How Jurassic World 3 Is Navigating Filming During The Pandemic
Jurassic World: Dominion was one of the first major Hollywood films to go back to work during the worldwide pandemic. It hasn’t been easy for the Jurassic team to navigate the current challenges you face when creating during the outbreak of Covid. But, there hasn’t been any major setbacks for the team so far.
Jurassic World: Dominion was one of the first major Hollywood films to go back to work during the worldwide pandemic. It hasn’t been easy for the Jurassic team to navigate the current challenges you face when creating during the outbreak of Covid. But, there hasn’t been any major setbacks for the team so far.
The Hollywood Reporter shared some info on the Dominion filming operation:
Certainly, larger-scale productions with the backing of a major studio like Universal’s Jurassic World: Dominion — which has been shooting at Pinewood Studios in the U.K. since July 6 — have more resources to devote to new safety measures. "When you get up and running, you realize that you need to go over and talk to that crew person and say, ‘Buddy, put the mask up over your nose.’ Or you find the three guys who are just 18 inches away from each other talking about what a great time they had last weekend, and you have to break it up," says the movie’s producer Patrick Crowley. "We have people who are hired to do nothing but go, ‘You need to get 2 meters away from him,’ because you know that the success of the show and the likelihood of them continuing to have jobs in the industry is dependent on that." The film’s cast and crew are not only staying in a nearby hotel bought out by the studio in an effort to maintain a quarantine bubble, they’re also tested three times a week. To date, the production has processed a whopping 27,000 COVID-19 tests over the course of the shoot (the hotel staff is tested, too). At roughly $100 a pop, that’s close to $3 million on testing alone. "Universal never blinked," says Crowley. "They said, ‘You’ve got to do what you’ve got to do.’ "
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