Jurassic World Rebirth Confirms The Biggest Problem With Dominion 3 Years After The Chris Pratt Trilogy Ended

Gareth Edwards' Jurassic World Rebirth will move the sci-fi franchise in a new direction after the disappointing conclusion of the preceding trilogy, and the way it's hitting the reset button confirms a major problem with how Jurassic World Dominion ended. After the original Jurassic World breathed new life into the island park loaded with genetically-modified cloned dinosaurs, the franchise meandered its way into integrating dinosaurs into the world away from the islands that the Jurassic Park movies were set on. The final result was the loose suggestion that dinosaurs would be integrated into the global ecosystem.

Jurassic World Rebirth is set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, and follows a new cast of characters without the franchise's former star Chris Pratt. The Jurassic World Rebirth trailer revealed that the new cast find themselves on a mysterious third island near the original Jurassic Park, seeking to extract DNA from the largest dinosaurs left on Earth. While the Jurassic World trilogy made the world of Jurassic Park bigger, it appears the new movie will do the opposite, and in the process it's confirming a major problem with how Jurassic World Dominion ended.

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Jurassic World Rebirth Is All But Ignoring How Jurassic World Dominion Ended

There Is No Official Retcon, But It's Not Being Acknowledged Either

T-Rex at the theatre in Jurassic World: Dominion — T-Rex at the theater in Jurassic World: Dominion

Jurassic World Dominion ended with dinosaurs coexisting with humans in the world, formally centralized on a dinosaur sanctuary, but with nothing preventing them from intermingling with the rest of the global ecosystem. The movie implies that dinosaurs will gradually become a common element in the world, like any other rare animal, but very much encountering humans on a regular basis. Jurassic World Rebirth is undoing that angle by jumping forward five years to a world in which dinosaurs have been unable to survive anywhere except a few equatorial climates that accommodate their bodies.

Ignoring Jurassic World Dominion's ending is a clever way to take the franchise back to its roots, in which a few humans encounter dinosaurs in an isolated environment.

While there is no official retcon of the ending of Jurassic World Dominion, the fact that dinosaurs have been quarantined by nature into environments where they don't often run into human beings accomplishes the same thing. It's a clever way to take the franchise back to its roots, in which a few humans encounter dinosaurs in an isolated environment. The dinosaurs in Jurassic World Rebirth may be different, but the original concept of the franchise will be restored.

Jurassic World Dominion’s Ending Didn’t Work And Put The Franchise In Check

The Core Concept Of The Franchise Was Essentially Nullified

Black Market catchers stop Owen for his Parasaurolophus in Jurassic World Dominion

One of the biggest problems with the ending of Jurassic World Dominion is that it essentially ended the franchise. With dinosaurs integrated into the ecosystem, it becomes extremely difficult to continue the narrative as it has existed since the beginning of the franchise. The entire point of the Jurassic Park series is about the consequences of tampering with nature, and each subsequent movie is driven by the characters' desire not tounleash dinosaurs upon the world, knowing how dangerous they are. With dinosaurs fully integrated into the world, the story is complete.

Jurassic Park Franchise - Key Details
Movie	Release Date	Budget	Box Office	RT Tomatometer Score	RT Popcornmeter Score
Jurassic Park	1993	$63 million	$1.058 billion	91%	91%
Jurassic Park: The Lost World	1997	$73 million	$618.6 million	53%	52%
Jurassic Park III	2001	$93 million	$368.8 million	49%	37%
Jurassic World	2015	$150-$215 million	$1.671 billion	72%	78%
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom	2018	$432 million	$1.31 billion	47%	48%
Jurassic World Dominion	2022	$265 million	$1.004 billion	29%	77%

That's the logic behind the title of Jurassic World Rebirth, and its status as a reboot of the franchise. While it will sort of be retconning past canon of the franchise by revealing a third island where research took place (originally the research and cloning took place right on Isla Nublar), the sequel is doing what's best for the longevity of the franchise. Knowing how much money each movie has brought in regardless of reviews or ratings, it was inevitable that the franchise's keepers would find a way to keep it going.

Dinosaurs Joining Our Ecosystem Is A Concept Jurassic Park Should Revisit Eventually

There Is An Interesting Story To Be Told With The Right Amount Of Attention

Although Jurassic World Rebirth will return the franchise to its island setting full of isolated dinosaurs, there is plenty of potential for storytelling in a world where humans and dinosaurs coexist. Jurassic World Dominion has already provided a glimpse of what that could look like with illegal dinosaur breeding, but there are many more stories to be fleshed out regarding the impact that wild dinosaurs would have on the environment, the global economy, and even politics. Jurassic World Rebirth's pharmaceutical-driven plotline inches towards that, but leaves plenty of meat on the bone for future installments.

The catch in pulling that off is to provide enough distance between Jurassic World Dominion and a new story. Dominion still managed to rake in $1 billion, but in the process registered an abysmal Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer score of 29%. A new exploration of dinosaurs and humans coexisting would be something that comes much farther down the road than in Jurassic World Rebirth or its sequels, or perhaps even in some sort of spin-off franchise.

Source: Rotten Tomatoes