Jurassic World Rebirth Features New Species and Old Terrors

Universal Pictures has just dropped the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth ahead of its summer release. The new trailer gives viewers one last preview of what to expect when the film opens in theaters over the Fourth of July weekend. Jurassic World Rebirth is set for release on July 2, 2025. The film, which takes place on the original Jurassic Park research island, stars Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali and appears to combine nostalgia with a new beginning for the franchise.

Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth film in the Jurassic World franchise and the seventh film in the Jurassic Park franchise, which began with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 Jurassic Park. The latest entry is directed by Gareth Edwards, who most recently directed 2014’s Godzilla. The screenplay was penned by David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay for the 1993 Jurassic Park as well as the 1997 sequel, The Lost World.

As described by the official synopsis, Jurassic World Rebirth takes place five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion. Dinosaurs are struggling to survive in an ever more inhospitable ecosystem and have been forced to congregate in narrow equatorial zones that still closely resemble their prehistoric habitats. Three of the largest dinosaurs on land, sea, and air reside in a single tropical biosphere. The three creatures each possess a rare gene whose information could unlock a new, life-saving drug. Enter Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett, a secret operations specialist and leader of the mission to obtain that information. When the team’s mission coincides with a family boating trip, the two groups are thrust into a struggle for survival after being shipwrecked on a long-abandoned island that was once the site of a Jurassic Park research facility. From the trailer, it seems like the island has some secrets of its own: perhaps more secrets than any “criminal” predator.

Meet the Team

Jurassic World Rebirth stars an ensemble cast of Johansson, Ali, Rupert Friend as pharmaceutical company representative Martin Krebs, Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Henry Loomis, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as shipwrecked family patriarch Reuben Delgado. Reuben’s children are played by Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda, while Bechir Sylvain is part of the team of specialists. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge appear in undisclosed roles.

The Jurassic World Rebirth trailer largely repurposes footage from February’s first trailer for the film, but it certainly manages to drive home a few key themes and imagery. The new trailer opens with a lab worker, who is also in a hazmat suit, trapped with a ravenous T Rex. The poor worker can be heard screaming, but it is already too late. Overall, viewers can expect action, suspense, and, of course, teeth. One of the film’s biggest set pieces is an attempted heist of a pterosaur egg. This egg is likely that of Quetzalcoatlus northropi, described by one character as “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” Jurassic World Rebirth also shows familiar raptors and features an aquatic dinosaur in one of the first glimpses of the mosasaur. Dialogue from the trailer reveals that the island the team and the family find themselves on was selected specifically to house “the worst of the worst”—that is, the most dangerous and unpredictable dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park clones.

Jurassic World Rebirth has been described as an attempt to reboot the Jurassic World franchise, but the latest trailer makes it clear that it is not afraid to feature the classic elements that made the series popular in the first place. The original research island of Jurassic Park was chosen as a setting for the film to invoke nostalgia for longtime fans, while the three mysterious super predators and other dinosaurs are being primed as unpredictable new threats. Whether or not Jurassic World Rebirth will truly reset the franchise is yet to be seen, but the elements are certainly in place for a return to form: a team of specialists, cutting-edge science, moral ambiguity, and, of course, giant prehistoric dinos wreaking havoc.

The trailer features many scenes of escaping danger, including chase sequences through the jungle, hiding in wreckage underwater, and a classic case of outsmarting these prehistoric predators. Scarlett Johansson, in particular, appears to add a grittier, more tactical element to the familiar “last person on Earth” formula.

Jurassic World Rebirth will open in theaters nationwide on July 2, 2025. The film will make a dino-sized impact on the Fourth of July weekend.