

Nicholson and his team found the ideal exterior for a billionaire American’s massive Victorian in a strange place-the English moorlands.

Much of Fallen Kingdom’s action takes place in the vast Lockwood estate, where dinosaur-loving Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell) tries to correct the mistakes of the past. So the first thing we did was get a couple of generic scale dinosaurs and move them around in the space so we could look at how big they had to be.” Claire (BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD) and Franklin (JUSTICE SMITH) encounter the Baryonyx in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.” Photo Credit: Universal Studios and Amblin Entertainment, Inc. With the Indoraptor walking through a 20-by-20 foot room, a 23-foot tall dinosaur won’t work.

Here we had a series of dinosaurs inside a human environment that were much bigger than humans but smaller than the biggest dinosaurs we’ve seen. “Unlike the previous Jurassic movies, in which the dinosaurs are slightly bigger or smaller than the Indoraptor, they’re either coming through doors like humans, or smashing through walls like a T-Rex. These included the Baryonyx and, especially, the Indoraptor, a genetically modified super predator and arguably the film’s marquee dinosaur, a beast bigger than a regular velociraptor but smaller than a T-Rex. Unlike the previous installment, which took place entirely on the tropical island where the park existed, Nicholson was building human environments that had to enclose their non-human hunters. “I think the biggest challenge we had was the scale of the creatures we were dealing with,” Nicholson says. With the action in Fallen Kingdom moving from Isla Nublar to the mainland, Nicholson and his team had to build sets that could conceivably hold marauding dinosaurs-some of whom who have been genetically modified-without the film turning into a series of shots of beasts crashing through walls. This was especially true for production designer Andy Nicholson, who was tasked with creating a literal house of horrors for director J.A. While prehistoric mayhem set in the present is precisely what Jurassic fans expect, it’s a major challenge for the film crew. Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom boasts more dinosaurs than any previous film in the Jurassic franchise- combined.
