The Current Discourse About "Jurassic World Rebirth"
There's something that has been bothering me ever since the title, plot synopsis, and first stills from the upcoming Jurassic World movie, Jurassic World Rebirth were released recently. Yes, they really are making another Jurassic movie after Jurassic World Dominion. Even though the marketing said that Dominion was going to be the last film in the Jurassic Era (yes, that's really what they referred to the franchise in the marketing), it was never going to be the last one. Especially since it made over $1.004 billion 💵 (that's billion with a b), and was the third highest grossing movie of 2022. They were never going to leave well enough alone, even though I was content with the series ending there.
Part of me still wishes that Dominion had been the final Jurassic movie since it does work perfectly as a finale. It brought almost all of the major characters back, it brought back Alan Grant, Ian Malcolm, and Ellie Sattler, it brought back the main villain of the series up till that point, Lewis Dodgson (though he was played by a different actor than he was in Jurassic Park since the original actor was a convicted sex offender 😬), it finally introduced BioSyn to the films after it had just been relegated to the books 📖 and ancillary media, it tied up nearly all of the loose ends from the Jurassic Park and Jurassic World movies, or at least, the ones that mattered, and it raised the stakes to global proportions.
In a lot of ways, Dominion was like the Resident Evil 6 of the Jurassic series, in that they're both the sixth entries in their respective series, they put nearly all of the classic characters into one movie or game in the case of Resident Evil 6, they both have global spanning plots, both introduce new elements to their respective series, and both are the most controversial entries in their respective series.
A lot of Jurassic fans hated Dominion just like a lot of Resident Evil fans hated Resident Evil 6. For many of the same reasons: they have "dumb plots," they deviate too much from the usual formula of their series, and they're too long. Resident Evil 6 had four campaigns varying wildly in length with Leon's campaign being the longest at about 4 or 5 hours, maybe even 6 hours, and Jurassic World Dominion's run time is 146 minutes (2 hours and 26 minutes), and it has an extended edition that extends the run time to 160 minutes (2 hours and 40 minutes). It is the longest film in the Jurassic series thus far. A lot of RE fans hated Resident Evil 6 because it was too action packed and "ridiculous," and wasn't survival horror, while Jurassic fans hated Dominion because it focused too much on the locusts, and not enough on the dinosaurs.
It's crazy how similar Jurassic World Dominion is to Resident Evil 6, both in terms of the movie and game themselves, but in terms of the fan reactions to both. I didn't realize it until I started thinking about the Resident Evil series again thanks to watching videos on the games, and on the movies but mostly the games. I've mainly been watching the YouTuber, GmanLives, an Australian video game review channel 🇦🇺 who takes a much more sarcastic and meme approach to reviewing games. He tries to be funny is what I'm saying.
He focuses mainly on first-person shooters, but he does occasionally cover third-person shooters (which I actually kind of prefer to first-person shooters), open world games like Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row (though he's only reviewed the 2022 reboot, and none of the original Saints Row games) and survival horror, which is where Resident Evil came in. His Resident Evil videos are great, even if I don't agree with all of them. Like, I don't agree at all with his Resident Evil 6 review, but I was still pretty entertained by it 😄. He's more of a gaming channel that you go to do for entertainment and for laughs 😄 than for serious analysis or hard-hitting criticisms, even if his criticism towards certain games can be pretty harsh like towards Saints Row (2022), Wet, Haze, Agony, Succubus, Far Cry Vengeance, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, The Walking Dead: Destinies, Crime Boss: Rockay City, Dead to Rights II, and of course, Resident Evil 6.
I've also been watching a YouTube channel called Kendo Gun Shop, a unique channel that talks about the various firearms that appear in the Resident Evil games, both the ones that made it to the final retail versions, and also the ones that were rejected and whose files can be still found in the final games. The channel is named after the in-universe gun shop that the STARS team got their custom sidearms from, the Samurai Edges, as well as where Leon apparently got his custom sidearm in Resident Evil 4 (both the original and the remake), the Silver Ghost, and even the creator and host of the channel has Kendo in his name.
His full name is Joseph Kendo. I don't know if that's his actual name, or it's an alias the creator adopted to make it seem like he's related to the the character, Robert Kendo that owns the Kendo Gun Shop in Raccoon City 🦝. Or owned since Robert Kendo died in Resident Evil 2 and the Kendo Gun Shop was destroyed along with the rest of Raccoon City 🦝.
If that is his real name, that's a pretty fun coincidence. It's like he was destined to become a Resident Evil fan and talk about Resident Evil guns. It's kind of like how my name is Jediah, and it can be shortened to Jedi. It's like I was set to be a Star Wars fan, which I am though I'm not as much as my dad is. Speaking of my dad, he's the one who decided to name me, Jediah because he's a huge Star Wars fan and he wanted a name that could be like Jedi.
I wish I could play the Resident Evil 4 remake, but I can't since I don't have a PS5, and they didn't port the game to Nintendo Switch as far as I know. So, if I ever want to play Resident Evil 4 (2023), I'll have to wait until I can get my hands on a PS5. I don't know when, but sometime in the future when I have the money 💵. I don't even know where to put it, but I'd find a place for it. But, even though I've never played the Resident Evil 4 remake, I'm still hoping Capcom does remakes for Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6, because those are two banger games that deserve more love than they get. And it's about time they get a refresh just like Resident Evil 4 did.
I'm especially curious how they'll pull off the African setting that Resident Evil 5 has, specifically West Africa since Sheva is part of the BSAA West Africa Branch and it's the West Africa Branch that helps her and Chris out on their mission, and the "daytime horror" that they talked about with that game when it initially came out. Even though of course, the Majini speak Swahili, and Swahili is an East African language rather than a West African one. But, maybe they could sort that out in the remake by using a language more appropriate for the region. I'm also wondering if they'll work in any of the rejected concepts or rejected content such as Chris being solo for most of the game, and only having Sheva be more of a supporting character who appears more occasionally, Tyrants, and even Excella's old design.
I suspect that they'll keep it pretty close to the original with some tweaks here and there (some minor, some major) just like the Resident Evil remake did. Meaning that it will still be a co-op game with Sheva being your partner throughout the entire game, and Excella will probably look more or less how she looked in the original, though updated with modern graphics, and using the likeness of a real person just like what was done with Ada, Claire, Jill, and Ashley.
