Jurassic World Rebirth to Hit Theaters on July 2, 2025

Universal Pictures just dropped the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth, its upcoming reboot of the Jurassic World series. The film, which premieres this July 2, 2025, will open over the Fourth of July weekend to shake up movie theaters with its big-budget mayhem.

Jurassic World Rebirth will return to the starting point of the franchise, both figuratively and literally. Returning to the original site of the Jurassic Park research complex, a new and elite team of specialists goes in search of the original dinosaurs, now on the brink of extinction. The most advanced of them are said to have the genetic material to create a breakthrough, life-saving drug.

The team is led by Scarlett Johansson’s character, Zora Bennett. Co-starring Mahershala Ali, the main mission to collect the genetic code is thrown into chaos by a boating family who get caught in the crosshairs of a marine predator. When a massive T. Rex abducts their ship, the trio is left to survive on a mysterious island with a long-forgotten Jurassic Park sub-research facility. The darker, previously unknown purpose of that facility is a mystery that will put everyone in danger.

Jurassic World Rebirth will mark the fourth Jurassic World film and seventh in the entire franchise after the Jurassic Park trilogy of films from Steven Spielberg (1993-1997). Gareth Edwards, director of 2014’s Godzilla, will take the helm on this latest installment, while David Koepp, who previously wrote Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World (1997), wrote the script.

Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer: Main Characters, Big Dinosaurs, and Plenty of Action

The new Jurassic World Rebirth trailer is not overflowing with new material, but it still contains some exciting new developments. It repurposes a fair amount of footage from the original Jurassic World Rebirth trailer from earlier this year, but it does give a firm look at the sort of action the film will have. First, it shows what will certainly be a set-piece scene from the film: A worker in a biohazard suit is stuck with a ravenous Tyrannosaurus rex. This is both exciting for fans of dinosaur-on-human action and the terrors of being in the wrong place with no way out.

The trailer also features what is probably the main set piece from the film: a tense operation to steal a pterosaur egg, which a character describes as a “pteranodon, but bigger, like the size of Quetzalcoatlus. It’s a freaking flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” That means this is likely the well-known flying dinosaur Quetzalcoatlus northropi. The familiar face of velociraptors also returns, as does a new threat in the mosasaur. It’s not just dinosaurs, either, as the trailer and film synopsis both hint that the team is going to face some of the most feral of dinosaurs discovered, as one character notes, “there is this one island we went after, right, for when we needed to get the worst of the worst.”

Fans of the Jurassic series will recognize the return to the first Jurassic Park island as an attempt to return to the roots of the series, while at the same time, the team of new characters will hopefully make the new events unpredictable. Johansson’s character is established as a skilled and lethal operative, with Ali and a supporting cast of characters joining her on the mission. Friend plays Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative who may or may not be on the up and up. Jonathan Bailey plays paleontologist Henry Loomis, with Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as the shipwrecked family patriarch Reuben Delgado. Zora’s team also features Bechir Sylvain. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge also star in the film in undisclosed roles. The Delgado family includes Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda as Reuben’s children.

The ingredients for a successful reboot/fresh start are all in place. A crack team, high science with uncertain moral overtones, a mix of law, violence, and not getting out alive, and of course, dinosaurs. Whether it is enough to truly reboot Jurassic World remains to be seen, but certainly the action scenes from this new trailer give reason to believe the film will have plenty of classic dinosaur-on-human carnage.

Jurassic World Rebirth will open in theaters across the United States and other nations on July 2, 2025.