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News18
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- News18
Scarlett Johansson Opens Up On Filming Jurassic World Rebirth, Calls It 'Brutal'
Published By : IANS Last Updated: Is is being said that Jurassic World Rebirth, which will be released in cinemas in July, will be darker in tone than previous movies. Hollywood star Scarlett Johansson says it was extremely difficult shooting 'Jurassic World Rebirth' at the height of summer in Malta because 'there was no escape from the sun." The 40-year-old star, who plays the role of Zora Bennett in the latest movie in the 'Jurassic Park' franchise, told Empire magazine: 'There was no escape from the sun. It was just baking every day. And you're on this rig, 30 feet in the air or whatever it is, and it's moving up and down and sideways, and there's all this water being shot out of these cannons towards you. It was brutal. To do it one day would be hard. But to do it continuously for, like, six weeks or whatever…" The movie's director Gareth Edwards said that he did feel sympathy for his cast as they made the flick in gruelling conditions, reports The 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' filmmaker recalled: 'At the end of each day, I'd try and reassure them that tomorrow was going to be easier because of this reason. And then the next day would be even harder for either precisely the same reason, or a brand-new other reason. After a while, they just stopped believing me." Edwards has hinted that 'Jurassic World Rebirth', which will be released in cinemas in July, will be darker in tone than previous movies and suggested that it is a 'horror film". The director said: 'It's really a horror film. It's the sort of horror you enjoy, rather than stuff that will traumatise you forever. Like the way people enjoy fairground rides. But it's full-on darkness, right?" The filmmaker has long been a fan of the 'Jurassic Park' franchise after watching the original movie in 1993 at the age of 18 and was daunted by the prospect of guiding the film's iconic director Steven Spielberg – who serves as an executive producer on 'Jurassic World Rebirth' – around the set. The 49-year-old filmmaker said: 'The only thing I can compare it to is having to show George Lucas around the set of a 'Star Wars' film. I definitely believe I am in the Matrix and I chose 'film director' as my simulation, because this shouldn't really happen." The movie features a new set of characters, with Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey both appearing in the movie, and screenwriter David Koepp revealed that it was an easy decision to launch a fresh start for the franchise. First Published:
Perth Now
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
'There was no escape from the sun...' Scarlett Johansson recalls searing Malta heat on Jurassic World Rebirth shoot
Scarlett Johansson says it was "brutal" filming 'Jurassic World Rebirth' in the scorching heat of Malta. The 40-year-old star plays the role of Zora Bennett in the latest movie in the 'Jurassic Park' franchise and admits that it was very difficult shooting watery scenes at the height of the Mediterranean summer. Scarlett told Empire magazine: "There was no escape from the sun. "It was just baking every day. And you're on this rig, 30 feet in the air or whatever it is, and it's moving up and down and sideways, and there's all this water being shot out of these cannons towards you. It was brutal. "To do it one day would be hard. But to do it continuously for, like, six weeks or whatever..." The movie's director Gareth Edwards admits that he did feel sympathy for his cast as they made the flick in gruelling conditions. The 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' filmmaker recalled: "At the end of each day, I'd try and reassure them that tomorrow was going to be easier because of this reason. "And then the next day would be even harder for either precisely the same reason, or a brand-new other reason. After a while, they just stopped believing me." Edwards has hinted that 'Jurassic World Rebirth', which will be released in cinemas in July, will be darker in tone than previous movies and suggested that it is a "horror film". The director said: "It's really a horror film. "It's the sort of horror you enjoy, rather than stuff that will traumatise you forever. Like the way people enjoy fairground rides. But it's full-on darkness, right?" Edwards has long been a fan of the 'Jurassic Park' franchise after watching the original movie in 1993 at the age of 18 and was daunted by the prospect of guiding the film's iconic director Steven Spielberg – who serves as an executive producer on 'Jurassic World Rebirth' – around the set. The 49-year-old filmmaker said: "The only thing I can compare it to is having to show George Lucas around the set of a 'Star Wars' film. "I definitely believe I am in the Matrix and I chose 'film director' as my simulation, because this shouldn't really happen." The flick feature a new set of characters, with Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey both appearing in the movie, and screenwriter David Koepp revealed that it was an easy decision to launch a fresh start for the franchise. The scribe said: "We decided early on that, because the first and second trilogies have concluded their stories, let's not restrict ourselves in any way – let's have all-new characters in an all-new location."
