Jurassic World: Dominion director Colin Trevorrow confirms the animated Netflix series Camp Cretaceous will connect to the 2022 movie. After Jurassic World revived the dinosaur franchise in 2015 to great success, the fictional park has seen a huge uptick in content. Dominion, delayed from 2021 to 2022 amid the coronavirus pandemic, will bring the film series to a close. Though many details are still being kept under wraps, Jurassic World: Dominion will feature several callbacks to what came before, whether it be by revisiting old locations or featuring the return of the original Jurassic Park trio of Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum.
In short, Jurassic World: Dominion will be a proper finale, and it will connect to other things beyond the main movies. Trevorrow has helped oversee additional projects that expanded the Jurassic World franchise, from the short film Battle at Big Rock to Netflix's Camp Cretaceous. In regards to the latter, the first three seasons of the YA-styled series have tied into the two previous Jurassic World movies in clever ways. That tradition appears to be holding firm with the last movie in the trilogy.
Screen Rant got the chance to sit down with Trevorrow to discuss the Jurassic World: Dominion preview that will play in IMAX alongside F9. While discussing how Battle at Big Rock will factor into Dominion, we asked whether Camp Cretaceous will connect to Jurassic World 3 at some point down the line. Trevorrow had this to say:
It will, yeah. I’ve been lucky enough to spend a lot of time with the writers of the show and I’ve shared everything from Dominion with them, and I’ve been pretty intimately involved in the seasons and what we’ve been building. So we wanted to make sure that when we look back on it all, that everything is going to weave together.
Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous dropped season 3 back in May, and the episodes brought the action of the series in line with the prologue of 2018's Fallen Kingdom. Should the series get renewed for season 4, the rest of the events from that sequel could be referenced before it moves on to Jurassic World: Dominion. Any major connections between Camp Cretaceous and Jurassic World 3 could run the risk of spoilers, but it seems unlikely that anything too revealing will arrive before the movie debuts next year. After all, Camp Cretaceous is still without a season 4 renewal, though Trevorrow and the show's writers clearly have an eye on the future.
Though perhaps not quite on the same scale as, say, the MCU, Jurassic World has created a fun little connected universe for itself, and fans who consume each bit of content will be rewarded by seeing all the ways things line up. Jurassic World: Dominion might be a major piece of the puzzle, but it isn't quite the end for the franchise. At least, even if it ends things on the big screen, there might be more in store through other mediums. Better not miss anything!
