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Scarlett Johansson swaps Black Widow spy duties for fun dinosaur hunting in 2025's Jurassic World Rebirth
The relaunch of the dino franchise comes from the man behind 2014's Godzilla reboot
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Dinosaur fans, get ready for a new Jurassic adventure that’s going to harken back to the franchise’s earliest days while asking questions that haven’t been addressed just yet… all led by the Black Widow herself, Scarlett Johansson. Director Gareth Edwards has started teasing just what Jurassic World Rebirth is all about, and we’re into it.
The movie “goes back to what I loved about the original,” Edwards told Empire magazine. (That's perhaps unsurprising; Jurassic World Rebirth is written by David Koepp, who co-wrote the original movie 31 years ago.) What that means, Edwards explains, is that Steven Spielberg’s first Jurassic Park in 1993 had “an embarrassment of riches of different set-piece-type scenarios and tense, fun action moments. There were a lot of opportunities as a filmmaker to have a lot of fun and try and play games with the audience.”
How that translates into Rebirth, he’s not saying, but what he will reveal is that the new movie will have some familiar scaly faces — “there are certain dinosaurs it would be a crime against cinema not to include,” he admits — and takes place five years after Jurassic World: Dominion, centering around Johansson’s Zora Bennett, leading a dinosaur hunt after arriving at an unexpected crossroads when the movie begins.
“She’s looking for meaning in her life after leaving the military,” Edwards revealed, “and this opportunity comes along where [...] basically she’d never have to work again. But through that journey, she starts to question the ethical rights and wrongs of what they’re doing.”
Ethical quandaries and dinosaur hunting from the man who made the 2014 Godzilla reboot? We’ll take it — although we’re going to have to wait July 2 2025 to see the finished movie for ourselves. For now, there’s always the rest of the franchise to revisit…
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