Around five million dollars will be invested by Universal Pictures to protect the cast and production team to resume Jurassic World: Dominion filming.
Deadline reports that this will be the first Hollywood blockbuster to return to work in the United Kingdom, starting again on July 6 at Pinewood studios. Previously, the team led by director Colin Trevorrow had managed to complete four weeks out of the 20 planned to finish the film.
”The plan is for us to be shooting early-mid July,” a senior executive confirmed.
“In recent days, production staff have been implementing rigorous safety protocols on-site and a two week pre-production period will begin next week,” explained the website.
The protocols, which have been reviewed by the British Film Council and the unions in the United States, will involve “All cast and crew will be tested before returning to set and then again multiple times during filming.”
The production has allowed “The commission of a private medical facility called Your Doctor to manage the entire production’s medical requirements.”
These precautions include:
- COVID-19 training for all cast and crew
- On-site doctors, nurses, and isolation booths
- 150 hand sanitizing stations
- Antiviral ‘fogs’
- Over 1,800 safety signs posted all over Pinewood Studios
- ‘Green Zones’ to film the cast and crew will have an increase of tests
- Masks will be mandatory, except for actors during shooting
- In positive cases, people will be isolated before being sent home,
Hopefully, other productions will follow suit so we can continue to have new digital movies released periodically.
