(Updated 02/06/2025)
JURASSIC WORLD is coming back to life with an all-new movie. The franchise relaunch is scheduled this summer, with Scarlett Johansson in the leading role, and it has a promising director behind the camera.
JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH looks like it injects a little bit of Indiana Jones and/or Tomb Raider energy into the Jurassic formula. Check out the first trailer for JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH and we'll tell you more about the movie.
Jurassic World Rebirth Opens in July
While we often have to wait years for a major series relaunch like this, JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH is coming soon. Universal Pictures has set July 2, 2025 as the new JURASSIC WORLD release date.
The First Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer Promises Big Dinos and Big Adventure
The first trailer for JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH does not mess around. It opens with a nod to one of the most famous images of the original movie, with the "When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth" banner being lowered. We get the basic plot driver (a dinosaur-based medical breakthrough), a remote location, and loads of dinosaurs.
Who's in the Jurassic World Rebirth Cast?
As the trailer shows, Scarlett Johansson stars as Zora Bennett, "a skilled covert operations expert" with Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis and Rupert Friend appears as the pharmaceutical company man, Martin Krebs.
Mahershala Ali plays a big role as Zora's team captain, Duncan Kincaid, who brings a wealth of practical experience to their mission. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays Reuben Delgado, a dad who has been shipwrecked with his children. Luna Blaise, David Iacono, and Audrina Miranda play Reuben’s kids.
What's the Plot of the New Jurassic World Movie?
Beyond what we see in the trailer, let's start with Universal's stage-setting synopsis:
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet's ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
So Zora Bennett's team has to get out to a remote location to gather material from the dinosaurs. Things get complicated when they run into a family stranded on the island thanks to some of the aforementioned dinosaurs.
Will Familiar Characters Return to Jurassic World?
Right now, it seems like JURASSIC WORLD DOMINION closed out the storylines for both the classic JURASSIC PARK characters and those from the new trilogy. There's no indication that we will see any characters from previous movies in REBIRTH.
Who Is Making the New Jurassic World?
Here's where things get interesting. David Koepp, who wrote both JURASSIC PARK and sequel THE LOST WORLD, wrote the script for the new film. And as you would expect, Steven Spielberg is an executive producer.
Then there's the surprising part. Gareth Edwards, who made ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY, and recently directed the impressive original sci-fi movie THE CREATOR, directed. Movies by Gareth Edwards have a recognizable and pretty specific look and feel. They're not exactly "realistic," but they do have a more immediate sense of reality than your average blockbuster. While ROGUE ONE certainly looks like a Star Wars movie, it has many hallmarks that set it apart from all other movies in that series.
Edwards knows how to make a movie that leans very heavily on visual effects, but he also likes to film on location and knows how to make extensive digital effects feel like part of a world. See footage from THE CREATOR, just above, for an example.
It's exciting to think about what that might mean for JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH. Steven Spielberg's original movie cast a magical spell through its standard-setting blend of digital effects, massive animatronics, and diverse other effects techniques. It's been a difficult feat to match. Could Edwards be the one to truly push the prehistoric series into the future?
JURASSIC WORLD opens on July 2.
All images courtesy of Universal Pictures.