Jurassic World: Chaos Theory

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Jurassic World: Chaos Theory
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Genre
Based on Jurassic Park
by Michael Crichton
Developed by
Showrunners
  • Scott Kreamer
  • Aaron Hammersley
Voices of
Theme music composer John Williams
Composer Leo Birenberg
Country of originUnited States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes10
Production
Executive producers
ProducerMathias Dougherty
Running time23–24 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network Netflix
ReleaseMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24) –
present (present)
Related
Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is an American science fiction action-adventure animated television series on Netflix and is the second television series in the Jurassic Park franchise. It serves as a direct sequel to Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous , while also taking place between Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World: Dominion . Aaron Hammersley and Scott Kreamer serve as showrunners and executive produce the series along with Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow, and Frank Marshall. It features Paul-Mikél Williams, Sean Giambrone, Raini Rodriguez and Kausar Mohammed reprising their voice roles from Camp Cretaceous, with Darren Barnet joining the main cast.

Contents

The series premiered on May 24, 2024. [1] [2] In June 2024, the series was renewed for a second season set to premiere in late 2024. [3]

Premise

Six years after Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous , members of "The Nublar Six" reunite and find themselves on an adventure to unravel a conspiracy that threatens dinosaurs and humankind alike and learn the truth about what happened to one of their own. [1] [2] [4]

Voice cast and characters

Main

Recurring

Guest

Several notable dinosaurs that appear in the series include Ghost, Panthera, and Tiger, three Atrociraptor originally introduced in Jurassic World Dominion . Other notable dinosaurs include Bumpy, an Ankylosaurus with an asymmetrical face who befriended Ben, and Big Eatie, a mother Tyrannosaurus rex from Mantah Corp Island, both of which previously appeared during Camp Cretaceous.

