Just when you thought dinosaurs were safely extinct from our movie screens—bam!—“Jurassic World Rebirth” stomps into theatres with a fresh roar. And here’s a fun twist: as Mercury mischievously dances in retrograde today, perhaps it’s fitting that this new chapter in the Jurassic saga rewinds the clock with a whole new cast, ditching the familiar faces in favor of fresh flesh, and scales, of course. Scarlett Johansson leads a crack team on a mission to snag DNA from the most gigantic beasts roaming land, sea, and sky—all while humanity scrambles to unlock a miracle cure hidden in prehistoric genes. It’s like an astrological plotline written in the stars: old cycles end, new ones begin, and chaos reigns in between. But does this reboot bring the thunder, or is it just another dino sized headache? Dive into our review and decide if this “rebirth” truly resurrects the franchise or if it’s just fossils in flashy packaging.
A new entry in the Jurassic Park / Jurassic World franchise, Jurassic World Rebirth, is now in theatres. We’ve heard what JoBlo’s own Chris Bumbray had to say about the movie – you can read his 5/10 review at THIS LINK, or listen to it in the video embedded above. Now we want to know, what did you think of Jurassic World Rebirth?
News of the new Jurassic World movie first hit back in January of 2024, when it was revealed that the screenplay had already been written by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, returning to the franchise for the first time since The Lost World: Jurassic Park. The project was assembled in a mad scramble after that, with Godzilla and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story director Gareth Edwards ending up at the helm. This new Jurassic World movie won’t be featuring any returning lead characters from the previous Jurassic Park / Jurassic World movies, so describing it as a “Rebirth” could be accurate. The characters played by Sam Neill, Jeff Goldblum, and Laura Dern are out, as are the ones played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.
The new characters are played by the likes of Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), Mahershala Ali (Green Book), Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi), and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer) – all of whom had their roles directly offered to them. Luna Blaise (Manifest), on the other hand, had to (according to Deadline) “beat out a number of actors” to land her role. David Iacono of The Summer I Turned Pretty, child actress Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Ed Skrein (Deadpool), and Béchir Sylvain (Diarra from Detroit) are also in the cast… along with a bunch of hungry dinosaurs.
Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) was also offered a role, but he turned it down because he felt his presence in the movie wouldn’t help it. He did say that the script is great, though.
Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley are producing the film for Kennedy/Marshall. Steven Spielberg is executive producing through Amblin Entertainment. Universal’s executive vp of production development Sara Scott and creative executive Jacqueline Garell are overseeing the project for the studio.
Here’s what we were told about the plot: Jurassic World Rebirth sees an intrepid team racing to secure DNA samples from the three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air. 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 within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind. Johansson’s character is Zora Bennett, “a skilled covert operations expert contracted to lead a team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world’s three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.” Bailey is playing paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis, with Ali as Zora’s most trusted team leader, Duncan Kincaid.
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