Series Showrunner Scott Kreamer Discusses the (New) Dinosaurs of ‘Jurassic World: Chaos Theory’

If you like dinosaurs, then you’re probably aware of the importance of the Jurassic franchise as a whole. While it was not the first dinosaur-related project, it was a major hit when it began, and it completely changed the perception of dinosaurs in the movie industry, which led to the growth of the franchise as well.

Among the many new projects that emerged from the original film is the highly popular Jurassic World: Chaos Theory animated series, whose second season was released by Netflix on October 17, 2024. Like the first season, the second season is also highly successful, and in light of that, our friends at ComicBookMovie.com sat down for an interview with the man behind the project.

Scott Kreamer is the co-creator and co-showrunner of the series, and in a lengthy interview, he revealed several important information about the current season, as well as the world they are building, which is going to be the focus of this report.

Among the many things Kreamer discussed with our colleagues was the role of dinosaurs in the series. Season 2 brought us some new dinosaurs to the series, and the additions were definitely interesting enough for us to discuss them, which is what our colleagues did. Here is what Kreamer said when asked about the new creatures:

ROHAN: Compared to season one and the previous series, Season 2 introduces a few new dinosaurs – including the Majungasaurus – but it seems like the overall season scales back the dinos a little bit and shifts the focus to unraveling the conspiracy. Did you and the team want to save some of the bigger reveals, like the return of fan favorites, for the future?

SCOTT: It’s all in service of the characters, and when we started season one of Chaos Theory, we really started limiting ourselves to dinosaurs that had been released from the Lockwood estate, or that could have potentially been on the Arcadia coming over from Isla Nublar, and then once we introduced the Becklespinax, and just sort of started expanding, like, okay, other types of dinosaurs are being created out there, it kind of opened it up for us.

I mean, I’ll be honest, part of it is also we have production limitations, as far as, you know, if I need a human character, then I don’t get to build a dinosaur character, or if it’s a four legged dinosaur, it takes even more production assets, which I don’t know if anyone wants to hear about, but, at the end of the day, we’re trying to tell the story for these kids.

And we’re we’re trying to – look, when we get a chance to show a dinosaur that we haven’t seen before, and the amazing work our design team does in creating them. Look, I love a T-Rex in every episode too, but it needs to make sense for the story that we’re telling for these characters.

As you can see, Kreamer and the crew have a very interesting relationship with the creatures, which results in some amazing moments. But, we also know that the dinosaurs were, for a major part of the series, the “villains” of the franchise, but that changed. What does Kreamer think of that?

ROHAN: In Camp Cretaceous, the kids were trying to survive dinosaurs, but as they’ve gotten older, we’re seeing more and more human villains. What’s been sort of the philosophy behind the shift to see their villains become less black-and-white, and considerably more grey?

SCOTT: Yeah, and not only the villains, like Brooklyn has become more gray as far as her decisions that she’s making and, you know, what she has been up to, so, yeah, it just felt more of a natural transition. And, look, I love the dinosaurs, we’re all here because it’s called Jurassic, but, you know, we run from a lot of dinosaurs, but you don’t want to do it all the time.

And, like you said, the people can be these villains, and these people, they can be more imposing. So, you know, we keep trying to raise the heat on these kids and painting them into smaller and smaller corners and just kind of winding them up and seeing how they figure it out. So, sometimes there’s something that is more threatening than a T-Rex bearing down on you, and, we definitely wanted to explore that.

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