'Jurassic World Rebirth' Heads Back to the Island that Started It All
Can you believe the seventh Jurassic Park film will hit theaters this summer? Titled Jurassic World Rebirth, the upcoming blockbuster kicks off a brand-new story starring Scarlett Johansson (Fly Me to the Moon), Jonathan Bailey (Wicked), Mahershala Ali (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse), and what appears to be an island of mutant dinosaurs.
The first trailer for the film was expected to drop during Super Bowl LIX, but nothing can contain killer dinosaurs, apparently. The new film takes place five years after the events of the Chris Pratt-led Jurassic World trilogy, which ended with humans and dinosaurs coexisting on Earth. It seems no one was too keen on that cliff-hanger, however, because the new film sends the dinosaurs back to the remote tropical locations where they thrive best. Naturally, they return to the original Jurassic Park. Check out the first trailer above.
Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) helms the new Jurassic film, working with a script from Jurassic Park's original screenwriter, David Koepp. As revealed in the trailer, a pharmaceutical company seemingly discovers that the new dinosaur DNA may contain healing properties that will benefit humanity. A character played by Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi) sends a covert operations team consisting of Johannson, Ali, and a paleontologist played by Bailey to extract the DNA from three of the world’s largest dinosaurs. The crew is then shipwrecked and marooned on the original Jurassic Park Island, where mutant dinosaurs hunt our heroes.
“There’s something very primal that’s buried deep inside everybody,” Edwards told Vanity Fair. “As mammals, we evolved [with] this fear of the bigger animal that’s going to come one day and maybe kill us or our family. The second we see it happening onscreen, you’re like, ‘I knew it…. We had it too good for too long.’"
Jurassic World Rebirth premieres in cinemas on 2 July, 2025.
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