Jurassic World: Dominion director Colin Trevorrow is re-teaming with Universal Pictures for a new film centered around the mythical city of Atlantis.
Deadline reports that Trevorrow lined up the sci-fi thriller Atlantis as his next project ahead of restarting production on the final Jurassic World film. The film is said to be based on a plot about the legend of the lost city that Trevorrow and his Metronome Film Co. will produce.
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The story, conceived by Trevorrow and Bridge of Spies scripter Matt Charman, will be written by Dante Harper, who also penned the screenplay for Alien: Covenant. The narrative will apparently take a different approach to previous incarnations of the mythical city’s underwater kingdom.
Instead of submerging into these stories, it is understood that Trevorrow’s Atlantis is going to be set on “a lost continent in the Indian Ocean between Africa, India and Oceania,” which is described as “a multicultural civilization with its own advanced technology.”
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Trevorrow reportedly hatched the concept for Atlantis in late 2018, but he kept the project beneath the surface to allow the creative team to fully develop the world before starting work on the scripting process.
Before diving into that project, Trevorrow is set to resume production on Jurassic World: Dominion on July 6 at London’s Pinewood Studios after filming halted back in March due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.
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Source: IGN.com Jurassic World's Colin Trevorrow to Direct Atlantis Thriller for Universal Pictures