Same goes for Sheva too, she’ll probably look more or less the same as she did in the original, except updated with modern graphics and her character model will probably use the likeness of a real woman ♀︎. Maybe even multiple women ♀︎ since the Remake version of Ashley used the likeness of two women ♀︎, one for the face and one for the body.
Some enemies and bosses might excluded or swapped out with other ones, or even combined because the Resident Evil 4 remake did combine bosses a few times like with the second Verdugo, Pesanta and U-3, and the Regenerator and Iron Maiden. Maybe they're even add new enemies and bosses since the Resident Evil 4 remake added some entirely new enemies to both the main campaign and the sub campaign, Separate Ways (which was an unlockable side mode that came included with the base game of the original 2005 version at the initial release, and was an optional DLC add-on that could be purchased with real money 💵 after the fact for the 2023 remake), with some of the new enemies introduced being exclusive to Separate Ways. But it won't be as radically different from the original as the remake to Resident Evil 2 was to its original game for example. It'll be much more closer to the Resident Evil 4 approach rather than the Resident Evil 2 approach.
I'm also curious if they do make a remake to Resident Evil 6 how much of the action-packed and over-the-top tone and gameplay will they maintain in the remake, and how of the much the globe spanning plot will they keep? Will they still have it be a globe trotting adventure that spans months like the original? Or will they scale it down to just one or two locations and have it only take place over the course of a few days or whatever. Those are actual things that have been suggested by a Resident Evil YouTuber who goes by the name, Nerd Space Games. You can watch his video to see what I'm talking about, though I don't agree with most of what he said in that video just to be clear.
Anyway, back to what I was saying about Jurassic World Rebirth. It's not that they're making another Jurassic movie after Dominion that bothers me, even if I did wish it had remained the finale that it was marketed as, no, what bothers me is the current discourse surrounding the movie. I've been watching a couple of videos by the YouTuber, Klayton Fioriti talking about the recent reveals that have been put out by Universal about Rebirth. For those that don't know, Klayton Fioriti is a YouTuber in the Jurassic fan community.
He is by far the biggest Jurassic channel within the fandom, with over 360,000 subscribers, which may not seem like a lot, but for a small, somewhat niche fan community like the Jurassic one, it's a lot. He is usually the one that Jurassic fans go to for any information about the Jurassic franchise, both in-universe stuff, and real world stuff involving the author behind the original novels, Michael Crichton, and the various filmmakers involved in making the films, such as Steven Spielberg, Joe Johnston, Colin Trevorrow, J.A. Bayona, and now most recently, Gareth Edwards.
He's even talked about some of the writers who have worked on the Jurassic series over the years, namely David Koepp, who is writing Rebirth while Gareth Edwards directs it. He also runs a secondary channel called Dragoncurve, where he talks about other things that aren't Jurassic Park or Jurassic World related. Like, he's done a lot of Godzilla videos on the Dragoncurve channel for example, including videos on Godzilla Minus One, before it became the global phenomenon that it did.
In both of his most recent videos talking about Rebirth, he focused mainly about the plot synopsis, though he did speculate about the two film stills that were released along with the synopsis that feature the three main actors, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali. Yes, this movie is going to star two Marvel actors, and is going to be directed by a MonsterVerse director. Though, I should say, one of those actors is a Marvel hopeful since the Blade movie that Mahershala Ali was supposed to star in as the eponymous daywalking vampire hunter 🧛♂️🧛♀️ has been stuck in development hell for five years now since it was announced back in 2019.
It has no script, no writer, no director, and its release date keeps getting changed. It's not looking too good for the MCU Blade movie 😬. In fact, it's not looking too good for the MCU as a whole since they now had to bring back Robert Downey Jr. to play Doctor Doom in the upcoming Avengers movie, Avengers: Doomsday, after Kang and the multiverse stuff crashed and burned due to the underperformance and negative reception of Ant-Man & The Wasp: Quantumania 🐜, the mixed-to-negative reception of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and the mixed-to-negative reception to and poor box office performance of a lot of their other post-Endgame movies.
As well as the greater backlash to a lot of other multiverse storylines in movies recently. And also because Jonathan Majors, the actors who played Kang and all of his variants, being fired after being accused of domestic violence, which he has sort of be cleared of. He was never charged as far as I know, and TMZ (that awful company 👎) leaked a video that apparently exonerated him of the accusations since his girlfriend was the real one who started the altercation and then blamed him for it, or something. I'm not really sure what to believe with this one honestly.
But, them firing him drastically altered the trajectory that the MCU was going in. Now, they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel and bring one of their old actors, who was kind of done with this shit after Endgame, but agreed to come back since he's got nothing else better to do. No offense to RDJ, but his career kind of peaked with Oppenheimer and winning that Oscar for his performance in that movie.
He's got nothing else to do, and is left directionless, not sure where to even take his career after that. So, he's going back to the comfort and consistency of Marvel, where he knows he'll have adoring fans that love anything and everything does as long as it's within the MCU. Even if that means playing a completely different character when he's already played a major character within that universe, pretty much breaking the last bit of consistency this universe had.
I know I said he's going back to the comfort and consistency of the MCU, but when I say that him playing Doctor Doom when he's already played Tony Stark breaks the last bit of consistency the MCU had, I mean that the consistency within the continuity and the consistency of the actors. Before this, actors who appeared in the MCU as one character had to stay as that character for every single appearance they ever made in order to make it feel like an actual cohesive universe. You can't have a singular shared universe that feels consistent if you have actors playing multiple roles, sometimes even in the same movie.
That was unless they got recast, but even when they got recast, the recasts still had to stay as those characters until they got recast themselves. Scott Lang's daughter, Casey Lang has been recast thrice, with three different actors portraying her across the films. But now, they're pretty much past the point of caring. They're willing to break continuity, and contradict things that came before, they're just desperately throwing anything at the wall to see what sticks at this point. They're getting sloppy, which is why the MCU doesn't feel as tight or as consistent as it used to be.
Though, I have seen people online try to speculate and make the RDJ casting make sense, by saying that the MCU version of Doctor Doom will be a Tony Stark variant, which would be a huge deviation from the comics. The MCU once prided itself on being more faithful to the comics than previous Marvel films, but now they're willing to go completely against the comics and do their own thing if they think it'll help tell the story they want to tell. But, people hated how the previous two Fantastic Four movies by Twentieth Century Fox altered the character of Doctor Doom, and yet, there are Marvel fans out there who are okay with the idea of Marvel Studios doing it again by potentially making him a Tony Stark variant? It doesn't make sense to me. Some Marvel fans are just hypocrites, let me tell ya.
