Dominion's New Maisie Origin Story Is A Massive Jurassic World Retcon

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Warning! SPOILERS for Jurassic World Dominion.

Jurassic World Dominion's Maisie plot is a major retcon. 2015's Jurassic World was a phenomenal success, grossing $1.67 billion in the global box office and launching a trilogy that, according to writer and producer Colin Trevorrow, had always been carefully planned out. The overall direction became clear in 2018's Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which ended with dinosaurs released into the wild. No longer were the prehistoric creatures contained in a park.

Trevorrow claims he's always had the end of the Jurassic World saga figured out. In one interview back in 2017, he remembered telling Steven Spielberg "This is the beginning. Here is the middle. And here’s the end of the end." In his view, the success or failure of a trilogy rests on how carefully it's been plotted out, and how the narrative flows from one film to the next. "It needs to be thought through on that level," he insisted. "It can’t be arbitrary, especially if we want to turn this into a character-based franchise with people who you lean in to follow what they’re going to do."

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All that makes it quite curious, therefore, that there's actually a very visible — and, indeed, character-based — retcon in Jurassic World Dominion. One major character in Jurassic World Dominion sees her entire backstory rewritten, an explicit change of direction that's even commented upon by others in the film. It's easy to see why writers Trevorrow and Emily Carmichael made the decision, but unfortunately it doesn't quite work.

Played by Isabella Sermon, Maisie Lockwood was introduced in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom as a clone of Benjamin Lockwood's dead