Universal Pictures has now released online a five-minute Prologue for Jurassic World Dominion that was previously only seen in IMAX theaters screening F9. The studio says the Prologue, written and directed by Dominion's Colin Trevorrow, is not in the final film itself but is a separate, original piece of content.

Furthermore, the Prologue features seven new species of dinosaurs — never been seen in a Jurassic film –that were created by ILM, as well as original music by the film's composer Michael Giacchino.

Our original breakdown of the Prologue from June — when it was screened for press before its theatrical run — can be read below.

While awe is clearly the endgame, Jurassic World Dominion does not shy away from the details.

The first footage from the threequel, a five-minute extended preview that was screened for a handful of journalists at IMAX HQ in Los Angeles, showcases a two-part narrative. The five-minute preview will be screened in theaters before IMAX screenings of F9.

The first part is an origin story. Utilizing vast landscapes, a plethora of dinos, and harnassing the primal nature of the prehistoric era, the emphasis is on context. The intimacy of a bug landing on the leg of a dinosaur is juxtaposed by the majesty of a herd bathing in a lake as a winged creature swoops in to feast on a carcass.

A fight between two apex predators inevitably plays like a Western as they circle and face off, ultimately ending with the grisly demise of the T-Rex. As her pupils dilate, she becomes the feeding ground for a bug that imbibes a sample of blood. The sequence comes from early on in the movie.

“We know who killed her now,” enthused Jurassic World Dominion director Colin Trevorrow. “Hopefully, people will want some revenge.”

Fast-forward 65 million years, and audiences are faced with a T-Rex being chased by a helicopter through a forest as she heads for a packed drive-in movie theater showing a double bill of American Graffiti and Flash Gordon. Should audiences read anything into that?

“It just felt like a double feature that I’d want to go see,” the filmmaker, who was talking to press via Zoom, explained. “[Jurassic World series star] Bryce [Dallas Howard]’s dad is in one of them, so I guess it’s a little tip to Ron Howard. I saw that drive-in as the kind of places that I went to growing up. They were in Mendocino, the area that American Graffiti was set, and that also connects it to Skywalker Ranch, where we mixed the movie. It connected the whole thing to Northern California.”

Chaos ensues on a grand scale as people run for cover. The T-Rex kicks over cars, wreaking havoc against a backdrop of a movie screen as couples are making out and friends and families are hanging out, accompanied by a soundtrack of screams and the dino’s trademark roar. Audiences are then treated to brief glimpses of other prehistoric titans creating mayhem elsewhere. Trevorrow confirms this chaos is global.

“To a certain extent, yes,” the filmmaker explained, although it seems there are no dinosaurs in the streets with tanks or anything. “We’re creating a world in which dinosaurs exist in the same way that animals do now, which is that if you go too deep into the forest, you may be in danger of invading their territory, and you can get hurt. I didn’t want to anthropomorphize them. I didn’t want to turn them into anything other than the natural animals they are. I mean, dinosaurs were real.”

Missing from the footage is the film’s cast, including Chris Pratt and Howard. While that may come as a surprise, or perhaps a disappointment to fans, there is a good reason for it.

“It’s not that I actively didn’t want them around, but we’re telling a really big, epic, sprawling story here,” the director said. “I felt like this was one opportunity to be able to tell the T-Rex’s story. She’s a character who has been through a lot over these movies and some traumatic experiences. I want kids and adults to be as invested in her and her journey as they are in the humans. She does look a little different this time in that she has protofeathers.”

Jurassic World Dominion also sees the return of the original Jurassic Park’s Laura Dern, Sam Neill, and Jeff Goldblum, but how big of a part will they play in this sixth film in the franchise?

“To me, and I’ve always been this way, I wouldn’t put a character from one of the previous movies into the film unless they had a reason to be there,” said Trevorrow. “This was the first time I felt we had a story that would justify their presence in the film because they would not just call each other up and go on an adventure. We had to come up with a reason.”

Trevorrow also confirmed that there will be “surprises,” but “I don’t know if it’s going to be about who’s in it.”

