Jurassic World: Dominion won't feature any hybrid dinosaurs in a noted departure from the rest of the adventure franchise. The final Jurassic film will see past and present collide as alums from the Jurassic Park series appear alongside stars like Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum are among those returning for Jurassic World 3, which is once again directed by Colin Trevorrow. Picking up after 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Dominion is expected to deal with the fallout of dinosaurs running amuck outside of the park.
In another world, Jurassic World 3 would be debuting in theaters this very month. However, Universal pushed it back to 2022 amid the coronavirus pandemic, thus stretching the wait out even longer than expected. Luckily, those who venture out to theaters to see F9 in IMAX will be granted a sneak peek at Jurassic World: Dominion. This will be the first bit of footage to emerge from the movie, though a new poster and image has also been released for the occasion. Additionally, Trevorrow has revealed fresh details about what lies ahead.
Screen Rant got the chance to sit down with Trevorrow about the Jurassic World: Dominion IMAX preview, and we asked him all kinds of questions about the eagerly anticipated movie. At one point, Trevorrow revealed there will not be any dinosaur hybrids in Jurassic World 3, even though the previous films included some wild dino mutations. Trevorrow explained why that is, stating:
I just felt like we'd done it. We had hybrids in the first two movies and we have them in Camp Cretaceous. I don’t know, it didn’t feel tonally right with this movie. This movie is much more of a science thriller than the others. I really wanted to focus on dinosaurs that really existed. That’s what made me fall in love with this franchise in the first place. And I love there’s a generation that’s super into the hybrids. A lot of young kids who came up watching Jurassic World really love them, and I love that we got to do them. But real dinosaurs are awesome; they don’t need to be hybrids to be awesome.
The most fearsome dinosaurs in the two previous Jurassic World movies and Camp Cretaceous were hybrids created in a lab, which allowed for creative mixes. One might've expected Dominion to go bigger than ever with a major hybrid, but it's smarter that Trevorrow opted to return to the basics. Bigger isn't always better, and an obsession with creating stranger hybrids might lead to burnout on the audience's part. Instead, Jurassic World 3 can remind viewers that dinosaurs are plenty scary on their own without added mutations. Plus, the focus on only real life dinosaurs will bring some realism back to the series; audiences can marvel over how every creature they're seeing on screen truly existed once.
Between the lack of hybrids and several callbacks to the Jurassic Park movies, it's clear Jurassic World 3 is the end of an era. Trevorrow has confirmed the movie wraps up the entire franchise, and it is poised to go out with a bang. Fallen Kingdom might have steered the series in a more absurd direction, but things are coming back together now. Trevorrow's comments about what he loved about the original movies bode well for this installment. He truly feels passionate about the story told in Jurassic World: Dominion, and that's a special thing.