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Scarlett Johansson Faces 'Worst of the Worst Dinosaurs' in Action-Packed 'Jurassic World Rebirth' Trailer: Watch
The final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth has been released ahead of the movie's July 2 release date In the latest teaser, actors including Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali are faced with some of the most terrifying dinosaurs that have ever been featured in the franchise "The theme park owners did experimental work, leaving only the worst ones here," Zora Bennett (Johansson) warned as the group headed to a tropical islandThe dinosaurs are bigger and badder than ever in the latest and final Jurassic World Rebirth trailer. On Tuesday, May 20, Universal Pictures dropped the new action-packed teaser ahead of the movie's July 2 release date. In it, actors including Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali face off against some of the most terrifying dinosaurs ever featured in the franchise. "The theme park owners did experimental work, leaving only the worst ones here," Zora Bennett (Johansson) warned in the clip, which saw the group head to the tropical island that once served as the site of InGen's original research lab. "We've put ourselves in a place where we don't belong, survival is a long shot," Dr. Henry Loomis (Bailey) said, prompting Zora to reply, "That's kind of our specialty." "The worst of the worst dinosaurs were left here," a caption on the YouTube clip teased. According to the official movie description, Jurassic World Rebirth takes place five years after the events of 2022's Jurassic World Dominion. The film follows Zora, a skilled covert operations expert, as she leads a team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material of the world's three largest dinosaurs. En route to the "isolated equatorial environment" where the dinosaurs live, Zora's "operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. Gareth Edwards — known for directing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Godzilla, and most recently The Creator — told Collider in February 2024 that he actually intended to take a break and focus on writing his 'next idea' for a film when the Jurassic opportunity came to him. 'This is the only movie that would make me drop everything like a stone and dive right in,' Edwards said. 'I think the first movie is a cinematic masterpiece ... so this opportunity is like a dream to me.' The script for the upcoming Jurassic installment was written by Koepp, who penned the original 1993 film and its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. His work on the upcoming film is his first return to the franchise since the 1997 blockbuster. Jurassic World Rebirth premieres in theaters on July 2. Read the original article on People
Newsweek
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Newsweek
'Andor' Creator Says Fan-Favorite Cameo Would Have Been 'Lame'
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. Entertainment gossip and news from Newsweek's network of contributors The "Andor" series finale has come and gone, and, as some fans have noted, without any appearances by Felicity Jones as Jyn Erso. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, "Andor" creator Tony Gilroy didn't mince words about why the character didn't show up. He said bringing her in for a cameo would have felt "lame" and "disrespectful." Read More: Top 5 'Buffy' Character Returns We Need in the Reboot "In the end, I realized if people didn't absolutely have to be there, they shouldn't," Gilroy said about Jyn Erso's absence. "And it would've been lame to bring Jyn back as a cameo. That would've been really disrespectful in a way. I'd rather honor 'Rogue' and keep it straight." Andor (Diego Luna) in Lucasfilm's ANDOR Season 2, exclusively on Disney+. ©2025 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Andor (Diego Luna) in Lucasfilm's ANDOR Season 2, exclusively on Disney+. ©2025 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved. Lucasfilm Ltd™ If you know the timeline of "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" compared to that of "Andor", it does seem unnatural to try to shove Jyn Erso into it. "Andor" ends just the titular hero and K-2SO flying off to meet the doomed spy Tivic. That's well before the pair of them meet Jyn. Gilroy told EW he felt strongly enough about it that he never even considered including Erso. Asked about it, Gilroy said, "No. I was asked that several times. I tried to sketch some versions along the way of what we would do. Episode 12 is very unique. It's its own energy and we are not trying to hype anything in 12. We always knew it was going to be not a low energy, but a different kind of episode." Indeed, the final episode of "Andor" is not filled with a lot of action. After an early battle between K-2SO and the ISB, it goes mainly into resolution mode until Andor and K-2 head off to find Tivic. Of the very end of the episode, which sees Bix carrying the child she had with Andor, Gilroy said, "I mean, people who thought [Jyn Erso] was the love of his life are going to have to reorient their thinking." "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" unfolds after the events of "Andor", and sadly, neither Andor, Jyn Erso, nor any of the story's main heroes survive the events. It deals with the heroes. In the climax of the film, the heroes sacrifice themselves to upload the plans for the Death Star to the Rebel Alliance, thus beginning the events of "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope". Both "Andor" and "Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" are currently streaming on Disney+. More TV: Sarah Michelle Gellar Debunks 'Buffy' Reboot Casting Rumors 'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' Season 3 Sets Premiere Date
Los Angeles Times
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
‘Andor' is very Latino-coded. Here's how.
