‘Jurassic World 3’ Won’t Feature Hybrid Dinosaurs
Good news for people who hate hybrid dinosaurs:Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomwill apparently be the last entry in the franchise to feature hybrid dinos. DirectorColin TrevorrowsaysJurassic World 3will be hybrid dinosaur free.
Are you sick of all the super-charged hybrid dinosaurs in theJurassic Worldfranchise?Jurassic Worldhad the Indominus rex, and the upcomingJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomhas the Indoraptor. What happened to thegood old daysofrealdinosaurs, like the T-Rex? Well, if you’re craving more old school dino action for futureJurassic Worldfilms, you’re in luck. Colin Trevorrow, who helmedJurassic Worldand will return to directJurassic World 3, has confirmed that the third entry in theJurassic Worldfranchise will be free of hybrid dinosaurs.
Speaking with Total Film (viaBloody Disgusting), Trevorrow said ofJurassic World 3:
“I’m looking forward to, in the third film, getting a little back into the Paleontological, wild animal, true dinosaur nature of all of it.”
Trevorrow goes on to say that the Indoraptor will be the last hybrid dinosaur in theJurassic Worldtrilogy. Here’s where I put on some big-ass nerd glasses and interject that technically,allof the dinosaurs in theJurassicfranchise have been hybrids. As our old friend Mr. DNA taught us in the firstJurassic Park, theJurassicgeneticits needed to fill the missing DNA codes on the dinosaurs with other animals, so they used frog DNA. So technically speaking, all the dinosaurs are actually frog-dinosaur hybrids.
That said, what Trevorrow is saying here is thatJurassic World 3is going to rely less on made-up dinosaurs and more on the type of real-world dinos everyone has come to love. This seems to tie into a back-to-basics approach Trevorrow and co-writerEmily Carmichaelseem to be taking to the film. In a previous interview, TrevorrowsaidJurassic World 3would be a “science thriller” akin to the firstJurassic Park:
“If I could contextualize each film, I would sayJurassic Worldwas an action adventure,Fallen Kingdomis kind of a horror suspense film, andJurassic World 3will be a science thriller in the same way thatJurassic Parkwas.”
Beyond that, we know thatJurassic World 3will close-out a trilogy that Trevorrow pitched before he madeJurassic World. As the filmmaker himself said:
“I knew where I wanted it to go. I remember telling Steven [Spielberg] even while we were making the first movie, ‘This is the beginning. Here is the middle. And here’s the end of the end. This is where we want to go.’ I feel like that kind of design is crucial to a franchise like this if you really want to bring people along with you and make sure they stay interested. It needs to be thought through on that level. It can’t be arbitrary, especially if we want to turn this into a character-based franchise with people who you lean in to follow what they’re going to do.”
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomopens onJune 22, 2018.Jurassic World 3will hit theaters onJune 11, 2021.
