Jurassic World Rebirth: The Trilogy Was Not the End

“…the enduring Jurassic series evolves in an ingenious new direction with Jurassic World Rebirth.”

How does that statement make you feel?

“Seriously?” is a legit reaction. Either as in excited (“Yay! Good news!”) or exasperated (“Really? Why?!”).

I was a mix of both. My very first reaction was to groan when I read about it. I thought the trilogy was it. Nada. No more. The series had played out.

Ha! How naive of me. Especially with this stat being shared by the movie’s PR peeps: “…the Jurassic World trilogy concluded with each film surpassing $1 billion at the global box office.”

Um, that’s a lot of money. Clearly, there’s an appetite (pun intended) for the dinos. If they’re still profitable, why walk away from that?

Still, you don’t want to insult your audience. Will this newest installation really take the story in an “ingenious new direction” fans will approve of?

We’ll find out when the movie hits theaters on July 2.

I will say this hook definitely captured my interest: “…this action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind.”

After reading the rest of the synopsis, seeing who’s in it, and watching the trailer, I’m now more in the excited “seriously?” camp than the exasperated. What about you?

Jurassic World Rebirth Synopsis, Cast, Trailer

Synopsis

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 across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.

Academy Award® nominee Scarlett Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material. When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades.

Cast and Crew

In addition to Johansson (Black Widow, The Avengers), the film stars Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey (Wicked, Bridgerton), and two-time Oscar® winner Mahershala Ali (True Detective, Moonlight).  t

It also stars acclaimed international stars Rupert Friend (Homeland) and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer).

Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by dynamic visualist Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp.

For More Info

Visit the movie’s official website: https://www.jurassicworld.com.

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