Yes, Avengers: Kang Dynasty has joined the club of MCU movies that never got made, along with Inhumans, since that TV show was so unpopular. We'll see if Blade gets added to that list, or if it does actually get made and does actually come out. But, even if it doesn't, at least Mahershala Ali will have Jurassic World Rebirth to fall back on. And at least, ScarJo has stuck to her guns, and has not agreed to return to the MCU as of yet.
She's more than happy to have a career outside of the MCU, which she's able to have since she built one while she was in the MCU. Unlike, RDJ, who didn't. The MCU has his whole universe until Endgame, then he was kind of left with nothing, and he had no real choice but to come back with his tail between his legs after he failed to establish a new career outside of the MCU, despite winning an Oscar for a supporting role in a Chris Nolan directed biopic.
Anyway, getting back to the topic at hand, the plot synopsis released for Jurassic World Rebirth revealed that the movie is going to take place five years after the events of Dominion, and is going to involve an expedition to the tropical equatorial regions of the world to retrieve something from dinosaurs, specifically the three most massive dinosaurs, to create a life-saving drug after most of the world's dinosaurs migrated there. The synopsis doesn't say what that drug is meant for, they just say that the dinosaurs have the key to creating a drug with miraculous life-saving benefits to mankind, or humankind as the synopsis says.
And this pharmaceutical company wants whatever the dinosaurs have within them to make that life-saving drug so that they can hopefully make them millions or billions 🤑 off of it. So, they fund an expedition to get it, and they hire a convert operations expert named Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) to lead it, along with Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), a paleontologist, and Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), Zora's most trusted team leader.
In all honesty, it kind of just sounds like the plot of Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, where it was about this pharmaceutical company funding this expedition to Borneo to find this rare flower called the Blood Orchid, which they think will make humans immortal. It's like the Fountain of Youth but in flower form 🌺. And a flower that can be used to make a drug that makes humans stop aging past a certain point or even reverses aging and makes them live forever would make this company a lot of money 💵 🤑, and all of the researchers who join the expedition go with the promise and hope of enriching themselves 🤑. They all have grand delusions of becoming billionaires if they find this flower and bringing it back to the company they work for, though given what we know about how corporations work, I assume that this company would not give these researchers a single share of the profits.
But, the expedition goes awry, and the researchers sent to find the flower end up stranded in Borneo, and end up falling prey to a bunch of giant anacondas that have a taste for human flesh. Ignoring the fact that anacondas don't live in Borneo, and are only found in South America of course. Though, let's be honest here, even if the expedition had succeeded, and the researchers didn't get attacked by the anacondas and did manage to get the flowers back to the US 🇺🇸, they probably would've been screwed over by the company they all work for, and probably wouldn't have been compensated for their trouble, and probably wouldn't have been given any share of the profits of the drug when it went to market.
Or if they were compensated for their efforts in locating and retrieving the flowers and were given a share of the profits, they probably would've been given pennies compared to the amount of work and trouble would've gone through to get those flowers, and the share they would've been given would've been pretty small compared to the big slices the executives at the top of the company would've take for themselves 🤑. So yeah, maybe these guys were better off with the anacondas than with the top brass of their own company 😆, those corporate executives are the real snakes 🐍 in this situation. They're more snakes 🐍 than the actual snakes 🐍 😆.
But, this Rebirth movie sounds exactly like that, only swap out giant man-eating anacondas with dinosaurs, and swap out Borneo with whatever equatorial region they go to in Rebirth. It would be a little funny if it also ended up being Borneo 😄 because hey, Borneo's in the equator. But I think it'll most likely be somewhere in Latin America. Like somewhere in Central America, South America, or even the Pacific since the plot synopsis did mention something about them being stranded on an island (yet again 🙄), and a lot of fans have speculated that it may be an island within the "5 Deaths" archipelago and is a secret island that InGen used for their cloning operations, that they for some reason kept under wraps all these years, even after Isla Sorna was discovered and explored by outsiders. More on that later.
But, the plot synopsis raised many more questions than it actually answered. Klayton specifically raised the issue in his videos about why would this pharmaceutical company send an expedition to the tropical equatorial regions of the world to collect dinosaur DNA 🧬 when they could've just asked InGen or BioSyn for DNA 🧬. Well, I left a comment where I gave a couple of solutions to this problem, and how it might end up being explained in the movie itself. I came up with two theories to explain why getting DNA 🧬 from InGen or BioSyn would be out of the question for this pharmaceutical company.
The first theory I came up with was that the governments of the world had completely banned the cloning of dinosaurs or any other prehistoric animals after the events of Dominion. The world already has enough dinosaur problems with the ones that InGen had created over the years, they didn't want more of them being brought back into the world, especially not by the two biggest biotech companies in the Jurassic universe, InGen and BioSyn.
So, the governments of the world banded together, and agreed to make dinosaur cloning illegal under any circumstances, which inevitably restrict what InGen and BioSyn could do, and would hurt both InGen and BioSyn's bottom lines since that's what they mainly specialized in, cloning dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. But now there's a law that banned their most lucrative business. So, the pharmaceutical company at the heart of this film would not be able to turn to either company to get dinosaur DNA 🧬. They've been restricted from their one source of income, and they've likely gone bankrupt as a result of this law being put into place.
Which leads me to my second theory which is somewhat related to my first one, BioSyn and InGen have both gone bankrupt, and have both ceased to exist under any official capacity. Most of the comment I left underneath Klayton's first video on the plot synopsis for Rebirth, focused on BioSyn and why it might've gone bankrupt and completely shut down, but many of the same things I talked about apply to InGen as well. Dominion didn't mention InGen once, and we never get any indication of what happened to it after the events of Fallen Kingdom.
The whole movie just focused on BioSyn, and acted as if it was the only biotech company specializing in cloning dinosaurs left. Which led me to believe that InGen did go bankrupt after what happened in Fallen Kingdom, and left BioSyn as the only one left standing in the dinosaur cloning wars, and as the only one left standing, BioSyn was able to establish a monopoly. That's why they were able to secure exclusive collection rights from the US Congress 🇺🇸, and why they were able to build that dinosaur sanctuary in the Dolomites (they were able to get permission to build that from the Italian government 🇮🇹), and relocate a lot of the dinosaurs they captured thanks to those exclusive collection rights awarded to them by the US government 🇺🇸 there no questions asked, because InGen was no longer around to stand in their way.
