How 'Safety Not Guaranteed' Almost Cost Colin Trevorrow the 'Jurassic World' Gig

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[Warning: Spoilers for the ending of Safety Not Guaranteed follow]   How does a filmmaker with one indie land a job directing something as big as Jurassic World? It helps if that indie is a hit, either with critics or audiences or accolades, and probably if it's a genre film. But it wasn't just that Colin Trevorrow had delivered a popular sci-fi movie in Safety Not Guaranteed that attracted producer Steven Spielberg to his talents and blockbuster movie potential.  "I looked at his movie and thought it was really good," Spielberg says in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, "but I wasn't convinced until the last scene 'cause that film could have gone two ways. When this [character] who I thought was certifiably insane...
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