Jurassic World: Dominion image introduces the Atrociraptors

Last Updated on December 21, 2021

Last week, Jurassic World: Dominion (coming to theatres on June 10, 2022) director Colin Trevorrow told Entertainment Weekly that we’d see Chris Pratt’s character Owen protecting parasaurs from poachers in the Sierra Nevadas in the new film, now he has shared an image of a different sequence with Empire. In the image below, Owen is being chased through Malta by a new raptor, the Atrociraptor, a type of dinosaur that’s making its Jurassic franchise debut here.

Trevorrow said,

Where the Velociraptor is a little bit more of a stealth hunter, the Atrociraptors are a bit more brutish. These things will just come at you. And in this particular case, they’ve picked (Owen’s) scent, and they’re not going to stop until he’s dead. They’re pretty brutal. They’re pretty vicious.”

Talking about some of the species we’ll be introduced to in Jurassic World: Dominion, Trevorrow added,

I love the Pyroraptors. I love the Atrociraptors. There’s a little one called the Moros intrepidus, who doesn’t do a ton in the movie, but whenever it shows up, I always love it.”

Trevorrow, who previously directed the first Jurassic World, directed this one from a screenplay he wrote with Emily Carmichael, based on an idea he crafted with his Jurassic World and Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom co-writer Derek Connolly. An official synopsis has yet to be released, but Fallen Kingdom released dinosaurs into the North American countryside and by the time Dominion begins the dinosaurs have found a way to spread across the globe. The director told Entertainment Weekly,

Dominion is set all over the world, through many different environments: wilderness, urban, desert, snow. It’s exciting to see these creatures navigate environments that they weren’t built to survive in. They grew up in a theme park and now they’re here!”

Jurassic World: Dominion mixes the casts of the Jurassic World and Jurassic Park films together. Pratt is joined by Bryce Dallas Howard, Omar Sy, Mamoudou Athie, DeWanda Wise, Daniella Pineda, Justice Smith, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, Scott Haze, Campbell Scott, Dichen Lachman, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum. Trevorrow has said this film is a “true ensemble”, with Neill, Dern, Goldblum, Pratt, and Howard all being of equal importance to the story.

A collaboration between Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment, Jurassic World: Dominion was executive produced by Trevorrow and Steven Spielberg, with Frank Marshall producing alongside Pat Crowley. Sara Scott, senior vice president of production at Universal, oversaw the project for the studio.