49 Fun Facts About Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Which actor returns in Fallen Kingdom as geneticist Dr. Henry Wu, a role he first played in Jurassic Park?

BD Wong. He plays Wu as a man driven by love of science and his own ego, who turns a blind eye to the human suffering because he thinks he sees a bigger picture.

Fallen Kingdom is which numbered film in the overall Jurassic Park franchise?

Fifth. It follows three Jurassic Park films and 2015's Jurassic World, and its ending, with the surviving dinosaurs loose on the mainland, takes the series off its islands.

Which creature devours the mercenaries' submersible in Fallen Kingdom's opening sequence?

The Mosasaurus. It then slips out through the lagoon's open sea gate, which is why the film ends with it loose in the ocean, rising inside a wave behind a line of surfers.

What are the mercenaries sent to collect in Fallen Kingdom's opening scene?

DNA from the Indominus rex's remains. A submersible cuts a bone from the skeleton on the lagoon floor, and the survivors of the raid get the sample away by helicopter.

Who plays Owen Grady in Fallen Kingdom?

Chris Pratt. The video diaries of Owen raising his baby raptors barely existed in the script, so nearly every line Pratt speaks in them was improvised on set.

In Fallen Kingdom, what does Dr. Ian Malcolm tell the Senate committee should happen to the dinosaurs?

Let them die naturally. Malcolm calls the volcano nature's correction of a human mistake, and about half of his testimony is taken straight from Michael Crichton's novel.

Which activist organisation has Claire Dearing founded by the start of Fallen Kingdom?

Dinosaur Protection Group. Universal gave the fictional charity a real website months before release, complete with blog posts, staff bios and a petition to Congress.

Who is Sir Benjamin Lockwood in Fallen Kingdom?

John Hammond's former partner. He is not in Crichton's novel, but its account of the early cloning years convinced Trevorrow that Hammond must have had a silent partner.

In Fallen Kingdom, what does the mercenaries' leader pull from each captured dinosaur as a trophy?

A tooth. The habit kills him: he steps into the Indoraptor's cage to take one, and the hybrid, only pretending to be sedated, bites off his arm.

Who plays paleo-veterinarian Zia Rodriguez in Fallen Kingdom?

Daniella Pineda. She filmed a scene in which Zia tells Owen she doesn't date men, an idea from Bayona and Trevorrow, but it was cut from the finished film.

Who plays Franklin Webb, the easily frightened systems analyst in Fallen Kingdom?

Justice Smith. To get genuine reactions, Bayona blasted a dinosaur roar over the loudspeaker in the middle of takes, and Smith says it scared the life out of him.

Which Jurassic World character was considered for a return in Fallen Kingdom but replaced by Franklin?

Lowery, the control-room tech. Jake Johnson pitched him back with a huge ponytail and sleeve tattoos, scarred by the park's fall, but Trevorrow found him too cynical for a story about young activists.

Who leads the mercenary team sent to Isla Nublar in Fallen Kingdom?

Ken Wheatley. Ted Levine set out to make him the most hateable character possible and kept bringing Bayona ideas to make him worse, including an unscripted insult aimed at Zia.

In Fallen Kingdom, whose blood is transfused into the wounded Blue aboard the ship?

The Tyrannosaurus's. Bayona invented the blood draw to give the long boat section an action scene, and the transfusion means Blue's blood is no longer the pure sample Dr. Wu needs.

Owen and Claire washing ashore in Fallen Kingdom restages a famous beach kiss from which classic film?

From Here to Eternity. Bayona shot on the very beach where Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr embraced in the surf in 1953 and copied the shot with Owen and Claire, minus the kiss.

In Fallen Kingdom, where are the captured dinosaurs really taken instead of a sanctuary island?

Lockwood's California estate. Its exterior is really Cragside, a National Trust house in Northumberland, England, photographed without a single actor present and blended with footage shot on a set.

Director Bayona modelled Fallen Kingdom's action-packed opening on the prologues of which film series?

