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By Jen Maravegias | News | February 5, 2025
I don’t know what to tell you. After six movies, you’d think people would know well enough to leave the dinosaur island alone. But I can’t quit them; the memory of watching the first movie on the big screen is still tinged with magic. So, I don’t blame Scarlet Johansson for wanting to be in Jurassic World Rebirth.
This seventh installment of the franchise is set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion and it turns out the 21st century is inhospitable to dinosaurs. All of the surviving creatures exist in seclusion. But they have something we need in their complicated DNA.
Enter Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey (Wicked), Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi), and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer) to retrieve the necessary samples to create “life-saving pharmaceuticals” while antagonizing all of the giant beasts.
Humans never learn.
Don’t expect the same set of dinos we’re familiar with from previous movies. We can thank Dr. Henry Wu (B.D. Wong) for the crazy genetic mix-em-ups that Johansson and her crew will be up against in this one. Their physiology is based on H.R. Giger’s Xenomorph from the Alien franchise, the Rancor from Star Wars: A New Hope, with a little T-Rex thrown in because the T-Rex is always The Biggest Big Bad in Jurassic Park.
Jurassic World Rebirth opens in theaters on July 2nd. I wonder what sort of popcorn bucket it will have.
