Jurassic World Rebirth Explores DNA, Medicine, and Dino Danger

Universal Pictures has unveiled the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, the first film in a new trilogy set to open across the Fourth of July weekend. Following a lengthy production, the film will debut on July 2, 2025, which could mark the beginning of the Jurassic Park saga’s second act. Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth film in the Jurassic World series and the seventh entry in the franchise overall, which kicked off with Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park in 1993. Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) directs this time around, while the script was penned by David Koepp, a Jurassic Park alum who wrote the original 1993 installment as well as its sequel, The Lost World (1997).

In the official synopsis, the film begins five years after Jurassic World Dominion, when dinosaurs are on the brink of extinction as the planet’s climate becomes less and less suitable for their survival. All that remains of the formerly teeming populations are small enclaves near the equator where the ecosystems most closely resemble their ancient home. Within these biospheres live the three largest dinosaurs on land, sea, and air, each of which is believed to contain the genetic material necessary to synthesize a revolutionary, life-saving drug.

Scarlett Johansson plays Zora Bennett, an ex-special ops soldier and scientist who is contracted to lead an elite team on a covert mission to extract this genetic data. The mission quickly derails when it intersects with a family of vacationers on a boat ride. After a run-in with a marine dinosaur, the family is stranded on an island while members of Zora’s team discover it was a former, undisclosed Jurassic Park research outpost. The trailer closes with the ominous suggestion that something even more ominous may be hiding on the island.

Talented Cast in Jurassic World Rebirth

The film features an ensemble cast of relative newcomers and known names. Johansson and Ali are joined by Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a representative of a shadowy pharmaceutical company who has questionable motives; Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Henry Loomis; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, the father of the family whose boat journey is interrupted by the mission. Reuben’s children are played by Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda, while Bechir Sylvain is a member of Zora’s extraction team. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge also appear in undisclosed roles.

Most of the footage in this trailer was also featured in a previous trailer in February, although the latter was considerably shorter. This version condenses the important elements from the previous trailer and builds upon it to give a sense of scale and tone. It also features a slightly different opening: the trailer begins in a research facility where a worker in a hazmat suit is attacked by a T Rex while trying to escape and screams before being eaten alive. In general, action sequences seem to be the trailer’s focus, along with suspense and more than a few dinosaur attacks.

The trailer also showcases what will surely be one of the film’s set pieces: a heist-gone-wrong at an excavation site for a pterosaur egg, which is described by a crew member as “basically a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” We also get another glimpse of the Jurassic Park franchise’s now-infamous raptors and a new predator: the mosasaur. The island was used to store “the worst of the worst”: dinosaurs considered too dangerous and unpredictable to be cloned elsewhere. While there are some new elements at play, the trailer suggests a largely familiar formula, too.

Judging from the cast, premise, and promising action sequences, Rebirth aims to reset the franchise while doubling down on what worked in the past. It’s a return to the very first Jurassic Park island, so that’s bound to be a trip for longtime fans, while the premise of new threats and obstacles at every turn promises new dinosaurs and dino-filled action sequences. As the trailer makes clear, Rebirth is about elite teams, dangerous science, real-world moral dilemmas, and dinosaurs run amok.

While the action sequences look great and there are more than a few fun set pieces, there’s a harder edge to some of the action this time around. Johansson’s character is put in a situation where brute force doesn’t cut it, and she’ll have to outthink—and outrun—the dinosaurs to survive. In addition, some of the action sequences in the trailer were surprisingly suspenseful, even knowing how the first few scenes would play out. Like many film trailers before it, this one also seems to hold back on some major elements from the film to save for later.

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