When Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) ignored the Thorn trilogy, it proved long-running franchises could simply erase unpopular storylines and continue forward with a cleaner continuity. Twenty years later, Halloween (2018) doubled down on the idea by wiping out every sequel except John Carpenter’s original 1978 film.
Now, some Jurassic Park fans believe Universal Pictures should consider doing the same thing.
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) may have been a huge financial success for the studio, grossing $869.1 million worldwide, but the response from longtime fans has been far less enthusiastic. Many viewers criticized the film for abandoning the global dinosaur storyline established in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
Instead of continuing the idea of dinosaurs spreading across the planet and integrating into modern ecosystems, Rebirth quickly writes most of them out of existence, revealing they can now only survive in isolated equatorial regions. In other words, the franchise ends up back on another tropical island. For many fans, it felt like a huge step backward.
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The film also introduced mutant dinosaur concepts, including winged raptor hybrids, while relying heavily on familiar jungle-and-facility set pieces that many believed the series had already exhausted years ago.
As such, some fans have started suggesting that Jurassic Park should follow the Halloween formula and ignore parts of its increasingly complicated continuity.
Rather than continuing to escalate the story with new hybrids, mutant creatures, and increasingly convoluted lore, the next film could instead return to the Park era with a smaller-scale survival story tied more closely to Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 classic.
Universal has yet to announce the next Jurassic film officially, but rumors suggest another sequel is already in development.
Whether the studio decides to move forward or hit reset remains to be seen.
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