“ Bryce ’s dad is in one of them, so I guess it’s a little tip to Ron Howard. “It just felt like a double feature that I’d want to go see,” the filmmaker, who was talking to press via Zoom, explained. Should audiences read anything into that? “Hopefully, people will want some revenge.”įast-forward 65 million years, and audiences are faced with a T-Rex being chased by a helicopter through a forest as she heads for a packed drive-in movie theater showing a double bill of American Graffiti and Flash Gordon. “We know who killed her now,” enthused Jurassic World Dominion director Colin Trevorrow. The sequence comes from early on in the movie. As her pupils dilate, she becomes the feeding ground for a bug that imbibes a sample of blood.
A fight between two apex predators inevitably plays like a Western as they circle and face off, ultimately ending with the grisly demise of the T-Rex.