Had InGen still been around, then they would've likely fought that Congressional decision to award BioSyn sole collection rights to the dinosaurs, and would've tried to lobby Washington to give them those exclusive collection rights instead since hey, they were the ones who actually created the dinosaurs in the first place. They're the ones that did the hard work of breeding the animals from DNA 🧬 extracted from the mosquitos 🦟 preserved in amber.
Just as Hammond's nephew, Peter Ludlow said in The Lost World: Jurassic Park, they made the dinosaurs, they patented them, they own them. BioSyn are just a bunch of opportunists trying to take advantage of a situation, trying to advantage of a power vacuum caused by InGen's collapse, and swoop in as a corporate savior to the world's dinosaur problem. Or at least, America 🇺🇸's dinosaur problem. They didn't really do any of the hard work themselves, they were just reaping off of InGen's work and success. Why do you think they resorted to corporate espionage and trying to steal trade secrets from InGen in the 90s?
Because they didn't have the talent to actually do what InGen did themselves, so they just waited until InGen filed for bankruptcy and liquidated to claim ownership of the dinosaurs in their absence, looking like heroes taking the dinosaurs away and putting them somewhere else. It's kind of like how Plankton in SpongeBob 🧽 isn't talented enough or business savvy enough to make his own successful restaurant, so he basically just tries to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula from the Krusty Krab so that he can make his own Krabby Patties 🍔 and sell them at his own failed restaurant, the Chum Bucket, and ultimately succeeds at doing so in The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie 🧽. I reviewed that movie you want to check that out. Once they had the dinosaurs InGen created, BioSyn studied them, learning what they could, and essentially reverse engineered them to perfect them, and use them for their own purposes.
They even snatched up InGen's top scientist, Dr. Henry Wu. He was working for InGen, even after the disastrous attempt at increasing attendance at Jurassic World by creating a new dinosaur by splicing together the DNA 🧬 of various other dinosaurs that he had a hand in cloning, as well as the DNA 🧬 of modern day animals that he handpicked to try to stabilize the creature's physiology. So that it could actually function as a living animal in a captive setting.
But, after the disastrous attempt at weaponizing the dinosaurs by creating another new dinosaur called the Indoraptor from the DNA 🧬 of the Indominus Rex (the last hybrid dinosaur he created) to be used solely for military purposes, and after the other dinosaurs that were relocated from Isla Nublar to the mainland were set free by Maisie Lockwood (the child clone of fellow InGen scientist, Dr. Charlotte Lockwood), InGen presumably went bankrupt. So, now Dr. Wu was unemployed, he was left without a home to do his genetic research 🧬.
And BioSyn, being the opportunists they are, decided to hire him when he was perhaps at his lowest point. Gotta love that emotional manipulation and taking advantage of someone's low point that corporations can be so good at. They made him their top scientist just as InGen did all those years ago when he still worked there and when the company was at the peak of their powers and even after their power and influence started to wane after the fall of Jurassic World, and they put him in charge of nearly all of their projects, including the giant locust program, Hexapod Allies.
That was Dodgson's main pet project, the thing he really wanted to do even more than just own the dinosaurs, and he put Dr. Wu in charge of it due to his incredible talent for genetic manipulation 🧬. They wouldn't have been able to do that if InGen were still around since presumably, InGen would want to hold on to Dr. Wu because he's so valuable. He is by far the most accomplished and brightest scientist they ever had. Besides maybe Charlotte.
I mean, she cloned herself and gave birth to her own clone in sort of artificial form of parthenogenesis, that's something Dr. Wu never did as far as we know, and if he did create a clone of himself, he certainly didn't give to birth to it himself since he doesn't exactly have the "equipment" to do so like Charlotte did. He'd have to have had a donor body, a woman ♀︎ to give birth to his clone for him just like with surrogacy. So, with BioSyn gone, which is what I speculated in my comment, there are no biotech companies left that can extract dinosaur DNA 🧬 from amber, and give it to the pharmaceutical company in question to develop their drug.
So, the pharmaceutical company would have no choice but to go out and extract the DNA 🧬 for themselves from dinosaurs out in the wild. The ones that are still alive, since the synopsis does say that some of the dinosaurs didn't survive the conditions they found themselves in. They couldn't live in most of the environments that they had escaped to, and started living in after Fallen Kingdom. So, a lot of them died out, and the ones that survived migrated to the more tropical and equatorial regions of the world, environments that are more suitable for most dinosaur species.
Here's my exact comment:
Maybe the reason why they have to go on the expedition, and why they can't just ask InGen or BioSyn for dinosaur DNA 🧬 is that dinosaur cloning has been completely outlawed. Which makes you wonder why they haven't already done that by the time the events of the first Jurassic World movie happened or after the events of Fallen Kingdom happened, but here we are. Maybe the events of Dominion were enough to break the camel's back 🐪 and made governments around the world seriously considering either regulating or outright banning the cloning of dinosaurs through genetic engineering 🧬.
Plus, maybe BioSyn went completely under after what happened in Dominion. I mean, they lost their founder and CEO, and their dinosaur sanctuary literally went up in flames 🔥, and Alan and Ellie both exposed BioSyn’s role in causing the locust swarms around the world thanks to the evidence they gathered, and thanks to presumably Henry Wu and Ramsey Cole testifying and exposing Dodgson’s plan to control the entire global food supply. It would be hard for any company to recover from a scandal like that, it’s worse than anything InGen did if that was even possible. So, they can't go to them as a source for dinosaur DNA 🧬. So, this pharmaceutical company has to resort to funding this expensive and elaborate expedition to extract DNA 🧬 from dinosaurs out in the wild.
Okay, well, maybe Dodgson wasn't the founder of BioSyn. We don't actually know for sure if he founded it or not, since neither the movies nor the books 📖 say (as far as I know). I just assumed so because he's the only representative of the company that we had ever seen or heard about until Dominion came out. And I figured that he was kind of John Hammond's rival, and Hammond was the founder of InGen, so he must be the founder of BioSyn. But, thinking about it again, I don't actually think Dodgson was the founder of BioSyn.
I think he was like a lower level employee, like he was lower on the totem pole, perhaps put in charge of their corporate espionage department. And he just rose through the ranks until he finally became the CEO in Dominion. And to be clear, the plot synopsis never actually says anything about collecting DNA 🧬. It just says the dinosaurs have the key to making a drug with "miraculous life-saving benefits." It never says anything about DNA 🧬. Here's the exact plot synopsis word-for-word:
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion (2022), the planet's ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
Experienced covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic reptiles, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.
