The Lost World & Jurassic Park 3 are still canonPosted by Jack DLM - Thursday 30 April 2015 at 11:38AM - 30 Comments
It's too bad when a fan site has to perform damage control, but unfortunately it looks like it's a neccessity given the latest round of "news".
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and Jurassic Park 3 (2001) are still canon.The idea that the events that happened in the two sequels to the original Jurassic Park (1993) are going to be ignored in the upcoming Jurassic World (2015), come from the culture website Uproxx, who spread said article yesterday.
Their article title was simple: 'Jurassic World' Will Ignore The Events Of 'The Lost World' And 'Jurassic Park III'. Wrong. If the writer at Uproxx had even considered carrying out research before pursing spreading false information, then he would have seen that
the viral website Masrani Global directly references the events at the end of Jurassic Park 3, where escaped Pteranodons from Isla Sorna fly out to the mainland."A seasoned security contractor, Vic Hoskins was involved in overseeing the infamous flying reptile "cleanup" operation over Canada in 2001."
Vic Hoskins is the Head of Security at InGen Security and his backstory and reason for his position at Jurassic World, comes down to his cleanup of those Pteranodons that escaped in Jurassic Park 3. Does that sound like those events will be ignored in Jurassic World?
In Uproxx's article they directly reference director Colin Trevorrow, who is quoted as saying that his film is a direct sequel to Jurassic Park. He says that the previous sequels aren't being written out of continuity, but placed to the side because they happened on a different island. The events are still canon, but we will not visit Isla Sorna in the film.
Isla Sorna is a real island and everything that happened on Isla Sorna in 1997 and 2001 are real and happened in the franchise of Jurassic Park.
I hope this has helped to clear things up - it's a shame that websites report false information. Usually these kind of articles would go unnoticed but this began to spread and we felt like we should put things right.
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