Jurassic World Dominion director Colin Trevorrow has revealed why the upcoming sequel to 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom will not include any hybrid dinosaurs.
"The idea of hybrids had narratively run its course after the second film," Trevorrow explained in an interview with SFX Magazine. "It didn’t fit into the reality of the environment we threw our characters in. It’s so devoted to the real science that their number one priority would be to make the most paleontological correct dinosaurs as possible. They would not consider making hybrids there. They would look down upon it." Hybrid dinosaurs were first introduced in 2015's Jurassic World with the Indominus Rex, a genetically modified Tyrannosaurus Rex. Fallen Kingdom included the Indoraptor, a dinosaur hybrid of the Indominus and a velociraptor. Hybrid dinos have also appeared in the animated series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous, which is set during and after the events of Jurassic World.
"I actually like being able to give the characters in the films different perspectives and points of view about dinosaurs and how they should be treated in this new reality," added Trevorrow. "The ones in this film, the good guys and the bad guys, one thing they do agree on is that dinosaurs are real, and they should be recreating them as accurately as they can." One new dinosaur fans have spotted in Dominion trailers is the Giganotosaurus, which Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) declares is the "biggest carnivore the world has ever seen."
Jurassic World Dominion picks up four years after Isla Nublar was destroyed in 2018's Fallen Kingdom. The film will mark the first time the franchise properly unites the core trio from the Jurassic Park trilogy with the main cast of the World films. Jeff Goldblum had previously reprised his role as Dr. Ian Malcom from the first two Jurassic Park films in Fallen Kingdom, but the actor did not interact with any of the World cast in the film.
Chris Pratt, who plays Owen Grady in the World trilogy, previously teased that the movie will be an explosive conclusion to the storyline that began with Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park in 1993. "You know when you go to a fireworks display like the Fourth of July or New Years, there's always the finale?" the actor asked. "You're waiting for it, and then boom! And you're like, 'Oh! This is it! This is the finale!' I feel like the whole movie is that. It's...30 years in the making, it's the sixth Jurassic film, it's the end of this franchise."
Jurassic World Dominion features an ensemble cast that includes Neill, Goldblum, Pratt, Laura Dern, Bryce Dallas Howard, Mamoudou Athie, Scott Haze, Dichen Lachman, Daniella Pineda, Campbell Scott, Isabella Sermon, Justice Smith and Omar Sy.
Tickets for Dominion are now available. The film roars into theaters on June 10.
Source: SFX Magazine