It seems that Klayton just extrapolated that as meaning the pharmaceutical company behind this operation wants dinosaur DNA 🧬, and his fan base just ran with it, saying that it was a plot hole that this pharmaceutical company didn't just ask InGen or BioSyn for dino DNA 🧬. Yes, I know that what Klayton probably meant when he said DNA 🧬 was giving them to clone their own dinosaurs. But at that point, why not just ask InGen and BioSyn to clone them dinosaurs, instead of just giving them the DNA 🧬 and expecting them to know how to clone dinosaurs themselves?
Clearly the thing that this company is after isn't the DNA 🧬. It's clearly something that's part of the dinosaur's bodies that cannot be gained from just DNA 🧬 alone. It's probably like an enzyme or hormone or some kind of cell or bodily fluid that can't be found in DNA 🧬 by itself. It has to be from a living dinosaur. And my theories still work because with dinosaur cloning being banned and/or both InGen and BioSyn going bankrupt and defunct, the only living dinosaurs left in existence are those that are still left in the wild, in the equatorial regions of the world.
Since I showed the entire synopsis, I should also say that are also some questions over what that "sinister shocking discovery" could be because that plot synopsis mentions something about a "sinister shocking discovery" that had been hidden for decades. This lead to a bunch of speculation amongst the fans, including Klayton over what this "sinister shocking discovery" could be. Some of them suggested it could be a third island, Site C, it could be a new breed of dinosaur, or hell, it could even be a clone of John Hammond.
I don't know how they'd pull that off since Richard Attenborough is dead and can't reprise his role as John Hammond, unless they used a CGI version of him like they did with Grand Moff Tarkin in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, which was coincidentally also a Gareth Edwards movie. But, I'm not a fan of that idea, let the dead stay dead, both in the movies and in real life. Or maybe it'd be a younger clone of Hammond, that why they could hire a new actor to play him as a young man ♂︎, but he wouldn't be the original Hammond, he'd be a clone of him. That's something I'd be a little bit more okay with.
But one thing they all agreed on was that the secret shouldn't be dinosaur human hybrids, which were a rejected concept from an early iteration of Jurassic Park IV, before it became Jurassic World. I could tell you how much comments that I saw saying that they didn't want the secret to be dino-human hybrids, but I'd rather show them to you. A lot of them saying that if the secret was dinosaur human hybrids, it would make them hate the franchise or it would make them walk out of the theater, among a bunch of other stupid shit.
This is the mentality that I hate, it's the reason why I'm even writing this. Jurassic fans just can't accept anything new. They rather the franchise stay the same, and never innovate, and just have different characters and new dinosaurs, or hell bring back old dinosaurs from the previous movies like the Spinosaurus. Gotta have that T. rex and Spinosaurus rematch, am I right? This comment underneath a video that I watched yesterday by a YouTuber called RickRaptor105 put it best, I'll show it to you down below. In fact, I'll recommend RickRaptor105's video to you too. You can watch it after you read this, or while you're reading this, whichever you choose. He brought up a lot of the issues that I'm having with the current discourse surrounding this movie.
Anytime there's a new element introduced to the series that doesn't fit the narrow view of what certain Jurassic fans think the franchise is or what it should be, they instantly reject it. Whether it be the giant locusts in Dominion or the dinosaur human hybrids in the early version of Jurassic Park IV. I've defended the locusts ever since Dominion first came out, and since I wrote my review of it. In fact, I spend the majority of the Dominion section of my 2022 New Year's Eve Recap (the first one I ever wrote) defending the locusts. BTW, I think I will repost my Dominion review, though I'm not sure if I will repost my 2022 New Year's Eve Recap. I might just do it for the Dominion section where I talk at length about the locusts.
A lot of Jurassic fans, including RickRaptor105, hated the locusts because they either felt that it was too silly or that it was too much of a departure for the series, and took away from the dinosaurs. That was perhaps the biggest complaint I've heard about Dominion since it came out back in 2022, was that it didn't focus enough on the dinosaurs and focused too much on those damn locusts. "Why they did make the third Jurassic World film and sixth Jurassic film overall about giant bugs!?" is what I've heard a lot.
But, I never hated the locusts. I thought that they were a cool idea, I thought that they were a cool new addition to the series. This franchise is about dinosaurs, yes, but it's good to switch things up every once in a while and have creatures that aren't dinosaurs. That's why I've never been opposed to them incorporating more Cenozoic era animals into the films, which they so far never done.
They don't even have to bring in Cenozoic mammals like saber tooth cats or mammoths, they could just bring in the various Cenozoic era reptiles and birds like the Megalania, the largest lizard known to have ever existed, Titanoboa, one of the largest snakes known to have ever existed, Vasuki, the current largest snake known to have ever existed,Terror birds, large flightless predatory birds that lived in South America from the Middle Eocene and Late Pleistocene epochs, the iconic dodo bird 🦤, and the various crocodylomorphs that existed during the Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, and Pliocene epochs. The Sebecids, the Planocranids, and other extinct land crocodiles that most people are probably unfamiliar with.
The locusts were a completely new threat that the characters had to face, and they truly helped raise the stakes to global proportions. They made Dodgson way more evil and diabolical than he was before, and because they made him look a lot like Tim Cook, he's basically an evil version of Tim Cook. Which would track with the theory that Dodgson wasn't the founder of BioSyn, and was instead a lower-level employee who rose through the ranks until he became the CEO by the time the events of the film take place.
Tim Cook wasn't the founder of Apple, Steve Jobs was. Tim Cook was just a corporate executive who rose through the ranks after Steve Jobs died until he himself became the CEO of Apple. Some would argue that Tim Cook already is evil, but I'm not here to argue that. I use Apple products, so the last person I would want to piss off is Tim Cook.
But yeah, Dodgson in Jurassic World Dominion is basically an evil Tim Cook, that friendly white-haired CEO who seems unassuming, and nonthreatening, who seems well intentioned and like he wants to make the world a better place rather than just increase the company's profits and line his and the other executives and shareholders' pockets even more than they already are 🤑 (corporate executives and shareholders are already pretty rich, so they really don't need that extra money 💵, but they still want it anyway because they're greedy like that 🤑), who's maybe a little bit socially awkward, but is clearly hiding something more sinister underneath.
