One of the first films to commence production during the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the film industry has wrapped!
Jurassic World: Dominion has completed production. When filming resumed, it took 6 to 8 million dollars worth of safety protocols to get the project through the remaining weeks of shooting, with cast and crew taking a total of more than 40,000 COVID-19 tests during that time. There were around 100 positive test results along the way (some of them false positives), which did result in filming having to shut down for another two weeks last month.
The last day of shooting involved returning franchise stars Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, Chris Pratt, and Bryce Dallas Howard. Deadline listed the safety measures that were taken to keep the cast and crew as COVID-free as possible:
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. … 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 capacity of 1,000 crew over two hours, and each test station had a compliment 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.
(Safety measures also) included the cast and crew creating a bubble at a UK hotel.
Directed by Colin Trevorrow from a screenplay he wrote with Emily Carmichael (based on an idea Trevorrow crafted with his JURASSIC WORLD and JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM co-writer Derek Connolly), JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION stars, in addition to the actors already named, Daniella Pineda, Justice Smith, Jake Johnson, Omar Sy, Scott Haze, Campbell Scott, and Dichen Lachman.
Jurassic World: Dominion will be released on June 10th, 2022.
