Jurassic World Rebirth marks a shift in direction for the long-running dinosaur franchise. This time, the action is stripped of its theme park gloss and replaced with a rawer survival story set deep in the tropics, where ancient creatures and modern science collide.
In a new behind the scenes featurette the cast praise director Gareth Edwards, known for his atmospheric approach to large-scale storytelling. On Rebirth, he’s bringing that same focus to a world teetering between evolutionary chaos and pharmaceutical ambition. According to Scarlett Johansson, that vision was crystal clear from the start. “Gareth can see the whole film in his mind,” she said. “He’s a very unique storyteller in that way.” Watch the featurette below.
Johansson plays Zora Bennett, a tactical operator assigned to protect a high-stakes research mission. The team is dropped into one of the last remaining dinosaur-rich zones on Earth, aiming to recover genetic samples that could unlock cures for human diseases. But with prehistoric predators dominating land, sea, and air, things spiral fast.
The film also stars Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincard, a smuggler with his own motivations, and Jonathan Bailey as Henry Loomis, the idealistic scientist leading the research. What begins as a controlled extraction quickly turns into a survival nightmare when the group crosses paths with a family shipwrecked by an aquatic attack. Together, they face an environment that doesn’t care about agendas—only instincts.
Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the world has changed. The dinosaurs that remain now live in dense equatorial zones, far from human interference. According to the official synopsis, “The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”
Visually, Rebirth leans into tension and scale over spectacle. Gareth Edwards uses cutting-edge VFX not to dazzle, but to immerse. According to Johansson, the confidence he brings helps everyone stay grounded—even when acting opposite creatures that aren’t really there. His style gives the film a tone that feels fresh for the franchise: darker, more urgent, and more human.
Jurassic World: Rebirth is set to hit theaters on July 2.
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