Looking back, casting Diego Luna in 'Rogue One: A Star Wars Story' may well prove to be the single most consequential decision in that storied franchise's history. Hearing Luna's Mexican accent in a galaxy far, far away was not only refreshing. It was radical. And as Season 2 of 'Andor' proved, it set the stage for what has to be the most Latino-coded of all the 'Star Wars' tales, which is fitting considering this Tony Gilroy-created series was designed not just to explore Cassian Andor's backstory but flesh out the dashing revolutionary spirit Luna had brought to the character. What better place to, pardon the pun, mine for inspiration than the vast history of resistance and revolution throughout the American continent? Here are a few ways in which 'Andor' felt particularly Latino. Warning: this article contains some spoilers. Season 2 of 'Andor' found Cassian, Bix (Adria Arjona), Brasso (Joplin Sibtain) and Wilmon (Muhannad Bhaier) relocated to the agricultural planet of Mina-Rau. It's a place that served as a safe haven for these Ferrix folks, allowing them to be housed while working for a local farmer — all without papers. Yes, our very own Cassian is an undocumented laborer (when he's not, you know, on some super-secret Luthen-guided mission, that is). 'Andor' has always focused on the way the Empire functions at a granular level, while the 'Star Wars' feature film trilogies are all about big-picture stuff. In its two-season run, this Luna-fronted project followed the day-to-day lives of those living under the thumb of the Empire. And in the scenes at Mina-Rau, the show insisted on showing what happens when those with a semblance of power (a uniform, a weapon) confront those who they think have none. When Lt. Krole (Alex Waldmann), a lowly Imperial officer carrying out a run-of-the-mill audit of the crops in Mina-Rau, comes across Bix, he sees an opportunity. She's clearly alone. And, perhaps most obviously, at a disadvantage: She has no papers. If she's caught, the secure, if precarious, life she and Cassian have built in Mina-Rau will come crumbling down — all while putting them at risk of being revealed as smugglers and rebels. Still, watching Krole escalate his slimy sexual advances into a rape attempt was a reminder of the impunity of such crimes. When those who are undocumented are seen as undeserving of our empathy, let alone the protections the law is supposed to provide — like many people in our current government seem to think — the likes of Krole are emboldened to do as they please. Such ideas about who merits our empathy are key to authoritarian regimes. Borders, after all, aren't just about keeping people out or in. It's about drawing up communities and outlining outsiders; about arguing for a strict sense of who belongs and who does not. When Cassian and Bix land in Coruscant after their escape from Mina-Rau, they struggle with whether to just lay low. You see Cassian being jumpy and constantly paranoid. He can't even handle going out shopping; or, if you follow Bix's winking joke at the grocer, he can't really handle the spice. But that's expected if you constantly feel unsafe, unable to freely move through the world, er, tellingly: If your existence is wedded to bureaucracy, it's easy to be dispensed with and disappeared. Bix knows that all too well. She's still haunted by the specter of Dr. Gorst (Joshua James), the Imperial Security Bureau officer who tortured her. He appears in her nightmares to remind her that this is a war now littered with 'desaparecidos': 'His body won't be found and his family won't know what happened to him,' his hallucination taunts her. It's not hard to read in that line an obvious reference to those tortured and disappeared under the military dictatorships of Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the like. Throughout 'Andor' Season 2, we also watched the Empire slowly rev up its border policing — especially when it came to Ghorman. At first a planet most