10 Sci-Fi Fan Theories That Make The Films Better
5. Owen Grady Is Jurassic Park's Raptor Kid All Grown Up - Jurassic World
This one has little evidence, but the bit of back up
on offer is tantalizing enough that Jurassic World director Colin Trevorrow
couldn’t bring himself to confirm or deny the speculation since fans were having
so much fun with the idea. Early in 1993’s classic Spielberg blockbuster Jurassic
Park, Sam Neill’s irritable palaeontologist tells an unimpressed kid visiting
the dig site (that seems like a safe and sensible place to bring children) that
he ought to respect the raptor’s awesome prowess as a biologically flawless
predator.
It’s a weird comment coming from him, since the species are pretty long gone and probably unavailable for in-person respecting for the foreseeable—but then, lo and behold, it seems pretty striking when Chris Pratt’s gruffly heroic Owen Grady, a raptor trainer, tells a crowd of colleagues that his success with the beasts is based on a “relationship of respect” during an early equivalent scene in Jurassic World some twenty two years later.
It seems too close to be a coincidence, though whatever about Trevorrow’s input, according to Raptor Kid himself, actor Whit Herford, “Chris Pratt is not playing a grown up version of my character. That role is mine, dammit!”