'Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock' New Video Short Film is Here

People love their dinosaurs, and that point is driven home by the success of the five films in the Jurassic film series (three as part of Jurassic Park, two for Jurassic World) with a sixth on the way from producer Steven Spielberg. For anyone who saw the last film, 2018’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard, that film ended with various prehistoric beasties being freed from the island they lived on (which had briefly been turned into a theme park), and escaping into the rest of the world. The real question was, what’s next?

The answer to that question will come in the form of Jurassic World III, which reunites Pratt and Howard and will be released in 2021. However, that film’s director, Colin Trevorrow, has now given us a taste of what’s to come with the short film Jurassic World: Battle at Big Rock, which nicely establishes what the new world landscape is like with humans having to share the planet with dinosaurs.

Some of that theme was dealt with in Fallen Kingdom, and for good reason as Christ Pratt explained: “We needed to expand what we’re doing in this film and it was designed as a trilogy. This is the connective tissue between Jurassic World on the island and Jurassic World on the world; this is how it went down. This is Pandora’s Box opening and what’s happening in this movie is we’re literally blowing up the island so that we won’t go back to it in the future. That’s a part of a very cherished Jurassic past, and now it’s bigger. It’s global. We’re talking about the expansion of science and what that deals with and how we deal with it as human beings. We can’t put the genie back in the bottle now.”

For a quick look at the previous films in the series, please scroll down.

‘Jurassic Park’ (1993)

Steven Spielberg directs this adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel. In it, paleontologists Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler (Sam Neill and Laura Dern), along with mathematician Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum) are among those brought to the island theme park featuring cloned dinosaurs as created by John Hammond (Richard Attenborough). There to give the park a scientific endorsement, they instead find themselves running for their lives as things go wrong and the dinosaurs are let loose from their caged environments. The T-Rex and Velociraptors? Good lord!

‘The Lost World: Jurassic Park’ (1997)

It turns out there is a second island with dinosaurs on them, and John Hammond asks Ian Malcolm to travel to it with a documentary team to observe and document them thriving there to prove to the government that this should be made a sanctuary. Hammond apparently learned his lesson from the first film and isn’t quite so concerned about a theme park, though the same can’t be said for his greedy nephew and CEO of his company.

‘Jurassic Park III’ (2001)

Alan Grant (the returning Sam Neill) thinks he’s been hired as an aerial tour of of Hammond’s dinosaur island, but he’s unwittingly being used to help find and rescue the son of a couple who have completely manipulated him. Now everyone’s lives are in danger. The film introduces the Spinosaurus.

‘Jurassic World’ (2015)

A number of years after the events of the last film, Jurassic World has become a thriving theme park, though its managers are left with the challenge of coming up with new and bigger attractions to keep the audience coming. Needless to say, that leads into some problems, particularly when a genetic stew results in what is a particularly vicious, uncontrollable creature. Check out the ending where a variety of dinosaurs come together against the big bad Indominous Rex. It’s an Avengers-like moment with dinosaurs.

‘Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom’ (2018)

This sequel sees Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard reprising their roles. He as Navy veteran and former dinosaur trainer Owen Grady, and she as Claire Dearing, the former Jurassic World park manager who has now founded the Dinosaur Protection Group, which is designed to evacuate the remaining dinosaurs from the island when it’s threatened with destruction. Naturally there are corporate machinations involved, but it all ends with the dinosaurs being freed from the confines of the island are now let loose in the world. Bringing us full circle back to Jurassic World: Battle at Black Rock.