James Bond. Bayona remembered Bond trailers always promising action underwater, on land and in the air, so he stretched a short prologue until it delivered all three.

Who plays Benjamin Lockwood's young granddaughter in Fallen Kingdom?

Isabella Sermon. She had never made a film: the producers say they interviewed about 2,500 girls and chose her for being smart as a whip and tenacious.

In Fallen Kingdom, how does Benjamin Lockwood's trusted aide kill him?

Smothers him with a pillow. Lockwood has just found out about the secret dinosaur auction and ordered the aide to turn himself in to the police.

In Fallen Kingdom, which dinosaur does Owen goad into smashing open his cell and wrecking the auction?

A Stygimoloch. Owen tricks the dome-headed youngster into ramming through the wall of the pen, then lures it into the sale room, where it scatters the bidders.

Who plays Mr. Eversoll, the auctioneer, in Fallen Kingdom?

Toby Jones. He chose the auctioneer's look himself, including a big yellow wig that flaps in the Indoraptor's roar, one of the film's jokes about Donald Trump.

Which story element in Fallen Kingdom came from Steven Spielberg?

Weaponised dinosaurs. Trevorrow calls the idea Spielberg's 'jam': in Jurassic World he kept it as a villain's pipe dream, and in this film Spielberg finally got his wish.

How does the Indoraptor die in Fallen Kingdom?

Impaled on a ceratopsid skull. It and Blue crash through a glass roof into Lockwood's fossil display together, and only Blue, landing on top of it, walks away.

In Fallen Kingdom, who opens the final door that releases the dinosaurs into the world?

Maisie. Claire cannot bring herself to press the button, but Maisie, who has just learned she is a clone, does it, saying the dinosaurs are alive, like her.

In Fallen Kingdom, which leaking gas threatens the caged dinosaurs and forces the choice to free them?

Hydrogen cyanide. With the ventilation down it creeps toward the cages, leaving the heroes to choose between watching the dinosaurs suffocate and letting them loose on the mainland.

Which Fallen Kingdom villain is eaten by Rexy while trying to flee at the end of the film?

Eli Mills. Trevorrow said every death in this film had to be 'earned', a lesson from the backlash over the assistant Zara's brutal end in Jurassic World.

Where is Fallen Kingdom's post-credits scene set?

The Paris Las Vegas resort. Escaped Pteranodons land on its replica Eiffel Tower in a scene that had been cut from the film and was then restored as a tag after the credits.

Fallen Kingdom's closing shot of Blue above a suburb pays homage to which Steven Spielberg film?

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. The homage is literal: Bayona filmed the scene above the very neighbourhood where Spielberg shot E.T.

Which two Bayona titles did Trevorrow mash up to describe Fallen Kingdom?

The Impossible meets The Orphanage. Spielberg wanted Bayona because of the first and Trevorrow because of the second, and Bayona was won over on hearing the second half would play like a haunted-house film.

Which sequel did Bayona choose over Fallen Kingdom in 2015, only to leave it months later?

World War Z 2. A holding deal tied him to the zombie sequel when Universal first came calling; he quit it three months later and was hired for the dinosaurs in April 2016.

Where did Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly work out Fallen Kingdom's story?

On a road trip to Vermont. Two weeks after Jurassic World opened, Trevorrow had to drive home from Los Angeles, asked Connolly to ride along, and they talked plot for eight days.

Which Spielberg film, with two stories that collide midway, did Trevorrow cite as the structural model for Fallen Kingdom?

Bridge of Spies. Trevorrow was fascinated by how its two unrelated stories 'collide in the middle, and move on together', and also borrowed the shifting loyalties of Three Days of the Condor.

Which English studio hosted most of Fallen Kingdom's shoot in the United Kingdom?

Pinewood Studios. Its huge sound stages suited a film full of interiors, and one of them held the tank where the sinking Gyrosphere rescue took five days to shoot.

