{"id":37212,"date":"2025-07-04T05:07:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37212\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T05:07:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T05:07:09","slug":"jurassic-world-rebirth-director-on-original-ending-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/37212\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic World Rebirth director on original ending death"},"content":{"rendered":"

MAJOR SPOILERS<\/strong> for Jurassic World Rebirth. The latest installment of the Jurassic franchise is now playing in theaters, offering audiences another helping of dinosaur action amidst an all-star cast of expendable characters. Although none of the deaths are too surprising, the original ending of Jurassic World Rebirth did find one of the major characters meeting their end.<\/p>\n

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\n Gareth Edwards hasn\u2019t had any conversations about a Jurassic World Rebirth sequel\u2026 yet <\/a><\/p>\n

Near the end of the film, Duncan, the character played by Mahershala Ali, appears to sacrifice himself by distracting the Distortus rex with a flare. The creature chases him into the water, and the flare goes out. However, another flare is seen shooting into the sky later on, keeping the character alive for the inevitable sequel. <\/p>\n

Director Gareth Edwards told Variety<\/a> that Duncan was always meant to die, but once they pursued Ali for the role, he started to think they should keep the character alive. Ali disagreed, which would have settled it if the studio hadn\u2019t stepped in and insisted on undoing the death.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt flipped back and forth a couple of times,\u201d Edwards said. \u201cIn the draft I first read, he died, and I thought, \u2018That\u2019s great!\u2019 We started to pursue Mahershala, and for whatever reason, it felt like, well, if we\u2019re going to get Mahershala, we\u2019ve got to keep him alive, right? But then Mahershala read it, and his only main note was, \u2018Can we kill him?\u2019 I agreed, so I joined Team Mahershala and we both pushed to have him killed; the script changed back to him dying.\u201c<\/p>\n

Edwards continued, \u201cWhilst we were shooting, the studio said, \u2018Look, we haven\u2019t got time to do a pickup shoot or any reshoots. Just to be safe, get some material, just in case we need him to live.\u2019 In my mind, I know how this works; whatever we film will be in the movie, so you\u2019ve got to be careful. I thought, \u2018If we can do this, I want it to be the really classy version that I can live with,\u2019 so I started trying to imagine it and to picture some shots. The actors gave this amazing performance for this little section, and I really liked it.\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, when we edited the movie and did the director\u2019s cut, I ended up sending the version that had him dying,\u201d he explained. \u201cIt went well, but the studio said, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s great. But can we just see the version where he lives?\u2019 We hadn\u2019t put it together, so we went back and edited that, and everyone just said, \u201cIt\u2019s got to be that.\u201d We did two test screenings, and the reaction to him living, everyone was a lot happier.\u201c<\/p>\n

You can check out a review of Jurassic World Rebirth from our own Chris Bumbray right here<\/a>, and be sure to let us know what you thought of the film<\/a> as well!<\/p>\n

Do you think they should have kept the original ending of Jurassic World Rebirth where Duncan died?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MAJOR SPOILERS for Jurassic World Rebirth. The latest installment of the Jurassic franchise is now playing in theaters,…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":37213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[171,238,53,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-37212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-jurassic-world-rebirth","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114793234235309661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}