50 Fun Facts About Jurassic World Dominion

Which 2025 film, led by Scarlett Johansson, followed Jurassic World Dominion in the series?

Jurassic World Rebirth, directed by Gareth Edwards, dropped every Dominion character because its writer felt both trilogies had finished their stories.

Which Jurassic Park star rejoined Sam Neill and Laura Dern in Dominion, the trio's first film together since 1993?

Jeff Goldblum's Ian Malcolm had only a cameo in Fallen Kingdom; in Dominion he asks Ellie Sattler to help expose his own employer, a plot built around Dern's character.

In Jurassic World Dominion, which mountain range hides Maisie's cabin?

The Sierra Nevada cabin hides Maisie from people hunting her for her unusual DNA; the snowy mountain home was really built in Winterfold Forest in Surrey, England.

Jurassic World Dominion's villain Lewis Dodgson first appeared briefly in which earlier film?

Jurassic Park (1993) gave Dodgson one brief scene, bribing a park programmer to steal embryos; his company Biosyn came from Crichton's novels but was never named in the films until Dominion.

In Jurassic World Dominion, where is Biosyn's dinosaur sanctuary located?

Italy's Dolomites surround Biosyn's valley, but the cast never went there: helicopters scanned the peaks and the effects team rebuilt them digitally around studio sets.

In Jurassic World Dominion, what does Maisie name the baby raptor Blue brings to the cabin?

Beta hatched without a father, since Blue reproduced on her own; that rare trait is why Biosyn has the baby raptor kidnapped.

In Jurassic World Dominion, what are giant engineered locusts devouring when Ellie Sattler starts investigating?

US crops are stripped bare, except fields grown from Biosyn seed, which the swarms leave alone; that pattern points Ellie Sattler to the company that bred them.

Which new raptors, trained to kill whatever a laser marks, chase Owen's motorbike through Malta in Jurassic World Dominion?

Atrociraptor packs are trained by smuggler Soyona Santos to hunt any target she paints with a laser; Trevorrow called them more brutal than the series' Velociraptors.

What do Owen and Claire infiltrate in Malta while searching for Maisie in Jurassic World Dominion?

A dinosaur black market came from a list of ideas the lead actress kept during the earlier films; Trevorrow wanted it to feel like 'a hive of scum and villainy'.

Which former raptor trainer from Jurassic World returns in Dominion leading an intelligence raid in Malta?

Barry Sembène, Owen's fellow trainer played by Omar Sy, now works for French Intelligence; Jake Johnson's Lowery was due back as well, but travel restrictions kept him from reaching the set.

Who plays cargo pilot Kayla Watts, who flies Owen and Claire to Biosyn in Jurassic World Dominion?

DeWanda Wise never auditioned: Trevorrow offered her the part after seeing her in the series She's Gotta Have It.

Which flying reptile attacks Kayla's plane over Biosyn in Jurassic World Dominion?

Quetzalcoatlus rips into the plane, so Claire ejects into the forest while Owen and Kayla crash-land on the ice below.

Which dinosaur dives under the ice of a frozen lake to hunt Owen and Kayla in Jurassic World Dominion?

Pyroraptor swims beneath the ice to cut them off; Trevorrow said it took the longest of any dinosaur to develop, because his team had no baseline for how its coat would react to ice water.

How does Jurassic World Dominion explain Maisie Lockwood's origin?

Charlotte cloned herself using her own DNA, then rewrote the baby's genes so Maisie would not inherit the disease that killed her; Biosyn wants to copy that fix to stop the locusts.

Lewis Dodgson's death in a stalled hyperloop pod in Jurassic World Dominion mirrors the fate of which Jurassic Park character?

Dennis Nedry was also fleeing with stolen embryos when his vehicle got stuck and a frilled, venom-spitting dinosaur closed in.

Which dinosaur in Jurassic World Dominion did its director liken to the Joker, wanting 'to watch the world burn'?

Giganotosaurus was held back for the trilogy's last film so it could challenge the T. rex; Trevorrow said he 'wanted something that felt like the Joker'.

