What links Nixon and the Kennedys to the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park? We go down a rabbit hole to find out

Fossil movies

Cinemas could also be in peril of extinction however some dinosaurs are retaining blockbuster season alive: first the revived Prime Gun; now the sixth Jurassic Park film. This picks up 4 years after Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. Authentic JP alumni Laura Dern, Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum be part of Bryce Dallas Howard and Chris Pratt for this newest sojourn within the dinosaur cinematic universe (DCU).

The sixth Jurassic Park movie stars Chris Pratt… Photograph: AP

Within the genes

Main man Pratt is married to Katherine Schwarzenegger, who comes from a household as embedded in US life because the fossils themselves. Her father is Arnold Schwarzenegger and her mom is the journalist and writer Maria Shriver.

… who's married to Katherine Schwarzenegger, daughter of Maria Shriver … Photograph: Getty Photos

Working mates

Shriver’s mom was Eunice Kennedy: she based the Particular Olympics motion and was, you recognize, a Kennedy. Shriver’s father, Sargent Shriver, in the meantime, was George McGovern’s operating mate in his landslide presidential defeat by Richard Nixon in 1972. Hunter S Thompson’s Worry and Loathing: On the Marketing campaign Path ’72 presents a wild account of that dismal election.

… whose father, Sargent, was George McGovern’s operating mate, defeated by … Photograph: Getty Photos

You’ll at all times have Nixon to kick round

Dick Nixon’s travails have impressed many film-makers. Latest miniseries Gaslit (StarzPlay) has Julia Roberts as the girl who first raised the alarm about Watergate, whereas Alan J Pakula’s All of the President’s Males is an everlasting paranoid traditional. The 1999 comedy Dick, that includes Kirsten Dunst and Michelle Williams, reimagines the story with teenage verve, whereas Oliver Stone and Anthony Hopkins gave him the biopic therapy with bloated bellicosity.

… Richard Nixon, who was the inspiration for a lot of movies … Photograph: Getty Photos

Ron/Bryce

Peter Morgan’s 2006 play Frost/Nixon gave a considerably sympathetic airing to the disgraced president in its account of his interviews with David Frost in 1977; the 2008 movie adaptation was directed by Ron Howard. Ron’s daughter is, after all, Bryce Dallas, who has been strolling with dinosaurs since 2015’s Jurassic World, which kickstarted the newest spherical of the DCU.

… together with Frost/Nixon, directed by Ron Howard, whose daughter, Bryce Dallas, stars within the Jurassic movies. Photograph: Getty Photos

Pairing notes

WatchDominion’s director, Colin Trevorrow, began out with a small indie. His 2012 sci-fi comedy Security Not Assured is “humorous in a troubling, low-key means”, wrote Philip French.

EatChris Pratt was noticed as a younger waiter at a Bubba Gump Shrimp restaurant. We will’t vouch for the chain, however for New Orleans-style barbecue shrimp, you’ll want loads of butter, lemon juice and Worcestershire sauce.