Universal‘s upcoming release of “Jurassic World Rebirth” marks the seventh feature film in the “Jurassic Park” franchise as filmmaker Gareth Edwards and franchise screenwriter David Koepp (worked on the first two installments helmed by Steven Spielberg) are doing their darnedest to bring the franchise back to its roots of being a scary and thrilling experience, with a new teaser trailer amping up that angle.
In that new footage, we see what looks to be an InGen laboratory where one of the more monstrous dinosaur experiments ends up killing a scientist. Harkening back to the original introduction of the dinosaurs from “Jurassic Park,” where a worker is pulled into a raptor enclosure and killed.
The group of actors assembled for the film’s cast consists of Scarlett Johansson (“Avengers: Endgame”), Mahersala Ali (“Alita: Battle Angel”), Jonathan Bailey (“Wicked”), Rupert Friend (“Homeland, “Obi-Wan Kenobi”), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (“The Lincoln Lawyer”), Luna Blaise (“Manifest”), David Iacono (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”), Audrina Miranda (“Lopez vs. Lopez”), Philippine Velge (“Station Eleven”), Bechir Sylvain (“BMF”), and Ed Skrein (“Deadpool”).
One of the big hooks of the film is that we’ll be seeing dramatic design changes for the dinosaurs as they’ll be much larger and dangerous than we’ve seen in previous film leaning hard into the sci-fi horror elements, as these are products of the work of mad scientists and aren’t exactly authentic versions of extinct animals (characters in the franchise have acknowledged these are more or less designer dinos).
An official synopsis provided by Universal:
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.
This is also the first time Edwards has shot a movie on film, after mostly working with digital cameras for the majority of his directorial career, which includes blockbuster-level genre films such as his “Godzilla” reboot that helped launch the MonsterVerse, “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story” that has since expanded into two seasons of “Andor,” and his recent artificial intelligence thriller “The Creator.”
Will this be the first step in a new string of “Jurassic World” movies? Audience reception and the box office results will likely play a huge part in answering that question.
You can watch the final trailer for “Jurassic World Rebirth” below and get ready for the film’s theatrical debut on July 2.
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