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Jurassic World stomped into theaters in 2015 to conclude a 14-year gap for the Jurassic Park franchise, and it was a commercial and critical success. The sci-fi action film, directed by Colin Trevorrow, stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in a new story set 22 years after the events of the original Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar, where a theme park of cloned dinosaurs, dubbed Jurassic World, has opened. Things are thrown into chaos when a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, escapes containment. The movie started streaming on Peacock on January 16th, just a few weeks after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom also dropped on the NBCUniversal streamer.
Jurassic World Is a Legacy Sequel Done Right
Hollywood’s current reboot era gets a lot of hate for stifling creativity, relying on cash-grab nostalgia, and often delivering inferior, repetitive stories that tarnish original legacies, but Jurassic World is a prime example of a legacy sequel done right. The movie leveraged nostalgia for the original 1993 classic with a return to Isla Nublar and familiar themes and reference, while also revitalizing the Jurassic Park franchise for a new generation with a modernized, fully functional park, new characters, and modern special effects. The movie successfully delivered adrenaline-fueled, dino-packed action that made the original concept feel fresh and exciting again, and it was a massive success.
