99 Fun Facts About Jurassic World

Which footwear does Claire keep on throughout Jurassic World?

High heels: the actress chose them herself and learned to sprint in them from her on-set driver, a former UFC fighter.

On which fictional island is the Jurassic World park located?

Isla Nublar: the resort was built on the island where the first park ended in disaster, and the ruins of its old visitor centre still lie in a restricted zone.

Which Jurassic World dinosaur is the same animal seen in the 1993 original?

Tyrannosaurus rex: the park's veteran, nicknamed Rexy by fans, stays in her paddock until Claire releases her to fight the escaped hybrid.

Who plays raptor trainer Owen Grady in Jurassic World?

Chris Pratt devised a backstory in which Owen had trained dolphins for the US Navy before the park hired him to work with its raptors.

Which actress plays Claire, the park's operations manager, in Jurassic World?

Bryce Dallas Howard: her character starts out calling the dinosaurs "assets" and ends the trilogy as a dinosaur-rights activist.

What are the names of the four raptors in Owen's squad in Jurassic World?

Blue, Charlie, Delta, Echo: Blue is the eldest of the four sisters and the only one left alive at the end, which is why she alone returns in the sequels.

Which hybrid dinosaur escapes its paddock in Jurassic World?

Indominus rex was engineered to boost attendance with something bigger and scarier; it masks its body heat so its keepers think it has fled, then ambushes them inside the paddock.

InGen made the dinosaurs, but which company owns Jurassic World?

Masrani Global: its billionaire boss says the first park's founder entrusted him with a dying wish to see the dream through, and he dies trying to stop the hybrid himself.

Who plays the park's billionaire owner in Jurassic World?

Irrfan Khan called the tycoon flamboyant but short on wisdom: still learning to fly, he pilots his own helicopter after the hybrid and dies when it crashes.

Which original Jurassic Park actor returned in Jurassic World?

BD Wong returned as geneticist Henry Wu, a part trimmed down from the novel in 1993; he said he had felt "a little left out" of the first film.

Who plays Vic Hoskins, the security chief who wants to weaponize the raptors in Jurassic World?

Vincent D'Onofrio's Hoskins seizes command once the owner is dead and sends the raptors out as weapons; the plan backfires, and one of them corners and kills him in the lab.

Who plays Barry, Owen's fellow raptor handler, in Jurassic World?

Omar Sy: the director wrote Barry with the French star in mind, and he came back in Jurassic World Dominion, where Barry has become a French intelligence agent.

What are the first names of Claire's two nephews in Jurassic World?

Zach and Gray are sent to the island while their parents head for divorce, and slip away from their chaperone while she is on the phone about her wedding.

Which vehicle do the brothers repair at the ruined visitor center in Jurassic World?

A Jeep Wrangler: the first park's staff drove them in the 1993 film, and this one starts after two decades in the ruins to carry the boys back to the resort.

Which animal drags the hybrid underwater in Jurassic World?

Mosasaurus: first seen leaping from its lagoon to snatch a shark in a feeding show, it resurfaces in the final seconds to end the fight.

Which creatures seize Claire's assistant before she is eaten in Jurassic World?

Pteranodons snatch Zara and drop her in the lagoon, where she is eaten; the director wanted the series' first death of a female character to fall on someone who "just doesn't deserve to die at all".

Which animal's genes let the hybrid in Jurassic World hide its body heat?

Tree frog: the park's geneticist admits to the frog genes only after his creation has masked its body heat and escaped; in the 1993 film it was frog DNA that let the dinosaurs breed.

Which sea creature's genes let the hybrid dinosaur in Jurassic World change colour and hide?

Cuttlefish: the hybrid uses the borrowed camouflage to vanish into the jungle and evade capture, a trick Michael Crichton's novel The Lost World had given to Carnotaurus.

Which talk-show host appears as himself in a ride safety video in Jurassic World?

Jimmy Fallon, who fronts real ride videos at Universal's parks, is paralysed by dinosaur venom in the spoof; singer Jimmy Buffett also cameos, fleeing with a margarita in each hand.

Who directed Jurassic World and voices its Mr. DNA?

