Everything We Know About The Next Jurassic Park Movie

Following the misstep of Jurassic World: Dominion​​​​​​, Jurassic World Rebirth has officially been announced and aims to steer the franchise in the right direction. Jurassic World: Dominion very much serves as a conclusion to the sequel trilogy, bringing together arcs from across the new movies but also seeing the return of Jurassic Park‘s main characters. This helped give Dominion a sense of finality, but major franchises like Jurassic World can’t stay away for too long.

The Jurassic Park franchise has had its ups and downs, but the tantalizing chance to rake in hundreds of millions of dollars at the box office has always enticed Hollywood to return to the well. Jurassic World: Dominion received largely negative reactions from critics, and though it made over $1 billion (via Box Office Mojo), it was clear that change was needed to keep the dinosaurs-run-amok franchise viable. Therefore, Universal wasted little time in announcing a brand-new Jurassic World project that serves ostensibly as a soft reboot.

Jurassic World Rebirth Latest News

The First Trailer Is Released

After months of waiting and image teases, the latest news arrives in the form of the first trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth. The full-length trailer opens with Rupert Friend’s Martin Krebs introducing Zora (Scarlett Johansson) to Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey). The two then set out for a secret island that was originally used as a holding pen for all the original Jurassic Park’s most dangerous dinosaurs. While trying to secure DNA from the island’s three largest dinos, the gang is attacked by flying reptiles, chased by mammoth T-Rex-like lizards, and nearly gobbled up by an ocean-dwelling horde of terrors.

Universal also provided an extended synopsis for the film which reads:

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.

Jurassic World Rebirth Release Date

The New Jurassic Era Begins Sooner Than Expected

Only a few weeks after the ambitious new project was announced, Universal provided a planned release date for Jurassic World Rebirth that suggests the film is moving quickly. The “new Jurassic era” is slated to begin on July 2nd, 2025, just a little over a year and a half after it was revealed. With filming wrapped in September 2024, the release date seems more plausible.

Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is directing Jurassic World Rebirth.

Jurassic World Rebirth Cast

Scarlett Johansson & Jonathan Bailey Lead The Cast

Though the prospect of another Jurassic World movie is exciting on its own, one of Rebirth‘s biggest selling factors is its all-star cast of new characters. First announced in March 2024, Scarlett Johansson is set to lead the soft reboot as Zora Bennett, a covert operations agent who is tasked with securing DNA samples from the remaining dinosaurs on Earth. Joining Johansson in the lead cast is Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis, and Mahershala Ali as Bennett’s team member, Duncan Kincaid.

Rupert Friend has been tapped to play the role of pharmaceutical rep, Martin Krebs, while Manuel Garcia-Rulfo will play civilian Reuben Delgado who gets caught in the middle of the action alongside his family. Delgado’s kids will be played by Luna Blaise, David Iacono, and Audrina Miranda, though ther exact names and character descriptions are unknown.

Several original Jurassic Park and Jurassic World stars have confirmed they will not be returning.

The confirmed cast of Jurassic World Rebirth includes:

Jurassic World Rebirth Story

A Soft Reboot On The Franchise

Perhaps the new incarnation of Jurassic World can hearken back to the gritty and cynical style of Michael Chrichton’s original novel

The plot of Jurassic World Rebirth was shrouded in mystery for quite some time, but with Universal’s latest release of news, the movie has begun to take shape. Taking place several years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the movie will follow covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Johansson) as she leads an elite team of hunters to track down the remaining dinosaurs left on Earth and harvest their DNA for a pharmaceutical company. While on their mission, Zora and her team encounter a shipwrecked family (led by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo’s character), and together the group discovers a shocking secret.

When the project was first announced, Jurassic World Rebirth was promised as a return to the franchise’s roots, and it’s likely trying to differentiate itself from the critical failure of previous installments. Perhaps the new incarnation of Jurassic World can hearken back to the gritty and cynical style of Michael Chrichton’s original novel, and delve deeper into the themes of corporate greed that underscored the debut story.

Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer

Watch The Full Trailer Below

With only a handful of months to go until the sequel arrives, a trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth debuted in February 2025. Opening at a museum, the trailer introduces Dr. Loomis to Zora, who will lead a mission to collect dinosaur DNA from one of Jurassic Park’s abandoned sites. Hunting the three biggest dinos on the island, the group is attacked by flying reptiles, chased by land-dwelling beasties, and nearly swallowed by underwater creatures of gargantuan size.