Which dinosaur helps the T. rex win the final fight in Jurassic World Dominion?

Therizinosaurus, a plant-eater, delivers the killing blow: the T. rex shoves its rival onto the giant claws that had earlier stalked Claire in the swamp.

Which actor plays Biosyn's villainous boss Lewis Dodgson in Jurassic World Dominion?

Campbell Scott replaced Cameron Thor, who was dropped after a criminal conviction; Trevorrow wanted the scheming rival from Crichton's novels back as his chief villain.

Who plays Ramsay Cole, the Biosyn insider secretly working against his boss in Jurassic World Dominion?

Mamoudou Athie got the part as a straight offer, with no audition; his character ends up abandoning Dodgson and testifying against Biosyn.

Jurassic World Dominion was shot under which working title, a name borrowed from Fallen Kingdom?

Arcadia was the cargo ship that carried the rescued dinosaurs from Isla Nublar to the US mainland, where their escape set up Dominion's world.

Where did Jurassic World Dominion begin principal photography in 2020?

British Columbia, Canada hosted the snowy first days of shooting in late February 2020; filming then moved to England, where the pandemic halted it within weeks.

How did Universal protect Jurassic World Dominion's cast when filming resumed in July 2020?

Rented a whole hotel as a bubble: Trevorrow called it a 'bananas idea', but knowing everyone would be safe together is what persuaded the cautious cast to return.

After its pandemic shutdown, Jurassic World Dominion resumed filming at which English studio?

Pinewood Studios hosted one of the first major studio shoots to restart, under a strict safety manual, and its rules became a model for other productions getting back to work.

Which actress plays former park manager Claire Dearing in all three Jurassic World films, including Dominion?

Bryce Dallas Howard kept a running list of ideas during the earlier films, and her wish to see Blue have a baby made it into Dominion's script.

Which Robert De Niro thriller's car chase inspired the Malta rooftop and motorbike chase in Jurassic World Dominion?

Ronin's chase through tight alleys was Trevorrow's model; the effects supervisor said the second unit's fast, shaky style 'goes against everything you're trying to do in visual effects'.

Which Jurassic World Dominion set really burned down?

The locust lab was due to burn digitally until the special-effects supervisor offered to torch the finished set for real, with eight or nine locked-off cameras rolling.

Biosyn's sleek headquarters in Jurassic World Dominion was partly filmed at which British university?

The University of Oxford appears through Wolfson College, where a Biosyn lecture scene was filmed in the college's real Leonard Wolfson Auditorium.

Which actor plays raptor trainer Owen Grady in all three Jurassic World films, including Dominion?

Chris Pratt shot Owen's motorbike escape in a blue-screen studio, riding a bike fixed to a giant treadmill while stunt doubles rode the real streets.

Which returning dinosaur was the only one in Jurassic World Dominion made entirely without CGI?

Dilophosaurus was built purely as an animatronic, with no digital model at all; Trevorrow said that if he had made a digital one, even he would have had a problem with it.

Which animal older than the dinosaurs made its Jurassic film debut in Jurassic World Dominion?

Dimetrodon attacks Alan, Ellie and Maisie in a cave beneath Biosyn; despite its reptile looks, it sits on the evolutionary line leading to mammals, not dinosaurs.

Jurassic World Dominion is the first film in its series to show what kind of dinosaurs?

Feathered ones arrive because Biosyn's newer methods drop the frog DNA that earlier films used to explain their scaly look; before this, only a few quills on Jurassic Park III's raptors came close.

Jurassic World Dominion has no hybrid dinosaurs, unlike the first Jurassic World, whose villain was which lab-made creature?

Indominus rex and Fallen Kingdom's Indoraptor were the earlier hybrids; Trevorrow left them out of Dominion because the idea 'had narratively run its course after the second film'.

Which scientist ends the locust plague in Jurassic World Dominion?

Henry Wu built the locusts for Biosyn, then redeems himself by releasing one that carries a pathogen modelled on Maisie's DNA, which spreads and wipes out the swarms.