He created these giant locusts, either by cloning them from DNA 🧬 extracted from amber just like with the dinosaurs, or by enhancing modern-day locusts with DNA 🧬 from their prehistoric ancestors that they also extracted from amber to create super locusts, a species that never truly existed before, so that he could completely monopolize and control the global food supply as he had Dr. Wu and the other BioSyn scientists specifically engineer the locusts to go after crops 🌾 that weren't BioSyn seed.
So, if farmers didn't want their crops 🌾 to eaten by these locusts, they'd have to go to BioSyn for their supply of seeds to grow crops 🌾 that wouldn't be targeted by the locusts. Which would make BioSyn the sole supplier of seeds for the entire global food chain. That's a pretty evil plan in and of itself if you ask me. But then, when his plan backfires, and the locusts continue to multiply and eat crops 🌾 unabated, and spread across the entire world threatening to cause a global famine on a scale no one alive today in the 21st century could imagine, he tries to cover it up, and destroy any and all evidence of BioSyn's involvement in the unfolding disaster.
Like, he just made a mistake a thousand times worse than what John Hammond did, or any of the other InGen executives or InGen scientists and personnel. It goes a bit beyond just trying to open a theme park full of cloned dinosaurs that fails and all the dinosaurs escape and kill people, or going to another island full of cloned dinosaurs, and trying to extract them from that island and bring them to the mainland, where one of them escapes in a major city and kills a few people.
That's all great, it makes for an amazing conflict, and a challenge that our protagonists (young and old) have to overcome. It isn't just about people running away from dinosaurs anymore, which is clearly what a lot of Jurassic fans wanted apparently, or at least the ones in Klayton's corner. They completely lack imagination.
Another thing that I liked about the locusts was that they genuinely felt like an idea that Michael Crichton would have come up with. I first saw this comment mention that on a review of Dominion that I watched awhile back—a positive review of Dominion if you could believe it—and I agreed with it wholeheartedly. Sure, Crichton was known for writing these serious techno-thrillers that relied heavily on scientific accuracy, but he also incorporated a lot of crazy and somewhat outlandish ideas into his novels.
Like, he wrote an entire book 📖 about genetically engineered animals 🧬 that featured a talking chimpanzee and a parrot 🦜 that has human DNA 🧬 and is so smart it can help a kid do homework, and he wrote a book 📖 about grey goo, nanotech swarms that threaten to eat everything on the planet. So, he wouldn't have been above putting giant genetically engineered locusts 🧬 into one of his novels, even in a Jurassic Park novel, if he felt that it would make for a good plot. And I'm sure that if he were still alive to see Dominion or oversee its development as an observer as he did on the Jurassic Park films, he would've wholeheartedly approved of the locust idea.
And for how much people complain about the locusts detracting from the dinosaurs, they really don't have that much screen time. There are only a few scenes in-which the locusts are on screen and only three of them are action scenes in-which the locusts attack people or cause destruction and mayhem, and even though the B plot of the movie is entirely centered around them they're not even directly as mentioned as often as you would think. Usually when they're mentioned, they referred to under the name of the project they were created in, Hexapod Allies, and the majority of the plot is about the conspiracy and coverup more than the locusts themselves if that makes any sense. It's more about Dodgson trying to his cover his tracks, and hide BioSyn's involvement in order to avoid taking responsibility for causing the locust swarms ravaging the Earth 🌍 I should say.
The dinosaurs do have way more screen time than the locusts, and the majority of the big action scenes in the movie involve the dinosaurs and not the locusts. So, for all your complaining, you still got way more dinosaur screen time and more dinosaur action than locust screen time or locust action. But, a lot of Jurassic fans are childish and flail around and throw temper tantrums over something that really doesn't have that much screen time all things considered. That's not something that's unique to the Jurassic fandom, but it is a huge problem, which is why I'm even writing about it in this post. It was Jurassic fans, especially Klayton and those in his fan base that blew the locust thing out of proportion and made it seem like it was a bigger deal than it was. So yeah, I'm a locust defender, I'm a Hexapod Ally, and I'm not afraid to say it. Fight me.
That brings me to the other thing Jurassic fans complain about often whenever the possibility of it being brought into the films comes up, the dinosaur human hybrids. Back when the fourth movie was meant to just be a straight sequel to Jurassic Park III, and before it became the soft reboot that it became, Jurassic Park IV initially had a plot that involved dinosaur human hybrids. Or rather, I should say, dinosaur human dog hybrids since these hybrid creatures also had dog DNA 🐕🧬 as well. Human DNA 🧬 for intelligence and dog DNA 🐕🧬 for loyalty and obedience.
I think we can safely assume that these creatures were created for military purposes since there's pretty much no other reason why you would create hybrid creature such as these. Or perhaps they were created by a crazy mad scientist, such as a rogue InGen scientist who retreated to one of the two confirmed islands to conduct illegal research in seclusion. Kind of like the character, Dr. Irene Corts from the Scan Command: Jurassic Park PC game. I played that game as a kid, though I played a version of it that went under the title, Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battle that didn't have the barcode scanning element.
Maybe, they were planning on introducing Dr. Corts into the films by making her the antagonist of Jurassic Park IV, or perhaps they were thinking of creating a villain character similar to her, and then have that character create these dinosaur human hybrids to act as their bodyguards. Though, they did plan on having the protagonists of the movie turn some of the dinosaur human hybrids to their side, and have them work for them to take down the bad guy(s).
I do believe that film would've involved a group of elite special forces operatives, or black ops operatives, or Navy SEALS, or just even mercenaries facing against these hybrid creatures while on a mission to retrieve that Barbasol can that had those dinosaur embryos in on Isla Nublar, making Jurassic Park IV more of a military action movie compared to the previous three Jurassic Park films.
This idea was of course rejected as was every other early draft or concept for Jurassic Park IV, though the basic idea of a hybrid dinosaur was kept in the final film, Jurassic World, and was used again in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. So, Jurassic fans are obviously not against the idea of a hybrid dinosaur since two of the films have had one each, and a lot of the ancillary media of the franchise involved hybrid dinosaurs. Two of the canceled animated series, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park: Chaos Effect were going to have hybrid dinosaurs, with Chaos Effect revolving entirely around hybrid dinosaurs since it was based entirely on a toy line that centered around that idea.
I mean, The Lost World: Jurassic Park – The Animated Series was going to have a two-headed T. rex with four arms as well as a three-headed T. rex/slug hybrid that looks like that three-headed alien worm from The Deadly Spawn, that low budget 80s sci-fi horror cult film that Brandon Tenold reviewed on his channel one time. It's just when you add human DNA 🧬 into the equation that Jurassic fans for some reason have a problem with it.
