They have to go back to the island! Not back to Isla Nublar—no, this time it’s a different island. The one where they kept the dinosaurs that were “too dangerous” for the original Jurassic Park. Raptors, big flying things, you get the gist.
You can’t keep the big lizards—or the Jurassic World series—down. This summer’s Rebirth takes place five years after Jurassic World Dominion, in an era where people are just, like, totally over dinosaurs, according to producer Frank Marshall, who told Vanity Fair that screenwriter David Koepp “came up with this idea that dinosaurs were passé now. People were tired of them. They were an inconvenience.”
Inconvenient until they’re needed, anyway. The premise of Rebirth, as the summary explains, is that “The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.” Of course it’s the three biggest! That makes some kind of logical sense!
Anyway, Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali take science baby (sorry, paleontologist) Jonathan Bailey to the island full of scary big dinos in order to obtain the DNA, and everything goes wrong, and a nearby family winds up tangled up in things too. This plot feels extra super designed to make me root for the dinosaurs, though of course I would like the poor marooned family and also Fiyero from Wicked to survive. I guess. At any rate, they will, as is inevitable, “come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.”
Weredinos? What if it were weredinos, though.
Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by Gareth Edwards, who gave us those beautiful space battles at the end of Rogue One, and marks writer Koepp’s return to the franchise (his last dino movie was The Lost World). It also stars Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain, and Ed Skrein. My money is on Skrein getting eaten first.
Jurassic World Rebirth is in theaters July 2nd.