Episodes

No.
overall		No. in
season		TitleDirected byWritten byOriginal release date
11"Aftershock"Michael MullenScott KreamerMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Six years after escaping Isla Nublar, the Nublar Six have lost touch with one another after Brooklynn was seemingly killed by a half-blind Allosaurus . Darius, feeling guilty about Brooklynn's death, works with the Department of Prehistoric Wildlife (DPW) to capture the Allosaurus, but fails after the latter attacks a Pachyrhinosaurus . At night at the cabin, he reunites with Ben who reveals that Brooklynn's death was no accident and someone is tracking them. As Ben tries to explain further details, a pack of Atrociraptors attack them and cut off the security system, but they manage to escape in Ben's van.
22"Rest Stop"Zesung KangBethany Armstrong JohnsonMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
After escaping from the raptors, Ben and Darius decide to drive to Texas where Sammy lives to warn her about the danger, as well as obtain the locations of the other members of the Nublar Six. However, Ben feels very paranoid about the pursuers as they stop at the gas station for supplies. Suddenly, a juvenile Nasutoceratops traps itself at the gas station after waking up, threatening to set the entire station ablaze. Darius and Ben successfully free the juvenile and extinguish the fire. Ben and Darius travel onward to visit Sammy, unaware that someone is following them.
33"Down on the Ranch"Dan Forgione
Zesung Kang		Travis GunnMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Darius and Ben arrive at Sammy's farmhouse and reunite with Sammy who was safeguarding Bumpy the Ankylosaurus after Mantah Corp had collapsed. Upon expressing her situation with her concern with Yaz, losing contact with her parents, and mourning Brooklynn, Sammy tries to distract herself from reality and focus on her lifestyle. Darius and Ben explain the incident being set up and Sammy reveals that Brooklynn left a map when she last saw her. The Atrociraptors arrive and the trio quickly escapes leaving Bumpy to fend for herself. Meanwhile, Bumpy is later captured by the DPW.
44"Brothers"Michael MullenSara KarimipourMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Upon witnessing the DPW transporting dinosaurs with Darius witnessing the Allosaurus captured, the trio arrives at Kenji's place and meets up with Kenji, who resents Darius after the incident. The trio reveals the map to Kenji and learns that Brooklynn had visited his father Daniel under house arrest without informing Kenji, who refused to visit him. Having grown concerned about Yaz, Sammy and Ben decide to visit her, leaving Darius to handle Kenji alone. Upon climbing to the top of the cliff where Kenji broke up with Brooklynn, Darius expresses to Kenji about Brooklynn's guilt after what happened. Reluctantly, Kenji decides to visit Daniel Kon.
55"Halfway Home"Robert Briggs
Zesung Kang		Nick "Rocket" RodriguezMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
As Ben and Sammy travel to visit Yaz, the duo witness three Stygimolochs mistreated by their handler and decides to free them. But as they leave, the handler reports them to a mysterious contact. Darius and Kenji visit Daniel Kon and question him about Brooklynn. During a private conversation about a family matter, Kon persuades Kenji to continue his legacy of restoring the Mantah Corp and Kenji declines upon realizing the deception and negligence he endured from him. Having realized his error, Kon then tells Kenji and Darius about his visit with Brooklynn and reveals her investigation on the illegal trafficking of dinosaurs and plans to get herself involved. The security system was later cut off and the pack of Atrociraptors commanded by their mysterious trainer, who held a whistle, attacked them. Kon sacrifices himself, allowing Darius and Kenji to escape with an unknown rescuer.
66"Free Fall"Dan ForgioneTravis GunnMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Upon arrival at a non-dino campus, Ben and Sammy reunite with Yaz who has PTSD after the dinosaur arrives on the mainland and reveals the project she was working on: A hologram designed to help people with dinosaur-induced PTSD like herself. Upon revealing the truth behind Brooklynn's death, Yaz felt safer here despite their warning. Sammy expressed her disappointment in Yaz having blocked her contact. However, the pair of Becklespinaxes attack the campus and prevent Ben, Yaz, and Sammy from escaping the campus. The DPW arrives and shoots the tires of Ben's van, causing the Becklespinax to have an opportunity push them off the bridge.
77"That Night"Michael MullenSara KarimipourMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
After falling off the bridge, Ben, Sammy, and Yaz escape from Ben's sinking van. They spot the DPW transporting the Becklespinax and follow them. As Kenji grieves his father, Darius recognizes the driver who saved them, named Mateo, as the man who was at the scene the night Brooklynn died. Mateo explains that he was a DPW truck driver and was transporting the Allosaurus when the security lock failed and the dinosaur escaped, leading to Brooklynn's death. Having felt ashamed about the incident, Mateo returns Brooklynn's phone to Darius to make amends for his action, having kept it since that night. Darius and Kenji unlock the phone and find Brooklynn's secret apartment in Colorado. After departing from Mateo, Darius and Kenji investigate the apartment and make a shocking discovery about a duffle bag stashed with Kon's money, and a website called "Dark Jurassic", which causes them to grow more suspicious about Brooklynn.
88"The Drop"Robert Briggs
Zesung Kang		Nick "Rocket" RodriguezMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
After leaving the apartment with Kenji, Darius manages to locate the drop point where DPW makes a trade and waits till midnight. While waiting, Darius and Kenji look into Brooklynn's phone upon revealing Darius' relationship with Brooklynn from his past voicemails. Darius admits to Kenji that he had secret feelings with Brooklynn when she visited him at his cabin and was later shocked to see her last video the night she died, to which Darius failed to respond. Despite this, they find the drivers traded with the Baryonyx and follow the driver who carried it. Ben, Sammy, and Yaz arrive at the DPW headquarters, only to discover that Darius' boss, Dudley Cabrera, secretly works with smugglers. After knocking out Cabrera, the trio finds Bumpy in the container and fails to free her due to her strange behavior. Ben sneaks into the containment truck, with Sammy and Yaz following.
99"Into the Fog"Dan ForgioneAnnie ArjarasumpunMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
With Ben safeguarding Bumpy, who became unwell, the Nublar Six arrives at the docks and sneaks into the warehouse only to deduce that the DPW is secretly smuggling dinosaurs to foreign countries. Upon finding the half-blind Allosaurus in the containment, Kenji concludes that Brooklynn is using Kon's money to buy off the Allosaurus. Ben, afraid of losing Bumpy, meets up with the group to help Bumpy. With an unexpected surprise, Sammy reveals that Bumpy had a difficult birth while laying an egg and becoming a mother. But, their excitement is cut short when Cabrera corners them.
1010"The End of the Beginning"Michael MullenBethany Armstrong JohnsonMay 24, 2024 (2024-05-24)
Cabrera reveals that he had only sent the Allosaurus to scare Brooklynn but her death wasn't part of his plan. Rather, it's revealed that the mysterious trainer who had been hunting them had killed Brooklynn with her pack of Atrociraptors, as Brooklynn's actions threatened to expose the smuggling ring, which is run by a kingpin known only as the Broker. The trainer orders her raptors to kill Cabrera and targets the Nublar Six for coverup, but Mateo rescues them. In the chaos, several dinosaurs are released, including Big Eatie, who manages to defeat the raptors with the help of the Allosaurus after Darius releases it. With the authorities arriving, the trainer retreats with her raptors injured from the fight, but the Broker's men escape with some eggs and dinosaurs aboard a cargo ship. Leaving Mateo to fill in the authorities and help rescue the dinosaurs, the Nublar Six board the ship to learn more about the Broker and put a stop to it. Darius' old boss, Ronnie, sends the article about Cabrera's death to Brooklynn, who is revealed to still be alive somehow, albeit missing her left hand, and has built an investigation board into the smuggling ring.