When the early draft of the script for Jurassic Park IV and the concept art for dinosaur human dog hybrids 🧬 were leaked, a lot of fans instantly jumped on it and hated on it 😠, saying that it was the worst idea to ever come out of the Jurassic franchise and that they were glad it was never implemented. A lot of them felt that if it ever were implemented, it would've been a serious jumping the shark 🦈 moment for the series. And the thought of it ever being implemented in a future installment is enough to throw them in a tissy. That's why all those people reacted that way in those comments I showed earlier.
But, I've never hated the dinosaur human hybrid idea. I always thought it was kind of cool. You saw it for yourself, they do have pretty creepy designs, so they would've made for some genuinely horrifying sequences, and they really aren't as big of a departure as fans have made them out to be. They give me very Resident Evil vibes, like they look kind of like Resident Evil enemies, and I'm a huge Resident Evil fan, so I really love them.
It would've been a great opportunity to have dinosaur human hybrids that are actually way better than the ones in Anonymous Rex, a low budget direct-to-DVD 📀 sci-fi action comedy movie that I saw in my youth. I actually don't think they were dinosaur human hybrids per se, they were more like highly evolved intelligent dinosaurs that were disguised as humans. Kind of like that Reptoid conspiracy theory dreamt up by David Icke, that crazy guy. Only these are not reptilian aliens, but dinosaurs that survived into the modern day that live amongst humans, disguised as humans. It's a weird movie, and I didn't know what to make of it when I saw it as a kid, which is probably why I never finished it. I'll link you the trailer if I can find it on YouTube.
To me, they seem like a logical conclusion to what this series has always been about: genetic engineering 🧬. You clone dinosaurs, and then you mix their DNA 🧬 together to create hybrids, you even clone humans, so why not add human DNA 🧬 into the mix? Why not create a dinosaur human hybrid? It would've really driven home this theme that the franchise has been built on: humans "playing god" and creating things that they probably shouldn't have created.
Those were Steven Spielberg's exact words when describe the core theme of the first Jurassic Park in a behind-the-scenes featurette that was on a Jurassic Park DVD 📀 that had nothing but special features for all three Jurassic Park films, as they had only been three films in the Jurassic franchise up until that point with Jurassic Park III being the last film in the series for a while as it entered a long period of hiatus (hibernation I guess you could say) until Jurassic World came out in 2015.
And that was really because Jurassic Park IV had been stuck in development hell for 14 years, as they struggled to come up with a story for the fourth film, going through rejected concept after rejected concept, draft after draft of the script, until it finally evolved into Jurassic World, a film that functioned as both a standalone sequel to the first three films and also a soft reboot meant to kick another trilogy of films and effectively creating an entire sub franchise within the wider Jurassic franchise, bringing the total number of films to six. And when Rebirth comes out, it'll be seven.
They would have been a genuinely new thing for the franchise as well as be an extension or conclusion to one of its core concepts, and would've shaken things up like nobody's business, even if this idea was originally meant to be implemented in a traditional "people stuck on an island with dinosaurs" storyline that this franchise is known for, albeit with a military/mercenary twist. No body would've been able to accuse Jurassic Park IV of just being a rehash or repeating the same formula for a fourth time like they did with Jurassic World, and also Fallen Kingdom and Dominion to lesser extents.
Plus, they're still dinosaurs, they still have dinosaur DNA 🧬 within them. It's not like the locusts, where they're a complete different species, a different animal entirely from dinosaurs, they aren't giant bugs, no, they are still dinosaurs, it's just that they have human and dog DNA 🧬🧍♂️🐕 spliced in as well. Like I said before, both Jurassic World and Fallen Kingdom have had hybrid dinosaurs with the Indominus Rex and the Indoraptor respectively.
So, the precedent has been set to have a hybrid dinosaur with human DNA 🧬 rather than simply hybrid dinosaurs that are mixtures of different dinosaurs like the Indominus Rex and Indoraptor were. And to me, if you're okay with the two-headed and four-armed T. rex, or the T. rex/slug hybrid that were planned for The Lost World animated series, along with the even crazier stuff that was planned for Chaos Effect, then you are in no position to complain about these planned but so far abandoned dinosaur human hybrids, or dinosaur human dog hybrids to really be accurate. And trust me, there are Jurassic fans who liked those ideas from those canceled or scrapped animated series, and wish that those shows got made and had those hybrid creatures in them, and a lot of them are the same fans who hate the dinosaur human hybrid idea from the earlier version of Jurassic Park IV.
If the big "shocking discovery" in Rebirth did turn out to be those dinosaur human hybrids, I wouldn't be opposed to it at all. I wouldn't walk out of the theater as one comment said, I would stay in my seat, and watch the whole thing play out with the protagonists of this film facing off against these dino human hybrids. Using their covert operations training to take them down. But, I honestly don't think the big secret will dinosaur human hybrid despite how worried some fans are that it might be.
Especially since Colin Trevorrow said that he specifically avoided having any hybrid dinosaurs in Dominion because he felt that idea had been run into the ground and there wasn't anything more you could do with it, except add human DNA 🧬 to the mix. And given Gareth Edwards's track record, I think he's going to continue that, by avoiding hybrid dinosaurs all together, and keeping it a more grounded story. Plus, I think all of the filmmakers involved in this franchise know how controversial the idea of dinosaur human hybrids is, and know that if they ever include it in a future film, they'll receive a lot of the backlash from the fans. Way more backlash than when they had the Spinosaurus kill the T. rex in Jurassic Park III.
And the people behind this franchise, more than anything else, want to please the fans. That's likely why they took the Spinosaurus out of the logo for Jurassic Park III, and used a more traditional T. rex logo in all future releases of that film. And why they've so far kept the Spinosaurus out of the films after JP3, and have only put into the animated series, Camp Cretaceous. But not me, if I was in charge of this franchise, and I was directing the next film, or at the very least, writing it, I would totally include dinosaur human hybrid, if only to spite Klayton and all of those other fans who have frowned upon this idea for years.
It'll probably something a bit more boring and pedestrian like a new dinosaur species or even a secret third island. If it does turn out to be a third island, my question would be, why would InGen have needed a third island? It makes sense why they had a second island, it was the factory floor where they bred the dinosaurs, and then shipped them off to the first island which was the theme park, the main attraction and a tourist destination.