Fallen Kingdom's crew dropped burning cat litter from the ceiling of a set to stand in for what?

Dripping lava. The litter, soaked in flammable liquid and released from 12 nozzles, showed the actors where to react and threw real firelight on them before ILM added the digital flow.

What did the crew build so Fallen Kingdom's actors could really plunge off a cliff in the Gyrosphere?

A roller coaster track. Bayona wanted real fear rather than green-screen acting, so the two actors were pushed down a drop about 40 feet tall, and the terror on their faces is genuine.

ILM animated the raptor Blue's head tilts and glances in Fallen Kingdom to resemble which animal?

A dog. ILM's supervisors wanted audiences to feel for Blue as they would for their own pet, so she cocks her head and looks up at you exactly as a dog does.

Which classic horror villain inspired the front teeth and long claws of Fallen Kingdom's Indoraptor?

Count Orlok from Nosferatu. Bayona brought the vampire to his effects team as a reference, and made the hybrid black so that in the dark you see only its eyes and teeth.

In Fallen Kingdom, which dinosaur's death in the eruption reuses the animation of its 1993 first appearance?

The Brachiosaurus. Bayona says it is the very animal Alan Grant first sees in Jurassic Park, and its farewell in the ash was the last shot finished, after an all-night push.

In Fallen Kingdom, Owen finds Blue beside which wrecked vehicle from the original Jurassic Park?

An overturned Ford Explorer tour car. Their reunion beside the 25-year-old wreck is cut short when the mercenaries dart Blue and, in the struggle, she is shot.

In a Fallen Kingdom news ticker, the U.S. president is reported to question what?

Whether dinosaurs ever existed. Trevorrow wrote the line as a dig at what he saw as a strong denial of science, one of several jokes in the film aimed at Donald Trump.

Who composed Fallen Kingdom's score, weaving in John Williams's original Jurassic Park themes?

Michael Giacchino. His first major score was for the 1997 video game of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, two decades before he scored the Jurassic World films themselves.

Where was Fallen Kingdom's world premiere held?

Madrid. The premiere, in director Bayona's home country, came a month before the US release, and much of the world got the film two weeks early, a week before the football World Cup kicked off.

Fallen Kingdom was 2018's third-biggest film worldwide, finishing just behind which superhero hit?

Black Panther. It finished about $40 million ahead, and Fallen Kingdom, for all its $1.31 billion, still fell some $360 million short of the first Jurassic World.

Fallen Kingdom opened in US cinemas one week after which Pixar sequel?

Incredibles 2. Rivals expected the Pixar film to keep families for a second week, but Universal said families drove Fallen Kingdom to an opening of about $150 million, above its forecasts.

Which Fallen Kingdom partner's Super Bowl ad, directed by Colin Trevorrow, starred Jeff Goldblum and a T. rex?

Jeep. The ad replays the 1993 chase with the tables turned, Goldblum driving a new Wrangler after the dinosaur, and its 39.7 million views in a day beat every film trailer from that Super Bowl.

Who plays Claire Dearing in Fallen Kingdom?

Bryce Dallas Howard. One scene had her ride on the back of a life-size animatronic dinosaur, one of five built so the cast had real creatures to act against.

Fallen Kingdom was the first film in the series shot in which widescreen format?

CinemaScope. Spielberg framed Jurassic Park at 1.85:1 and Trevorrow settled on 2.00:1 for Jurassic World; Bayona chose the wider 2.40:1 frame because he wanted this one bigger and more epic.

Which real location stood in for Isla Nublar in Fallen Kingdom?

Hawaii. After three months on British sound stages the cast and crew moved to the islands, where part of Jurassic World's Main Street was rebuilt as an overgrown ruin.

Which film followed Fallen Kingdom to complete the Jurassic World trilogy?

Jurassic World Dominion. Released in 2022, it is set four years on, with dinosaurs living alongside people around the world, the direct result of Fallen Kingdom's ending.