Jurassic World Rebirth Features F-16-Sized Flying Predators

Universal Pictures has released the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, coming just a couple of months ahead of its official theatrical debut. The third Jurassic World entry and the seventh film in the franchise overall is set to hit theaters over the Fourth of July weekend in 2025, on July 2. Starring Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali, returning to the original site of Jurassic Park, and back to the classic mission of high-stakes science and dino-danger, Rebirth offers a mix of familiar and fresh thrills for Jurassic fans.

Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by Gareth Edwards and is the fourth entry in the Jurassic World trilogy and the seventh film in the Jurassic franchise, starting with Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park in 1993. Edwards, who was behind 2014’s Godzilla, is taking the directing reins for the first time in the Jurassic series. David Koepp, who has returned to write the script, wrote the original Jurassic Park film as well as the sequel, The Lost World, in 1997.

The film’s official synopsis has already been released. The film takes place five years after the conclusion of the previous entry, Jurassic World Dominion, during which time the planet’s ecosystem has become hostile to the dinosaurs to the point that the only places they can survive are in the equatorial zone, with artificial prehistoric conditions. In one such tropical biosphere, scientists have discovered the largest dinosaur on land, the largest in the sea, and the largest in the air, with all three holding genetic material that is key to a new life-saving drug. Scarlett Johansson stars as a covert ops specialist named Zora Bennett who has been put in charge of a team on a top-secret mission to capture the valuable genetic code. When a boating family vacation is destroyed by an aquatic dinosaur attack, they become stranded on the same abandoned island that once was home to a secret research Jurassic Park base. Hints at the trailer also suggest that there might be even more secrets buried on that island than just dinosaurs.

New Cast Members to Keep an Eye On

Joining Johansson and Ali in Jurassic World Rebirth are Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative with unclear motives, Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Henry Loomis, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, the head of the shipwrecked family. Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda play Reuben’s children. Bechir Sylvain is on the team on Zora Bennett’s mission. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge appear in yet-to-be-announced roles.

Much of the footage from the first trailer, which was released in February of this year, has been recycled for the final trailer, while still drilling in the primary takeaways. The trailer opens with a frantic scene in a lab. A worker dressed in a hazmat suit is sitting at a workbench, holding a warning sign with his free hand. He’s reached over for something just as a T-Rex makes an appearance. The man in the suit screams for help as the T-Rex makes short work of him. The trailer after this opening promises to keep the action fast, the suspense high, and the dinosaur mayhem gnarly.

The trailer also teases one of the film’s biggest action sequences so far: an attempt to steal a pterosaur egg. It is likely the egg from the Quetzalcoatlus northropi, as it is referred to in the trailer as “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” The trailer also briefly showcases the franchise’s favorite classic dinos: the raptors. And it offers a first look at a new aquatic dinosaur menace: the mosasaur. Per a dialogue line from the trailer, the island the team is stranded on was chosen specifically to serve as a prison for the “worst of the worst” —that is, the most aggressive and dangerous dinosaurs.

Jurassic World Rebirth is continuing in that it is billed as a reset for the series, while it simultaneously promises all of the major draws of the series so far. The idea of the elite team sent to a remote location on a high-concept mission is a tried-and-true formula. The complicated science has already been established. The moral gray areas and prehistoric terror are Jurassic standards. The new locations and new dinosaurs being introduced with Rebirth both seem like perfect avenues to use to reset the series.

No surprise, then, that the trailer is not holding back on the action: there are several harrowing escapes in the preview, including several scenes of characters running for their lives through jungles, clambering over submerged wreckage, and other sequences of just trying to outsmart their prehistoric adversaries. Johansson, in particular, is channelling a grittier, more tactical vibe than has been shown from the usual Jurassic survival heroes.

Jurassic World Rebirth is playing in theaters nationwide starting on July 2, 2025, right in time for the holiday weekend.