‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ – What You Need To Know & Scarlett Johansson
Well, here’s your first look at Universal’s Jurassic World Rebirth, starring Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali.
The seventh movie in the franchise, Rebirth is directed by Rogue One: A Star Wars Story filmmaker Gareth Edwards. The script was written by David Koepp, the same guy who wrote the original Jurassic Park in ’93.
According to an official summary, the movie will be set five years after the events of 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 three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”
In the movie, Scarlett Johansson plays a covert ops expert named 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 palaeontologist 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.
The synopsis adds that the team will eventually meet up with 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 said he’s loved the franchisse since its ’93 debut, “I’m an enormous Jurassic Park fan. It’s one of the first films I remember seeing in the theatre. I remember seeing it so vividly. It was like life-changing. It was mind-blowing. I cannot express how excited I am.”
She added, “I’ve been trying to get into this franchise in any possible way for over 10 years. I’m like, ‘I’ll die in the first five minutes! I can get eaten by whatever! I’ll do the craft service!’ I’ll do anything for it. The fact that it’s happened in this way at this time just is actually unbelievable.”
Jurassic World Rebirth is expected to hit theatres on July 2, 2025.
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