Jurassic World 3: Sam Neill says Jeff Goldblum brought a lot of ideas to set

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

We recently learned that Jurassic World: Dominion writer/director Colin Trevorrow allowed returning Jurassic Park cast members Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern to work on the script with him, writing dialogue together and making sure their characters were shown the proper respect. In an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Sam Neill has now humorously revealed that one returning cast member contributed more ideas than the others.

Neill said, 

Colin Trevorrow, who's a lovely guy and a really good director, he was very open to suggestions. Jeff would come to work with about 50 suggestions that drive us crazy every day, God bless him. I love Jeff, but boy, does he have a lot of ideas! Laura and I would come up with things, as well, and Colin was very open to that. We'll see how many of those things make it to the cut!"

It's funny to hear that Goldblum had so many ideas it drove them "crazy every day". I'm assuming his contributions are going to make the cut, because how could anyone say no to Goldblum ideas?

 

 

 

 

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Trevorrow has described Dominion as a "true ensemble" in which the Jurassic Park characters are of equal importance to the returning Jurassic World characters played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard (who also contributed to the script). Neill, Dern, and Goldblum don't just have cameos, and they do get involved in the dinosaur action.

Trevorrow wrote Jurassic World: Dominion with Emily Carmichael, based on an idea he crafted with his Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom co-writer Derek Connolly.

Pratt, Howard, Neill, Dern, and Goldblum are joined in the cast by Mamoudou Athie, DeWanda Wise, Daniella Pineda, Justice Smith, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, Scott Haze, Campbell Scott, and Dichen Lachman. 

A collaboration between Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, the film was executive produced by Trevorrow and Steven Spielberg, with Frank Marshall producing alongside Pat Crowley. Sara Scott, senior vice president of production at Universal, oversaw the project for the studio.

Jurassic World: Dominion is scheduled to reach theatres on June 10, 2022. Trevorrow has said it finishes the "one long story" that has been told across all six Jurassic films (plus Trevorrow's short film Battle at Big Rock), and also has connections to the Netflix animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous.