The Jurassic Park series had taken a break for a while before it leaped back into movie theaters in 2015's Jurassic World. It was followed up by Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which created a new status quo for the franchise and for humanity itself within it.
Jurassic World saw the dinosaur park finally opened, only to fall into chaos with the escape of the genetically engineered Indominus Rex. Fallen Kingdom brought the dinosaurs from their island home to the American mainland, and concluded with them set loose into the world. Dominion will follow on this Fallen Kingdom's cliffhanger ending, and with new feather dinosaurs seen in the trailer, including one known as the Pyroraptor, the original Jurassic Park set it all up.
During the Montana badlands scene in Jurassic Park, the brilliant paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant (Sam Neill) provides his theory of present day birds as evolutionary descendants of dinosaurs. Grant lays out the common biological traits shared between birds and Velociraptors specifically, even pointing out that "the word 'raptor' means 'bird of prey". Meanwhile, a young onlooker (Whit Hertford) to Grant's lecture is not impressed, saying the computer readout of an unearthed raptor skeleton looks "more like a six-foot turkey." As Grant proceeds to share his paleontological wisdom with the kid, real life would later come to unexpectedly follow Jurassic Park's science.
In later years following the early dinosaur phenomenon of Jurassic Park, paleontologists made the discovery that Velociraptors had feathers. This led to some slight redesigns of the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park III, with a number of them bearing quills on their heads. As more information about dinosaurs has been discovered, the skeptical kid's observation in Jurassic Park has held far more true than it would have seemed likely to.
A glimpse at Dominion's trailer, teasing such elements as a possible new Jurassic Park, shows the Pyroraptor could have a fairly prominent role in the movie. One snippet specifically shows the Pyroraptor in a tense chase with Owen Grady (Chris Pratt) and Kayla Watts (DeWanda Wise). How large the Pyroraptor's role in the film is likely won't be fully known until Dominion is closer to release. Still, the presence of the Pyroraptor and potentially other feathered dinosaurs in Dominion pays off the early tease made in Grant's Jurassic Park lecture. Jurassic World: Dominion is something Jurassic Park quietly called back in 1993.
