Full explanation of Jurassic Park and the world timeline

THE Jurassic World and Jurassic Park The timelines span 65 million years, but most of the action takes place across the six films from 1993 to 2022. Jurassic Park was initially created by author Michael Crichton, and his best-selling technothriller was adapted into a blockbuster film by Steven Spielberg in 1993. Spielberg’s film changed many aspects of Crichton’s novel, and every hit Jurassic Park film and TV project based on the canon established by Spielberg’s films.

Jurassic ParkThe incredible success spawned two more sequels, in 1997 and 2001, before being softly rebooted as Jurassic World by Colin Trevorrow in 2015. Jurassic World began a second trilogy that was completed in 2022 Jurassic World Dominion and two canonical Netflix animated spinoffs, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous and Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. THE Jurassic It is often said that the saga is “an adventure that lasted 65 million years”, and Jurassic World Rebirth pushes the timeline further into the future.

65 million years ago

The Jurassic World Prologue: Dominion

The prologue to Jurassic World: Dominion established that 65 million years ago, a Tyrannosaurus Rex was killed by a Gigantosaurus, the largest predator in existence. However, a fly drank the dead T-Rex’s blood and was encased in amber from a tree. This was the same fly preserved in amber from which InGen scientists extracted dinosaur DNA in the early 1990s, during the first Jurassic Park film.

This also means that the T-Rex in Jurassic Park is a clone of the super predator who was killed by Gigantosaurus. Of course, dinosaurs went extinct 65 million years ago. Still, thanks to Jurassic Park science, enough DNA has been recovered – and then remixed with amphibian DNA – to successfully clone multiple dinosaur species, making the Jurassic possible films. That the prologue ties all the films together with the definitive origin story.

1975

John Hammond founds InGen with Benjamin Lockwood

InGen (International Genetics Technologies, Inc.) was founded by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) in 1975. Hammond”I dreamed” the idea of ​​cloning prehistoric dinosaurs from DNA fossilized in amber. Hammond created a research group led by Dr. Henry Wu (BD Wong) to put his dream into practice. The first prehistoric creature was successfully cloned in 1985, thanks to the fly they found.

Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom retold InGen’s origin story to reveal that Hammond partnered with Scottish businessman Sir Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell), his best friend, to found InGen. Lockwood also built a fully functional genetics laboratory beneath Lockwood Manor in Northern California. While InGen was headquartered in Palo Alto, dinosaur cloning operations were moved to Isla Sorna (Site B), near Costa Rica. InGen also acquired Isla Nublar as the site of the dinosaur theme park, which they named Jurassic Park.

1993

The events of the original Jurassic Park

By 1993, Jurassic Park was nearly operational and preparing to open to the public. To calm investors’ fears, Hammond recruited paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant, paleobotanist Dr. to visit and evaluate the viability of Jurassic Park like a working safari/zoo. However, rival genetics company BioSyn hires Jurassic Park programmer Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight) to steal dinosaur embryos. Bad weather created a disaster that knocked out the park’s power grid, allowing the dinosaurs to escape their paddocks.

As dinosaurs take over Isla Nublar, Dr. Grant becomes trapped in the jungle with Hammond’s young grandchildren, Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim (Joseph Mazzello). Grant keeps them safe and manages to return to the Jurassic Park visitor center in time to evacuate the island. Realizing the disastrous implications of his Jurassic Park dream, Hammond decides the park should never open.

Post-1993

Hammond and Lockhart fall out

Benjamin Lockwood’s daughter visited Jurassic Park some time before its destruction in 1993 and saw what her father was planning. However, Charlotte died of a genetic disease some time after the collapse of Isla Nublar. Before his death, she tried to have a child by cloning her father. Hammond, who has changed since the Jurassic Park incident, discovered Lockwood’s plans and was furious at the “unholy thing” his partner intended to do. Hammond and Lockwood had a fight.

