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Jurassic World Rebirth: What do we know about the film?

Jurassic World Rebirth: What do we know about the film?

BBC News08-02-2025

The world's most famous dinosaur-movie franchise is roaring back into cinemas this summer. The trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth dropped this week, featuring stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey hunting dinosaur DNA on an unexplored island. The first ever Jurassic Park movie was released more than 20 years ago in 1993.Jurassic World Rebirth is set to be the seventh instalment in the Jurassic Park franchise.
According to producers Universal Pictures, the movie is set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion.Covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) leads a top-secret mission to a "forbidden island" with her comrade Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and palaeontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey).There job is to retrieve dinosaur DNA which could hold life-saving properties for humans.This is Scarlett Johansson's first big action movie role after starring as superhero Black Widow in a number of different Marvel movies.And Gareth Edwards, who directed 2014 monster-movie Godzilla and Star Wars spin off Rogue One, has been recruited as director.Jurassic World Rebirth will bare its teeth in cinemas worldwide on 2 July 2025.

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