Jurᴀssic World Rebirth is set on a new, dinosaur-infested island, and this setting ups the ante over the previous Jurᴀssic reboot. Directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Keopp, Jurᴀssic World Rebirth premieres on July 2, 2025. Set five years after the events of Jurᴀssic World Dominion, Jurᴀssic World Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett, the leader of an expedition to retrieve DNA from the most dangerous dinosaurs bred for Jurᴀssic Park for world-saving medical applications.
In 2015, director Colin Trevorrow’s Jurᴀssic World rebooted Steven Spielberg’s 1993 classic, Jurᴀssic Park. Trevorrow’s story saw the dinosaur theme park John Hammond (Richard Attenborogh) dreamt of actually open and welcoming thousands of guests. Inevitably, the dinos got loose and rampaged through the park. In the Jurᴀssic World sequels, Isla Nublar was destroyed by volcanic eruption, and the dinosaurs proliferated throughout the world. But Jurᴀssic World 2015’s billion-dollar success was due to Trevorrow’s reboot delivering on the promise of dinosaurs running amok in a populated theme park.
Jurᴀssic World Rebirth Isn’t Repeating A New Park Setting Like The 2015 Reboot
Scarlett Johansson’s Jurᴀssic Is Going Straight For Dino Scares
Although a recreation of Jurᴀssic Park‘s guest center and its iconic “When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth” banner appear in the new trailer for Jurᴀssic World Rebirth, the newest Jurᴀssic movie makes it clear that there will be no recreating dinosaurs in a theme park. Instead, Zora Bennett leads a mission to a new island that was once the research center for Jurᴀssic Park. Zora and her operative Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) guide paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and pharmaceutical rep Martin Krebs (Rupert Friend) into this domain to collect samples from the dinos deemed too ᴅᴇᴀᴅly for Jurᴀssic Park.
Jurᴀssic World Rebirth‘s premise eschews the problematic aspects of Jurᴀssic World 2015’s reboot, like annoying kids and their eye-rolling family drama. Instead, Jurᴀssic World Rebirth looks to upgrade the scare-inducing premise of The Lost World: Jurᴀssic Park and Jurᴀssic Park III by pitting capable adults in death-defying attempts to survive face-to-face encounters with carnivorous dinosaurs. There’s also an undercurrent of humanitarianism that’s pleasing, since Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s humans are trying to enable a medical miracle by gathering dino DNA.
Everything We Know About Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s New Island Setting
This New Island Isn’t Isla Nublar Or Isla Sorna
Jurᴀssic World Rebirth returning to a forbidden island setting is promising, and the newest Jurᴀssic adventure creates a new location: a heretofore unnamed island that isn’t the previous Jurᴀssic movies’ Isla Nublar or Isla Sorna, which were near Costa Rica. Jurᴀssic World Rebirth‘s new island is near Barbados, further east in the Caribbean. It was also a research facility for the original Jurᴀssic Park that houses “the worst of the worst” dinos, including another T-Rex, several Spinosaurus, and a Mosasaurus swimming in the surrounding seas.
Jurᴀssic World Rebirth will adapt a river raft chase by a T-Rex that was in Michael Crichton’s original novel but was cut out of Steven Spielberg’s Jurᴀssic Park.
Heavily armed humans invading a dinosaur-filled island and falling prey to the cloned prehistoric creatures is old hat to the Jurᴀssic franchise. In a post-Jurᴀssic World Dominion reality, dinosaurs have become an everyday sight for many people across the planet. But on their own island they’ve populated since Jurᴀssic Park 30+ years ago, the dinosaurs have home field advantage in Jurᴀssic World Rebirth.
