Jurᴀssic World Rebirth is finally here, and it repeats a major franchise twist from 28 years ago. Jurᴀssic World Rebirth has finally stepped away from the Jurᴀssic World trilogy, with the 2025 film focusing on an all-new cast of characters rather than continuing the stories of Chris Pratt’s Own and Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire.

Jurᴀssic World Rebirth follows a group of smugglers who are hired by a shady medical company to go to a secretive island, one that InGen used to experiment on dinosaurs a few years after the opening of the Jurᴀssic World theme park. The site was abandoned after a mutated dinosaur broke loose, with the smugglers traversing the dangerous landscape as they get DNA samples from three large dinosaurs.

While the previous Jurᴀssic World movies were poorly received, Jurᴀssic World Rebirth has fared a little better critically. Some consider Jurᴀssic World Rebirth to be the best film in the franchise since 1997’s The Lost World: Jurᴀssic Park, and a shared story element could contribute to this reception.

Jurᴀssic World Rebirth Reveals Another New Island (It’s Not Site B)

It Is Another Abandoned InGen Research Facility

The Lost World: Jurᴀssic Park continues the story of Spielberg’s original film, with John Hammond sending Ian Malcolm on a mission. As it turns out, InGen had a second island where they experimented on dinosaurs, with this Site B being on Isla Sorna. Hammond’s nephew is planning on going to Site B and capturing some dinosaurs, with Malcolm going to document the creatures and promote a non-interference policy.

Jurᴀssic World Rebirth tells an incredibly similar story. The 2025 film sees the smugglers learn about a secret InGen research facility on Ile Saint-Hubert, with a mᴀssive medical company wanting to capture dinosaur DNA in order to line their pockets. This research facility was previously abandoned, allowing dinosaurs to roam freely on the island.

Although both facilities are abandoned InGen research sites where dinosaurs were experimented on, they are not the same. Isle Sorna and Ile Saint-Hubert are two entirely different InGen sites, although their plot similarities mean that it is understandable if they are confused for one another.

How Jurᴀssic World Rebirth’s New Island Fits Into The Franchise History

It Shut Down Five Years After Jurᴀssic World Opened

Jurᴀssic World Rebirth reveals that Ile Saint-Hubert’s research facility was abandoned 17 years ago. Since Rebirth takes place in 2027, this means that Ile Saint-Hubert was abandoned in 2010, five years after the opening of Jurᴀssic World.

So, it seems that these mutated dinosaurs were meant to be used in the Jurᴀssic World theme park, although this never ended up happening thanks to the island’s abandonment. The events of the Jurᴀssic World trilogy led to dinosaurs taking over the equator and human travel being banned, meaning that the island’s fauna were free to take over until the events of Jurᴀssic World Rebirth.