Jurassic World Rebirth Has ScarJo vs Dinosaurs in High Gear

Universal Pictures has released the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, offering one last preview ahead of the summer blockbuster’s Fourth of July weekend debut. The movie, which will open in theaters on July 2, 2025, is set to reboot the Jurassic World series and the Jurassic Park franchise overall. It also features several elements that recall the series’ roots, including Johansson’s character, the return to the first Jurassic Park island, and a storyline that blends ecological themes with action and creature features.

Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth Jurassic World sequel and the seventh film in the Jurassic Park franchise, which began with Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park in 1993. Gareth Edwards, who directed 2014’s Godzilla, is in charge of the latest installment. David Koepp, who worked on the original Jurassic Park and 1997’s The Lost World sequel, penned the script.

The film is set five years after Jurassic World Dominion, when the planet’s ecosystem has become less and less hospitable to dinosaurs. The dwindling dinosaur population is forced to migrate to an equatorial location where the climate is similar to what it would have been millions of years ago. There, the three largest dinosaurs in each category of land, sea, and air share one secret: each contains a genetic element that holds the key to a lifesaving drug.

Scarlett Johansson stars as secret agent Zora Bennett, who has been assigned to lead a group of specialists on a secret mission to recover that gene code. Mission goes sideways when the private boat of a family is rerouted by the mission team and then marooned on an island by an ocean-dwelling dinosaur attack. With the family’s boat in ruins, they set up camp on the abandoned island, where a former Jurassic Park research outpost hides secrets as dark and deadly as the dinosaurs themselves.

The Cast Lineup

Jurassic World Rebirth is packed with star power. In addition to Johansson and Ali, the film also stars Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative with “a very checkered past”; Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Henry Loomis; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, the head of the shipwrecked family.

Garcia-Rulfo’s character is one of several newcomers stranded on the island alongside Johansson’s character. Reuben is joined by his three children, Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda, and Bechir Sylvain, who is part of Johansson’s operation. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge are also on board but in undisclosed roles.

Lots of Material From Trailer No. 1

Film fans will notice that most of the footage used in the February debut trailer has been repurposed for this one. This is by design, as the idea is to drill the trailer’s two main points home. The new trailer picks up from an intense lab sequence where a worker in a hazmat suit opens a cage and suddenly finds himself face to face with a T Rex. He yells for help before it’s too late, and the inevitable ensues. From there on, it’s a nonstop rollercoaster ride full of “edge-of-your-seat” thriller moments mixed with all the good old Jurassic Park-style dinosaur carnage.

We also get to see one of the movie’s main set pieces, which appears to involve a T Rex. An early shot is almost an exact repeat from the first trailer (a character has to “back the T-Rex up, any other way and it’ll just eat us”). Action fans will get a kick out of the intense, high-octane escape sequences, which show Johansson and other characters on the run, taking refuge underwater, scrambling to avoid fire-breathing pterosaurs, and doing their best to outsmart some very old and hungry creatures.

In the opening sequence of the trailer, the team is sneaking up on an island to free a herd of Mosasaurs, giant prehistoric marine reptiles. Before then, a group of characters has landed on the island to try and free the mosasaur with an infrared harpoon gun. The size and scope of this dinosaur are not understated by the trailer. One of the characters in the sequence refers to the mosasaur as “the size of a school bus” and “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” The raptors also make an appearance in the trailer, as do several other dinosaurs. The Mosasaur is the most prominent new addition to the cast, but there are at least two more: Deinocheirus, a giant carnivore that has a lobster-clawed forelimb, and the Utahraptor, a smaller raptor that Jurassic Park reboot director Colin Trevorrow called a “badass dinosaur.”

From Old to New

In addition to picking up elements from earlier installments, Rebirth also introduces new locations, characters, and, of course, dinosaurs. The new characters and potential enemies will be a test of Rebirth’s willingness to reinvigorate the franchise by repackaging familiar tropes in a new way. Rebirth also takes place in part at the original Jurassic Park island, which is prime real estate for nostalgia and throwbacks to classic dinosaur tropes.

Despite its billing as a reboot, Jurassic World Rebirth looks like a lot of what came before, but with some new twists. The film is coming out before the latest in a long line of follow-up movies are scheduled to come out, which should be good for business, especially if it is successful. One thing that is the same is the return to the island where the original Jurassic Park research center was built. It’s also a place to keep some of the core elements from the Jurassic Park franchise, such as raptors and other fearsome dinosaurs.

Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters July 2, 2025.