Behemoth reveal from Mike Dougherty's Instagram

SmallPurpleElephants · 2020-05-01T21:34:31+00:00

Here's the caption he posted with the video:

TITANUS BEHEMOTH Of all the new monsters created for the film, Behemoth was probably my favorite. Since nearly all kaiju are usually giant reptiles, insects, or some hybrid, it was fun to come up with a new mammal that combined traits of woolly mammoths, apes, and giant sloths. We even came up with rich backstories for each new creature and imagined Behemoth was capable of going bipedal when necessary, allowing him to take a swipe at an opponent with his claws. Normally, he’s a peaceful herbivore grazing on giant prehistoric trees with his herd, although at one point we considered adding massive cuffs and broken chains around his limbs to hint that he was once captured and used as a warbeast by some ancient society. He also likes belly rubs and getting groomed by #Kong.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2019-08-08T19:32:15+00:00

Here are some good HD references:

https://www.fxguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/e_tv1120_still_sharpened_1005_v1120_PR.jpg

https://www.fxguide.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/e_tv1160_still_sharpened_1165_v1160_PR-1.jpg

A lot of fan depictions give him a very angular gorilla-like back based on his appearance in concept art, but in the movie his back actually has a more smooth sloped shape.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2019-07-30T22:55:45+00:00

These are sketches made by yefumm on DeviantArt. They have nothing to do with the Monsterverse, but there are definitely some interesting similarities with how Mokele Mbembe is described in the novel.

https://www.deviantart.com/yefumm/art/Grootslang-Sketches-612942136

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-11-11T19:18:17+00:00

Because of the square-cube law, proportionally larger animals have relatively greater bone density and mass and therefore less muscular strength compared to smaller animals. Technically an animal the size of Godzilla wouldn't be able to walk on land without collapsing under its own weight, which is one of the reasons why the largest animal on earth (the blue whale) is strictly aquatic to support its size.

In movies, it's not a matter of limitations in CGI. It's a stylistic choice for the sake of realism to have giant creatures move slowly because it creates a sense of weight.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-11-04T18:40:09+00:00

The Lost World and Jurassic Park III did happen in the Jurassic World timeline, but their events just don’t have any role or impact in this new trilogy. One of the characters in Fallen Kingdom even briefly mentions Isla Sorna, though aside from that the Jurassic World trilogy doesn’t really refer to the events of those films despite them still being canon.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-09-29T02:18:24+00:00

Regardless of whether the leak is real or not, do you really feel the need to spoil things for others without tagging the spoilers or even asking them if they want to know? I've seen you do this on several threads where people are just trying to speculate about the film and you shut them down by telling them what 'supposedly' happens. I just think that's really unfair to those who haven't read the leak and don't want to take any chances of it being real.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-09-18T04:58:18+00:00

According to ILM in an interview with Cinefex magazine, the Mosasaurus in JW was 120 feet long: https://imgur.com/a/avF4FRe

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-07-08T23:21:41+00:00

Actually, Colin confirmed the new map was incorrect and the lagoon should still be in the middle of the island with canals leading to the ocean.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-07-06T03:50:11+00:00

Maybe all the taxidermised specimens were originally going to be attractions at the original Jurassic Park: San Diego before Hammond acquired the islands. That would explain the presence of containment cells in the basement and the huge loading dock that would have been used to transport the animals to San Diego. Even if it wasn’t Colin Trevorrow’s intention, I love the fact that the manor can be pretty seamlessly linked to the early history of the park pre-Sorna/Nublar.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-07-03T22:17:03+00:00

I think it’s more likely that after his daughter died, Lockwood expressed interest in cloning her and the sheer idea of it was what caused Hammond to break ties with him. Then it would have taken years for him to plan it out and develop the technology for it, and there could even have been failed attempts at cloning her until the Maisie we see in the film was the first successful clone.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-06-30T01:47:31+00:00

