How 'Jurassic Park' stars new 'Dominion' dinosaurs wrap up 'Jurassic

It was a scene nearly 30 years in the making: The stars of the original “Jurassic Park” together once again and facing a very large dinosaur – of course – alongside the recent heroes of “Jurassic World.”But a not-very-funny thing happened on the way to that memorable shot in the new “Jurassic World Dominion”: a pandemic. The sci-fi action adventure (in theaters now) was one of the first movies to resume production after COVID-19 shut Hollywood down in 2020, and returning “Park” mainstays Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum got to know “World” folks Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard well over several months sequestered in the same English hotel before filming the big moment. Amid all the COVID-19 tests, social distancing and ever-present sanitizing foggers, the actors collaborated on the occasional Beatles cover and bonded over many meals and drinks.“You see someone in their dressing gown and slippers eating breakfast, you can only be so intimidated by them,” Howard quips. Adds Pratt: “It was really comfortable and also surreal. I mean, there was this animatronic Giganotosaurus head, this thing is probably three stories tall, and we're all outrunning it in the middle of the night on this massive set.”'It's truly remarkable': 'Jurassic World' dads Chris Pratt, Jeff Goldblum on witnessing childbirthDirected by Colin Trevorrow, “Dominion” – which acts as a concluding chapter to the “Jurassic World” trilogy and a tidy bow on the six-film series so far – finds these generations of heroes amid a landscape where dinosaurs have met modern civilization. Paleobotanist Ellie Sattler (Dern) and paleontologist Alan Grant (Neill) investigate the appearance of destructive evolved locusts that threaten global famine while Owen Grady (Pratt) and Claire Dearing (Howard) race to rescue their adopted clone daughter. Trevorrow wanted a thriller with fantastic beasts and genetic advancements that not only harked back to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film, but also to Michael Crichton’s 1990 “Jurassic Park” novel.“Part of what made ‘Jurassic Park’ work so much for us was the ‘what if’ of it all,” the director says. It was important to him “that especially kids understand this is rooted in real science, just like the dinosaurs are.”The filmmaker and his cast catch us up on old characters, hot new dinos and an uncertain “Jurassic” future. Owen and Claire have been love interests in the past two films, but as parents are “deeply devoted to one another” as the new one opens, Pratt says. “We're not tasked with sort of providing that ‘will they/won't they’ sexual chemistry.” Instead, that falls on Ellie and Alan, who weren’t quite on the same page in "Jurassic Park" (with a 20-year age gap that’s made headlines recently) but now see “this kind of second-act romance that they have in their lives.”Pratt adds: “That story has really beautifully aged well over the course of the 29 years since the original film.

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