Jurassic World Dominion's VFX Supervisor, David Vickery, finally explained the guy on a scooter scene in the film. Jurassic World Dominion is the third and final installment of the Jurassic World films and premiered on June 10, 2022. The series is a continuation of and sequel to the Jurassic Park trilogy that first premiered in 1993. Jurassic World Dominion brought back original Jurassic Park stars Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum, as well as Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard. The film explores the uneasy co-existence of humans and dinosaurs after the destruction of the Isla Nublar.
Jurassic World Dominion received largely negative reviews from critics but still managed to be an enormous success commercially, garnering well over $900 million at the box office. However, there was one odd scene that left audiences slightly confused. It is when Owen Grady (Pratt) is in Malta, searching for his abducted daughter. When things go wrong, he flees on a bike with several aggressive dinosaurs pursuing him. As pure chaos breaks loose around him, audiences spot a seemingly unsuspecting man leisurely riding a scooter between two hungry Allosauruses before being subsequently gobbled up by them.
In an interview with Screen Rant, Vickery explained the guy on a scooter scene in Jurassic World Dominion. He explained that the guy on the scooter won a competition where the prize was the opportunity to be eaten by a dinosaur in the film. Hence, the VFX department was suddenly tasked with somehow working the guy who won the competition into the Malta scene. In the end, the scooter scene was what worked and brought all the visual effects together. Check out his statement below:
The guy on the scooter is a competition winner, he won a competition to be eaten by a dinosaur. I think in pre-production, Chris had announced this competition and everybody entered and this guy won, so my kind of memory of that whole thing is that we got lumped with this idea that suddenly we were creating some sort of composite to get a guy from America who'd won a competition into a plate that was in Malta. We had to work out how we could put that all together with visual effects. [Laughs] So the scooter meme thing missed me, I'll have to look it up now.
The explanation certainly makes the scene a little more understandable. After all, viewers couldn't help but, first, feel sorry for the man. He was just trying to ride his scooter, and surely the Jurassic World Dominion crew could've just let him be. Secondly, audiences couldn't help but question what exactly the guy was thinking by leisurely riding a scooter between two bloodthirsty Allosauruses or why that particular scene had to be witnessed by Grady as he rode through Malta. However, now audiences can rest assured that the man on the scooter actually did really want to get eaten by dinosaurs and even entered a contest to get the chance to do so.
Ultimately, the explanation behind the guy on a scooter scene actually might make it even funnier. To watch audiences scratch their heads and try to understand the purpose of the scooter guy scene, only to realize it all stemmed from a contest, is quite hilarious. Meanwhile, the scooter guy scene might not be the best in Jurassic World Dominion, but given the explanation, hopefully audiences will now cut the scene some slack. After all, working in the VFX department and suddenly having to work a contest winner into a scene, certainly takes some imagination. Jurassic World Dominion's guy on a scooter scene now has a legit explanation and purpose, so audiences don't think that the creators just had something against guys on scooters.