The director has confirmed that visual effects on the film are “nearing completion,” and he has had the film cut “for some time,” adding that it was “really nice” not to have to rush to make a 2021 release date.

“It’s allowed us to be a little bit more deliberate and thoughtful and not feel the constant pressure,” he added. “It gives us a chance to show it to friends, other filmmakers, and fans, to talk to them and figure out if there is anything they need out of this that we’re not giving them.”

Jurassic World Dominion sees Trevorrow, who also co-wrote the movie, fulfill his three-film commitment with the multibillion-dollar franchise (while J. A. Bayona directed the second film, Trevorrow co-wrote it). But does this serve as a bookend for the series or the jumping-off point for more?

“I think that if these stories continue, it’s going be time for a new filmmaker to come in and put their spin on it,” he mused. “I’ve been fortunate over the past six or seven years to create this celebration of what Steven Spielberg and Michael Crichton brought to the screen.

“I’m really into the idea of being able to pass that torch on in the same way that we pass the torch on to new characters in this movie. There are new heroes, it’s not just about the legacy characters that come back, and the new actors in the film are hopefully characters that we’re going to want to see again in the future. Dominion is a very different kind of film, and I believe audiences are going to be down to go on this journey with us as we evolve into new directions.”

Jurassic World Dominion will land in theaters on June 10, 2022.

The prologue for Jurassic World Dominion takes us back 65 million years, rewinding time to when the dinosaurs ruled over the Earth. Its beautiful, almost serene depiction of natural dinosaur habitats was first seen in IMAX ahead of showings of Fast 9, but Universal has now released it for all to see. To get a deeper understanding of what that prologue means for the full movie, we spoke to Jurassic World Dominion director Colin Trevorrow, who revealed just how much of a dinosaur nerd he is while breaking down each scene.

“Initially we had considered that this would be part of the film,” he says of the five-minute prologue, which now stands alone as a short film rather than being part of the final cut of Jurassic World Dominion. It’s a novel way to get these scenes out into the world, rather than leave them on the cutting room floor.

“It's extremely important for me, as a storyteller, because I believe the dinosaurs are characters, and so this is the origin story for the T-Rex,” he says. “I wanted it to be told, and so Universal was totally down with experimenting with sharing five minutes of finished move as a ‘prologue’ six months in advance.”

A prologue set during the Cretaceous Period not only provides an ‘origin story’ for the film’s dinosaurs, but also offers context for humanity. “What Jurassic World is about, for me, is the humility of recognising we've only been on Earth for this very small slither of time,” explains Trevorrow. “For us to have the ability to take people back to that time, I think there's a great sense of context that it gives us for our place in world history.”

The prologue features seven species of dinosaurs that have never been seen in a Jurassic movie before, including the egg-stealing oviraptor, the ferocious giganotosaurus, and the newly-discovered moros intrepidus. Some of these creatures have been waiting in the wings to star in a Jurassic film for some time.

“The best part of my job is being able to choose which dinosaurs go in which movies,” Trevorrow says. “As somebody who cares a lot about our films and about dinosaurs, I’m able to hold onto some and meter them out carefully. Every time I get a request from a fan on Twitter asking 'Why not this dinosaur?’, my answer is always I'm just trying to hold onto a couple. We just want to save some surprises.

“In this movie we really get to show some dinosaurs that I love that we've been holding onto for a long time, knowing we had the chance to go back to the cretaceous period and see the oviraptor and the giganotosaurus,” he says. “Several of these are going to play major roles in the film itself.”

“I really like the moros intrepidus, a very recently discovered dinosaur,” notes Trevorrow. “It looks a little bit like a T-Rex, but it’s [much smaller]. It's in the movie too, but we're introducing it [in the prequel]. I like small dinosaurs, maybe because as a kid I imagined having one as a pet. I love that we managed to take something that really was discovered months earlier. We saw an article about it, we looked into it, and we were able to put it into the movie.”

The prologue seizes the chance to show dinosaurs in their natural prehistoric environment, and so we get to see dinosaur ecology in action. Rather than tearing apart an amusement park, we see different creatures living harmoniously together, be that sharing the same water source or even cleaning their teeth. This more peaceful depiction is something that Trevorrow was passionate about creating on-screen.