Colin Trevorrow had directed only one feature, the low-budget Safety Not Guaranteed, when he was handed one of cinema's biggest series.

Which paleontologist, the series' adviser since 1993, cameos in Jurassic World?

Jack Horner, who partly inspired the character of Alan Grant, can be spotted among the staff, high-fiving a colleague after Owen's first raptor demonstration.

Which dinosaur's display skeleton is smashed in Jurassic World's finale, as payback for a fight in Jurassic Park III?

Spinosaurus: it beat the series' most famous predator in Jurassic Park III, so here that predator, once freed, bursts straight through its mounted bones on the way to the last fight.

Which Pixar director, who helped the film's director get the job, voices the monorail announcer in Jurassic World?

Brad Bird had suggested the little-known director to the producers for a different film, and they hired him for this one instead; he in turn asked his mentor to record the park's welcome message.

Jurassic World story writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver had just revived which film series?

Planet of the Apes: their 2011 reboot had impressed the producers, but in the pair's dinosaur draft the hero backed turning the raptors into weapons, a stance the finished film hands to its villain.

Which producer of the original Jurassic Park left the fourth film for Lucasfilm?

Kathleen Kennedy had taken charge of Lucasfilm, but it was she and her husband, fellow producer Frank Marshall, who watched the indie film that led them to the sequel's director.

Universal pulled Jurassic World from its June 2014 date to fix what?

The script: the newly hired director and his writing partner turned in a far bigger rewrite than the studio expected, and two days later it took the film off the calendar.

Which original-film character appears as a statue in Jurassic World?

John Hammond: the bronze honours the first park's late founder; Richard Attenborough, who played him, had been in failing health since a fall in 2008 and died in 2014, before the film came out.

In which US state did filming of Jurassic World begin in April 2014?

Hawaii: the series went back to the islands that had played the park's home in 1993, and two sets built on an Oahu ranch were left standing as tourist attractions.

In the parking lot of which abandoned amusement park was Jurassic World's Main Street built?

Six Flags New Orleans, shut since Hurricane Katrina wrecked it in 2005: the rides were too damaged to film, so the crew built the boardwalk in its car park, drawn by Louisiana tax breaks.

A Main Street restaurant in Jurassic World is named in tribute to which late creature-effects pioneer?

Stan Winston built the animatronic dinosaurs of the first three films and died in 2008; out of respect for him, a planned scene of the hybrid tearing the head off a robot dinosaur was dropped.

Which dinosaur was built as an animatronic for its death scene in Jurassic World?

Apatosaurus: the producer balked at the cost of building it, but the director argued fans would love it, and Owen and Claire comfort the animal as it dies.

Which effects house created the computer-generated dinosaurs of Jurassic World?

Industrial Light & Magic, which had animated the 1993 dinosaurs too, this time had performers act out the raptors in motion-capture suits rather than animating them by hand.

John Williams scored Jurassic Park; who scored Jurassic World?

Michael Giacchino got his first major composing job on a 1997 video game of The Lost World: Jurassic Park, nearly two decades before he scored the film series itself.

What was the main marketing tagline of Jurassic World?

The park is open: the line sums up the first of three ideas the executive producer set for the script, a dinosaur park fully up and running.

Which director criticised an early Jurassic World clip as "'70s-era sexist"?

Joss Whedon tweeted it about a clip of Owen and Claire bickering; the film's own director said he did not totally disagree, and Whedon later said he regretted the tweet.

A remark by the director's young son cost Jurassic World a second hybrid, part Triceratops and part what?

Stegosaurus: the Stegoceratops went after the boy, watching Return of the Jedi, said that if Leia is a Jedi too then Luke isn't unique, and his father decided there could be only one hybrid.

Which carmaker supplied nearly every vehicle in the new park in Jurassic World?

Mercedes-Benz: the director said the film's heavy branding was deliberate, a nod to Ian Malcolm's 1993 jibe about packaging a discovery and slapping it on a plastic lunchbox.

Which shaving-cream brand, whose can hid embryos in the 1993 film, promoted Jurassic World?

Barbasol: the thief hid the embryos in a specially rigged can but was killed on his way to the dock, and the can was lost in the mud; the brand marked the sequel with dinosaur-themed cans.

