The latest chapter in theJurassic Parkfranchise,Jurassic World Rebirth, will act as a soft reboot for the franchise, which makes it the perfect time to put one of the franchise’s wildest story concepts into action. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey,Jurassic World Rebirthplot detailsindicate there will be a time jump from the events ofJurassic World Dominion. Johansson stars as Zora Bennett, the leader of a team of hunters and specialists who are tracking down DNA samples of the last surviving dinosaurs in the world for a pharmaceutical company.
The only other major plot detail that’s been revealed is that Zora and her team encounter a shipwrecked family during their hunt, which results in them all ending up on an island that holds a “sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades”, as the official synopsis puts it. Naturally, speculation has taken off about what that shocking discovery might be, and of the manypredictions forJurassic World Rebirth, one makes a ton of sense given the “sinister” qualifier of the secret. In fact, it’s an idea that’s been thrown around for more than 15 years.
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Jurassic World Rebirth Should Finally Include Human-Dinosaur Hybrids
The Idea Has Been Rumored Since BeforeJurassic World
An early pitch forJurassic Park IVfeatured human-dinosaur hybrids, with the idea getting at least as far as concept art before it was eventually scrapped.Jurassic Park IVeventually evolved intoJurassic World, but the seeds of the human-dino hybrids remained; Jurassic World’s primary antagonist is the Indominus Rex, which is itself a hybrid dinosaur that contains genetic materials from a T. rex and Velociraptor, among other dinosaurs. The hybrid concept would continue inJurassic World: Fallen Kingdomwith the Indoraptor, and the cloned human girl Maisie Lockwood.
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Really, a human-dinosaur hybrid is the next logical step in the Jurassic Park franchise, which is predicated on the concept that science’s perversion of nature can have disastrous results.A human-dinosaur hybrid would be the ultimate perversion of nature, but is one that would logically be pursued if that kind of technology existed. It also fits the bill of the “sinister, shocking discovery” that the revealed plot synopsis outlined.
A Human-Dinosaur Hybrid Sounds Ridiculous, But It Could Be Scary If Done Right
TheAlienFranchise Shows How It Could Work
One of theproblems that theJurassic Parkfranchise has facedsinceJurassic Park IIIis the fact thatdinosaurs have lost their scariness somewhat. The original T. rex ofJurassic Parkwas a genuinely terrifying creation of practical and special effects, as was the spinosaurus ofJurassic Park III. The heavily CGI’d hybrid monsters of theJurassic Worldinstallments simply don’t pack the same punch, however. In a cinematic world where CGI kaiju and aliens are commonplace, dinosaurs simply don’t do it anymore (which is, ironically, the very attitude that resulted in the Indominus' Rex’s birth).
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However, a human-dinosaur hybrid could bring some legitimate fear back to the sci-fi franchise. While the idea might seem silly on the surface, crossing a dinosaur with a human has all sorts of exciting design possibilities.The recently-releasedAlien: Romulusproved how effective the strategy could be; the creature known as The Offspring that emerges in the movie’s climax is a genetic cross between a human and a Xenomorph, and it’s by far the most disturbing monster to appear in the movie.Jurassic World Rebirthcould take a similar approach and come out with something truly unique and scary.
Jurassic World Rebirth
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Jurassic World Rebirth, set five years after Jurassic World Dominion, sees covert operations expert Zora Bennett guiding a team to obtain dinosaur genetic material. Their mission collides with a stranded family on a perilous island, uncovering a long-buried secret.