“I think we bring our own humanity and instincts into dinosaurs, because we usually have dinosaur toys going 'raaawww',” he laughs, imitating a child with battling T-Rex figures. “We just make them fight, that's us. In reality, some dinosaurs are predators, but if there's a shared water source they will all come to that lake and drink together.”

It was important to show this side of dinosaurs in order to reinforce one of Jurassic World Dominion’s themes. “A big part of this movie is making the connection between animals that live on the planet today and how we treat them, and how they coexist with us and dinosaurs,” says Trevorrow. “For us to really be able to see them in their natural habitat, just see them drinking water and moving in herds. The first time you watch it might almost seem a little quiet, it's not the kind of aggressive action that we show in our blockbuster movies. But that was the opportunity in [the prequel] for me. As a dinosaur nerd, I found that very exciting.”

Talking of Trevorrow being a dinosaur nerd, you may notice in the prequel that the tyrannosaurus is covered in a coat of feathers. Science has discovered many new things about dinosaurs since the creation of the original Jurassic Park, and so setting the prequel in a time before genetically engineered dinosaurs gave Trevorrow the opportunity to make something more scientifically accurate.

“I think we have a really good logical explanation for why these are dinosaurs that look different than the other Jurassic dinosaurs have looked in the past,” he says. “In this case, it's that we're showing them in their original habitat. There was no frog DNA used to bridge the gaps in the genomes, so it gave us an opportunity to show dinosaurs with feathers.”

That feathered tyrannosaurus is an important character in the legacy of Jurassic Park; one day its DNA will be reconstructed used to create a living, breathing T-Rex in the year 1993. “It's an origin story, in the way we might get to do in a superhero film,” says Trevorrow. “The T-Rex is a superhero for me. It really allows us to take this brilliant concept that [Jurassic Park author] Michael Crichton conceived, that is the foundation that all of this has been built on, and show it in its absolutely purest form.”

“As you'll see in this prologue, our T-Rex – and it's the exact same one – looks a little bit different now whatever gaps existed in her genome had to be bridged. We didn't want it to be unrecognisable, this is a heroic character we love and care about very much, but it allowed us to give context to what those 65 million years really represent in world history.”

The prehistoric segment of the prologue ends with a showdown between the tyrannosaurus and the giganotosaurus. “The drama between these two characters is as if they were circling lions,” says Trevorrow. “The fight is mercifully short, as often fights in nature are. We watched a lot of nature videos for this movie. Hopefully the audience won't like seeing the T-Rex die. I hate it, it's painful for me, it's a character that I love. I don't mind if you hate the giganotosaurus!”

With the T-Rex dead, we see the fateful mosquito that will one day be used to recreate dinosaurs fly into shot. It draws blood from the defeated tyrannosaurus before flying away. “This particular mosquito causes a lot of problems at a drive-in [movie theatre] 65 million years later, which is a lot to put on the shoulders of one mosquito, but it's what happens,” laughs Trevorrow.

Flash forward to the present day, and we see the modern recreation of that T-Rex causing havoc at that aforementioned drive-in. “When she roars in front of the screen and the film burns up, the idea is that she is breaking out of the movie screen and now she's going to exist among us,” Trevorrow reveals. “It is something that Emily [Carmichael] and I found to be pretty crucial as a way to start the film.”

The roar itself is a throwback to the iconic T-Rex roar from Steven Speilberg’s original Jurassic Park, although Trevorrow notes that it’s a less triumphant cry than before. “I feel like that roar is one of desperation and confusion,” he says. “She's on the run and there's a helicopter chasing her, and she just does not know what world she's in. Being able to juxtapose the natural environment that we find her in, where she’s essentially on the run from the cops, I found to be such an awesome contrast.”

The T-Rex isn’t the only returning character whose legacy tracks right back to the Spielberg original, though. Jurassic World Dominion will also see the return of Sam Neill’s Dr. Alan Grant, Laura Dern’s Dr. Ellie Sattle, and Jeff Goldblum’s Dr. Ian Malcolm.

