John Hammond's (Richard Attenborough) Alan Grant, Laura Dern's Dr. Ellie Sattler, and Jeff Goldblum's Dr. Ian Malcolm, with Jurassic World's heroes, Chris Pratt's Owen Grady and Bryce Dallas Howard's Claire Dearing. Although John Hammond died years ago, his memory and his dream of Jurassic Park still hang over Jurassic World: Dominion.
Hammond is the visionary behind Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park, Hammond, "wanted to show them something that wasn't an illusion... Something that was real... Something that we can see and touch..." Ellie retorted that Hammond's dream has become a nightmare that has placed their loved ones in very real danger. Yet Hammond's vision for Jurassic Park was really about his innate need to provide the world with the impossible made real.
Jurassic World: Dominion's trailer juxtaposes Hammond's words against the sights of his dinosaurs now loose all over the world. In effect, it recontextualizes Hammond's dream into wishing the dinosaurs to be part of the world. This actually continues the Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which introduced John's heretofore unheard-of business partner, Benjamin Lockwood (James Cromwell). Because John Hammond (and Richard Attenborough) died years ago, Lockwood became the Jurassic World movies' stand-in for Hammond. According to Lockwood and Fallen Kingdom, John Hammond's "dying wish" was to see Jurassic World opened, which contradicted the lesson John learned at the end of Jurassic Park that the dinosaurs he created were too dangerous should be isolated from Mankind.
John Hammond's legend is that of a whimsical dreamer who made a terrible mistake, but the billionaire definitely had commercial and profiteering desires for his Jurassic Park dinosaurs. After all, Hammond planned to charge thousands of dollars to visit his "nature preserve" and he crassly merchandized Jurassic Park with everything from T-shirts to lunchboxes. The dinosaurs may have been fueled by Hammond's wish to have something grander (yet still completely under his control) than a mere flea circus, but he definitely saw unlimited dollar signs when it came to Jurassic Park. Jurassic World: Dominion's reboot of Hammond's speech to Ellie Sattler continues how the films have sanctified John Hammond.
However, the way Jurassic World: Dominion's trailer utilizes John Hammond's monologue can also be read as ironic. Pitted against the images of his dinosaurs running amok in civilian populations, traversing through environments the dinos were never meant to inhabit, and surely having killed and eaten many innocent people, Hammond's Jurassic Park dream comes off as grim and ominous in Dominion. From a certain point of view, Jurassic World: Dominion actually reinforces the late billionaire geneticist as the Jurassic saga's ultimate villain, especially since Hammond is no longer alive to face the chaos and ramifications of his hubris.
