Last month, we posted a rumor that said the title of the seventh Jurassic Park movie would be titled Jurassic World Rebirth. Today, Variety has not only confirmed it to be true, they’ve revealed the first official look at stars Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, with a look of astonishment on their faces, probably at some dinosaur discovery. Oscar winner Mahershala Ali is also in the cast and can be seen in a second image, waving around a flare as if to distract an angry T-Rex.
The film will be directed by Gareth Edwards (The Creator) with a script by original Jurassic Park writer David Koepp. According to Variety, the story will be set five years after Jurassic World: Dominion, when “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 synopsis continues. “The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”
The report continues, “Eventually, [the main characters] encounter a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos,” at which point everyone becomes “stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.”
Johansson’s character is “covert ops expert” Zora Bennett, who has been hired to lead the team extracting DNA from the three most gargantuan dinosaur species left alive. Ali plays Zora’s partner, Duncan Kincaid; Bailey plays a paleontologist named Dr. Henry Loomis; and Rupert Friend (“Homeland”) plays Martin Krebs, the representative of the drug conglomerate funding the expedition. Philippine Velge (“Station Eleven”), Bechir Sylvain (“BMF”) and Ed Skrein (“Deadpool”) make up the rest of Zora’s team.
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (“The Lincoln Lawyer”) plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the family that’s been shipwrecked, which includes Luna Blaise (“Manifest”), David Iacono (“The Summer I Turned Pretty”) and Audrina Miranda (“Lopez vs. Lopez”).
Edwards took over as director after David Leitch (Bullet Train) dropped out due to “creative differences.”
Universal also released the below motion title treatment to coincide with the news. Jurassic World Rebirth opens July 2nd 2025.
Jurassic World Rebirth. In theaters July 2025. pic.twitter.com/CLUdLQPPfO
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