Trevorrow with a prosthetic "Jurassic World" velociraptor Art Streiber

The most obvious piece of movie news of the year is now official: there will be a sequel (or sequels) to The Avengers-topping dinosaur behemoth Jurassic World.

Following the news that the movie has taken $1.5 billion in box office receipts worldwide, becoming the third-highest grossing film of all time behind Titanic and Avatar, Universal Studios has announced that the next movie in the series will be released in June 2018.


The sequel will feature both Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, will be executive produced by Steven Spielberg and written by World director Colin Trevorrow. And while an official title, plot or director have yet to be announced, <a id="LPlnk287217" href="http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/07/play/jurassic-world-colin-trevorrow" title="http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/07/play/jurassic-world-colin-trevorrow

Cmd+Click or tap to follow the link">in an earlier interview with WIRED</a> Trevorrow offered some exclusive hints as to what might be involved. "Whether or not I am involved in later installments or not, I felt it was important for me to set the table," Trevorrow said. "I know they’re going to want to make them, I know that Stephen definitely wants to make several of these movies, and I want to do my job in setting the table for something that can be rich and thoughtful and interesting."

So what, exactly will it be? Or not be? "[It will not be] just a bunch of dinosaurs chasing people on an island," Trevorrow said. "That’ll get old real fast." "I feel like the idea that this isn’t always going to be limited to theme parks, and there are applications for this science that reach far beyond entertainment. And when you look back at nuclear power and how that started, the first instinct was to weaponise it and later on we found it could be used for energy." "And this isn’t something necessarily that was in the book but is a seed that I wanted to plant in this movie, is that might be able to grow in more of these movies if they decide to make more of them, is: What if this went open source? It's almost like InGen is Mac, but what if PC gets their hands on it? What if there are 15 different entities around the world who can make a dinosaur?" "And Dr Wu says in the film, when he's warning Dr Mesrani, 'we’re not always going to be the only ones who can make a dinosaur'. I think that’s an interesting idea that even if we don’t explore fully in this film, there is room for this universe to expand. I shouldn’t use the word universe, because people will think we’re making a Jurassic World universe -- we’re not."

So there we have it -- when the sequel arrives it probably won't take place only on an island (an idea explored already in the series of course) and it probably won't just be InGen making the dinos.

Of course, whether these ideas will make it into the sequel we'll have to wait and see when it comes out in 2018.