A first-look image from Jurassic World: Dominion teases Bryce Dallas Howard's return in the third film, set to premiere June 10, 2022. The first Jurassic World film, released in 2015, takes place 22 years after the plot of Steven Spielberg's seminal Jurassic Park. Howard stars as Claire Dearing, the operations manager of the new Jurassic World theme park, alongside Chris Pratt as dinosaur trainer Owen Grady.
Two decades after Jurassic Park was deconstructed, a new theme park was erected in its place to honor John Hammond's (Richard Attenborough) dying wish. In the first Jurassic World film, visitors and employees at the park are terrorized by a manmade dinosaur, the Indominus rex, when the transgenic creation is released from its enclosure. In the sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the abandoned park's dinosaurs have been left to their own devices on Isla Nublar. When a volcano threatens the animals' lives, Claire and Owen relocate them to the estate of Hammond's old business partner, Sir Benjamin Lockwood. To save them from a gas leak, Lockwood's granddaughter Maisie frees the captive dinosaurs, inducing a "neo-Jurassic Age" in which dinosaurs have re-entered the world in the third film.
Now, Universal has released the first official image from the movie, to be published in Total Film's 2022 Preview issue, which teases what Howard's character has in store during the new era. In the picture, Howard is frantically swimming through the algae of a tropical river, surrounded by what appears to be a thick rainforest. Upon closer inspection, the stalks behind her are not trees, but rather the legs and arms of a pursuing dino. From the looks of it, the dinosaurs' transition into the civilized world isn't going to be a peaceful one. Here's a first look at Jurassic World: Dominion:
In November, Jurassic World released a prologue video to drum up anticipation and set the scene for Dominion. The prologue takes viewers all the way back to a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth 65 million years ago. The moving, Planet Earth-like recounting of the Earth's history is quickly thrown into chaos when those same dinosaurs are thrust into the modern age, where they terrorize the puny humans who previously owned the place. Director Colin Trevorrow has said that the film will not see dinosaurs stomping around metropolitan areas à la Gozilla, but rather imagine them more like the wild animals in the world today. Details about Claire's storyline haven't been released, but it's safe to assume she'll be at work trying to save the world.
Claire's simultaneous pragmatism and respect for the dinosaurs create a constant internal ethical dilemma that leads her to make contradictory decisions despite her intelligence. Owen suffers from this same disadvantage: both are idealists who believe in the animals' fundamental rights, but both are smart enough to recognize that those animals can't be allowed to roam free if humans are to be protected. In a world where the dinosaurs now have the upper hand, Claire may finally have to set aside her sympathies and join the battle in Jurassic World: Dominion.
Source: Total Film
