The smoldering shells of trilogies these days can’t even cool before studios announce a new chapter. The money train keeps chugging along. When your last three films have all crossed the $1 billion mark, it’s hard to rest on your laurels. Such is the case with Universal’s understandably popular Jurassic World Franchise, which started three years ago with Jurassic World Domination. The perfect time to announce an update in the form of Jurassic World – Rebirthwill be released in July 2025. This is the blockbuster equivalent of Friday the 13thIn the 80s Part V: A new beginning appeared only 11 months after Part IV: The final chapter.
Villain OneGareth Edwards will direct the film, and he knows his stuff when it comes to huge things, having cut his teeth on his indie breakthrough. Monster and then Legendary’s Godzilla. Original Jurassic Park Screenwriter David Koepp wrote the screenplay for Jurassic World – RebirthThe film stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey.
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, The planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. The remaining dinosaurs live in isolated equatorial environments with climates similar to those in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures of this tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humanity.
Oscar® Oscar-nominated Johansson plays veteran covert operations expert Zora Bennett, who is tasked with leading a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world’s three largest dinosaurs. When Zora’s operation collides with that of a civilian family whose boat expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all become stranded on an island where they face a sinister, shocking discovery hidden from the world for decades.
Ali is Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s most trusted team leader; Emmy nominee and Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey (Evil, Bridgerton) plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Emmy nominee Rupert Friend (Hometown, Obi Wan Kenobi) acts as a representative of the pharmaceutical companies Martin Krebs and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The client, Murder on the Orient Express) plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the shipwrecked civilian family.
The cast includes Luna Blaise (manifest), David Iacono (The summer I became pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs Lopez) as Reuben’s family. The film also stars Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (Federal Ministry of Finance) and Ed Skrein (Dead Pool).
Pretty wild Jurassic World – Rebirth is only 11 months away from release at this point, but that’s Hollywood! I was not a fan of any of the previous three Jurassic World Movies, but the dino action was still exciting for people all over the world. Take-home shows only, yes, the terrifying thunder lizards will never go extinct.
Kyle Anderson is a senior editor at Nerdist. He hosts the weekly pop culture podcast Laser Focus. You can find his film and TV reviews here. Follow him on Instagram and Letterboxd.
