Jurassic World Rebirth Brings New Life to a Classic Franchise

Universal Pictures has unveiled the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth ahead of its release over the Fourth of July weekend. The new dinosaur film will open in theaters on July 2, 2025, and the teaser gives fans one last glimpse of what to expect when it reboots the Jurassic World franchise.

The third film in the Jurassic World trilogy and seventh in the Jurassic franchise as a whole, Jurassic World Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali. This time around, the crew will be making a return to the original Jurassic Park location in a bid to revive three iconic dinosaurs, according to the synopsis. The efforts to bring back the largest known land, sea, and air dinosaurs appear to involve an attempt to mine them for genetic material to synthesize a new drug.

Jurassic World Rebirth will also be bringing back familiar faces from the franchise, such as director Gareth Edwards, who most recently directed the 2014 Godzilla reboot. The film will be Edwards’ second for the Jurassic series after the trailer for his upcoming film stated that the crew needed to “act quickly and quietly.” Rebirth is also penned by David Koepp, who is returning to the series after writing both the original Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World, in 1997.

One early 2024 trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth

The latest trailer picks up five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, when the natural environment has become too inhospitable for many dinosaur species. As a result, a dwindling number of dinosaurs are now only able to live within carefully tended equatorial zones that try to re-create the environments from the Jurassic period. In one such tropical biosphere, three of the largest known dinosaurs in each domain (on land, in the sea, and the air) still live. The trailer shows off each of the three species, and each is shown to contain genetic material that is key to unlocking a brand-new drug that could save human lives.

Scarlett Johansson stars in Jurassic World Rebirth as Zora Bennett, a secret agent with a license to kill who is on a covert mission to acquire that DNA code. But when a vacationing boating family has their trip derailed by an encounter with a giant aquatic dinosaur, they are forced to take cover on the long-abandoned island that hides a Jurassic Park research base. The plot thickens when they are rescued and one of the characters mentions the island’s previous role as “the house for the worst of the worst”—dinosaurs so dangerous, they were long since retired by the island’s researchers.

Dino Dinners

Jurassic World Rebirth has a large cast of new and returning characters, including Universal’s previous choice for the lead, Scarlett Johansson, as well as returning Jurassic vet Mahershala Ali. The rest of the cast includes Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative whose precise motives are unclear; Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Henry Loomis; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as the shipwrecked family’s father, Reuben Delgado. Reuben’s children are played by Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda, and Bechir Sylvain appears as another member of the mission team. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge are also attached to undisclosed roles in the film.

Very little new footage from the film makes it into the final trailer, with most of the material being directly repurposed from the first trailer, released in February of this year. This re-use suggests a fair amount of stability in the key elements and general tone set by that initial trailer. The new trailer opens with an intense scene in which a lab worker in a hazmat suit is left alone with an angry T-Rex and calls for help on his radio, but it’s too late to do much of anything. These first few seconds are a good indicator of the overall feel: high-octane action, moments of death-defying suspense, and, of course, some gnarly dino chomping.

Jurassic World Rebirth’s Final Trailer Revealed: Feat. Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and ‘Godzilla’ Director Gareth Edwards

As teased in the earlier trailer, a key set piece in the film involves an attempted heist of a pterosaur egg that is, according to one character’s description, “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” It is likely a Quetzalcoatlus northropi, a 40-foot-tall, 600-pound flying dinosaur that is considered to be one of the largest flying animals of all time. The trailer also makes use of two fan-favorite dinosaurs: the iconic raptors, and one new sea creature that is shown to have killed some members of the civilian boat party: the mosasaur. Dialogue within the trailer confirms that the island itself was used as a repository for “the worst of the worst” dinosaurs that were most difficult to control once they had been cloned.

The trailer does not shy away from this, showing multiple escape sequences throughout the film, including running through the jungle to avoid dinosaurs, hiding in sunken shipwrecks, and more. Johansson in particular appears to be bringing a gritty, tactical edge to the traditional survivor story, at least at first glance.

Jurassic World Rebirth will open in theaters nationwide on July 2, 2025.