“Jurassic World” was a success at the box office and with fans, but if there was one complaint, it was that the storyline was pretty similar to the first movie. Similar, but missing one crucial element — the sometimes shirtless stammering of everyone’s favorite chaos theorist, Dr. Ian Malcolm.
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Thankfully, the powers that be have heard the call, and Jeff Goldblum will be donning his shades and returning to the prehistoric mayhem in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom.” In addition to Goldblum, Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, and B.D. Wong will return from “Jurassic World” and are joined by James Cromwell, Ted Levine, Justice Smith, Geraldine Chaplin, Daniella Pineda, Toby Jones, and Rafe Spall. Here’s the more revealing, long-form synopsis:
It’s been four years since theme park and luxury resort Jurassic World was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while the surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles.
When the island’s dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen (Chris Pratt) and Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event. Owen is driven to find Blue, his lead raptor who’s still missing in the wild, and Claire has grown a respect for these creatures she now makes her mission. Arriving on the unstable island as lava begins raining down, their expedition uncovers a conspiracy that could return our entire planet to a perilous order not seen since prehistoric times.
Director J.A. Bayona, known for “The Orphanage” and “A Monster Calls,” takes over for Colin Treverrow, who might now wish he had stayed in the director’s chair, but who still co-wrote the script with collaborator Derek Connolly. The writers have promised the new movie will be more “suspenseful and scary” than “Jurassic World” and Bayona has indicated that he took inspiration from darker sequels like “The Empire Strikes Back.”
“Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” opens on June 22, 2018.