Colin Trevorrow Attached To Direct ‘Intelligent Life’ After ‘Jurassic World’
Jurassic World, the new film fromSafety Not GuaranteeddirectorColin Trevorrow, will be released on June 12. Now the director has his follow-up project set. Trevorrow will write the script for sci-fi thrillerIntelligent Lifewith his creative partnerDerek Connolly, and is attached to direct the film for Dreamworks.THRhas news on the project, saying that Connolly will exec produce along with Steven Spielberg, and thatJurassic Worldproducer Frank Marshall will produce.
This is reportedly a revised take on a previous development effort from Trevorrow and Connolly, which was intended to followSafety Not Guaranteed. That earlier version was calledThe Ambassador. THR reports that this is “theAmbassadorkernel re-conceived and re-thought,” with a structural similarity toSafety Not Guaranteedin that this script is a character-based story with a high-concept sci-fi idea for them to revolve around.
TheAmbassadorscript was about “a UN worker in a department that was to represent humankind in the event of alien contact. The man falls in love with a mysterious woman who turns out to be an alien.” We don’t know precisely how this changes that concept, although given the names involved we can assume that it will be set at a considerably higher budget level than the original version would have enjoyed.
If there was a different producing team backing this, we’d be tempted to see it as a contingency project set up, with its future to be determined after the opening ofJurassic World, when we see what Universal’s sequel plans might be for Jurassic and Trevorrow. But with this team, perhaps we’ll seeIntelligent Liferealized afterJurassic Worldregardless of Universal’s plans for more dinosaur movies.
