JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION - Details on Unconventional Structure, Extended Footage, and How the Original Stars Fit
One of the things that I’m most curious about regarding Jurassic World: Dominion is how the original Jurassic Park cast will be weaved into the story. We’ve heard that Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum will all have big roles in the film, so how exactly will they collide with Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt?
Director Colin Trevorrow recently talked about this in an interview with Collider, and explains that this film is going to be a bit unconventional. He says that the movie won't strictly follow a "traditional screenplay structure" with one main character "where everybody knows what happens on page twelve." Instead, Trevorrow is focused on "two sets of characters".
He says that the film is "telling two parallel stories that are just driving closer and closer together, and you understand that, and you start to understand how they're going to intersect, and then they do. But that's not a traditional way to structure a movie."
Trevorrow went on to ensure that he’s "not shortchanging anybody… Laura and Sam and Jeff are just as big a part of the movie as Chris and Bryce are, as far as screen time, as far as their importance to the story, everything."
That’s great to hear! I was really hoping that those three original characters would have a main role to play in the story. Fans will be able to get an extended look at the film in IMAX screenings of F9. That footage will "reveal what Earth looked like long before humans existed and tell the origin story of how dinosaur DNA first came to be carried by a mythic mosquito."
The footage will also show off "seven new species of dinosaurs, created by the legendary Industrial Light & Magic, that have never been seen in any Jurassic film before." The feathered dinosaur featured in a photo released, that you can see above, is one of those new species, which is a Moros intrepidus.
When previously talking about the franchise, Trevorrow said, "When you got to the end of the Jurassic Park trilogy, it may not have been as clear in what the complete story of those three movies was because they were a bit more episodic in the way that they were approached… when you watch Dominion, you really feel like you are learning how much of a story that first set of movies was and how everything that happened in those movies actually informs what ultimately is able to happen in this.”
Jurassic World: Dominion arrives June 10, 2022.