When Jurassic World: Dominion arrives, there will be dinosaurs rampaging on the mainland, all kinds of animatronics, and the continuing adventures of heroes Owen Grady and Claire Dearing – but, most importantly, there will be the long-long-long awaited on-screen reunion of the original Jurassic Park trio: Alan Grant (Sam Neill), Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum), and Ellie Sattler (Laura Dern). It’s everything fans have been waiting for since 1993 – and while we haven’t got any official looks at the trio back in action yet, here’s the next best thing: Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum, reunited on the shoot, sitting down at a piano together and doing some jazzy noodling. Here awaits 72 seconds of pure joy:
Isn’t that just the loveliest thing? Goldblum is a known jazz musician, being a staple at LA jazz clubs and having recorded albums with his Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, while anyone who’s followed Sam Neill’s Cinema Quarantino shorts in lockdown will know he’s a dab hand at creating grin-inducing video silliness. Stick the two together along with a Doris Day classic, and you have this slice of fried gold.
The gang, between jazz piano sessions, is currently hard at work shooting Dominion with director Colin Trevorrow. Production on the sequel was halted early in lockdown, and is now forging ahead with strict new safety protocols, marking one of the biggest Hollywood productions to try and find a way of shooting safely as the pandemic continues. You can read all about that in this New York Times article. In the meantime, we’ll be watching Neill and Goldblum’s duet over and over again, all the while wondering: does the Jurassic sequel even need dinosaurs when it has these two?