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Not so fast? Joe Mazzello — who as a child played Tim Murphy in “Jurassic Park” — isn’t set to revisit the role, despite Chris Pratt saying in February that the original cast is slated to return for “Jurassic World 3.” Pratt, who stars as Owen Grady in the recent “Jurassic World” series, said the …
Not so fast?
Joe Mazzello — who as a child played Tim Murphy in “Jurassic Park” — isn’t set to revisit the role, despite Chris Pratt saying in February that the original cast is slated to return for “Jurassic World 3.”
Pratt, who stars as Owen Grady in the recent “Jurassic World” series, said the upcoming installment “feels like” the end” for the franchise, telling Ellen DeGeneres: “I mean, I’m not allowed to say anything, but I’ll tell you everything. It’s got everybody … I don’t know if maybe I just blew it, but I don’t care. But I know that, like, all the cast from the original ‘Jurassic Park’ is coming back and so it’s going to feel very much like how ‘Endgame’ brought everything together in Marvel.”
But an insider close to Universal Studios told Page Six on Monday that the movie was in pre-production before COVID-19 struck and that Mazzello — who played the grandson of Jurassic Park founder John Hammond in both 1993’s “Jurassic Park” and 1997’s “Lost World” sequel — never received a call to return to set.
“I hope we get to find out someday [what happens to Tim],” Mazzello, now 36, told fans during a YouTube Q&A on Thursday after watching the movie on a live-stream together.
He then hinted that he wasn’t reprising his character, saying: “I do think about it all the time because there’s so much I think that you could like do with this character. Like, he was like sort of the obvious heir to, like, John Hammond’s fortune. He was the heir to Jurassic Park and, like, would this experience have turned him away from dinosaurs and make him hate dinosaurs?”
“I do think it would be amazing to see what happened to Tim Murphy, you know as an adult, and I don’t know … there’s so much you can do with that character and yeah, you never know, but maybe one day we’ll be able to find out,” he added. “They got to make a lot more movies, that’s what I’m saying, OK? A lot more films.”
The insider added on Monday that “millions of ‘Jurassic Park’ fans have been extremely upset” since Mazzello made the remarks, as they “lived through Tim Murphy’s character. This character is iconic and part of so many of the fans’ lives. Joe’s comments alluded that there needed to be more movies in order for his character to possibly come back. It’s not up to Joe, it’s up to the studio and director if they want the entire original cast or not.”
It looks like Mazzello will have to wait a little bit longer though, as we’re told that there is “no set timetable to start production” on “Jurassic World: Dominion” again. It had been slated for a June 2021 release date.
