Jurassic World: Irrfan Khan Discusses His Role

Jurassic World, also known as Jurassic Park 4, has a stellar cast including leading man Chris Pratt, sidekick Bryce Dallas Howard, and Indian legend Irrfan Khan.

Khan recently returned to India after wrapping up filming on Jurassic World.

“It was so much fun,” Khan told First Post. “Though it is a huge epic project, everyone on the crew was so relaxed. There was no attempt to appear self-important. Throughout the shooting there was a sense of playfulness in the atmosphere. I felt completely at home and we wrapped up the film in record time.”

Talking about his director, Khan said of Colin Trevorrow, “Just observing him at work I felt so much richer.”

Khan’s screen time has varied in his films, which include Life of Pi and The Amazing Spider-Man. Asked about the length of his role in Jurassic World, Khan said: “I am very happy with what we’ve shot.”

“How the role finally shapes up depends on so many things. I appeared for much less screen-time than I had shot for in Slumdog Millionaire and Spiderman,” he added. “But that was for the betterment of the final product. No one in the West is waiting to upstage me or sabotage my career.”

Meanwhile, a quote from last year from Jack Horner about Jurassic World has sparked talk about what kind of huge dinosaur(s) the movie will feature as the “villain(s).”

Horner said in an event that was recorded by a Montana television station last year that the movie will have “a scary new dinosaur in it,” prompting Movie Pilot to speculate about what the dinosaur will be.

“Falling attendances, desperate promoters looking for one new attraction? Combine this with the news that the Jurassic World Dino-consultant Jack Horner has claimed there will be a ‘scary new dinosaur’ in Jurassic Park 4, and it begins to look like the plot of Jurassic Park will centre on one deadly dinosaur, which causes the all the inevitable chaos in Jurassic World,” it said.

The blog says that the huge dinosaur could be the Utahraptor, a larger version of the Velociraptor for all intents and purposes. Another option is the water beat Kronosaurus, named after Greek Titan Kronos. And the massive Mapusaurus is also a prime candidate.

It’s worth noting that the a Hawaii magazine previously reported that the velociraptors would be used to help fight the so-called villain dinosaur(s).

“The usually-menacing velociraptors now will be used to help fight the threat, which begins in the form of a new dinosaur–not seen in the previous films–that is much smarter than originally thought and is the main cause of the havoc breaking out at the park,” reported the Hawaii Film & Movie Magazine.

Other aspects discussed–and these details were later confirmed by director Colin Treverrow–included that the project that Pratt referred to is when the executives at the park try to make it bigger and better–and come up with splicing dinosaur DNA with other dinosaur species, and other species altogether (non-dinosaur).

“That becomes the problem. They splice together a T-Rex, raptor, snake, and cuttlefish to create a monstrous new dino that, of course, gets loose and terrorizes the park,” JoBlo said.

Moreover, the dinosaurs come to fight each other. Chris Pratt’s character trains the so-called “good” dinosaurs, which include some raptors and T-Rex.

The main “bad” dinosaur has camouflage abilities like the cuttlefish, and can blend into the background.