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Ryan Bellgardt, Director of The Jurassic Games – Interview

Ryan Bellgardt, Director of The Jurassic Games – Interview

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I recently reviewed Ryan Bellgardt’s film The Jurassic Games for Popgeeks and it was an absolute joy. Fun action, wild characters and did I mention velociraptor kung-fu? This surprise cinematic free for all deserves to be seen, but I wanted to better understand the creative mind that imagined this deadly game of dinosaur attacks and media satire. So please enjoy my interview with Ryan Bellgardt. Adam Pope: Did you have and initial entry into filmmaking as a hobby before becoming a professional? What form did that take? Ryan Bellgardt: I’d been working as a commercial director for a number of years before I ever got the nerve to direct a movie. My friends and I all worked together at Boiling Point Media and thought it would be fun to make “Army of Frankensteins” in our free time. That was about 5 years ago, and it really took off from there. AP: How did you come to consider directing as a career? Ryan Bellgardt: I grew up wanting to be a film

The Jurassic Games – Movie Review

The Jurassic Games – Movie Review

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Don’t let the name fool you, while The Jurassic Games may sound like a slapped together title meant to cash-in on the popularity of The Hunger Games and this summer’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, ignoring this balls to the wall thrill ride from Emmy winning director, Ryan Bellgart would be a dino-sized mistake. Hold onto your butts because The Jurassic Games is 100 percent rampaging fun from start to finish. There have been many films over the years that played with the concept of deadly survival competition as televised entertainment for the masses, be it Paul Bartel’s Death Race 2000 in the 70’s, Schwarzenegger’s The Running Man in the 80’s or more recently Neveldine and Taylor’s certifiably insane movie Gamer with Gerard Butler. Each served as an indictment of exploitative media culture and greedy network tactics to get ratings, but you know what they didn’t have? DINOSAURS! In actuality, the lethal thunder lizard attacks (and there are many) are not really the main draw of the story as conceived by