Three months after “Jurassic World” arrived in theaters (total box office take: $1.6 billion), the filmmaker was hired to direct the ninth film in the newly-relaunched “Star Wars” franchise. Trevorrow’s post-“Safety” path was, to put it mildly, a weird one. That’s something I’m mourning a little bit, to be honest.”
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Actually, it’s the 10-year anniversary of ‘Safety’ the weekend this movie comes out, and over the course of those 10 years, the opportunity for a young filmmaker to go to Sundance and succeed, and then have that movie come out in theaters, has become extraordinarily rare. I don’t know if that would happen anymore. For me, it’s frustrating, especially thinking about how short a period of time has passed since. “I wish that we could return to a time when a movie like ‘Safety Not Guaranteed’ would get a theatrical release.
“I think you and I can probably commiserate on the lack of diversity of the kind of films that are released in theaters now,” he said. So is the possibility that a film like “Safety” could break out on such a large scale. But while it’s the kind of meteoric rise that used to play out often, those days are waning. The success of the film propelled Trevorrow and writing partner Derek Connolly into Hollywood, and their followup to the festival gem was a giant one: 2015’s “Jurassic World,” which Trevorrow directed and the pair wrote together. At the fest, FilmDistrict picked up the film for an estimated seven-figure deal (the film was made for under $1 million) and released it later that summer, making over $4.4 million in box office returns. Trevorrow first rose to acclaim with the 2012 sci-fi dramedy “Safety Not Guaranteed,” which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award. For us to change that, to suddenly only watching drama alone, feels like it’s dismantling something that’s been part of who we are as human beings for a very long time.” It’s something we’ve been doing for at least 2,000 years. I think it’s an important part of our civilization to go watch drama as a group. He continued, “To me, there’s something uniquely moving about being able to provide friends and families with the opportunity to return to the movies together.
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