Crafting a fourth Jurassic World film is a tricky assignment. Jurassic World: Dominion made over a billion dollars worldwide, but was regarded by many critics as an overall misstep. It took a stab at nostalgia by bringing back the leading actors from the original film, but all of that was overshadowed by an underwhelming narrative, one that bungled its seeming hole-in-one of having a world now littered with dinosaurs. This was a problem that the entire recent trilogy seemed to face: just like with the park audience in the first Jurassic World that had somehow gotten bored of seeing the spectacle of dinosaurs, moviegoers visited in droves only to be left indifferent.
However, the recent developments regarding the upcoming fourth film are enough to inspire curiosity. Returning as screenwriter is David Koepp, who penned the original Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World. But that news isn’t solely what gives the impression that we might be seeing a return of the Spielbergian magic that drove the first movie to become one of the greatest blockbusters of all time. Gareth Edwards - the director of Monsters, Godzilla, Star Wars: Rogue One, and The Creator - has been assigned the gig, and if there’s any filmmaker that prescribes to Steven Spielberg’s school of establishing wonder in over-saturated genres, it’s Edwards.
