This June 9 closes a cycle with the premiere of ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’one of the most anticipated blockbusters of the year that puts end to the ‘Jurassic World’ trilogy and that it is, furthermore, the last chapter of the story that Steven Spielberg began to write in 1993. And he does so by closing the circle by bringing together Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, the protagonists of the new era of the franchise, with Laura Dern , Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill, the stars of the first trilogy.
the saga ‘Jurassic Park’ revolutionized the cinema of the 90sbringing Spielberg’s glory into this decade after being one of the most important filmmakers of the ’80s with all three ‘Indiana Jones’ movies, as well as movies like ‘ET, the Extra Terrestrial,’ ‘The Color Purple,’ and ‘The Empire of the Sun’.
Released the same year as another essential title by the filmmaker, ‘Schindler’s List’, ‘Jurassic Park’ got three Oscar Awards, (best sound montage, best sound mix and best visual effects), which were a recognition of its power as a blockbuster and prestigious film. After her, two more films emerged and another trilogy of tapes that resurrected the Jurassic universe for today’s audience.
Turned into a franchise has exceeded 5,124 million dollars in collection worldwide (a figure that will probably rise to 6,000 million with ‘Dominion’); it’s time to make a I review all the titles of the saga and in what order to see them.
1.- ‘Jurassic Park’ (1993)
Based on the nnovel by Michael Crichton, published in 1990, Steven Spielberg directed this first installment, which is also chronologically. It was highest grossing movie of all time (not counting inflation) until the premiere of ‘Titanic’, ‘Jurassic Park’.
It was also the one laid the foundation for the entire franchise, introducing John Hammond (Richard Attenborough), a billionaire and president of InGen, who recruits a group of scientists and experts in genetic engineering to resurrect the dinosaurs, which would become the attractions of a kind of Jurassic safari. It was here that the three most important characters in the franchise were introduced: archaeologists Alan Grant (Sam Neill) and Elliott Sattler (Laura Dern) and mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum).
2.- ‘The Lost World’ (1997)
Such was the success of ‘Jurassic Park’ that Michael Crichton wrote a second novel, published in 1995, and two years later he had his film adaptation. Spielberg returned to the forefront and has Jeff Goldblum’s Ian Malcolm as the protagonist, who agrees to go to the second Isla de Nublar, which was the one that Hammond used for the dinosaur breeding and that he had previously kept secret. With the leadership of the InGen company out of his control, the trip will be an attempt to create a new Jurassic Park in San Diego.
3.- ‘Jurassic Park III’ (2001)
Third installment of the franchise, already without Spielberg in the director’s chair. This third part continues after what happened in the first two installments and features Sam Neill’s Dr. Alan Grant, who agrees to take a tour of the islands with a billionaire couple (William H. Macy and Téa Leoni). What Grant doesn’t know is that the couple’s goal is to land on the island to find your son (Trevor Morgan).
4.- ‘Jurassic World’ (2015)
14 years after the premiere of ‘Jurassic Park III’, the saga returned to theaters with ‘Jurassic World’. With Colin Trevorrow in the lead, the film also takes place 14 years after what happened in the third installment of the first trilogy. In this film it is revealed that Simon Masrani, CEO of Masrani Global Corporation, bought InGen in 1997 to create his own theme parkwhich has been in operation 10 years before the events of the film, in which its collapse will be shown due to the creation of a modified dinosaur, the Indominus Rex.
5.- ‘Jurassic World: Cretaceous Camp’ (2020 – present)
Only title on the list to be a TV series is also andl only one to be animated and also the only one to break the chronology of the franchise, whose films are temporarily set in their respective years of release.
This fiction released on Netflix narrates how a teenager named Darius wins a contest that allows him to visit Jurassic World, with the bad luck that he goes just on the day of the collapse. The fiction, which has two seasons and a third more in production, shows a group of teenagers, all winners of the contest, looking for a way to get out of the park alive.
6.- ‘Jurassic World: The Fallen Kingdom’ (2018)
Directed by the Spanish JA Bayona, it is set four years after the collapse of ‘Jurassic World’, with the dinosaurs being the masters and lords of Isla Nublar, with Claire Dearing (Bryce Dallas Howard), once in charge of park operations, turned in activist of the rights of the dinos, because these are again threatened, because the volcano on the island is about to erupt. Eventually, the dinosaurs are released off the reef, causing them to roam the rest of the world.
7.- ‘Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock’ (2019)
Only short film of the saga (with Colin Trevorrow again as director), which narrates what has happened a year later since the dinosaurs began to roam freely throughout planet Earth. In its eight minutes, the film shows the consequences of the disaster in people’s daily lives, as a family goes camping and watches in horror as an allosaurus bursts in and decides that it wants to turn the parents and children of the clan into its Dinner.
8.- ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ (2022)
The final chapter of the ‘Jurassic World’ trilogy, again with Trevorrow behind the scenes and the only film that will bring together the protagonists of both sagas: Well, it has Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum and Laura Dern, as well as Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt. Little is known about the plot, but what the trailers have shown is that the dinosaurs seem to have become the new owners of the world.