20-05-2025
'Jurassic World Rebirth' Trailer Shows First Look at Bizarre T-Rex Mutant
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A new action-packed trailer dropped on Tuesday for "Jurassic World Rebirth" and it introduces the absolutely bizarre and terrifying creature, the Distortus rex, a fictional mutant version of the T-rex inspired by a merging of the Rancor of "Star Wars", the xenomorph of "Alien", and a T-Rex. You can watch the new trailer below.
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As you can see in the very beginning of the trailer, the mutant Distortus rex is so terrifying that the scientists creating it leave one of their own to die rather than risk letting the monster escape.
"Jurassic World Rebirth" takes place five years after the events of 2022's "Jurassic World Dominion", and most of the world is no longer a safe place for dinosaurs. Scarlett Johansson plays Zora Bennett, a covert ops expert hired by a wealthy pharmaceutical company to go to a forbidden island in the Atlantic where the original research for Jurassic Park took place.
Their mission is to gather genetic material for the company in the hopes it can be used for life-saving medication. Things go sideways when a group of civilians shows up on the island, and, as anyone who's seen any of the "Jurassic Park" or "Jurassic World" entries knows - it's always best to just leave the lizards alone.
Johansson's voiceover lets us know the kind of danger they're all in. We hear her telling her team, "The theme park owners did experimental work... leaving only the worst ones here." Along with a nasty-looking T-rex and the Distortus rex, we get a good chance to see a massive alligator-like dinosaur threatening Zora's team's ship. There's also a nasty-looking flying dinosaur who goes after the team as they gather DNA from its eggs.
The last entry in the franchise, "Jurassic World Dominion", was far from beloved by critics. The film earned an absolutely dismal 29% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes. But audiences seemed to disagree with reviewers. The film took in $1 billion at the global box office.
"Jurassic World Rebirth" is directed by Gareth Edwards from a screenplay by David Koepp. The film releases in theaters on July 2. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, and David Iacono.
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