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Charles Pulliam-Moore is a reporter focusing on film, TV, and pop culture. Before The Verge, he wrote about comic books, labor, race, and more at io9 and Gizmodo for almost five years.
The larger Jurassic Park franchise feels like it should be telling stories about dinosaurs having taken over the entire planet at this point, but the new trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth makes it seem like the movie is going to retread old territory with a bit of a video game-inspired twist.
Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Rebirth introduces a new group of human characters with their hearts set on getting up close and personal with genetically engineered dinosaurs. Because most of the modern world’s climate has turned out to be inhospitable to the dinosaurs, they don’t seem to be much of an immediate threat to humanity in the new trailer.
The dinos have clustered on a unique island where they’re fine minding their business in peace. But when a pharmaceutical company discovers that the DNA of certain prehistoric animals can be used to make a new wonder drug, covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), and navigator Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) are tasked with collecting samples and risking their lives in the process.
The way the movie’s story is all about people doubling back through dangerous locations and fighting monsters in order to grab special items makes Jurassic World Rebirth sound like at least somewhat inspired by video games. That could work in the film’s favor when it hits theaters on July 2nd, but it could just as well lead to it feeling a little sillier than Universal intends.
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