Jurassic World Dominion director Colin Trevorrow recently revealed that the film's expanded home media release is the original version of the film, not a director's cut.
Trevorrow set the record straight regarding Jurassic World Dominion Extended Edition in an interview with ComicBook.com. "We had finished film and we were in a scenario where we were asked to take out a good chunk of the movie, ultimately 14 minutes of the movie," he said. "So to have to go and try to figure out which of your darlings to kill, which can go. It really wasn't that I went back and did a director's cut, it's just that we have been honestly given a gift of being able to share the original film."
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Universal Pictures Home Entertainment announced Jurassic World Dominion Extended Edition in August 2022. At the time, the distributor confirmed that this version of the sci-fi blockbuster would restore the 14 minutes of cut footage mentioned by Trevorrow, along with a treasure trove of bonus features. This material includes featurettes on Jurassic World Dominion's practical and visual effects and stunt sequences, as well as behind-the-scenes footage from the final night of filming.
That said, for many fans, the biggest draw of Jurassic World Dominion Extended Edition will likely be the opportunity to watch the prologue sequence trimmed out of the theatrical version in its proper context. The Jurassic World Dominion prologue was shown with IMAX screenings of F9: The Fast Saga to promote the movie, however, the five-minute sequence was later removed from the final cut. This decision baffled many fans, as the prologue sets up the 65 million-year-old rivalry between franchise icon Rexy and Dominion's new dino antagonist, the Gigantosaurus.
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The Jurassic World Dominion home release also includes another major piece of the Jurassic Park franchise's wider narrative: the Battle at Big Rock short film. Directed by Trevorrow, Battle at Big Rock stars André Holland, Natalie Martinez, Melody Hurd, and Pierson Salvador and is set one year after the events of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Holland, Martinez, Hurd and Salvador play a family caught up in a titanic clash between an Allosaurus and a Nasutoceratops. Clips shown during The Battle at Big Rock's credits tease subsequent interactions between humankind and a variety of dinosaurs, including a Compsognathus, a Stegosaurus, a Parasaurolophus, a Mosasaurus and a Pteranodon.
Jurassic World Dominion Extended Edition is available now on Digital, 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.
Source: ComicBook.com