With no blood relatives, the devastated Lockwood decides to use cloning technology in his mansion to recreate his daughter through cloning. Benjamin ended up isolating himself at Lockwood Manor. Hammond chose, at this point, not to mess with nature anymorebut Lockwood kept his dreams and plans, and after Hammond died in 1998, Lockwood finally achieved his breakthrough with human cloning.

1997

The Events of the Lost World: Jurassic Park

In 1997, the ailing John Hammond was on the verge of death and was replaced as CEO of InGen by his nephew, Peter Ludlow (Arliss Howard). Hammond invites Ian Malcolm to join a team to travel to Isla Sorna and document the dinosaurs there, which were released into the wild after a hurricane. At Site B, where the dinosaurs were created, Malcolm discovers that Ludlow hired mercenaries to capture the dinosaurs in order to bring them back as attractions in Jurassic Park San Diego.

Ludlow’s mercenaries capture an adult T-rex and a child and prepare them for transport to the United States. The ship carrying the T-Rex accidentally crashes into the docks, and the apex predator is released to attack San Diego. Malcolm and Dr. Sarah Harding (Julianne Moore) use the baby T-Rex to take the adult back to the docks and seal him in the ship. The T-Rexes are then transported back to Isla Sorna, which the United States and Costa Rican governments call a nature reserve.

2001

The events of Jurassic Park III

In 2001, a 12-year-old boy named Eric Kirby (Trevor Morgan) disappeared while on vacation near Isla Sorna. Soon after, her parents, Paul (William H. Macy) and Amanda Kirby (Tea Leoni), hire Dr. Alan Grant under false circumstancesto lead a team to Isla Sorna and rescue Eric. The Kirbys’ plane crashes after being attacked by the island’s apex predator, the Spinosaurus. Grant locates Eric, who survived on the island, and they try to reach shore.

Although the rest of his team is killed by attacks from Velociraptors, Pteranodons, and Spinosaurus, Grant successfully leads the Kirbys to the beach, where they are met by the US Navy. At the end of the film the carnivores are still alive on the island with their eggs and when the helicopter leaves the island the Pteranodons they fly in search of a new place to nest. This was also Alan’s last appearance until he returned to Jurassic World: Dominion.

1997-2005

Masrani Global Corporation Opens Jurassic World

By the time of his death in 1998, John Hammond had converted from an industrialist and capitalist who sought to profit from his cloned dinosaurs into a naturalist who wanted his creations to be left alone on his islands. That same year, Simon Masrani (Irrfan Khan), the CEO of Masrani Global Corporation, acquired InGen with the aim of realizing Hammond’s initial dream of opening Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar.

Seven years after acquiring InGen, Masrani Global Corporation opened the renamed Jurassic World on Isla Nublar. Claire Dearing has come on board as Jurassic World’s senior asset manager, while Owen Grady has been hired as the park’s animal behaviorist/Velociraptor trainer.

Masrani expanded Hammond’s initial Jurassic Park dream with more dinosaur attractions, including the Mosasaurus in Jurassic World Lagoon. Jurassic World operated successfully for ten years. However, Masrani also discovered that the public’s fascination with dinosaurs was waning, which led the company to pressure Dr. Henry Wu to create hybrid dinosaurs like the Indominus Rex as new attractions for the park.

2015

The events of Jurassic World

In 2015, after ten years of Jurassic World operating without incident, a disaster occurred that doomed the Masrani dinosaur park. The Indominus Rex escaped from its paddock and caused havoc on the island. The Indominus’ rampage created a domino effect, as the Pteranodons escaped their enclosure, which led to the death of Simon Masrani when the dinosaurs attacked his helicopter. Jurassic World was evacuated while Owen Grady and Claire Dearing teamed up to stop the Indominus Rex.

