The long wait is almost over! (Drum roll here.) Jurassic World Dominion is scheduled to open in theaters on June 10th. I haven’t seen a film inside a movie theater in years, but I will make an exception for this one. I mean, it’s dinosaurs, right? Even better: it merges the main characters from the old Jurassic Park trilogy—Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Dr. Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern), and Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), with those from the initial two Jurassic World films, Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard). How cool is that!
The storyline has so far been kept under wraps. We do know it takes place four years after the events in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and that humans are now co-existing with dinosaurs all over the globe. Sounds good to me. The official trailer, just released, might offer a clue. It is available on YouTube.
Drs. Ian Malcolm, Alan Grant, and Ellie Sattler are up to their necks in dinosaurs…again.
The premier of Jurassic World Dominion is at least a year late in coming. No surprise why: good old Covid-19, which even halted production after it had begun. But that is all in the past, so for this one time only I’m going to break my own rules about using two particular common expressions: “I’m looking forward to seeing Jurassic World Dominion, and I just can’t wait!
I can’t help thinking about the scene in ‘Them!’ where our wise old scientist turns to one of his colleagues and says “And mankind, as the dominant species on this planet, will be extinct in ,oh, eighteen months, wouldn’t you say doctor?” His colleague just nods and looks away dejected. Never mess with Mother Nature. She has no sense of humor about playing God.
Mark, the way we’re NOT taking care of this planet, the dominant species of the future might wind up being cockroaches and sharks. 🙁
I’m also looking forward to Jurassic World Dominion!!!
Louise, when we were kids I had lots of little toy cowboys, Native Americans, and soldiers…but I can’t recall if I had dinosaurs. (???)
Mike, you missed the first dino craze. Probably no toy dinosaurs. Being a little younger, I hit the wave where they came in cereal boxes, Fritos paks, plastic bags in the grocery store toy aisles, gumball machines, and even some in accurate limited sets from museum collections. We faced them off against the bags of green army men a la Godzilla, the Beast from 30,000 fathoms, Behemoth, and all those other intellectual-junk-food, imagination-stirring movies. When the first Jurassic Park came out, I was suddenly a little boy again, and my undying love grew even more. When Doctor Grant saw the first brachiosaur, and John Williams’s music swelled, I knew that not only in the fictional world of Jurassic had things changed forever, but movies had changed forever. The beauty, the reality, the majesty, all brought tears to my eyes. It’s a franchise that always entertains, and suddenly, I’m a ten-year-old again waiting eagerly for the next installment.
Well said, my friend!