Colin Trevorrow explains why Jurassic World: Dominion's prologue didn't make the final cut
Fans can probably guess why the clip was cut from the two-and-a-half hour film
It’s hard to imagine there’s anything left on the cutting room floor of these behemoth, two-plus hour mega-blockbusters, but of course, there’s always more content. Just ask Colin Trevorrow, whose prologue for Jurassic World: Dominion isn’t even in the movie.
It was, however, released online for the viewing public late last year to wet everyone’s whistle for the coming dino invasion. The better part of the prologue is a peaceful, nature-movie take on when dinosaurs ruled the planet before cutting to the not-so-peaceful coexistence 65 million years later.
In a new interview, The Wrap questioned Trevorrow about the “beautiful and Malick-ian” cut scene. But the clip was “Maybe too Malick-ian for a big summer movie,” the director admitted. “It was the beginning of the movie, it’s the first five minutes of the film and something I’m very proud of. In our negotiations for how long this movie could be, and it’s still a pretty long movie, we realized that it was going to have to go.”