known for its gorgeous textiles, Ghorman later became the anchor for the show's entire narrative. The best way to control a people is to surveil them, particularly because soon enough they'll start surveilling themselves. The beauty of 'Star Wars' has always been its ability to speak to its time. When the original film first premiered in 1977, echoes of the Vietnam War and anti-imperialist sentiment could be felt in its otherwise outlandish space-opera trappings. But not until 'Andor' could the politics of George Lucas' creation be so viscerally felt. This is a show, after all, that didn't shy away from using the word 'genocide' when rightly describing what happened in Ghorman. In 'Who Are You?' audiences got to see the Empire at its cruelest. Watching the Death Star destroy Alderaan from afar is one thing. But getting to watch Stormtroopers — and a slew of young, inexperienced Imperial riot police officers — shooting indiscriminately into a crowd that had just been peacefully singing in protest was brutal. It was, as Senator Mon Mothma (Genevieve O'Reilly) would later frame it, unconscionable. The chants in the crowd 'The galaxy is watching' are clearly meant to evoke the chants heard at the 1968 Democratic National Convention: 'The whole world is watching.' But the essence of the massacre harks back to another infamous 1968 event: the Tlatelolco massacre. Just like Ghorman, the Oct. 2 student protests at Mexico City's Plaza de las Tres Culturas began as a peaceful demonstration. But soon, with helicopters up above and an encroaching military presence from every which way, chaos followed and the incident has long served as a chilling example of state-sanctioned violence. The kind now best distilled into a fictional massacre in a galaxy far, far away. In the hands of Gilroy and Luna, 'Andor' billed itself over two seasons as the begrudging rise of a revolutionary. Cassian spent much of Season 1 trying to hide from who he could become. It took being sent to a grueling slave prison complex in a remote location (sound familiar?) to further radicalize the once-smug smuggler. But with every new Empire-sanctioned atrocity, he found himself unable to escape his calling as a member of the Resistance. Yes, it costs him his peaceful life with Bix, but neither would have it any other way. Cassian has a solid moral compass. And while he may not play well with others (with authority, really), he's a charming leader of sorts whose childhood in Ferrix set him up to be the kind of man who would sacrifice his life for a cause. You don't need to have Luna sport a mustache, though, to see in his rascal of a character hints of revolutionary icons from Latin America. Even if Cassian is more Emiliano Zapata than Pancho Villa (you'd never find him starring in films as himself, for instance), the revolutionary spirit of those historical Mexican figures is undeniable. Especially since Cassian has long been tied to the marginalized — not just in Ferrix and Mina-Rau but later still in Ghorman. Add the fact that his backstory grounds him in the indigenous world of Kenari and that he is quite at home in the lush jungles of Yavin IV (where he may as well be playing dominoes in his spare time) and you have a character who clearly carves out homages to resistance models seen all over Latin America. As attacks on those most disenfranchised here in the United States continue apace, 'Andor' (yes, a spinoff sci-fi series on Disney+!) reminds us that the Latin American struggles for liberation in the 20th century aren't mere historical stories. They're warnings and templates as to how to confront this moment. And yes, that message obviously works best when delivered by the devilishly handsome Luna: 'The Empire cannot win,' as his Cassian says in the first episode of the show's stellar second season. 'You'll never feel right unless you're doing what you can to stop them. You're coming home to yourself. You've become more than your fear. Let that protect you.'
