'Jurassic Park 4' Spoilers: T-Rex to Fight King Kong? [VIDEO]
Phil Tippet, the visual effects supervisor on Jurassic World, suggested that a T-Rex might fight a mechanical King Kong, while talking about the film in a special Jurassic Cast podcast with JPForever.
In December last year, director Colin Trevorrow revealed that Tippet had been hired to work on the fourth installment of the film.
Tippett was credited as a "dinosaur supervisor" in the first film, in which he was initially meant to use the go-motion technique which he has mastered for the Empire Strikes Back. But Steven Spielberg changed his mind and chose to go with CGI instead and Tippett supervised the animators. Tippet will be reuniting with the team -- ILM Visual Effects -- he worked with on the original.
While talking about the film Tippet said that he was hard at work to bring a better experience to audiences. The visual effects maestro was quite tight-lipped when it came to giving away any spoilers but he joked about a T-Rex fighting a mechanical King Kong in the third act of the film.
Tippett won his first Oscar for his work on Return of the Jedi, in which he used stop-motion animation to bring the AT-ATs and tauntauns to life.
Jurassic World will star Bryce Dallas Howard, Chris Pratt and Ty Simpkins.
The Jurassic Park films are based on Michael Crichton's series of novels about pre-historic beasts being revived by revolutionary gene technology. Frank Marshall and Pat Crowley are co-producing the film alongside Spielberg, who directed the first two installments in the franchise.
Trevorrow has previously stated that the films will be a sequel and not a reboot. He suggested that the film will be set 22 years in the future.
The film will hit theaters June 12, 2015.
Watch a clip featuring the T-Rex from Jurassic Park (1993):
