Jurassic World: Dominion is a science thriller about genetic power, according to director Colin Trevorrow. Beginning in 1993 with Steven Spielberg's hit movie, Jurassic Park, the Jurassic franchise has so far spanned five movies - three that are a part of the Jurassic Park trilogy and another two in the Jurassic World trilogy. Unlike Jurassic Park and its sequels, Jurassic World isn't based on any of the books written by Michael Crichton, yet it explores the dinosaur-human conflict in the same stylish fashion. The first Jurassic World movie, directed by Colin Trevorrow came out in 2015 to overwhelming box office success, with its sequel, J. A. Bayona's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, continuing the commercial triumph. Now, the final film in the Jurassic World trilogy, Jurassic World: Dominion, is scheduled to premiere in June 2022, and it's hoped that it will surpass the blockbuster performance of the first two films.
Starting with the very first movie, the Jurassic franchise has toyed with the dangers arising from human intervention in the process of creation. In Jurassic Park it was John Hammond's cloning dinosaurs for this theme park and assuming that it was a fool-proof plan. Then in Jurassic World, the perils of genetic manipulation also came to the fore when Dr Henry Wu's transgenic dinosaur, the Indominus rex, went on a rampage. The argument against this DNA tampering only continued in Fallen Kingdom, where Wu's genetically engineered Indoraptor, a potentially dangerous prototype of a weaponized, hybrid dinosaur, wreaked havoc at the Lockwood mansion. The franchise has a long history with cloning and genetic mutations, concepts that Jurassic World: Dominion is now gearing up to shed more light on.
During his exclusive interview with Screen Rant, director Colin Trevorrow discussed how that premise will continue in Jurassic World: Dominion. Calling the movie "a science thriller," Trevorrow explained that the movie navigates the power of genes and the natural strength and perils both dinosaurs and humankind possess. Read his full comment below:
One is we wanted to get the dinosaurs off of the island, which we’d been on for four movies, was something we needed the movie to do. I love what J.A. did with that movie and I was really into the idea of them being displaced, and put out into a world they didn’t understand and wasn’t welcoming of them at all. I was really fascinated with the opportunities this movie presented. And also, this movie is much more of a science thriller. We haven’t really been able to talk about genetic power and the danger inherent in it; what these dinosaurs existing on our planet right now really represents and how it all ties into the dangers we face today. So that’s what we got to do, and obviously I got to be able to work with Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum in order to tell that story. It was all a bit of a dream. Can’t believe it happened.
Although Trevorrow says that Jurassic World: Dominion will bring into the spotlight the genetic power of dinosaurs, the film will no longer deal with hybrids. Dominion is more about the dinosaurs that have actually existed, and not about the scientific mixes engineered in the labs. After the events of Fallen Kingdom, Dominion will now take viewers through an alternate reality of the present-day where dinosaurs and humans co-exist. And the mutated beasts simply don't fit in this scenario of parallel reality. Rather, now the concern is if humans can live in harmony with the ancient beasts, or does the presence of the latter in the society endanger the existence of the former. Of course, since the movie is set in the modern-day, the existing socio-political challenges are still there. Now whether or not would the dinosaurs aggravate these challenges remains to be seen.
Considering that Jurassic World: Dominion plans to wind things up for the franchise in a big way, it makes sense that the movie is paying attention to the potential of its dinosaurs and the impact their existence can have on the world we live in. The Jurassic Park and World movies have been hitherto sci-fi action pieces, that have concerned themselves less with meaning and reason and more with high-octane chases. But Jurassic World: Dominion is now seeking to change that. In this swansong, it aims to answer a more philosophical question about the consequences of reviving the fossilized reptiles. Hopefully, this reasoning and intellect will connect with audiences, helping them understand everything that has occurred in movies thus far.
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June 14, 2021 at 12:06AM
