Universal Pictures released a five-minute prologue Tuesday morning to introduce Jurassic World: Dominion, the newest entry into the Jurassic Park franchise that first started with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film.
The prologue doesn’t provide any new information for those familiar with the previous films. It starts with a CGI-constructed landscape dominated by CGI dinosaurs big and small. A brief fight breaks out between two tyrannosauruses and the mosquito that started it all swoops in to feast on the corpse of the loser. Flash forward 65 million years and we see a helicopter filled with soldiers chasing a tyrannosaurus through a populated area. That’s where the prologue leaves us.
Dominion marks the sixth film in the Jurassic Park franchise. It is directed by Colin Trevorrow, co-written by Trevorrow and Emily Carmichael, and produced by Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley. Marshall has already declared that this will not be the final film in the franchise and will instead serve as the “start of a new era,” where humans will have to adapt to dinosaurs being on the mainland. Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard return with alumni Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum making appearances as well.
Dominion is scheduled to be released in theaters on June 10, 2022.
