Jurassic World: ReGenesis, known originally as ReGenesis, is a 2019 American science-fiction horror film, the sequel to Jurassic World, and the fifth instalment of the Jurassic Park franchise. It has one sequel, Jurassic World: Domination.
Plot[]
Shortly after the events of Jurassic World in 2015, a small mercenary team arrives on the abandoned Isla Nublar to collect DNA from the Indominus rex remains lying on the bottom of the park's lagoon. After collecting a bone sample, the team's survivors escape the island following attacks by the Mosasaurus and the Tyrannosaurus rex, but they accidentally release the former into the ocean.
In 2019, a U.S. Senate hearing in Washington, D.C., debates whether Isla Nublar's dinosaurs should be saved from an impending volcanic eruption. Mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm testifies that the dinosaurs should perish naturally to correct the wrongful cloning done by John Hammond, an opinion opposed by palaeontologist Richard Levine. Meanwhile, Jurassic World's former operations manager, Claire Dearing, has established the Dinosaur Protection Group to save the animals. After the Senate rules against rescuing the animals, Hammond's former partner, Sir Norman Atherton, summons Claire to his Northern California estate. Atherton and his aide, Eli Mills, reveal a plan to relocate the dinosaurs to a new island sanctuary. Claire is needed to reactivate the park's dinosaur tracking system to locate the animals, particularly Blue, the last surviving Velociraptor. Claire recruits Owen Grady, Jurassic World's former Velociraptor trainer, to help capture her.
On Isla Nublar, Claire and former park technician Franklin Webb reactivate the online tracking system. Owen, paleo-veterinarian Zia Rodriguez, and a team led by Jack Thorne, track and find Blue. The encounter escalates when a mercenary group led by Thomas Saunders arrives, resulting in Blue being shot. Saunders then abandons Owen, Claire, and Franklin on the island while taking Zia hostage to treat Blue. The mercenary ship, loaded with captured dinosaurs, departs for the U.S. mainland as the remaining dinosaurs are left behind to die in the eruption. Claire, Franklin, and Owen sneak aboard the ship see and help Zia transfuse Blue with Allosaurus blood. Mosasaurus attacks the ship, but is repelled, instead attacking the convoy of smaller boats surrounding it.
Rather than being relocated to a new island, the captured dinosaurs are transported to the Atherton estate, where Atherton's orphaned granddaughter Maisie overhears two men, Dr. Henry Wu and Gunnar Eversoll, secretly planning to auction the captured dinosaurs on the black market. They will also preview the Diablovenator, a weaponized, transgenic dinosaur created by geneticist Dr. Henry Wu using the DNA of several animals. Wu needs Blue's DNA to create an enhanced Diablovenator that is obedient to commands, unaware that Blue's blood is no longer pure. Atherton has a conversation with Mills, in which he reveals the details of his past with John Hammond, but suffers a heart attack and dies. Maisie is later revealed to have been cloned from Atherton's deceased daughter and to be the reason why John Hammond, who opposed human cloning, ended their association.
The auctioned dinosaurs are being immediately shipped out. Franklin evades capture and frees Zia, but Owen and Claire have been apprehended. Owen incites a Pachycephalosaurus spinifer into breaking open their cell. The two encounter Maisie, and they learn the Diablovenator is being sold despite Wu's protests that it is a prototype. Owen disrupts the proceedings by luring the spinifer into the room. In the ensuing chaos, Saunders tranquilizes the Diablovenator and has a mercenary guard it, but the hybrid, having merely feigned unconsciousness, kills the mercenary, Eversoll, and Owen as it escapes. Franklin accidentally release a second hybrid, the Ocypete, which proceeds to kill Mills.
The Diablovenator then hunts Levine, Claire, and Maisie throughout the mansion until Blue arrives and fights the Diablovenator on a skylight. Both animals crash through it, seemingly killing the Diablovenator and leaving Blue relatively unharmed. When a hydrogen cyanide gas leak threatens the caged dinosaurs, Claire frees them, ignoring the survivors' objections. Levine decides to burn the mansion down to ensure the destruction of the hybrids and their genetic material, but halfway through the DIablovenator escapes, killing one of the surviving mercenaries. Levine sets it on fire using a makeshift flamethrower, before a White Rock spinosaurid and a Suchomimus rip the burning hybrid in two.
