The “Jurassic Park” franchise is going back to Isla Sorna in the first trailer for Universal Pictures’ “Jurassic World Rebirth.”
Jurassic World Rebirth
The “Jurassic World Rebirth” trailer sees Scarlett Johansson’s covert operations expert Zora Bennett leading a team to “Site B,” where they hope to collect the DNA of the three biggest dinosaurs of land, sea, and air — the key to a life-saving drug. Johansson is joined by Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid and Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis. It also stars Rupert Friend and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo.
Isla Sorna, an island research facility located near the main “Jurassic Park” setting of Isla Nublar, has not appeared on film since “Jurassic Park III.”
Vanity Fair shared the first images of the new film along with behind-the-scenes information.
The first new image shows Scarlett Johannsson’s character Zora Bennett rappelling down the side of a cliff. The same moment appears in the trailer.
Director Gareth Edwards, who previously directed “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” explained that the island is full of experimental dinosaurs.
“These are the dinosaurs that didn’t work,” he said. “There’s some mutations in there.”
Edwards noted the film’s trailer includes the first look at a “twisted” dinosaur that combines monster elements from some of his favorite films, including the Xenomorph from “Alien” and the Rancor from “Return of the Jedi.”
Mahershala Ali’s Duncan Kincaid acts as a logistics guide for the team to enter dangerous locations.
The above image shows actress Philippine Velge, whose character is still unknown, clinging to a railing over the water.
In a snapshot from an early scene in “Jurassic World Rebirth,” a closing museum exhibit directly recalls the original “Jurassic Park” scene where a banner falls over a roaring T-Rex.
“Jurassic World Rebirth” screenwriter, David Koepp, adapted the Michael Crichton novel for the first film. He mentioned that this latest installment will include a variation of a sequence from the book that he always wanted to use, involving characters drifting through the water on a rubber raft while attempting to not awaken a sleeping T-rex.
The final image shows Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis, extracting material from a large dinosaur egg.
Watch the first official trailer below.
Here is the full description of “Jurassic World Rebirth” that accompanied the trailer:
A new era is born. This summer, three years after the Jurassic World trilogy concluded with each film surpassing $1 billion at the global box office, the enduring Jurassic series evolves in an ingenious new direction with Jurassic World Rebirth.
Anchored by iconic action superstar Scarlett Johansson, Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey and two-time Oscar® winner Mahershala Ali, this action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind.
Also starring acclaimed international stars Rupert Friend and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, the film is directed by dynamic visualist Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp.
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 across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
Academy Award® nominee Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.
Ali is Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s most trusted team member; Critics Choice and Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey (Wicked, Bridgerton) plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Emmy nominee Rupert Friend (Homeland, Obi-Wan Kenobi) appears as Big Pharma representative Martin Krebs and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, 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 Turned Pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs. Lopez) as Reuben’s family. The film also features, as members of Zora and Krebs’ crews, Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF) and Ed Skrein (Deadpool).
Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by BAFTA winner Edwards from a script by Koepp (War of the Worlds), based on characters created by Michael Crichton. The film is produced by Oscar® nominee Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, both longtime Jurassic franchise producers and of last summer’s blockbuster, Twisters. The film is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Denis L. Stewart and Jim Spencer.
“Jurassic World Rebirth” will be released in theaters on July 2, 2025.
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