Jurassic World Dominion holds which record among the six Jurassic movies through 2022?

Longest film in the series at nearly two and a half hours, even after about 14 minutes were cut for cinemas; the trimmed footage returned in an extended edition.

In Jurassic World Dominion's Cretaceous prologue, what lands on a freshly killed T. rex?

A mosquito drinks the dead T. rex's blood, the series' own origin story: DNA from amber-trapped mosquitoes is how its scientists rebuild dinosaurs.

John Williams wrote the Jurassic Park theme, but who scored Jurassic World Dominion and its two predecessors?

Michael Giacchino recorded the score with an orchestra at Abbey Road, again weaving Williams's original themes into his own music.

Which snowboarder joined Mikaela Shiffrin and Nathan Chen in ads pairing Jurassic World Dominion with the 2022 Winter Olympics?

Shaun White and Chen each fronted an ad of their own; in Shiffrin's, a Velociraptor runs alongside her on the slopes until a T. rex startles them both.

Which 1990s virtual-pet brand released a Jurassic World Dominion edition among the film's tie-in toys?

Tamagotchi's Jurassic edition had owners hatch a baby dinosaur, feed it and clean up after it; Lego, Mattel and Jeep were among the film's other partners.

Which shaving-cream brand from Jurassic Park's embryo theft released dinosaur cans for Jurassic World Dominion?

Barbasol's can was a disguised cooler for stolen embryos in 1993, and the same can returns in Dominion, 29 years on.

Which 2022 film outgrossed Jurassic World Dominion worldwide?

Top Gun: Maverick out-earned it, as did Avatar: The Way of Water, yet Dominion still passed $1 billion worldwide despite generally unfavourable reviews.

At the end of Jurassic World Dominion, which body declares Biosyn's valley a protected dinosaur sanctuary?

The United Nations protects the valley once Biosyn falls, after Ellie Sattler, Alan Grant and a company whistleblower testify against it.

Which country was Jurassic World Dominion's biggest market outside North America?

China delivered about $158 million, more than three times any other overseas market, an edge that other billion-dollar hits of the pandemic years had to do without.

Which Star Wars film was Jurassic World Dominion's director set to make before leaving the project in 2017?

Episode IX went to J.J. Abrams, who made it as The Rise of Skywalker; Trevorrow called his time on it 'a practice run' at bringing a beloved series to a satisfying conclusion.

Which line from the first Jurassic World did Trevorrow set out to disprove by the end of the trilogy?

Claire says it in 2015; the whole point of Dominion's world was to make dinosaurs astonishing again.

Jurassic World Dominion's opening Mosasaurus attack on a fishing boat reuses real footage from which reality TV show?

Deadliest Catch supplied the boat shots: with travel shut down, an editor combed 16 seasons for footage that fitted the storyboards, and the Mosasaurus was added digitally.

Which service became Jurassic World Dominion's first US streaming home in September 2022?

Peacock is Universal's own service, so it streamed both the cinema cut and Trevorrow's preferred extended version from September 2.

Who shares the screenplay credit for Jurassic World Dominion with Colin Trevorrow?

Emily Carmichael and Trevorrow agreed the plot should be driven by Ellie Sattler; his usual writing partner Derek Connolly shares only the story credit.

In which Latin American country did Jurassic World Dominion hold its world premiere in May 2022?

Mexico City hosted the premiere on May 23, and Mexico and South Korea got the film on June 1, nine days before the US, where the pandemic had delayed it by a year.

Which effects house, the series' digital dinosaur maker since 1993, created the computer-generated creatures of Jurassic World Dominion?

Industrial Light & Magic matched its models so closely to the film's animatronics that puppets could be given digital limbs and tails in the same shot, which Trevorrow said had not been possible before.

Alan Grant dug for fossils in Montana in Jurassic Park; in which state does Ellie find him digging in Jurassic World Dominion?

Utah is where Ellie tracks him down, tells him she is now divorced and asks for his help with the locusts.