In a new U.S. Senate hearing, Dr. Malcolm declares the beginning of a neo-Jurassic Age, where humans and dinosaurs must coexist.
Cast[]
- Alexander Skarsgård as Richard Levine
- Bryce Dallas Howard as Claire Dearing
- Isabella Sermon as Maisie Atherton
- Chris Pratt as Owen Grady
- Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm
- BD Wong as Dr. Henry Wu
- Charles Dance as Thomas Saunders
- Richard Ashton as Jack Thorne
- Campbell Scott as Lewis Dodgson
- Daniella Pineda as Zia Rodriguez
- Daniel Southworth as Darragh Malone
- Demián Bichir as Martin Guitierrez
- Justice Smith as Franklin Webb
- Geraldine Chaplin as Iris Carroll
- James Cromwell as Sir Norman Atherton
- John Flanagan as Biosyn Scientist
- Bernardo Santos as Biosyn Scientist
List Of Species In The Film[]
- Allosaurus
- Ankylosaurus (Bumpy, not named)
- Apatosaurus
- Brachiosaurus
- Beipiaosaurus
- Carnotaurus (Toro, not named)
- Diplodocus hallorum
- Dilophosaurus
- Distangnathus (Diablovenator and Ocypete)
- Einiosaurus
- Iguanodon
- Monolophosaurus
- Mosasaurus
- Pachycephalosaurus spinifer
- Procompsognathus
- Stegosaurus
- Tyrannosaurus
- Velociraptor (Blue)
- Utahraptor
- White Rock Spinosaurid (Amber)
- Yangchuanosaurus
Locations[]
- Atherton Estate
- Dinosaur Protection Group Headquarters
- Arcadia
- Isla Nublar
- Washington D.C.
Tagline[]
The park is gone...
Production[]
At some point in early 2021, a Fandom user by the name of Palaeontologica (now Ganimes), wrote a very short draft of an ill-fated project, involving a hybrid dinosaur known as the Diablovenator—though not the same as the ReGenesis version—attacking a vehicle. Wishing to hone his screenwriting skills for no reason other than his own amusement, Palaeontologica decided to write a remake of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. It was a long and arduous process, involving rewatching the film, tracking down deleted scenes and compiling script extracts and transcripts in order to produce a cohesive script, then known as Jurassic World: Atrocity. At the time, just one hybrid was intended to be featured, the Indoraptor. However, after his search reminded him of the concept of a second hybrid, Palaeontologica decided to include two. At the time, the Indoraptor was the dark one, and the Diablovenator was the white one; subsequently, though, the author used the name Ocypete for the pale individual, after one of the harpies from Greek mythology.
The first draft of ReGenesis was posted on the Jurassic Park wiki on the 8th of August, 2021, in what would be the first of five posts. Subsequently, a main thread was devised, which would last for almost 3,000 replies. With feedback from various individuals, ReGenesis grew, and so too did its popularity. While probably not one of the most popular projects, and while superior ones exist/ed, it enjoyed relative success as it progressed. Changes suggested by the readers were many, and undoubtedly worked in the project's favour, bolstering its quality somewhat; however, the author, too, made significant changes. For instance, the character of Ken Wheatley was replaced by the cold, Alan Jonah-esque Thomas Saunders, and a population of Utahraptors starred as relatively significant antagonists, finishing off Saunders towards the end of the story. Ultimately, even the deaths of the hybrids saw significant alterations.
Following the moderate popularity of ReGenesis, the author included some of his creations in other fanfictions on various sites. The Diablovenator and Ocypete feature prominently in various crossovers, having a radically increased kill count. In subsequent projects by Palaeontologica, set in the same canon as ReGenesis, the hybrids sporadically appear. Said sequels were initially three in number, with a fourth short story in a script format, two short stories and another canonical project by a different user, though as Palaeontologica reworks the canon, the canonicity of such stories remains to be seen.
Trivia[]
- The name ReGenesis was inspired by a fanmade prequel of Jurassic World. In the instance of the movie, the name refers to the creation of the Diablovenator and Ocypete.
- It has been confirmed that two of the dinosaurs featured in ReGenesis were the same individuals (Bumpy and Toro) that appeared in Camp Cretaceous.
- The appearance of Lewis Dodgson was not considered until roughly a month into screenwriting.
- Allosaurus' scenes were originally given to Teratophoneus.