Which Paris cinema hosted the world premiere of Jurassic World in May 2015?

Le Grand Rex opened in December 1932 with 3,300 seats, and by the following year its founder had lost it to the Gaumont chain.

What does Owen ride alongside his raptors as they hunt the hybrid in Jurassic World?

A motorcycle: the executive producer had wanted bikes and raptors in one scene since 2005, though in his version the riders were fleeing; the star crashed his Triumph while filming it.

Which country was the last market to get Jurassic World, on August 5, 2015?

Japan waited almost two months longer than the first markets, yet ended up the film's third-biggest territory outside North America, behind China and the United Kingdom.

On release, Jurassic World trailed only Avatar and which other film worldwide?

Titanic: forecasters had expected an opening of about $125 million in North America; it took $208.8 million instead and finished behind only the two James Cameron epics.

Jurassic World took the worldwide opening-weekend record from the final film of which series?

Harry Potter: Deathly Hallows – Part 2 had held the record since 2011; by opening in 66 territories at once, China included, the dinosaurs became the first film to pass $500 million in a weekend.

Which fellow 2015 release did Jurassic World beat as the fastest film to reach $1 billion worldwide?

Furious 7 had set the record only that April, reaching China in its second weekend; Jurassic World opened there on the same weekend as in North America and got to $1 billion faster.

Which film was the highest-grossing of 2015, ahead of Jurassic World?

Star Wars: The Force Awakens was made by the producer who had quit the dinosaur sequel for Lucasfilm in 2013, and that December it also took the opening-weekend record Jurassic World had set.

What does Claire use to lure a rival predator into the final fight in Jurassic World?

A flare: in the 1993 film Alan Grant waved one to lure a predator away from the action; Claire turns the trick around and leads hers straight into the fight.

Which 2015 video game lets players replay Jurassic World and the three earlier films, even as the dinosaurs?

Lego Jurassic World retells the first four films in bricks; Peter Stormare even came back to record new lines as his hunter from The Lost World.

The raptors' calls in Jurassic World were built from recordings of toucans and which other birds?

Penguins: the sound designer spent over a year recording birds at zoos and sanctuaries, and when a raptor answers its handler the cry is pure penguin or pure toucan.

Which 2018 film was Jurassic World's first sequel?

Fallen Kingdom sends Owen and Claire back to save the animals from a volcanic eruption and ends with the surviving dinosaurs let loose on the American mainland.

Which footwear does Bryce Dallas Howard's character keep on to flee dinosaurs in Jurassic World?

High heels stayed on at the actress's own insistence: she refused to snap them off in the jungle because a 1984 adventure film had already used that gag.

Which sea creature is dangled as food for a giant marine reptile at the Jurassic World lagoon show?

A shark hangs over the water until the reptile leaps out and takes it, a feeding show the director suggested so guests could watch from bleachers.

Who suggested that Jurassic World should show a fully working dinosaur park?

Steven Spielberg, director of the 1993 original, had also dreamed up the idea of a raptor handler as early as 2004.

Which actor returns as Ian Malcolm to testify before senators in the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

Jeff Goldblum had played the mathematician in the first two films, and returns here to argue that the dinosaurs should be left to die.

Which natural threat is about to wipe out the dinosaurs' island in the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

An erupting volcano came straight from the first novel, where the island already had one, and the writers built the rescue plot around it.

Which giant engineered insects strip crops and threaten the food supply in Jurassic World Dominion?

Locusts spare only the fields grown from one company's seeds, the clue that tells Ellie Sattler who engineered the swarm.

Which actress, a fan who spent a decade hoping to join the series, leads Jurassic World Rebirth?

Scarlett Johansson plays covert operative Zora Bennett, and was cast at once when the director heard how much she wanted the part.

Which streaming service launched the animated series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous?

Netflix released the animated series in 2020, following a group of teenage campers stranded on the island when the dinosaurs break loose.

The island that houses the Jurassic World theme park lies off the Pacific coast of which country?

Costa Rica almost gained dinosaurs of its own: an early story idea had the animals migrating from the island to the mainland.

Which novelist, who also created the TV drama ER, wrote the books behind the Jurassic World films?

