J. A. Bayona

I think in recent decades we got lucky enough to have very talented filmmakers expanding a bit what, uh, was normal to do in Spain.

People like, uh, Juan Antonio Bayona, for example, or Paco Plaza, who directed, uh, [rec].

And of course, Alejandro Amenábar, the director of The Others with Nicole Kidman.

Mm-hmm.

So his dance card is open right now.

And they're bringing back, uh, J Bayona who did, uh, Oh, he's doing the next one.

I didn't know that.

At least in talks or something.

But I remember it made such an impact because the scares are really well done.

And this was the movie, if I'm not mistaken, yes, this is the movie that kind of gave J.A. Bayona a big of a name where he managed to break through the Hollywood.

So, you know, do you remember Jurassic World, the second one where it was like, hey, we have this new kind of master of horror and he's going to make dinosaurs scary.

And then he got locked in a room for like four fifths of that movie.

yes that guy that guy that was he makes horror movies great and the last 20 30 minutes of jurassic world the second one are like genuine horror movie the rest the before everything before he was just locked in a room i just don't understand it anyway but orphanage is blast it's such a creepy movie that just makes an impression and yeah such a blast

I really would and am excited to watch this.

And I do like J.A. Bayona a lot.

I am in the minority in that I really like that second movie, that second Jurassic World movie.

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the director, J.A. Bayona, has two quotes from there: "At a pivotal moment in the story, the characters set off blindly down the mountain with no clear destination and to certain death.

For me, it's an act of dignity." And he follows that up by saying, "Dignity was also expressed by those who died giving encouragement to their companions.

Their behaviors are the result of a profound transformation.

So let's start off with what you, uh, put out in your newsletter and then was reconfirmed, bro, by a number of sources here just over the last hour or so.

J.A. Bayona is apparently coming back to the Jurassic World franchise.

This is what you heard, uh, here in your newsletter.

You put it in there.

It said, um, you said that J. Bayona, the director of 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, might be on his way back to be a part of this thing.

You know, Gareth Edwards was supposed to do it, but then he stepped away from this thing.

So what are your thoughts on it? You, you say in your newsletter that you believe that Lee Isaac Chung, uh, was approached on this, uh, and that it would've gone back maybe to Colin Trevorrow.

But in the end, J.A. Bayona.

Well, he's back at it again with a potential new director, uh, that will be returning to the Jurassic franchise after a few years here.

And, uh, yeah, this is gonna be potentially J.A. Bayona coming back to direct the next film in the franchise.

So, uh, the article here that I'm looking at, uh, from the InSneider says, "Hot Rumor: J.A. Bayona Frontrunner to Direct Next Jurassic World Movie Due 10 Years After Fallen Kingdom." When did Fallen Kingdom come out? That was 2018, right? Oh, yeah, so t- oh my God, 2028.

Oh, that's ...

I mean, we all kinda knew that that's when the movie was gonna hit.

Um, and, uh, that's not gonna be coming out until 2028.

So I was wondering, you know, is, is all this gonna line up in 2028? And, uh, yeah, here's another 2028, uh, bit of information here.

J.A. Bayona potentially coming back.

So they appeared jointly for the first time.

to talk to the media, and they announced that some new projects, including a TV series directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and two non-fiction productions by Jota Bayona, he will be the producer.

So they announced some new, sort of like a new slate of titles, and they announced uh renewed their commitment uh for the support of the spanish film industry they said their policy remained intact and i quote

and are you confident that is the case

things.

Yeah, and then also only the day after, Naomi Watts got her honorary award, another Donosti award, and it was Jota Bayona who gave it to her.

Of course, they worked together in the impossible.

So it was another special night for San Sebastian.

Pablo Larraín has a horror series which is going to be shown as a film there based on the short stories of that very, very unnerving Latin American writer, Mariana Enriquez, who's very much kind of cult name these days.

There's J.A. Bayona's follow-up to his massive, spectacular airplane disaster movie, Society of the Snow.

This is called Beyond Society, so I guess it's about what happens next.

You've also got the French actor-director Nicole Garcia directing Marion Cotillard in Milo.