Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer Reveals T Rex Lab Chaos

Universal Pictures recently dropped the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, teasing audiences with a final look at the highly anticipated blockbuster before it slams into theaters during the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Jurassic World Rebirth is scheduled to open on July 2, 2025. The latest entry in the Jurassic World series is an origin story of sorts for the franchise that will see the action return to the site of the original Jurassic Park, where a team led by Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali must recover a trio of massive dinosaurs for a new, controversial, and potentially life-saving drug.

Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth film in the Jurassic World franchise and the seventh in the Jurassic Park series that began with the original Jurassic Park in 1993. Gareth Edwards is the director behind the film, most recently of Godzilla in 2014. David Koepp is on board to write the screenplay, reuniting with Jurassic Park for the third time following 1993’s Jurassic Park and 1997’s The Lost World.

Based on the official description, Jurassic World Rebirth is set five years after the conclusion of Jurassic World Dominion. As climate change and invasive human technology continue to make the world less hospitable to dinosaurs, the last of the species have been forced to retreat to small isolated pockets of the equatorial zone that still match the climate of their original era. Hidden within one such warm and humid biosphere are the largest dinosaurs in each category of land, sea, and air, and each of those dinosaurs is the only living creature to carry a fragment of the genetic code that could provide the key to a new life-saving drug. Scarlett Johansson will star in the lead role as Zora Bennett, a secret operations specialist hired to lead a mission into the heart of the jungle to extract the code, though their mission soon takes a turn for the worse after they cross paths with an innocent family on a boating trip whose vacation quickly turns into a fight for survival when an aquatic dinosaur attack leaves them stranded on a deserted island that once housed one of Jurassic Park’s first—and darkest—research facilities.

New, Old Species

Jurassic World Rebirth will star Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Jonathan Bailey, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. Johansson stars as Zora Bennett, an intelligence expert known for her record in going “silent.” Ali plays the supportive partner and expert in clandestine missions in the field; Rupert Friend stars as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative with a very murky and questionable agenda. Jonathan Bailey appears as paleontologist Henry Loomis, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as shipwrecked father Reuben Delgado. Delgado’s children are played by Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda, while Bechir Sylvain will appear as one of the mercenaries in Zora’s team. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge also appear in currently-unspecified roles.

While there are some familiar plot beats (a breakout is an inevitable part of any dinosaur-themed movie), there is also the promise of some new thrills: one of the biggest set pieces in the film, hinted at in the trailer, is an attempted robbery of an egg from a pterosaur, likely Quetzalcoatlus northropi, described as “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” We also see a tease of the trademark raptors, but new aquatic dinosaur species as well: the mosasaur. In a line of dialogue that I missed in the original viewing and only picked up after reading another article on the film, the deserted island the team and the Delgado family end up stranded on was an island chosen specifically to be home to “the worst of the worst” of Jurassic Park’s creations. The island itself seems to have some secrets of its own, darker than the dinosaurs themselves.

A New Dawn for Dinosaurs

Jurassic World Rebirth may be a fresh start for the series in terms of resetting the slate and plot continuity, but it’s no stranger to bringing out some of the franchise’s old favorite things. Rebirth is, thematically, a return to the franchise’s roots, quite literally, with a location change back to the island of the original Jurassic Park. Returning to the research island is intended to fan the flames of nostalgia for longtime fans. Meanwhile, the claim that it will contain some of the franchise’s most dangerous dinosaur species may be true, but it remains to be seen in terms of its long-term impact on franchise continuity.

The ensemble cast is strong, with a pairing of Johansson and Ali leading, and each actor in a role is intended to generate both sympathy and empathy for their characters from the audience as they must make hard choices and face the consequences of the mistakes they make. From the preview we got of Johansson’s role in the trailer, we can expect her character to add more grit to the series’ traditional tone, and likely to offer a less survivalist and more tactical, or technical, take on the archetypal approach.

Jurassic World Rebirth isn’t holding back on the set pieces or the thrills. Action sequences in the trailer include a few different attempts at escape, from running for their lives through an impenetrable jungle, swimming through murky depths to hide in a sinking shipwreck, and outsmarting the deadliest predators the world has ever seen.

Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters nationwide on July 2, 2025.