Grady weaponized the three Velociraptors he trained, led by Blue, to help him hunt the Indominus. Dearing released the original T-Rex from Jurassic Park, who had lived on Isla Nublar since the fall of Hammond Park in 1993, to fight the Indominus. The hybrid superpredator was eventually defeated and eaten by the Mosasaurus. Owen and Claire evacuated Jurassic World, which was permanently closed when the remaining dinosaurs escaped and took control of Isla Nublar once again.

2015-2018

The Cretaceous Camp Events

Netflix animation Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceouswhich lasted five seasons, began during the events of Jurassic World and continued after the prologue of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. In the beginning of Cretaceous Camp, six teenagers are brought to the island as the inaugural group of campers, and they witness the fall of Jurassic World. Trapped on the island, the children are forced to survive, encountering the dinosaurs that now roam freely on Isla Nublar.

The Campers also encounter enemy hunters and a new hybrid predator created by Dr. Henry Wu, the Scorpios Rex. Furthermore, Campers witnessed the acquisition of Indominus Rex DNA from Mosasaurus, which led to the creation of the Indoraptor. At the beginning of Cretaceous Camp Season 4, the Campers escape from Isla Nublar.

Still, they are stranded on a new island owned by Mantah Corp that contains not only dinosaurs but Spinosaurus doing its post-Jurassic Park III return, but also other prehistoric creatures such as saber-toothed tigers, as well as robotic enforcers. The teens discover that Mantah Corp cloned their own dinosaurs and genetically manipulated his creatures to fight each other for his investors. Kenji (Ryan Potter), the oldest of the Campers, also discovers that his father is the CEO of Mantah Corp.

The good news is that the children were saved and reunited with their families. Surviving these adventures makes them famous and known as the Nublar Six. The first season takes place at the same time as Jurassic World, and the second season is the aftermath of the dinosaurs’ takeover of the island. The third season takes place during the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The fourth and fifth seasons take place after the children escape Isla Nublar after the volcano, and their story ends before Jurassic World: Dominion start.

2017-2018

The Events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

After the fall of Jurassic World, Claire Dearing and several park employees felt responsible for the dinosaurs. When Isla Nublar’s volcano, Mount Sibo, suddenly becomes active again after lying dormant for 500 years, Claire founded the Dinosaur Protection Group to secure funding and rescue the dinosaurs. Two of Claire’s key DPG hires were systems analyst Franklin Webb (Justice Smith) and paleo veterinarian Zia Rodriguez (Daniella Pineda).

This organization was the first of its kind to fight against the mistreatment of dinosaurs, although it faced many opponents along the way. The DPG aims to find a way for both species to coexist, while ensuring that dinosaurs suffer limited human intrusion. Claire discovers that Benjamin Lockwood and Eli Mills (Rafe Spall), who runs Lockwood’s business, financed an operation to rescue the dinosaurs from Isla Nublar before the eruption of Mount Sibo destroys the island.

Claire recruits Owen Grady, who joins the expedition to rescue Blue, her pet Velociraptor. After arriving at Isla Nublar, Grady is betrayed by Wheatley (Ted Levine), the mercenary leading the mission. Lockwood’s mercenaries capture several species of dinosaurs and leave the rest to die on the island. Owen, Claire and their friends survive the volcanic eruption and stow away on ships, with the dinosaurs returning to Lockwood Manor.

Owen and Claire discover that the dinosaurs are being sold at a secret auction. Additionally, Dr. Henry Wu created a new hybrid superpredator, the Indoraptor, derived from the DNA of the Indominus Rex. Another shock is the fact that Lockwood’s young niece Maisie is a perfect human clone of Benjamin’s late daughter, Charlotte. After Owen, Claire and Grady survive an encounter with the Indoraptor, Maisie frees the captured dinosaurs and they flee across Northern California and spread across the world.

2019

Battle at Little Big Rock

Jurassic World: Battle at Little Big Rock takes place one year after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Battle at Little Big Rock centers on a blended family on vacation who face the reality of rampaging dinosaurs in their midst when an Allosaurus and a Nasutoceratops fight in their camp. After attacking the other dinosaurs, he heads towards the campers to attack the humans. Fortunately, the humans survive thanks to some quick thinking, but this shows how dangerous dinosaurs are in the real world.

