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I'm sure I don't need to tell you that a big theme of the Jurassic Park franchise is evolution. And if you've ever read about evolution, you know that it doesn't always exactly turn out perfectly. On our real planet, evolution has created some messed-up monstrosities, and it seems like that idea is about to be mirrored in the next entry to the Jurassic franchise. At least, that's what the folks who made Jurassic World Rebirth tell us.

We'll get to their comments in a moment, but first, check out the first trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth (and the unexpected ugliness of evolution in that universe) right here:

Pretty pulse-pounding, no? The "these dinosaurs were too dangerous for the original park" line goes pretty hard, and can we talk about whatever the ever-loving-shit this thing is??

Actually, the folks we should probably be hearing from regarding the dinos in the movie are the people who actually made it, and lucky for us, they recently sat down with Vanity Fair to talk about exactly these postmodern and prehistoric predators. 

"These are the dinosaurs that didn’t work," says Rebirth producer Frank Marshall, who has been with the Jurassic World films ever since 2015,  "There’s some mutations in there [...] They’re all based on real dinosaur research, but they look a little different."

No offense, Frank, but they look a lot different than the dinos we first encountered all the way back in 1993, although the way the movie seems to be telling it, some of the creature in this trailer were just off-camera in the world of the original film. However, even though a lot of these beasties will be making their onscreen debut this year, they'll be appearing with some familiar features, thanks in part to the film's director, Rogue One's Gareth Edwards.

"Some Rancor went in there," said the filmmaker of the dino designs, adding "some H.R. Giger went in there, a little T. rex went in there [too]."

Evolution, when it boils down, is a reaction to the world that surrounds us. It appears that in producing its latest chapter, the Jurassic franchise has warped its already terrifying DNA in order to fit the best of the monster movies that have come before or after it. What it's produced is, like that image above, certain to be terrifying..

But goshdarn if it isn't pretty impressive as well. 

Jurassic Park Rebirth hits theaters July 2, 2025.

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