It’s been a while since we’ve been in the world of the <i>Jurassic</i> movies, and even longer since they’ve been any good. But while Rebirth is sharing an overall title with the controversial second trilogy, it’s hoping a mix of the familiar—the return of original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp—and new (a star-studded cast including Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali) will be the formula that’ll make fans welcome the franchise’s return.
Today Universal dropped the first trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, the start of a new era of Jurassic movies from Rogue One director Gareth Edwards. Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Rebirth follows an all new cast in a world where not only are dinosaurs returned, they’re a little passé to society at this point—even as three of the biggest wild dinos hold the key to a potential miraculous drug breakthrough for humankind. But when a private mission to secure the biological data needed for the research goes awry, our human heroes are reminded of just how ancient and powerful the threat of dinosaurs really is… and discover a secret that could change the world once more in the process.
Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett, the lead covert ops specialist tasked with leading Dr. Henry Loomis (Wicked and Final Fantasy XIV‘s Jonathan Bailey) on the quest for his game-changing research. Mahershala Ali also stars as Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s right-hand man, with Rupert Friend playing big pharma exec Martin Krebs, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, the father of a family that finds themselves caught up in the dangerous mission after a shipwreck.
Rebirth has a lot to overcome to step out of the shadow Dominion left behind, still lingering almost three years later. Will it be able to, as Koepp hopes, make dinosaurs fun again? We’ll find out when it hits theaters July 2.
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