Jurassic World Rebirth Introduces New Aquatic Dino Species

Universal Pictures has released the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, which is still on track for a blockbuster Fourth of July weekend release. Jurassic World Rebirth, which lands on July 2, 2025, will reboot the franchise and bring a new team of characters back to where the franchise first began. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey, and with director Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, 2014) at the helm, Rebirth is drawing upon new elements but is going back to its DNA in other ways.

Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth film in the Jurassic World series and the seventh Jurassic Park franchise film since Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park in 1993. Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by Gareth Edwards (Godzilla) and written by David Koepp, who wrote the screenplay for Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park: The Lost World (1997). Jurassic World Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Bechir Sylvain, Luna Blaise, David Iacano, Audrina Miranda, Ed Skrein, and Philippine Velge in a yet-to-be-announced role.

In Jurassic World Rebirth, the trailer says the film is set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion. Dinosaurs on Earth are having a tough go of it as the planet’s ecosystem fails to support the giant reptiles. As a result, all dinosaurs have become relegated to isolated regions around the equator that best simulate their prehistoric environment. The biggest land, sea, and air dinosaur to remain alive is within one of the tropical biospheres. That is where their DNA can be found, which is the only genetic material known to contain the molecular key to a new, life-saving drug.

Enter lead character Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), an expert in undercover operations, recruited to lead a team on a secret mission to obtain the target genetic sequence. But their operation is interrupted when an armed crew approaches on a boat full of a family on vacation. A predator attack from the water leaves some members of the family shipwrecked on a long-forgotten island with secrets even more sinister than the monsters on the loose.

Jurassic World Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Bechir Sylvain, Luna Blaise, David Iacano, Audrina Miranda, Ed Skrein, and Philippine Velge in a yet-to-be-announced role.

Rupert Friend (Rogue Nation) is Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative with some questionable motives. Jonathan Bailey (The Undoing) plays paleontologist Henry Loomis. Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (Godzilla vs. Kong) is the patriarch of the boat family as Reuben Delgado. Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda star as the Delgado kids and are shipwrecked on the long-forgotten island. Bechir Sylvain (The Wheel of Time) stars as a member of Zora’s secret team. Ed Skrein (Deadpool) also has a role, while Philippine Velge is also set to appear in the film but has not yet been announced.

Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer (Universal Pictures)

Jurassic World Rebirth drops its final trailer in a big way and tells viewers to expect the unexpected with a return to the franchise’s roots in some ways and new blood in others. Much of the footage in this second trailer is carried over from the first trailer that was released earlier this year in February. The key points are hammered home: relive some of the iconic creatures from previous films while rediscovering familiar special effects thrills in evergreen raptor attacks.

Rebirth’s latest trailer opens with some lab work gone very wrong as a worker in a hazmat suit finds a way to become trapped in the facility with a ravenous T-Rex. He yells for help and tries to find some way out. But the damage is already done, and there’s no hope in sight. All that signals a deadly vibe that is at times exhilarating and intense throughout the trailer.

Some may lament that the trailer is more of the same, considering the work done with the first trailer back in February. But it also signals a movie that knows what it’s got. Jurassic World Rebirth is packed with action scenes to set pulses racing, special effects that are both superlatively groundbreaking and comfortably familiar, and some full-on dinosaur mayhem, including some that have never been seen before.

Action scenes include harrowing escapes, wild pursuits, as well as plenty of stealth hunting and evasion from some very agile and hungry raptors. The trailer also teases one of Rebirth’s tentpole set pieces: an attempted heist of a pterosaur egg. The eggs are described by one of the characters as “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” It’s unknown which flying dinosaur the egg belongs to, but it’s probably a Quetzalcoatlus northropi, one of the most fearsome air predators in the Jurassic World franchise. Viewers get another look at the infamous raptors but also catch a first look at one of the film’s new monsters: a mosasaur.

Jurassic World Rebirth will take audiences back to the beginning of the Jurassic Park franchise in some ways, but a reboot title has the potential to also bring forward some new and innovative elements of the franchise in other ways. Rebirth promises an all-star cast led by Johansson. This may mean an injection of more tactical strategies into classic survival-adventure themes. It also means the usual collect-a-thon, ethical dilemmas, hijinks, and monster mayhem.

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