Why Jurassic World Dominion Didn’t Bring Back Lex & Tim From Jurassic Park
Jurassic World Dominion director Colin Trevorrow explains why the sequel didn't bring back Lex and Tim Murphy from the original Jurassic Park. The newest Jurassic World sequel still focuses on Chris Pratt's Owen Grady and Bryce Dallas Howard's Claire Dearing, but a big selling point of Trevorrow's film was that it brings back three of the main legacy characters from the original trilogy. Jeff Goldblum's Ian Malcolm had a cameo in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, but Jurassic World Dominion marks the first time Laura Dern (Ellie Sattler) and Sam Neill (Alan Grant) have been involved with the franchise since 2001's Jurassic Park 3.
Lex (Ariana Richards) and Tim (Joseph Mazzello) are John Hammond's grandchildren who had prominent roles in Steven Spielberg's 1993 dinosaur flick. Both characters had brief cameos at the beginning of The Lost World: Jurassic Park when Ian Malcolm visited Hammond at his home, but neither of them has been in the franchise since. With Jurassic World Dominion being the end of the Jurassic World trilogy, and possibly the entire franchise, some were expecting Lex and Tim to make some sort of appearance. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.
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Trevorrow recently sat down with THR to talk everything Jurassic World Dominion, including the return of some legacy characters, and the absence of others. When asked why Richards and Mazzello weren't contacted for the sequel, the director indicated it was because there were already too many main characters. Trevorrow pointed out that in addition to Alan, Ellie, and Malcolm, Dodgson and Dr. Wu also had roles, so Jurassic World Dominion includes five of the eight original characters from Jurassic Park.
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