A new era has begun.
Universal Pictures has unveiled their first look at Jurassic World: Rebirth, featuring some returning favorites with a fresh coat of paint, a few redesigns of popular dinosaurs (one especially with the advent of updated science), and a new, mysterious mutant creature. The film promises to lean more horror, with the team remarking in the exclusive Vanity Fair coverage for the film that dinosaurs need to be scary again, and since we’ve seen them so much in movies & television over the years, the awe is gone. Rebirth aims to solve this by bringing the series’ original scribe, David Koepp, back to create an all-new story, and return the dinosaurs to where they run wild best – an uncharted, dangerous, and uninhabitable island.
With Gareth Edwards at the helm, we at Kaiju United are intrigued and following along closely. The man knows his way around a monster or two, with his work on Monsters and Godzilla receiving high praise from creature fans alike. Can he provide that same sense of scale and terror with history’s greatest predators, plus a genetic abomination? Only time will tell.
In the film, “five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. 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. Academy Award® nominee Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.”
Ali is Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s most trusted team member; Critics Choice and Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey (Wicked, Bridgerton) plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Emmy nominee Rupert Friend (Homeland, Obi-Wan Kenobi) appears as Big Pharma representative Martin Krebs and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, Murder on the Orient Express) plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the shipwrecked civilian family. The cast includes Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs. Lopez) as Reuben’s family. The film also features, as members of Zora and Krebs’ crews, Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF) and Ed Skrein (Deadpool).
Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by BAFTA winner Edwards (Monsters, Godzilla) from a script by Koepp (War of the Worlds), based on characters created by Michael Crichton. The film is produced by Oscar® nominee Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, both longtime Jurassic franchise producers and of last summer’s blockbuster, Twisters. The film is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Denis L. Stewart and Jim Spencer.
