Jurassic World: Dominion has Camp Cretaceous link, wraps up six film story

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

Jurassic World: Dominion director Colin Trevorrow doesn't see the film as just the end of his Jurassic World trilogy, he sees it as something larger than that. Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Trevorrow said he sees Dominion as "a culmination of one story that's been told" going all the way back to the first Jurassic Park, especially since Jurassic Park stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum have roles in Jurassic World: Dominion that are said to be of equal importance to those played by Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.

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. But this trilogy is not that way. It's very much a serialized story. What was important for me was, 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. If kids who are born today are going to be presented with six Jurassic Park movies — you hope the parents will buy them the box set — you hope they are going to get to feel like they watch one long story."

Dominion doesn't only connect with those five movies, it also ties in with the Netflix animated series Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, the first season of which took place during the events of Jurassic World. Of the series, Trevorrow said, 

It's important to me, out of respect for the writers who are continuing to expand and create, to recognize [Camp Cretaceous] as clearly its own story and its own show. But (season 2) — and if we're granted further opportunities to tell the story that we have (in season 3) — will keep weaving in to the larger story and really inform some things, even in Dominion that will connect to discoveries made that I'm really excited about."

An official synopsis of Jurassic World: Dominion has not been released, but Trevorrow promises 

What these movies are is changing in a way. All of the Jurassic movies have fundamentally been about people who go to an island and there are dangerous dinosaurs there who very well may harm them. As we take it into a new place where it's about humans and dinosaurs sharing the planet as we do with animals, it gives us an opportunity to make more character stories with people you know and love and care about."

Directed by Trevorrow from a screenplay he wrote with Emily Carmichael (based on an idea Trevorrow crafted with his Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom co-writer Derek Connolly), the film stars, in addition to the actors already named, 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, described as "a celebration of the whole franchise", is scheduled to reach theatres on June 10, 2022. The second season of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous is set to be released on the Netflix streaming service this Friday, January 22nd.