Jurassic World Rebirth Features Mission for Life-Saving Dino DNA

Universal Pictures has released the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, the upcoming sci-fi/action/prehistoric dino-punching film, ahead of its Fourth of July weekend theater debut. The July 2, 2025, release will star Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali, among others, and promises a fresh start for the Jurassic franchise despite returning to some familiar settings and themes.

Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth film in the Jurassic World series and the seventh in the overall Jurassic Park franchise that started in 1993 with Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. The new installment in the series is directed by Gareth Edwards, who was behind the 2014 film Godzilla, and written by David Koepp, who has previously written Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World, in 1997.

In the official synopsis, five years have passed since the events of Jurassic World Dominion. Dinosaurs now struggle to survive in an increasingly toxic environment, so the last of them have been forced into protected, climate-controlled equatorial zones that recreate the original conditions of their natural habitats. Somewhere among the three largest dinosaurs on land, sea, and air contained within one such tropical biosphere are genes that scientists believe will unlock the synthesis of a potentially life-saving pharmaceutical drug.

Scarlett Johansson plays Zora Bennett, the leader of an undercover team sent on a top-secret mission to locate and acquire that gene, but their work is suddenly interrupted by a boating family who were out for a trip when their outing was interrupted by an attack from an aquatic dinosaur. In the aftermath, the human survivors crash onto an abandoned island with a secretly operated Jurassic Park research facility, where they must escape both the manmade threats and the predatory dinosaurs. The trailer teases that the darker secrets of the facility will soon present even more threats to the characters.

The Stars of Jurassic World Rebirth

Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali are leading the cast, and they will be joined by Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative with an agenda that isn’t as straightforward as it initially appears; Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Henry Loomis; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, the head of the shipwrecked family. Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda round out the Delgado family as Reuben’s children. Bechir Sylvain will also join the team of covert operatives on the mission. The film also stars Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge in roles that have yet to be described.

As is common with the final trailers of recent releases, much of the footage from the February teaser was repurposed, so it will come as no surprise to most viewers that we will see people running in tunnels, scientists trapped in labs, and some gnarly dinosaur action. The new trailer opens with the same screaming-in-a-hazmat-suit man who is trapped in a lab while a carnivorous T-Rex approaches, but it’s too late. Even though action beats and an atmosphere of high-stakes suspense have long since become the status quo for the Jurassic Park series, the trailer promises more of the same with some new threats, including a mosasaur.

The trailer provides a view of the film’s latest epic set piece when we witness an attempt to steal a pterosaur egg that is later described as “the size of a Volkswagen” and, per the trailer, belongs to Quetzalcoatlus northropi. One character points out that this massive dinosaur is “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” Viewers also see some familiar raptors from previous films as well as the mosasaur, the latest aquatic predator to swim in the Jurassic Park series’ troubled waters. Jurassic World Rebirth stars one of the raptors as it is named by Johansson’s character and a member of the team, saying, “This island was used for the worst of the worst,” while an image of mosasaurs on display is shown.

Jurassic World Rebirth will be a reboot in name, but it will not be starting from scratch. Director Edwards will have to shake off the weight of the franchise’s recent live-action prequel series and its many running gags, tropes, and narrative redundancies to keep the latest iteration on its toes. The original Jurassic Park research island will no doubt spark nostalgia in many viewers, and the action elements in the trailer are fairly straightforward and familiar for the series, but the return of an original and rebooted theme park will introduce a full cross-section of dinosaurs to pummel the characters. The filmmakers are also ramping up the moral murkiness by including characters on all sides whose personal agendas and duplicity will lead to conflict and disaster.

At the end of the day, Rebirth isn’t particularly interested in tearing up the script or redefining the narrative approach of Jurassic Park. An unlikely team of outsiders, experimental science, quasi-ethical justifications, bad decisions, and homicidal dinosaurs is coming to a theater near you in July. The trailer makes this clear, giving viewers a good look at what may be the best action sequences of any recent Jurassic Park film, including people running through a rain-soaked jungle to escape an angry stegosaurus and a number of sequences that take place underwater. Johansson, as well, seems more fit for the gritty survival film than previous characters in recent installments.

Jurassic World Rebirth will open in theaters across the country on July 2, 2025.