‘Jurassic World 2’: J.A. Bayona Confirmed to Direct

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Back in January, we reported that The Impossible director J.A. Bayona had dropped off World War Z 2 with the likelihood of being wooed over to Universal to direct Jurassic World 2. Now it looks like that’s the case with producer Frank Marshall confirming the hire on Twitter:

Frank Marshall ??@LeDoctor
Thrilled to announce JA Bayona is on board to direct JW2. Welcome to the team @FilmBayona!
9:58 AM - 18 Apr 2016

Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow also sounded his support for Bayona on Twitter:

Personally, I’ve only seen Bayona’s 2007 film The Orphanage, which was quite good. His next movie, A Monster Calls, opens later this year, and judging by the trailer, it looks incredible to the point where hiring him to helm the sequel to one of the highest-grossing films of all-time seems like a no-brainer. While it’s unlikely that Jurassic World 2 will outperform the original at the box office (a fact that has to do with sequels rather than anything specific to the Jurassic franchise), this is still a huge get for Bayona, and while I was a bit disappointed with Jurassic World, I’m excited to see what he does with the material

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