Jurassic Park: A Jurassic Park Story
Do we think Jurassic Park movies would work better if it leaned into anthology-style movies?
One of the reasons I love Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is because it wasn’t trying to set up a sequel. Nobody had plot armor. Anyone could die, anything could happen, and even though we knew the mission would ultimately succeed, it didn’t take away from the tension.
With the Jurassic World movies, it always felt like everything was building toward the next installment. You kind of know going in who’s safe, how it’s going to end, and that takes some of the edge off. >!Fallen Kingdom exists just to setup that closing moment when the Dino's are let loose on earth. To me, it feels the entire point of that movie was to setup the sequel. !<
So I’m curious, would a Jurassic Park movie set in the same universe, but completely separate from the main cast, actually work better? Smaller story, higher stakes, no guaranteed survivors.
Something like Jurassic World Rebirth could have been that, but they didn't. I actually like the core idea behind rebirth, but the execution feels rough, lots of plot holes and internal logic issues that take away from the movie. It's also extremely predictable which is less than appealing.
Feels like the franchise would benefit from just telling one tight, self-contained story where anything can happen. Curious what others think.
