Jurassic World Rebirth Brings Dinosaurs Back with a New Mission

Universal Pictures released the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, the latest film in the Jurassic Park franchise. The highly anticipated trailer is an extra helping of prehistoric terror for fans before the film’s theater release over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Jurassic World Rebirth will open in theaters on July 2, 2025, and stars Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali. Other familiar names in the cast include Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Bechir Sylvain, Ed Skrein, and more. The full-length feature will be directed by Gareth Edwards, who previously directed the 2014 reboot of Godzilla.

Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth installment in the Jurassic World series and the seventh film overall in the Jurassic Park franchise, which started with the Steven Spielberg-directed Jurassic Park in 1993. Gareth Edwards returns to direct the film, with the screenplay written by David Koepp, who previously penned the original Jurassic Park film as well as the Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World, in 1997.

The official synopsis from Universal Pictures is as follows:

“Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the ecosystem of the planet has turned less and less hospitable to dinosaurs, leaving the remaining dinosaurs marooned on increasingly sparse pockets of isolated equatorial islands that can sustain their prehistoric ecosystems. The three largest land, sea, and air dinosaurs in the entire world exist inside one such tropical biosphere, each of which is believed to have a unique DNA fragment that, when combined, can lead to the creation of a revolutionary, life-saving drug.”

Scarlett Johansson stars as covert operations specialist Zora Bennett, who is charged with leading a group on a top-secret mission to extract the “potentially groundbreaking” genetic material from one of these gargantuan dinosaurs. Mission is complicated when a group of specialists stumble upon a family of boaters, who are on a family vacation, in the dinosaur’s territory. As they attempt to make their escape, their boat is capsized by an attacking aquatic dinosaur. The survivors end up stranded on an uncharted island with hidden secrets that may be even more ominous and dangerous than the dinosaurs themselves.

Who’s on the Dino Ship?

Jurassic World Rebirth features a massive ensemble cast, including Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacano, Bechir Sylvain, and more. Johansson is the star of the film, and her character, Zora Bennett, will be charged with leading a covert team on a mission of biological extraction to the tropical biosphere where the largest dinosaur on land, sea, and air currently reside.

The other key players include Mahershala Ali as Nick Pratt, a military veteran who is a part of Zora’s team; Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical rep; Jonathan Bailey as Henry Loomis, a paleontologist; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, a family man and the captain of the family’s sunken boat. Manuel’s family, which is also included in the cast, includes three children who all have roles: Luna Blaise (his daughter), David Iacano (his son), and Audrina Miranda (his daughter). Bechir Sylvain is another member of Zora’s covert operations team, and Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge have additional roles. Stay tuned for updates on Skrein and Velge’s characters.

A Return to the First Jurassic Park

The two-and-a-half minute trailer is chock full of high-concept science, lurking terror, and yes, dinosaurs. Much of the footage used in February’s first trailer makes a repeat appearance in the final trailer, most notably the scenes that establish the film’s three central themes: covert operations, genetics research, and the dinosaurs themselves. The final trailer also recycles a lot of the most important cinematic eye candy.

The trailer opens with a scientist in a hazmat suit being hauled by a crane into a laboratory. A ravenous T-Rex barrels into the lab as well and corners the worker inside, where he helplessly screams for assistance that’s too far away to help. The Jurassic World Rebirth trailer sets the expectations for the upcoming film. There will be fast-paced action, heart-stopping suspense, and, of course, gnarly dino action.

A Stowaway dinosaur aside, the trailer’s biggest action set piece involves a heist of an ancient, egg-sized organism that likely belongs to Quetzalcoatlus northropi (read: “nano”), a giant flying reptile. We get a good look at one and hear one of the crew members reference it: “It’s a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” The full roster of dinosaurs is a familiar one, as we also get glimpses of the ubiquitous raptors and a new sea dinosaur called a mosasaur. One character notes that the island used to house the “worst of the worst” – the most dangerous dinosaurs on the planet.

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