Things are really shaping up for “Jurassic
World: Dominion,” the upcoming third film of Universal Pictures’ “Jurassic World”
movies, to be a grand finale of sorts for both this “trilogy” and the greater “Jurassic
Park” cinematic franchise, of which this is the sixth installment. Not only is
Jeff Goldblum back but also Laura Dern from the original film and Sam Neill
from the first and third, completing the “Park” trilogy trio. And apparently
director Colin Trevorrow is not yet done with the continuity shout-outs. Since “Jurassic
Park” and the previous “Jurassic World” movies mostly take place on the same
(fictional) island, it was high time to bring “Site B” back.
And that was what Colin Trevorrow
did according to Screen Rant. The
director, returning for “Jurassic World: Dominion” after inaugurating the “World”
films in 2015, shared one photo on social media that has gotten franchise fans
abuzz with renewed speculation. Said image was taken on the set of “Dominion”
according to “Jurassic” news source Jurassic
Outpost, and depicts a multi-stacked cold storage metal container. Its side
has the logo of In-Gen, the genetics company that founded the original Jurassic
Park before being acquired by Masrani Corporation, founder of Jurassic World.
Trevorrow Teases a Return to Isla Sorna in New Set Picture from #JurassicWorld Dominion https://t.co/2pSbaerddO pic.twitter.com/wU6eYscpGP— Jurassic Outpost (@JurassicOutpost) August 7, 2020
But on the bottom part of the
container is the stark label of “Site B.” Franchise fans would know that Site B
stands for Isla Sorna, neighboring island to Isla Nublar where both Jurassic
Park and Jurassic World were built (and destroyed by volcanic eruption in 2017’s
“Fallen Kingdom”). Sorna was the primary setting of the first “Jurassic Park”
sequel, 1997’s “The Lost World,” where Jeff Goldblum’s character Ian Malcolm
took center stage. Film backstory has Sorna/Site B as the place where the
dinosaurs were cloned before being transferred to Nublar, and eventually the
other clone dinosaurs still there were set free after Sorna was declared a paleontological
nature preserve.
Some observers however noted
certain details of the photo shared by Colin Trevorrow that would indicate that
this set location at the very least is a flashback of Isla Sorna/Site B. One hint
is the logo of the long-defunct In-Gen company, and another being an old-style
wall-mounted phone in the background. Commenters now believe it is a flashback
to Site B’s active dinosaur-cloning period, before its facilities were shut
down and the specimens were released. That was the condition such labs were in
when seen in “Jurassic Park III” (2001).
All in all, revisiting the
cloning origins of the Jurassic Park/World dinosaurs seem appropriate given the
background of one of the new-era characters introduced in “Fallen Kingdom,” and
the natural surroundings of Sorna also reflect the status quo of co-existing
humanity and dinosaurs that is certainly the focal plot point of “Jurassic World:
Dominion, also starring Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, to be released by
Universal in June 2011.
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