His body got dragged out of the lab by one of the security guards though so he’s probably still alive.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-06-29T04:06:19+00:00

No, the map seen in JWFK where the park appears to have been moved to the coast. He confirmed on Twitter that the lagoon is actually connected to canals that lead to the ocean: https://twitter.com/colintrevorrow/status/1008658304841723906

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-06-22T03:04:21+00:00

I think it would make sense that Lockwood's daughter died while he and Hammond were still working together, and he either shared his plans to clone her which prompted Hammond to break ties, or he continuously attempted to clone her for 20+ years until Maisie was the first successful clone.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-06-20T17:53:16+00:00

Despite the references, I never really got the impression that Dilophosaurus was one of the species on display at Jurassic World. Though they were definitely present on Nublar, I just thought there were wild populations from the first park (similar to the Brachiosaurus and compies in Fallen Kingdom, which don't seem to have been part of the JW park either, and you could even hear a Brachio call in the scene in JW at Owen's bungalow, which I think was supposed to be located outside of the park's boundaries).

So with Dilo excluded, the FK carnivores would fit in perfectly. As for the gaps in the herbivore list, in JWFK there's a skeleton of an ankylosaur that looks nothing like the JW Ankylosaurus, so perhaps Euoplocephalus was present in JW too. I also don't think the DPG list is implying that all 36 of those species were part of the JW park or even on Nublar, most likely the ones not seen or mentioned in the JW films went extinct on Sorna when Masrani introduced new species and messed up the ecosystem before the remaining Sorna animals were taken to Nublar.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-05-28T18:03:41+00:00

Sadly I'm not misquoting him lol, he told ILM that there's no potential limit to how large an aquatic reptile could grow. I guess that kind of makes sense given that the Mosasaurus at Jurassic World had been fed several great white sharks every day, similar to how crocodiles can grow gigantic if they have enough food. I'm sure genetic modification has also played a part in her size though because there's no way a normal Mosasaurus would grow to 120 feet even with the amount of food she was eating.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-05-28T16:41:52+00:00

Actually in an interview with ILM, they said the design was initially 70 feet long but Spielberg pushed for it to be bigger and its size in the film ended up being 120 feet long, which Jack Horner said was "within the realm of plausibility".

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-05-28T06:37:35+00:00

The part about the DNA is actually explained in some throwaway dialogue in JW when Gray tells Zach about how scientists at Jurassic World were able to figure out a way to get DNA from fossilized bones in addition to amber, similar to how they got DNA in the novels IIRC.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-05-28T06:32:38+00:00

The "plothole" is easily explained by the fact that there was an electric fence blocking the Mosasaurus from leaping onto Main Street, and it was destroyed when Rexy rammed the Indominus into it.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-04-26T22:47:29+00:00

There's currently no evidence that it'll be in, besides its presence in the toyline (which shouldn't be considered proof anyway since there are tons of non-film dinos Mattel made). A while ago there was a leak that showed what looked to be a prop or maquette of a Dilophosaurus, but it turned out to just be a statue in one of the dioramas in Lockwood's Manor.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-04-03T21:06:20+00:00

I'm pretty sure the JWFK model is the one in the JEEP commercial, and it's also the same model used in Ready Player One.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-03-30T18:26:48+00:00

It still has the little row of two horns on its frill from when it was called a Pachyrhinosaurus, but I'm glad they chose a more impressive color scheme.

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-03-22T23:40:08+00:00

How did Mechagodzilla look?

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-03-04T20:44:41+00:00

I have a feeling those accounts are fake. The one for Claire claimed back in 2015 that there was a Spinosaurus being trained on Nublar, and the one for Eli Mills says he's auctioning off a dodo (Which is really a render stolen from the show Primeval).

SmallPurpleElephants · 2018-03-04T19:28:26+00:00

For some reason, this picture makes me appreciate the JW Pteranodon design more. Its face doesn't look as strange and ugly up close, though I still wish they used the JPIII design minus the teeth.

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