Michael Crichton published Jurassic Park in 1990 and The Lost World in 1995, and the 2018 sequel still took Ian Malcolm's dialogue from his first novel.

In which US military branch did raptor trainer Owen Grady serve before joining Jurassic World?

Navy life came with a backstory the lead actor invented himself: his character trained dolphins there before moving on to raptors.

Which animal's DNA lets Jurassic World's escaped hybrid dinosaur camouflage itself in the jungle?

Cuttlefish genes let the white hybrid blend into its surroundings, part of a genetic recipe that also includes tree frog DNA.

Which New Girl actor plays control-room technician Lowery Cruthers in Jurassic World?

Jake Johnson played Nick Miller on the Fox sitcom from 2011 to 2018, and took the part of the park's control-room technician midway through that run.

Which child actor from Iron Man 3 plays the younger of the two visiting brothers in Jurassic World?

Ty Simpkins had already played Harley Keener, the boy who becomes Tony Stark's sidekick and the first child to feature prominently in that series.

Which Archer voice actress plays Karen Mitchell, mother of the two visiting boys, in Jurassic World?

Judy Greer joined two blockbuster series that year, also appearing in Marvel's Ant-Man, and plays an ape named Cornelia in the rebooted Planet of the Apes films.

Jurassic World took the North American opening-weekend record from which superhero film?

The Avengers had held the record since 2012 with $207.4 million, and the dinosaurs squeezed past it with $208.8 million.

Which composer's themes from the original Jurassic Park were woven into the score of Jurassic World?

John Williams wrote the music for the 1993 original, and his themes were placed with care, only where fans would most appreciate hearing them.

Which Spanish director of The Impossible took charge of the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

J. A. Bayona had been considered for the first Jurassic World too, but declined because he felt there was too little time to make it.

Which Babe actor plays the ailing tycoon Benjamin Lockwood in the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

James Cromwell earned an Oscar nomination as the farmer in Babe, and here plays the former partner of the original park's founder.

What is Maisie Lockwood, raised as a grandchild, revealed to be in the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

A human clone of Benjamin Lockwood's dead daughter, Maisie was the reason the original park's founder ended their partnership.

Which activist organisation does Bryce Dallas Howard's character found after Jurassic World closes?

Dinosaur Protection Group is her attempt to make amends: the actress saw the former park manager as someone who had been on the wrong side of history.

Which trophy costs mercenary Ken Wheatley his life in the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

A tooth is what he climbs into the cage to pull, but the hybrid he has darted is only pretending to be unconscious.

Which Detective Pikachu star plays systems analyst Franklin Webb in the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

Justice Smith rode a ball-shaped ride car down a specially built roller coaster track to film a plunge off a cliff into the sea.

What does Eli Mills secretly plan for the dinosaurs rescued in the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

Sell them at auction, not move them to the island sanctuary he promised: buyers gather beneath his employer's mansion to bid.

Which actress returns as Ellie Sattler in Jurassic World Dominion after two decades away?

Laura Dern drives the plot this time: the director called it her film, because her two co-stars from 1993 had each already led a sequel.

Which New Zealand actor returns as paleontologist Alan Grant in Jurassic World Dominion?

Sam Neill had last played Grant in Jurassic Park III in 2001, and here shares the screen with both of his 1993 co-stars for the first time since the original.

Which genetics company runs the dinosaur preserve in Italy's Dolomites in Jurassic World Dominion?

Biosyn goes back to the first novel, where its man Lewis Dodgson hires a park programmer to steal dinosaur embryos.

Which Mediterranean island hosts an underground dinosaur market in Jurassic World Dominion?

Malta came from a wish list one of the stars kept during the earlier films, which included an underground dinosaur market there and a baby raptor.

Which cargo pilot, played by DeWanda Wise, flies the heroes to Italy in Jurassic World Dominion?

Kayla Watts is a former US Air Force pilot, and her plane is brought down by a giant flying reptile before it can land.

Which shaving-cream brand's can from the 1993 film turns up on a shelf in Jurassic World Dominion?

Barbasol was chosen for the 1993 film by a designer browsing a drug store, because the script named no brand, and the villain now keeps the can as a trophy.

