Every Jurassic movie after the first one sucks. Jurassic World was mid at best but looking back on it, it’s a glorified replay of the first movie. In the newest one, which I refuse to watch but have been informed on its plot, a Xenomorph dinosaur is the new big-bad they discover on another secret island because they wanted to ignore Lost World. Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. They’ve lost the plot.
As my brother was relaying the plot points of the newest Jurassic World movie to me, I was able to come up with three more compelling plots in a minute than a team of Hollywood writers were able to do in 3 years. A throughline started to appear and I’ve decided to share with you my ideas for a new Jurassic trilogy called…
JURASSIC EVOLUTION
Part 1
The first movie in this trilogy refreshes the world by taking us to a… lets say 7th secret island just to be safe. A NATO task force has the mission of traveling the world, eradicating all dinosaurs that were a result of the Jurassic Park projects. They’ve found all scientists involved, including those still carrying on their experiments in private.
As the movie begins, we see our crew journeying to the 7th secret Jurassic island. This island is truly the original. It was set up in the late 1800s by Jon Hammond’s distant relative, Jon Hammond Sr., Sr., Sr., Sr. Jon Hammond the First was a botanist who loved experimenting with plant splicing. The audience is clued into this throughout the movie by being shown mutant but benign plants on the 7th island.
Hammond eventually got bored of plants, feeling he had discovered all he wanted to, and wondered if he could do animal splicing. He was caught stealing chickens and was ostracized by his community as well as the international scientific society. Hammond set off to conduct his experiments in private and landed on our hero island off the coast of… idk, some tropical area.
Hammond packed up his scientific equipment, a newly published book on the discovery of DNA, set out under the cloak of night, never to be heard from again.
As our NATO team arrives on the island, they find themselves embroiled in tribal conflicts. Guerilla warriors attack them until the guns come out. These mysterious assailants retreat back to the woods. Team NATO sets out to look for them but have several encounters with mutant bird-freaks that look shockingly like dinosaurs.
The NATO task force escapes all of their encounters only losing a couple comrades along the way. During a moment of respite they stumble upon the native tribe’s village where they are captured.
The finale of the movie finds our NATO heroes in a makeshift gladiatorial combat arena where a generationally bred T-Rex mutant freak. This is where it is revealed the village is built around Hammond’s original research hut and his later life’s work resulted in the mutant plants, mutant bird freaks, and this mutant T-Rex’s ancestor. The native tribe grew to see these primordial dinosaurs as gods and worshipped them. They captured what they considered a demigod, a primordial T-Rex and over the last 2 centuries bred an absolute killing machine.
The killing machine was used in their gladiatorial arena to kill island intruders and provide entertainment for the tribe. For generations, it was a morale booster in years where harvests were low or intruder rates were high. Now, NATO must face it.
Instead of running like our heroes do in every Jurassic Park movie, ultimately being saved by someone with a flare in the rain, our heroes destroy the mutant T-Rex. This is their job, they’re experts at it. Given the freakish strength of this T-Rex and the lack of specialized weapons, it’s not easy and only a couple of our heroes make it out alive.
The movie ends with them cleansing the island of dinosaurs but leaving the tribe untouched otherwise. Happy endings all around with as many anti-Western Colonialism messages as possible.
Part 2
Years later, our next opens up reassuring the audience and the in-universe world that all Jurassic threats on Earth have been eliminated. Thanks to the hero of the second movie several laws are put in place to ensure nothing like that ever happens again. Damage control complete.
Except, what’s this? There are several water dwelling dinosaurs that weren’t eradicated as previously thought. Like a coelacanth, carcases begin washing up on the shores of Australia. Since they’re dead, nobody thinks much about it… until it’s too late.
The audience slowly learns over the course of the movie, it turns out the more modern Jurassic dinosaurs had portions of their DNA modified that allowed them to grow faster and live longer in order to reduce the parks’ overhead costs. Like industrial livestock. Some technobabble tells us that unfortunately this leaves genetic mutations to be more common in dino-offspring and these remaining water-dwelling dinosaurs are evolving at an insane rate.
These dinosaurs begin walking on land. They begin turning into an all new breed of dinosaurs the world is no longer suited to handle due to the NATO project being complete. Now the world must band together to take these dinosaurs down one last time.
There could be a sub plot where billionaires discover these dinosaurs and begin trading dinosaurs on the black market. Not as military weapons like in Dominion or whatever, but as luxury pets. Think ‘Tiger King.’ This serves as a great way to get dinosaurs all over the world that are able to self impregnate (a la JP 1) and are mutating at alarming rates. This may enter the movie in the second half in order to set up the last film in the trilogy.
What happens in the second act of the movie isn’t important. It’s the second in the trilogy, we can allow ourselves to save the best thoughts for the first and third movie. There’s action, it’s fun to watch. The world is going to shit and the only thing that can stop all these dinosaurs is a CRISPR gene splicer that targets Dino-DNA™ and dismantles the dinosaurs at a biological level.
Whatever happens in the second act should show our heroes being chased through a laboratory by mutant dinosaurs, trying to buy enough time for the head scientist to create enough of the gene splicer to destroy the assailing dinosaurs. After it’s proven to work, the world can create large batches that take care of the billionaires’ dinosaurs, all the dinosaurs on land, in sea, and in the air. This movie requires several anti-capitalist messages.
Part 3
This is the one I’ve given the least amount of thought to but that’s because it’s heavily derivative of other franchises. But it worked for Planet of the Apes, maybe it’ll work for Jurassic Park.
The third movie takes place maybe a decade after the end of the last movie. The CRISPR gene splicer wasn’t perfect. It’s barely the last movie’s scientist’s fault. They built it in a cave with a box of scraps. The gene splicer took out a majority of the dinosaurs but it also started attacking human DNA. After decades of this, the world is left only with the most powerful dinosaurs and the most powerful humans. The world is covered in a staph infection made up of the baddest killers in Earth’s history. This time, though, humans stand a fighting chance against the dinosaurs.
I’m really looking for I Am Legend or Dawn of the/War for the Planet of the Apes vibes. Language is leaving the remaining humans as it becomes less important to survival. They are nomads again but not by choice. Any time they settle down it seems a dinosaur is able to track them down and ruin their harmony.
It’s a very quiet but tense film as we follow a small group of humans trying to restore balance and create a stable shelter. I’m guessing this movie ends with dinosaurs and humans finding a way to coexist. I’m sure there’s a child character that learns to communicate with the dinosaurs (a call back to Alan Grant and his raptor calls) and becomes the liaison between the two species. I’m guessing just as they’re about to come to a peace agreement the child’s own dad shoots and kills the dinosaur that ate his wife or something.
The child has a very important decision to make. Sacrifice his dad to the dinosaurs for the sake of humanity or allow the conflict to reignite and turn into an all-out war. He makes the right call and sacrifices his dad, bringing about an era of peace between man and dinosaur.
If that plot sucks, I have another one for the third film. It’s been years since dinosaurs were eradicated. A kid in the year 2042 reads about the Jurassic Park Act of 2027 and the events leading up to it. He’s inspired and begins attempting to clone Dino-DNA™ in his garage for a science fair project.
This, as you can guess since it’s a JP movie, leads to chaos. The dinosaur he creates is unleashed upon the neighborhood, bringing the JP franchise into a believable rural area. This would likely end up with Gremlin or E.T. vibes, which I think ties the whole franchise back to its roots of Spielberg.
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I personally think these sound pretty neat. If you agree, remember I was literally coming up with these as I was typing them.