Production

Development

As Camp Cretaceous finished production, executives at DreamWorks Animation Television and Netflix were interested in developing a follow-up. While Camp Cretaceous showrunner Scott Kreamer initially turned down the offer, he decided to work on a second series after he and co-showrunner Aaron Hammersley were given "an early rundown" of the film Jurassic World Dominion (2022), which inspired him to create a direct sequel starring older versions of the Camp Cretaceous cast in the vein of the later Harry Potter films. [6] [7] After deciding to work on the series, they reunited with story editor Bethany Armstrong Johnson to conceive the story for the series. [7]

In November 2023, at Netflix's Geeked Week virtual event, Jurassic World: Chaos Theory was announced with an expected premiere date in 2024. [1]

Writing

The series is set shortly before the events of Jurassic World Dominion. Kreamer was intrigued by the world depicted in the film, in which dinosaurs have established themselves on the mainland, and wanted to explore "what does that look like for an everyday person?" [6] The producers also wanted to emphasize the characters now being older and "at that uncertain age where one is trying to figure out who they are and where they fit in the world," while facing their trauma, the proliferation of dinosaurs on the mainland, and a recent loss. [7] The writers also made the show a conspiracy thriller in contrast to the more adventurous tone of Camp Cretaceous. [4] [7]

The series starts with the assumed death of Brooklynn, which the showrunners wrote into the story in response to criticism that Camp Cretaceous didn't put its main characters in enough danger. [4] The series introduces holographic immersion technology that serves as "a great way to expose people to their fears [of dinosaurs] without having to face them up close and personal". The main intention of including this aspect was to explore Yaz's post-traumatic stress disorder from her time on Isla Nublar and how she copes with it as dinosaurs enter the mainland. The showrunners also established Yaz as having studied psychology because they liked the idea of her using the immersion technology to "help herself and others". [4]

Casting

In November 2023, alongside the announcement of the series, Paul-Mikél Williams was confirmed to reprise his role from Camp Cretaceous as Darius Bowman. [1] In March 2024, it was announced that Sean Giambrone would reprise his role as Ben Pincus. [2] In April, it was announced that Raini Rodriguez and Kausar Mohammed would be reprising their roles as Sammy Gutierrez and Yasmina "Yaz" Fadoula respectively, with Darren Barnet replacing Ryan Potter as Kenji Kon. [5] The showrunners originally wanted Jenna Ortega to reprise her role as Brooklynn, but she was unable to commit due to scheduling issues. [4]

Animation

Animation services were provided by CGCG in Taipei, Taiwan. Production on a single episode took place over 17 months, with 12 weeks of animation. [7] Visual inspirations for the series include conspiracy thrillers such as The Parallax View and All the President's Men, seeking to "evoke a similar uneasy vibe, putting the main characters at a disadvantage as they try to figure out what's coming next before it's too late". [7]

Release

Jurassic World: Chaos Theory was released on May 24, 2024 on Netflix. [2] The second season is slated to premiere in late 2024. [3]

Reception

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating with an average rating of 7.9/10, based on 6 critic reviews. [8]

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