Shot on Film, Built for Impact: How Jurassic World Rebirth Captures Dinosaurs on Kodak

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Go behind the scenes of Jurassic World Rebirth and discover why director Gareth Edwards chose to shoot the entire film on Kodak film instead of digital. This cinematic choice gives the movie a rich, gritty texture that brings every dinosaur, explosion, and moment of suspense to life with raw intensity. Featuring Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, this featurette explores how old-school film meets modern blockbuster filmmaking—delivering a Jurassic experience that feels more real than ever.  Jurassic World Rebirth Cast:   Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rupert Friend, Mahershala Ali, Luna Blaise and David Iacono   Jurassic World Rebirth will hit theaters July 2, 2025!

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00:00All the films I grew up loving were like shot on Kodak so I fought really hard that we shot

00:13this on Kodak with Panavision lenses. Kodak is the go-to name in the film industry. All those

00:19films you love and you grew up with that have that certain look that's really hard to describe

00:23it's because it was shot on Kodak. The way film stock works is it's not a perfect representation

00:29of reality it's a better version of reality. We've always been chasing that aesthetic as a

00:38filmmaker to be able to sit in the grade and play with the colors and try to get the look of the film

00:46stock that we grew up with. The colors are more sophisticated there's more fidelity in the colors

00:51you know the green so the jungle don't really come through. It takes contrast and does things with

00:57them that make it look better than if when you stood there. You stood in Thailand in this amazing

01:02place you shoot on film and then you look at the dailies and it looks even better. There's a mystery

01:09to the process of film because you don't exactly know what you're capturing. Okay cut very good.

01:14Working with Jurassic World Rebirth was fantastic and it was great that they chose to shoot film. It's

01:19great that the big studio and filmmakers are still able to choose film even if it's a heavy laden VFX

01:27project like Jurassic. I'd rather start with a canvas a beautiful image and paint on top of that.

01:34Having the film stock and the film veneer and grain and these really beautiful wide anamorphic distorted

01:43lenses to work with has been really beautiful. It's something to help us bed the visual effects and the

01:48creatures into. How much bowing and distortion and stretching of the image happens towards the edge.

01:54All sorts of chromatic aberration that happens to the highlights and make sure that when we add digital

01:59elements into the frame that we can sample that and put it all back on. You'll see it on film and

02:05it'll add such texture to the visuals. It's just a lot easier to make film look great so you're already a

02:13really good start in place you know before you do everything else. It just shows that the film is

02:17still capable of handling the latest what technology can still offer.

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