Battle at Little Big Rock also ends with a montage of other dinosaurs spreading across the world and terrorizing civilization, configuring the events Jurassic World: Dominion. Directed by Colin Trevorrow, the short film premiered on FX in 2019 before being released online. It was also shown as a small part Domain and is a warning sign to people in the fictional universe, telling them to never look down on these giant creatures and to be careful of any dangers around them.

2021

The Events of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

The characters of Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous return in the sequel to the animated series Jurassic World: Chaos Theory. The story picks up six years after the events that began Cretaceous Campwith The Nublar Six reuniting for a new adventure. The story follows the group after Jenna Ortega’s Brooklyn died due to a dinosaur attack, only for Ben to reveal to Darius that someone was tracking the Nublar Six. This begins a journey to find the other three members and warn them of the danger they are in.

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is directly set between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World Dominion in the franchise’s timeline. This means that the six-year later definition for Chaos Theory It can’t be six years later Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous season 5 finale, as this would delay the events of the sequel until 2024. Since Jurassic World DominionThe story hasn’t unfolded yet, it’s set to take place six years after The Nublar Six got stranded, which puts the show in 2021.

2022

The Events of Jurassic World: Dominion

Four years after the dinosaurs were released Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdomthey have proliferated throughout the world. Owen Grady discovers that Blue the Velociraptor has managed to breed. Furthermore, the worldwide spread of dinosaurs has also become a crisis that requires the expertise of Dr. Alan Grant, Dr. Ellie Sattler, and Dr. This gives the franchise a chance to bring back the stars of Jurassic Park and make them join the Jurassic World stars to tie it all together.

Domain also sees the return of Lewis Dodgson (Campbell Scott), the CEO of BioSyn, who last appeared in Jurassic Park (and was played by Cameron Thor). Furthermore, the Jurassic the heroes encounter a new clone of Gigantosaurus, the largest predator to ever walk the Earth. The villain here was Biosyn Genetics, who used dinosaurs to create new life forms, resulting in mutant locusts that threatened to destroy the world. The film ends with the government once again creating a dinosaur sanctuary.

2027

The Events of Jurassic World Rebirth

THE Jurassic World the timeline goes further into the future than ever before with Jurassic World Rebirth. The fourth film, starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali, is a reset for the franchise that revolves around Johansson’s character and her black ops team tasked with extracting DNA from the three largest remaining dinosaurs. This is to help create a medicine that could have life-saving results for humanity. But when they find a family trapped on an island with them, shocking revelations emerge that could change the entire franchise.

Jurassic World Rebirth is confirmed to take place five years later Jurassic World Dominion. As the trilogy ends in 2022, it is official that Jurassic World 4 takes place in 2027, which is the furthest point on the timeline to date. The film’s 2025 release will be the first film in the franchise to be set at a later date than its release. When building Jurassic World Dominionis ending and moving a few more years into the future, the Jurassic the timeline is growing like never before.

What will the future of Jurassic Park be like?

It was said that Jurassic World Dominion served as the end of the plot that began in the first film and continued into the Jurassic World trilogy. While that may be the case, it certainly doesn’t mean the franchise will end. Jurassic World Rebirth will serve as the beginning of a new phase of the franchise that will examine the consequences and struggles of dinosaurs and humans coexisting in the world.

Although it has not been confirmed whether the latter Jurassic World film will be followed by sequels, it’s fair to assume that if the film is a success, the story will continue. Interestingly, as big as the Jurassic Park franchise is, the future isn’t being mapped out in an overly ambitious way at the moment. Perhaps in response to excessively negative reception Jurassic World Dominionfilmmakers may be hoping that Jurassic World Rebirth it will be a return to form that will get fans excited about these films again before exploring what comes next.