Jurassic World Rebirth: When Covert Teams Meet Cretaceous Chaos

Universal Pictures just dropped the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth. The summer blockbuster will premiere at cinemas on July 2, 2025, over the Fourth of July weekend. If you’re eager for a final look at Universal’s latest dino-park outing, feast your eyes below.

Jurassic World Rebirth Synopsis and Details

Jurassic World Rebirth sees the franchise take a fresh start while maintaining some key connections to its past. The action returns to the very site of the first Jurassic Park, and features a new cast led by Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali. A genetically crucial drug may be the secret hidden in the DNA of the three largest dinosaurs on land, sea, and air, each housed in their private tropical biosphere. Scarlett Johansson’s Zora Bennett is on a secret mission to infiltrate the location and obtain that DNA.

But when a family’s recreational boating trip is interrupted by a dinosaur attack in the water, the film’s heroes are forced to team up with the survivors to escape a long-lost island. The recent trailer teases a secret Jurassic Park research complex beneath the ruins. Dialogue in the trailer implies that the island had been used to quarantine the most volatile dinosaurs, “the worst of the worst,” so prepare for some new creatures as well as some favorites.

Jurassic World Rebirth will be the fourth film in the Jurassic World series and the seventh overall in the Jurassic Park franchise, which began in 1993 with Steven Spielberg’s original film. Gareth Edwards directs this time around, and he’s helmed some big names, including the 2014 Godzilla reboot. Screenwriter David Koepp wrote the screenplay for Jurassic World Rebirth and is a franchise veteran, having written the screenplay for the original Jurassic Park as well as The Lost World, the 1997 direct sequel.

Jurassic World Rebirth Cast

Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali take the lead in this one, with supporting cast members to include Rupert Friend, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacano, Bechir Sylvain, Audrina Miranda, Ed Skrein, and Philippine Velge. Rupert Friend plays Martin Krebs, who describes himself as a rep for a pharmaceutical company; we’ll have to wait and see what he’s really up to. Jonathan Bailey plays the paleontologist Henry Loomis. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo stars as Reuben Delgado, the father of three children (played by Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda), whose family vacation turns into a Jurassic nightmare. Bechir Sylvain joins the secret mission team. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge are also set to appear in undisclosed roles.

Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer and Details

Most of the new trailer is a re-edited version of the original trailer we got in February, so it’s more of a refresher than a new information dump. The repurposed elements from the February trailer are the ones that are really worth savoring, as the final trailer repurposes just about all of its “scare factor” material from the original trailer. It’s essentially a polished montage of the key themes and highlights that are now getting all the airtime. In any case, the opening moment from the February trailer remains one of the most intense: a frustrated worker in a bio-hazard suit is trapped in a T-Rex enclosure with an angry prehistoric beast. He yells for help, but it’s way too late. If that is any indication of the tone of the rest of the film, prepare for adrenaline-fueled action, edge-of-your-seat terror, and plenty of gnarly dinosaur encounters.

In addition to raptor hijinks (yep, they’re in the trailer), the film will feature the mosasaur, an aquatic dinosaur with massive teeth and claws. We see a decent look at this mean new menace during the trailer. It will also include an attempted robbery of a pterosaur egg. One of the characters describes the animal in question as “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” No species is identified in the trailer, but given the size, we’re willing to bet that the pterosaur in question is the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, the largest pterosaur ever to have lived. A Quetzalcoatlus egg would weigh over a hundred pounds, and that seems about right for the theft in the trailer.

Jurassic World Rebirth takes the key elements from the classic films: elite operatives, state-of-the-art science, moral ambiguities, and dangerous dinosaurs that would much rather eat you. And in addition to establishing new gameplay, the “return to origins” aspect of Jurassic World Rebirth (returning to the original Jurassic Park site) is a callback to fans of the first Jurassic Park film. But Rebirth also aims to surprise with “the worst of the worst” in dinosaurs, so it will be interesting to see how much new action the film can spin. Rebirth has the makings of a classic: a high-concept hook, a band of action heroes and antiheroes, a group of spectacularly deadly dinosaurs, the latest state-of-the-art digital magic, and a tropical location.

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