Based on his Star Wars 9 script, Colin Trevorrow'sJurassic World, a long-awaited continuation of the Jurassic Park trilogy. The movie actually managed to exceed commercial expectations (taking in a massive $1.67 billion at the box office), despite receiving mixed-to-positive reviews.
Shortly after, Trevorrow Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which became another box office smash (grossing $1.3 billion), but was also far more critically divisive than its predecessor.
The Jurassic World 3, Dominion, once again sees Trevorrow calling the shots as director, but at an interesting point in his filmmaking career. After titled Duel of the Fate. The latter left many feeling Trevorrow's movie would've been a better conclusion to both the Star Wars sequel trilogy and Skywalker Saga than The Rise of Skywalker - something that bodes well for Dominion.
Jurassic World 3 Is More Exciting After Trevorrow's Star Wars 9 Script
Trevorrow signed on to direct Jurassic World 3 a few months before Fallen Kingdom opened in March 2018, but his involvement is far more exciting now. At the time, he was coming off the failure of The Book of Henry and there were rumors circulating has since dismissed those claims, saying his departure was "very amicable" and he left because his Star Wars 9 script "just wasn't heading into the direction we'd been talking about."
Within a month of The Rise of Skywalker premiering in theaters, Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi, and not an attempt at course correction after Johnson's polarizing movie.
Trevorrow's Jurassic World 3 Will Be A Cohesive Sequel
Easily the most common criticism of The Rise of Skywalker is that it comes across as an effort to play things safe after many fans balked at The Last Jedi's more subversive approach to the franchise. Not only that, it seems to actively undo and retcon a lot of Johnson's surprising creative choices (like the arc he gave to an older Luke Skywalker) in favor of hollow moments that play on audiences' collective nostalgia for the original Star Wars trilogy. By comparison, the story for Duel of the Fates arguably does a better job of honoring where The Last Jedi took things after The Force Awakens, rather than trying to back-track on its biggest surprises (a la when Kylo Ren tells Rey the truth about her parents).
For the same reasons, Duel of the Fates - on-paper - makes for a much more cohesive sequel to The Last Jedi than The Rise of Skywalker. Of course, it's worth noting the sequel's bolder (read: less popular) narrative decisions.
Trevorrow Can Give Jurassic World 3 A Satisfying Ending
This was part of the larger problem many had with The Rise of Skywalker: it sidelined characters like Finn had wanted to include in The Force Awakens) only further drove home how little plan Lucasfilm actually had for the Star Wars sequel trilogy.
Things should be different when it comes to Jurassic World: Dominion. Trevorrow has previously revealed he pitched the Jurassic World trilogy's arc when he was hired to work on the first movie, and has presumably done his part to keep the storyline moving towards the conclusion he had in mind. This suggests Jurassic World 3 will actually work as an ending and organically payoff all the story threads and characters journeys established in the previous two films. Still, that leaves the question: will the execution be there?
Why Trevorrow's Jurassic World 3 Could Still Fail
Obviously, most of this is hypothetical since Trevorrow's Star Wars 9 was never actually made. As great as Duel of the Fates sounds on-paper (for the most part - its The way Trevorrow talks about The Book of Henry, it sounds really good... and yet, the actual film has been derided for its whiplash-inducing tonal shifts and clunky attempt to address serious issues like sexual abuse and child illness. Similarly, Jurassic World reads as being a smart update of the premise for Jurassic Park (and, in a number of ways, it is), but it's generally agreed the final movie was too reliant on nostalgia, as many feel was also true of The Force Awakens.
Things can always go wrong from the script to screen, in other words, and there's Battle at Big Rock. So, all in all, there's reason to think Dominion can end the trilogy on a high note and keep Trevorrow's "stock" on the up and up after Duel of the Fates.
