Speaking on the Jurassic Outpost podcast (via EW) the first film's director Colin Trevorrow spoke about what we can expect from Juan Antonio Bayona's sequel He said:
It will be more suspenseful and scary. It's just the way it's designed; it's the way the story plays out[...]
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It's good news, then, that Deadline reports the studio has made a huge deal to release the film, and has set Juan Antonio Bayona to direct it
Bayona seems pretty ideally suited for the story – which Ness has adapted for the screen himself – of a young boy dealing with bullies at school and[...]