‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Wraps Unprecedented Shoot After 18 Months

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Wraps Unprecedented Shoot After 18 Months

‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ Wraps Unprecedented Shoot After 18 Months!

The final installment of the Jurassic World franchise has finally wrapped. And talk about some extensive doings, the film began pre-production more than 18 months ago when the world was a very different place. Read on…

CelebnMovies247.com reports that Universal has wrapped this morning at the UK’s Pinewood Studios after an unprecedented shoot, which required 40,000 COVID tests, millions of dollars spent on protocols, and for cast and key crew to isolate in a bubble for months.

The total cost for Jurassic World: Dominion is $165M million, so let’s pray this is another blockbuster for Universal when the movie finally hits theaters on June 10, 2022. Originally, filming was initially pushed from February 2020 to July 2020 and then had to pause again in October due to positive COVID results.

Director Colin Trevorrow revealed to Deadline:

There are a lot of emotions…Jurassic legacy actors Sam Neil, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum, Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard and newcomers to the movie such as Mamoudou Athie and DeWanda Wise [who we’ve separately heard could have a big role in future installments]…and some dinosaurs, of course.

Trevorrow continues:

I’m not sure I can put it into words. It has been remarkable. Our crew and our cast has been so resilient. All producers have worked around the clock to make it the best it can be. It has been inspiring.

Donna Langley, Chairman Universal Filmed Entertainment Group said:

As we continue to contend with the challenges facing our industry during a global pandemic, the collaborative nature of this production allowed us to safely complete nearly 100 days of shooting, and we are so proud of what this team was able to accomplish.

Dominion was the first major studio movie to go back into production after the pandemic shut everything down in the spring and upended the whole industry.

Universal commissioned a private medical facility called Your Doctor to manage the entire production’s medical requirements. Testing was the backbone of the safety measures. Deadline can reveal that more than 40,000 COVID-19 tests were conducted, with .25% returning positive. That’s around 100 positive results. Some of these were false positives and some were returned prior to employment at Pinewood.
The studio set up a policed ‘Greenzone’ for the shooting cast and crew and all workers were temperature-tested every day. Two walk-through temperature testing stations were built at each end of Pinewood Studios with a capacity of 1,000 crew over two hours, and each test station had a complement of doctors, nurses, and isolation booths.

There were more than 1,800 COVID-related signs across Pinewood, 150 hand sanitizer stations, and 60 extra sinks. Cleaning was doubled and in the evenings all communal areas and facilities were antiviral fogged.
All in all, the studio spent between $6-8M on protocols alone. .The cast felt like guinea pigs

Langley explains:

We designed our return-to-production guidelines with safety being the foremost priority and everyone associated with Jurassic World: Dominion stepped up, held themselves and those around them accountable, and the results have been amazing. Congratulations to our filmmakers and cast for their tireless efforts that paved the way for other productions across the industry to get back to work. Those efforts included the cast and crew creating a bubble at a UK hotel.

Trevorrow explains:

We lived together, ate together, told stories, shared our fears and hopes, played Frisbee on the lawn… there was a lot of laughter at a time when it has been hard to find things to laugh about. We were all far from those we loved at a time when you want to be closest to them. I missed my family greatly. I was away from them for four months. But the cast in our bubble became another family.

Trevorrow is hopeful that the experience will enhance the final film. I think that close proximity to each other has made the movie better. Everything we were going through emotionally we would share. We would rehearse on Sundays, we crafted the characters, which made the emotion of the film richer. I think the movie will be stronger for it.

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