Which British director of the 2014 Godzilla reboot went on to make Jurassic World Rebirth?

Gareth Edwards was picked for the visual style of his earlier films, and first made his name with Monsters, an indie he also wrote and photographed himself.

Which Green Book star plays expedition leader Duncan Kincaid in Jurassic World Rebirth?

Mahershala Ali won Oscars for supporting roles in Moonlight and Green Book before signing on to captain the expedition's boat.

Which Bridgerton and Wicked star plays paleontologist Henry Loomis in Jurassic World Rebirth?

Jonathan Bailey plays a museum scientist who once studied under Alan Grant, and the glasses he wore in the part were later re-created for charity.

Which screenwriter of the 1993 original Jurassic Park returned to write Jurassic World Rebirth?

David Koepp was recruited by the series' executive producer soon after Dominion came out, and reused a line he had written for Ian Malcolm in an early draft of the 1993 film.

Dinosaur samples in Jurassic World Rebirth are wanted for a drug to treat which common illness?

Heart disease was the writer's choice after he read that the biggest dinosaurs lived extraordinarily long lives because their hearts so rarely failed.

In which Southeast Asian country did Jurassic World Rebirth shoot its tropical island scenes?

Thailand was the director's own suggestion, since he had shot his previous film there, and it beat Mauritius, Panama and the Dominican Republic to the job.

Which part of the planet has the only climate where dinosaurs survive in Jurassic World Rebirth?

The equator still has a climate close to the Mesozoic one the animals evolved in, so exclusion zones have been drawn around them there.

Which Jurassic World series, a sequel to Camp Cretaceous, shares its name with Ian Malcolm's field?

Chaos Theory picks up six years later, with the campers now young adults crossing a United States where dinosaurs roam free.

What name does camper Ben give the Ankylosaurus he cares for in Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous?

Bumpy has a lopsided, asymmetrical face, and is looked after by the shyest and most sensitive of the stranded campers.

Which dinosaur-mad teenager wins a place at Camp Cretaceous by beating a Jurassic World video game?

Darius Bowman earns his invitation by finishing the game, then finds himself leading five other campers once the dinosaurs escape.

In which Florida city did the Jurassic World VelociCoaster open at a Universal theme park?

Orlando's coaster fires riders off twice, reaching 70 miles per hour, past raptor statues that stand guard at the entrance.

Which British studio behind Planet Coaster made the park-building game Jurassic World Evolution?

Frontier Developments, the Cambridge studio behind the Elite space games, was asked to build it about two years before the 2018 film it accompanied.

Which Wednesday star voices travel vlogger Brooklynn in the animated Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous?

Jenna Ortega voiced the pink-haired camper before her live-action breakout, and the part was recast when the sequel series arrived.

Which geneticist behind the original Jurassic Park's dinosaurs creates the hybrid in Jurassic World?

Henry Wu explains that the park's animals are genetically engineered rather than pure dinosaurs, the film's own answer to scientists who called them inaccurate.

Which veteran of the original Jurassic Park is set loose to fight the hybrid in Jurassic World?

Tyrannosaurus here is the very animal from the 1993 film: the same individual appears throughout the trilogy, and fans know it as Rexy.

In which US state are the dinosaurs set free at the end of the 2018 Jurassic World sequel?

California is where the Lockwood estate stands, and where a poison gas leak forces a choice between freeing the caged animals and letting them die.

Which French composer of The Shape of Water wrote the score for Jurassic World Rebirth?

Alexandre Desplat took over from the composer of the previous three films, and had scored a giant-monster film for the same director years earlier.

Who replaced the original 1993 actor as Lewis Dodgson, the villain of Jurassic World Dominion?

Campbell Scott is the son of actor George C. Scott, and had played Peter Parker's father in the two Amazing Spider-Man films.

Dinosaur DNA in the Jurassic World series comes from mosquitoes trapped in which ancient substance?

Amber is fossilised tree resin: in the story, mosquitoes that had fed on dinosaur blood were sealed inside it, which preserved the DNA.

Which animation studio made the series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous?

DreamWorks Animation produced it through its television arm, and followed it with a second series about the same campers.