There's a dino-sized announcement we need to make! In Jan. 2025, a third season of Jurassic World Chaos Theory was confirmed and is set to be released on Apr. 3 on Netflix! The first season premiered on May 24, 2024, followed by a second season on Oct. 17, 2024!
The premise follows the members of "The Nublar Six" who find themselves wrapped into a global conspiracy that threatens dinosaurs and humans alike as they navigate their own relationships and find the truth about what happened to one of their own. Chaos Theory is the second television series in thefranchise. It is a sequel to Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2020–2022), and takes place between the events of the films Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
Cast members include Paul-Mikél Williams as Darius Bowman, Darren Barnet as Kenji Kon, Sean Giambrone as Ben Pincus, Kausar Mohammed as Yasmina "Yaz" Fadoula, Raini Rodriguez as Sammy Gutierrez, and Kiersten Kelly as Brooklyn.
The series is produced by Universal Pictures, DreamWorks Animation Television, and Amblin Entertainment with Mathias Dougherty alongside executive producers Aaron Hammersley, Scott Kreamer, Steven Spielberg, Colin Trevorrow, and Frank Marshall.
The Jurassic World franchise has captivated audiences for years with its thrilling blend of adventure, sci-fi, and of course, those dinosaurs that we all want to see with our own eyes. With Jurassic World: Chaos Theory, fans are able to dive into an entirely new chapter, filled with unexpected twists and high-stakes drama. At the helm of this series is Scott Kreamer, the executive producer and creator, whose innovative approach has brought the beloved franchise to life in a fresh and exciting way! Read on to learn from Scott about his work on the series and what's to come!
The Parent Watch: You're overseeing this massive mammoth of a project. How is working with DreamWorks and working with this specific IP and how much fun has it been so far?
Scott Kreamer: Oh, it's been just amazing! It's been an incredible challenge, but I've been writing animation for a long time, and you work on a lot of stuff that nobody sees. To work on this IP, has meant a lot to me and so many people, including, just about everybody on our crew. I know, at least, people on the sound side. There are some people where this franchise inspired them to get into this business. People seem to like [the show]! That's great, too. I came to DreamWorks and worked here back in the late '90s to age myself. I was a Nickelodeon for a long time, and I came over to DreamWorks at the beginning of 2018, never thinking I'd get a chance to be on something like this. I got this mysterious call to go upstairs and talk to the bigwigs, and they said, 'What do you think about getting involved with this?' I said, 'are you sure you want me?' and then I got a hold of myself.
A great screenwriter named Zack Stentz had come up with the idea for Camp Cretaceous, the precursor show to Chaos Theory. Zack didn't have day to day TV animation production knowledge that, luckily, I did. I just got in on the ground floor, and it was very scary, and I was in over my head for a while there. The best thing you can do as a showrunner is hire smart people and listen to them. By the time Chaos Theory rolled around, I felt like I wanted to try something different. You don't normally get to age up characters that you've established, and you don't normally get to tell a story that, at the onset, is essentially a '70s conspiracy thriller. Luckily, they bought it. It's just been a real joy for everyone on the team to come together, make it better, take ownership over every little bit of this thing to boost it up and make something that I think we're all super proud of.
I like seeing the difference from the prequel series to now. When the characters were being crafted initially, what's that process like in developing each one of them?
SK: So much of it comes from the actual writing. When we started writing Camp Cretaceous, we didn't have any thoughts about Sammy and as being a couple. It's just as you start writing and discovering more about these characters, it's just like, oh, gosh, this really makes sense. And it just They, not to sound so writer-y, unveil who they are. As each writer comes in and puts their own stamp on things as well as head writer Bethany Armstrong Johnson and I, just making sure everything feels unified and real. It's really fun. When we got to go forward on this series and really go, 'Okay, it's six years later.' It's that time in someone's life, either right after high school or after the first year of college, when you're trying to figure out who the heck you are and layering how much we already knew about these characters and their shared trauma, for lack of a better word. It really was really fun and cool to really dig into.
I would love to hear your thoughts on how the show still pays homage to the original franchise, but also does it in a way that's unique for this generation, other generations as well.
SK: That's the trick, isn't it? We've got a lot going for. it. The movies have done a lot of the world building for us. That definitely there, even if people aren't hardcore fans, there's a cursory knowledge of what's going on. Essentially, these are character stories wrapped in this giant dinosaur franchise. What we have that the movies actually don't have the benefit of, is time. We have time that we get to spend with these characters. You have a bunch of fans of the features. Look, I love the Jurassic World trilogy, but a lot of the hearts and what made us fall in love with this is the original Jurassic Park, and the filmmaking of Steven Spielberg. Whenever we can either visually or in a vibe, honor that, or at least that's what we're trying to do, and then you mix it within the new trilogy, you're trying to chart a course with these characters and still give honor to this amazing franchise that really means a lot to a lot of people.
What sets this season apart from the previous episodes that you think people will be super excited about?
SK: Well, we definitely threw the kitchen sink at this. We have no business putting something this huge on screen given a TV budget and schedule, but that just speaks volumes about the people who work on this show. As we started this new series with that '70s conspiracy thriller. This season, as our timeline starts sinking up more with Jurassic World Dominion, it definitely feels more like a blockbuster season. We're still getting to tell these character stories, which we love to do and which I think is really why people gravitate towards the show. When I had that meeting in 2018, the first thing I said is 'just dinosaurs will get you through 2 hours of a movie'. If people are going to hook into this series, we got to care about these kids. Our unofficial tagline for both series is, 'Come for the dinosaurs, stay for the characters'. It's a balancing act, but that's what we're shooting for.
Do you think the themes will remain the same? Did you want the tone to be the same [as last season], or do you feel like this will be an evolution of these characters and their relationships?
SK: We don't want to reinvent the show for every season, but there's definitely a shift in tone from season 1 to season 2 and from season 2 to season 3. Amidst all the plot and the action and the dinosaurs, we do want to tell a grounded character story of If you really put these young adults in this situation who have this shared history, their different events are going to affect people in different ways. And we really wanted to highlight that about how, look, we all have friend groups, and we don't all think about things the same way. Sometimes my friends will make a choice which doesn't make any sense to me. That's a really relatable place to be. When you throw all that into high stake situations, it makes for some really good, juicy conflict, as well as telling this this overarching story of the dinosaurs and our plot intersecting more with the Jurassic World Dominion.
What do you hope that parents and kids can take from this show as it continues?
SK: The main thing for me is: We're all people, and it doesn't matter what we look like, or if we have a disability, or who we love, or what we believe. We're all people. Boy, are we stronger when we remember that and stick together. That's the message that I hope, especially our younger viewers, get. People are doing the best they can. Let's try to get through this together. That's the only way that we do get through [challenges].
Check out the trailer on the official Jurassic World YouTube channel:
Previous seasons of Jurassic World: Chaos Theory is available to stream on Netflix! Tune in on Apr. 3 for new episodes of season 3