“Being able to have our legacy characters and our Jurassic World characters together in one film to me was important because [Dominion] is as different as a film that we've ever made in this franchise,” says Trevorrow. “And I think when you're pushing something as far forward as we are, to have an element of it that's familiar, to have characters that you know and love venturing with you into the new space, feels crucial.”

“Ellie and Grant and Malcolm are on this full adventure, they’re a huge part of it, and equal partners to Owen and Claire and Maisie and our new characters we've brought in,” he continues. “The challenge of a movie like that is to give every character their due, to honor everybody. That's part of what this prologue is about; I felt that if we didn't have this in the story, that the t-rex wasn’t being honored. She's a character too.”

For more on Jurassic World Dominion, read about the footage that was shown behind closed doors, and how this movie will act as the finale of both Jurassic trilogies.

Matt Purslow is IGN's UK News and Entertainment Writer.

As part of Microsoft's celebrations surrounding the 20th anniversary of Xbox, the company has launched its own interactive museum. The online space features a number of information-filled exhibits and even one about you, and your Gamertag's history.

Launched by Microsoft on the Xbox website, the virtual treasure trove comes with a number of nifty features that you can use to brush up on your Xbox facts, relive moments of nostalgia from throughout various generations of the console's history, or find out more about your own journey with Xbox.

Upon loading the site, museum visitors are greeted by a coffee table-based hub packed with different Xbox memorabilia that each takes you to an iconic aspect of Xbox's twenty-year-long history. Via interactive links, users can move around and explore various areas set up to celebrate the studio's key console generations as well as an exhibit on the Halo franchise, and another on you as an Xbox player.

After logging into the site, you can find a range of information about your history personal history with Xbox displayed elegantly through your own curated museum exhibit. The display itself includes a range of information about your time with Xbox, such as data on the different console generations that you've owned, information about your most played games with Microsoft, your achievement history across that time, and more.

The launch of the Xbox museum features as just another way that Microsoft has been celebrating its trademark console series this year. Earlier in the year, Microsoft announced that it would be partnering with Adidas to create its own Xbox-inspired anniversary sneakers while further celebrations have also included the addition of over seventy games to the studio's backward compatibility service, an anniversary livestream, and insights into the birth of Xbox Game Pass.

Jared Moore is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter.

As far as Black Friday PS5 deals go, you'll be hard-pressed to find one better than this. Deathloop, a game of the year contender, is now down to a mere $25 on PS5, and many retailers are discounting it for PC as well. This is an incredible price on a title that was only released September this year.

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Deathloop is one of the highest-rated titles of the year so far, which we gave a 10 in our review, certifying it as a bonafide masterpiece. If you're into whacky first-person shooters and want a fun experience, then Deathloop is for you.

Deathloop takes the role of Colt, an assassin trapped in a time loop who is given the task to remove eight targets called the Visionaries across the island before midnight. If Colt keeps even one alive, it will reset the time loop and undo all of his work. By using a combination of parkour, guns, and gadgets, this first-person shooter teaches you how to tackle the Visionaries and other enemies before the time runs out.

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This is an absolutely incredible Black Friday deal. Oculus Quest VR Headsets Black Friday sales at Amazon now come with a free £50 Amazon gift card alongside (see here).

We love this Oculus Quest 2 deal, and it's available for Black Friday now. A free £50 gift card offer is truly a supreme-combo, especially if you were already planning to do some Black Friday shopping.

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That means you can purchase the 128GB VR headset for £249, and get a £50 Amazon gift card to go towards all your other shopping this week and beyond. £50 gift cards are available on both the 128GB (£299) and 256GB (£399) models, making this one of the best deals of the year for bargain hunters.

VR is coming back in a big way recently, especially with the likes of Resident Evil 4 VR reviewing well. In my opinion, this is the perfect gift for a loved one, and you can either consider the Oculus costing £249, as you'll use the £50 at Amazon anyway. Or, use this as an excuse to go mad this Black Friday, it's up to you.

Other retailers like Currys and Argos still have Oculus Quest at £299, so this deal is currently exclusively at Amazon. We're expecting a price elsewhere soon, however.

Editor's Note: Oculus Quest 2 is also on sale for Black Friday in the US.

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