Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern return to Jurassic Park in a new Super Bowl ad for Xfinity
Big game ads
It’s Super Bowl time. And that means big game ads for movies and companies shelling out the dough for their own short movies for the ad breaks. It was recently reported that Bugonia director Yorgos Lanthimos is directing a couple of upcoming commercials for the event, including one where he would be re-teaming with Emma Stone for Squarespace. Now, Xfinity has released their big game ad and they take a look at an alternate sequence of events in the original Jurassic Park if the power had been restored just as quickly as it went out.
Welcome back to Jurassic Park
The new Xfinity commercial preys on your nostalgia hard by getting Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern back to reprise their iconic roles and recreate their scenes. The Hollywood Reporter reveals that none other than Taika Waititi directs this humorous “What if?” look if Jurassic Park had stayed online. In the commercial, an employee from Xfinity was able to restore the power, and Alan Grant, Ellie Sadler and Ian Malcolm would start to have the time of their lives in a resort-like atmosphere, complete with theme park rides.
The actors would be de-aged for the commercial. Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Attenborough also make appearances as their famous Jurassic Park characters, but they appear through the movie’s original footage. The ad has Waititi’s signature humor with “The Piña Colada Song” providing the background soundtrack for the lovely weekend and some tweaks are made to some signature quotes from the film.
You can check out the ad above.
Yorgos Lanthimos’ big game ad
Squarespace will have a short film-esque commercial that stars Emma Stone and is directed by Yorgos Lanthimos. This is the first big game ad for the actor/director duo and is the 12th entry of a Super Bowl commercial for Squarespace. It is slated to air during the second half of Super Bowl LX. The ad is titled Unavailable and will be 30 seconds long, but the company has released a 15-second teaser with Stone displaying a film noir-ish performance. Additionally, Lanthimos also directs a spot for Grubhub for this year’s game.
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