8. What happened to the prologue?
You may remember that back in 2021, a 5-minute prologue was released for Jurassic World Dominion, first in theaters with F9 and then online. You can watch it above! It primarily takes place in the time of the dinosaurs and traced one of the mosquitos John Hammond’s team ended up using for DNA in Jurassic Park. It was a gorgeous sequence that seemed to be setting up a movie that really could have brought everything together.
Now, none of that is in the movie. The reason, according to director Colin Trevorrow, was that the movie was running too long and it had to be cut. Which sort of makes sense as it’s not really related to the movie we ultimately got. But our feeling is also it didn’t mesh with the reality of the movie, and cutting it doesn’t set up unattainable expectations.
