Jurassic World: Dominion director Colin Trevorrow explains how the movie changes up the dino-series’ classic formula. Trevorrow’s 2015 film Jurassic World revived the Jurassic Park franchise and went on to become a surprise blockbuster, grossing $1.6 billion worldwide.
After that movie’s massive success it was somewhat of a surprise when Trevorrow was not brought back to direct the sequel, 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which was instead helmed by J.A. Bayona. But Trevorrow is indeed back behind the camera for the third installment in the Jurassic World series, which brings back stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard alongside Jurassic Park legacy players Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum. Jurassic World: Dominion unsurprisingly figures to up the ante on the previous two films in the new trilogy, bringing in new dinosaur species including the aptly-named Gigantosaurus.
But new forms of dinosaurs aren’t the only change-up Jurassic World: Dominion is set to throw at audiences. According to Trevorrow, the movie as a whole breaks from the classic Jurassic Park formula by leaving the series' standard tropical island setting and heading into the wider world. As Trevorrow explained to EW, the previous movies in the series “pretty much have the same story.” Things are different this time however as Trevorrow said:
"But Dominion is set all over the world, through many different environments: wilderness, urban, desert, snow. It's exciting to see these creatures navigate environments that they weren't built to survive in. They grew up in a theme park and now they're here!"
Indeed, as Trevorrow indicated, audiences have never seen a Jurassic Park movie set away from a tropical island/theme park setting, though Fallen Kingdom did change things up a little by showing dinosaurs menacing a giant mansion. After the series took its first steps outside the jungle in Fallen Kingdom, Dominion is about to dive into the deep end by showing the dinosaurs spreading across the entire world and no doubt bringing mayhem everywhere they go, even to the snow where dinosaurs clearly don't belong (at least not the movie version of dinosaurs).
It remains to be seen if this formula-breaking approach ultimately works for Dominion. On the one hand, it’s probably a good idea for the new Jurassic World movie to change things up after so many years and so many similar stories. On the other hand, the classic Jurassic Park formula has proven to be sturdy over the decades and deviating from it too much could end up backfiring. Trevorrow at least seems confident that the right choices have been made as regards the plot of Jurassic World: Dominion, and there’s certainly a lot of intrigue in the idea of dinosaurs spreading across the Earth and encountering all sorts of different environments where such creatures are not well-adapted to survive. And if nothing else, at least the movie earns huge nostalgia points by reuniting Dern, Neill and Goldblum for one last dino-adventure.
Source: EW
