You can't keep a good dino down for long.
The Jurassic World movies were never very popular with critics (the original was the only one of the trilogy to escape a green splat on Rotten Tomatoes), but they went over a lot better with cinemagoers, and all three films were massively successful at the box office.
With this in mind, it probably won't come as much of a surprise to learn that a fourth Jurassic World movie is now in the works at Universal Studios.
THR reports that David Koepp, who penned Stephen Spielberg's original 1993 Jurassic Park and its sequel, 1997’s Jurassic Park: The Lost World, is currently working on the script, and despite word only reaching us now, the project is already said to be "deep in development."
If things continue without a hitch, the studio is said to be aiming or a 2025 release date.
Plot details are still under wraps, but the movie will reportedly launch a “new Jurassic era” with an all-new storyline, which would seem to indicate that Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, along with the original JW crew played by Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, will not be returning.
No director is attached, but Frank Marshall, the veteran producer who oversaw the Jurassic World trilogy, is back on board, as is Patrick Crowley. Spielberg will executive produce via his Amblin Entertainment banner.
It seems highly unlikely that Dominion director Colin Trevorrow will return, although he did reveal that he'd spoken to the studio about how the franchise could potentially continue during a 2022 interview.
"The previous five films are plots about dinosaurs. This one is a story about characters in a world in which they coexist with dinosaurs," said the filmmaker. "For the franchise to be able to move forward – because it’s inherently unfranchisable, there probably should have only been one Jurassic Park – but if we’re gonna do it, how can I allow them to tell stories in a world in which dinosaurs exist, as opposed to, here’s another reason why we’re going to an island?"
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"Four years after the destruction of Isla Nublar, dinosaurs now live and hunt alongside humans all over the world. This fragile balance will reshape the future and determine, once and for all, whether human beings are to remain the apex predators on a planet they now share with history's most fearsome creatures."