New ‘Jurassic Park’ Could Be a “Soft Reset” of the Timeline and Not Set During ‘World’ Saga
Despite spanning more than 30 years and seven theatrical films, Jurassic Park remains one of the few major Hollywood franchises that has never fully explored prequel territory on the big screen.
While Universal Pictures continues expanding the Jurassic franchise, many fans now believe the series should move backward rather than forward following Jurassic World Rebirth (2025).
One idea that continues gaining traction online is a film centered on Isla Sorna, also known as Site B — the island where InGen cloned and raised dinosaurs before transporting them to Jurassic Park on Isla Nublar.
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The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) briefly revealed that Site B was abandoned after a hurricane devastated the island shortly after the events of the original film. However, the franchise has never actually shown what happened during that evacuation.
A prequel set during those events could offer a much smaller-scale and more suspense-driven story than the recent Jurassic World films, focusing on scientists and workers attempting to escape the island as dinosaurs break free during the storm.
Many viewers criticized Rebirth for abandoning the global dinosaur premise established by Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Dominion (2022) while introducing increasingly exaggerated concepts such as mutant dinosaurs and winged raptors.
Meanwhile, Jurassic Park: Survival is already set to revisit the original Park timeline through a first-person survival horror game set just one day after the 1993 film.
Like Survival, a movie set during the Site B era could also tap into the same atmosphere that made Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park (1993) so memorable: rain-soaked jungles, malfunctioning facilities, and survival against prehistoric predators.
Universal has yet to announce the next Jurassic installment, but if the franchise wants a creative reset, the answer may already exist in its own past.
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