Now thatJurassic World Rebirthhas finally explained how the franchise’s dinosaurs can survive and what kills them off, the series can never really live up to theJurassic Worldfranchise’s title.All theJurassic ParkandJurassic Worldmovieshave, inevitably, needed to alter the lore around the franchise’s reincarnated dinosaurs at least a little.
From 1993’s original blockbuster all the way to 2025’ssecond series rebootJurassic World Rebirth, the series has taken a leaf from InGen’s amoral scientists and tinkered with the DNA of its dinosaurs to make sense of their continued survival. This allows the movies to depict dinosaurs living in certain environments and not others, thus containing their inherent threat.
There Can Never Be A True Jurassic World Of Dinosaurs After Rebirth
Jurassic World: Rebirth’s Lore Ensures The Franchise’s Title Promise Can’t Be Fulfilled
The series changed this in 2018 with the infamousending ofJurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, wherein the protagonists unleashed a group of dinosaurs into the wild, and a closing sequence confirmed that they were now co-existing with humans and animals throughout the modern world. It was a bold, audacious move for the series.
Sadly, it was also one that the franchise never followed through on.Jurassic World: Dominionlargely ignored the previous movie’s explosive revelation that dinosaurs now roamed free all over the Earth, focusing most of its storyline instead on corporate intrigue between BioSyn and InGen. Similarly,Jurassic World Rebirth’s self-contained story further hemmed in the franchise’s potential.
Unless they live in a very specific terrain, the dinosaurs cannot survive because of how much the Earth has changed.
Early on in the reboot, viewers learn thatmost of the world’s dinosaurs are dead or dying by the time Jurassic World Rebirth takes place. Unless they live in a very specific terrain, the dinosaurs cannot survive because of how much the Earth has changed. As such, there is no way for these conditions to be naturally reversed.
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Thus, there is no clear path for the franchise to ever fulfill its title promise.TheJurassic Worldmovies seemingly promiseda world overrun with dinosaurs, both in the franchise’s new name and in the ending ofFallen Kingdom. However, the dinosaurs ofJurassic World Rebirthhave to remain contained in the movie’s lone location to survive.
As such, it is sadly clear that viewers will never see this vision come to life. While the ending ofFallen Kingdomand promotional materials forJurassic World: Dominionteased this prospect but never fully delivered on it, the lore revelations fromJurassic World Rebirtheffectively shut the door to any furtherJurassic Worldsequels exploring this twist again.