So, why would they have needed a third island? What purpose would it have served in InGen's dinosaur cloning operations? The idea of it being a new dinosaur species or previously hidden dinosaur species that InGen had cloned, but did not disclose similar to the Spinosaurus, is probably the most likely, but it could be something else. It could be something that none of us could've expected or thought of. And that's what we want right? We want movies to still be able to surprise us, right? At least I have a movie to watch in 2025. Hopefully, I can watch it in theaters like I did Dominion, but given how this year has gone so far, that might not be a possibility.
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Klayton Fioriti's most recent videos talking about the recent reveals about Jurassic World Rebirth:
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Update (Wednesday September 11, 2024):
I wanted to kind of discuss the plot of the original version of Jurassic Park IV. In the original text, I said that the movie was going to have a more typical "people trapped on an island full of dinosaurs" plotline that the franchise is kind of known for, only with a more military bent. I also said that a big chunk of the plot was going to involve a team of black ops, or a team of elite special forces, or even a team of mercenaries being sent to Isla Nublar to retrieve the Barbasol can with the dinosaur embryos in it that Dennis Nedry tries to sneak out of the park and give to BioSyn. While most of that is correct, there are a few things that I did kind of wrong.
For one thing, it wasn't a team that was sent to retrieve the Barbasol can, it was just one guy ♂︎, one ☝️. The character was a ex-military guy ♂︎ named Nick Harris who was sent by John Hammond specifically to retrieve that Barbasol can so that he can use the embryos inside to breed some sterile and ultra aggressive dinosaurs that can deal with the dinosaurs that have escaped from both islands, but mostly Isla Sorna since that's the island that still has a thriving dinosaur population. We're kind of lead to assume that Isla Nublar's dinosaur population died out due to lack of lysine supply.
Hammond is no longer associated with InGen in anyway and has lost all control of the company following the events of The Lost World. In fact, InGen as we knew it doesn't truly exist anymore in the script. Instead, they're a shell of their former selves as a result of their reputation and stock price presumably taking a hit after the San Diego Incident in The Lost World, and the recent incidents of dinosaurs invading the mainland and attacking people. Instead, they've been overtaken by a new company called the Grendel International Corporation, which is based in Switzerland 🇨🇭 and now owns Isla Nublar. The video I watched talking about the script doesn't say if InGen was bought out by the Grendel Corporation, but I wouldn't be entirely surprised if that was the case given how weak it seems InGen was in this story.
So, this mission has to be top secret, and Nick has to go there undetected to avoid suspicion from the Grendel Corporation. While on the island, Nick faces off against raptors that spring from holes in the ground like trapdoor spiders as well as Grendel Corp. security personnel, but he ultimately succeeds in his mission and retrieves the Barbasol can, bringing it back to the mainland. Even after his plane was attacked by a Kronosaurus. But, before he can get the can back to Hammond, Nick is knocked unconscious and captured by Grendel Corp. men ♂︎ and brought to meet the company's CEO, Baron Von Drax who offers him a job at the company in exchange for the intel he gathered while on the island and the Barbasol can with the embryos inside.
But, Nick declines the offer, and refuses to give up any information as he has hidden the Barbasol can, and knows that it's his only bargaining chip. It's the Grendel Corporation that created the dinosaur-human hybrids as part of experiments in the genetic tampering of dinosaurs 🧬, not a reclusive mad scientist like I had speculated. They've created a squad of these human-dino hybrids with codenames similar to the raptors in Jurassic World, only these ones have named like Hector, Spartacus, Achilles, Orestes, and Perseus, and they're controlled by a device attached to their heads similar to the DinoVoc in Jurassic Park: Dinosaur Battle and Scan Command: Jurassic Park.
These hybrid creatures were created by the Grendel Corporation to be used a bioweapons in war and policing, and the script has a couple of scenes where they go on missions to test out their abilities such as mission to rescue a girl ♀︎ from some terrorists in Tangier, and rescuing some hostages from a drug lord in South America, which makes up the bulk of the climax of this script. Ultimately, the bad guys are defeated, and Nick manages to get the dinosaur embryos that were stored in the Barbasol can to Hammond after doing a little switcheroo with Von Drax, in essence returning the stolen property that Nedry tried to sell to BioSyn all the years ago. All that was wrong in the universe was made right, at least when it came to the stolen embryos.
But no matter which the script got made into a movie, the fourth movie was always going to have entirely new characters and none of the old characters from the previous three movies. Jurassic World wiped the slate clean by introducing a ton of new characters, only a couple of which carried over in the following movies. Those being Owen Grady and Claire Daring. The only returning character in that movie was Dr. Henry Wu, the Asian scientist from the original Jurassic Park. A character who only hardcore Jurassic fans would’ve probably recognized.
Had this script got made into a movie, had this been Jurassic Park IV, I think the series might've gone in a direction where each entry had a different protagonist each time and each movie was going to be a stand alone adventure, rather having the same protagonists each movie and have one long story that runs through each film like the Jurassic World movies did.
In one draft of the script, the dinosaur-human hybrids were much more subdued, described as looking a lot more dinosaur-like, to where you couldn't really tell that they had human DNA 🧬 in them. The only thing particularly odd about them is that they had weapons fitted onto them. And then in a future draft, they were described as looking much more humanlike than they were in the first draft, and that's where we get all that concept art by Carlos Huantes of those dinosaur-human hybrids that everyone hates on 😤. That concept art was drawn for that draft of the script with the more human-looking hybrid creatures. The creepy raptor men and raptor monkey, the Triceratops man, and the T. rex man. One of the raptor men even has a gun for an arm.
I think this script sounded pretty interesting, and I wouldn't have been that opposed to it if had gotten made, even if everyone and their mother seems to hate this particular script and is glad it never got made. Sure, it would've been a huge departure from the previous three, but isn't that what we want? Don't want the series to go in a new direction, especially after the first three which had stuck to the same formula? It may not be what the average Jurassic fan wants, but it's what I want.
Just the dinosaur-human hybrids alone would've made this whole thing worth it for me as it would've been see them in action, and how they would've put them off, with CGI and practical effects (animatronics and puppetry), especially the more humanlike designs that were so controversial. I still kind of want this idea to be implemented in a future Jurassic World installment, if not in Rebirth, maybe in the movie they make after Rebirth. Because let's face it, they're just going to keep making these movies.
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Here's the video I watched talking about the leaked script:
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