Jurassic World Rebirth Final Trailer Reveals Shocking Dino Threats

Universal Pictures released the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth today, offering a last-minute look at the upcoming film before its July 4th weekend release. Jurassic World Rebirth is scheduled to debut on July 2, 2025, and stars Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali. Airing like a reset button for the Jurassic franchise, Rebirth will feature several callbacks to its legacy, from a return to the original Jurassic Park research site to the use of “extreme science” to avert a world-ending threat.

Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth film in the Jurassic World sub-series and the seventh film in the overall Jurassic franchise, which began with the 1993 Steven Spielberg-directed Jurassic Park. Gareth Edwards, director of 2014’s Godzilla, will direct Jurassic World Rebirth, while David Koepp wrote the script. Koepp has previously worked on the Jurassic franchise as the screenwriter of both Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World, in 1997.

In the official synopsis, five years after the original world-ending threat depicted in Jurassic World Dominion, the Earth’s ecosystems are now largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. As a result, dinosaur populations have been corralled into “isolated equatorial refugia” that recreate ancient environmental conditions. Hidden within a single such tropical biosphere are “the largest dinosaur in the air, on land, and in the sea” and a genetic sequence they contain that may hold the key to a new, world-saving drug. Mission specialist Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) is co-opted into a secret team sent to this tropical biosphere to secure that sequence. When the team’s mission intersects with that of a vacationing family of boaters, the film’s narrative becomes more complicated. Following an attack by a T-rex that leaves one of the boaters dead and the others shipwrecked on a deserted island, the film becomes more concerned with the castaways’ survival than with their mission. Tensions increase further when it’s suggested that the island on which the survivors are stranded may not be deserted at all, but was the site of a secret Jurassic Park research facility, “housing the worst of the worst.”

Characters and Cast

Jurassic World Rebirth‘s cast is led by Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali. The two are joined by Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs (a pharmaceutical company representative with ambiguous motivations), Jonathan Bailey as Henry Loomis (a paleontologist), and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado (the patriarch of the shipwrecked family). Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda play Reuben’s children, while Bechir Sylvain (Star Wars: Ahsoka) plays a team member with Johansson on the drug mission. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge are also in undisclosed roles.

The February teaser trailer from earlier this year is repurposed in this latest trailer, revisiting early hints at Rebirth’s core themes and visuals. This trailer, however, opens on a more action-oriented note, with an ill-fated worker in a hazmat suit screaming at the sudden appearance of a T-rex before being devoured. A similar pattern of escalating tension continues from there, with the trailer further emphasizing the action sequences, mystery, and fear of the unknown, and, of course, more monstrous dinosaur attacks.

Most of the film’s highlights from February’s teaser trailer are confirmed in this latest trailer. The key set pieces of the film include a heist gone wrong where the team attempts to steal a pterosaur egg described as “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16” and an aquatic predator first introduced as a mosasaur. Dialogue in the trailer also reveals that the island on which the stranded vacationers are located was specifically chosen to house “the worst of the worst” dinosaurs, so we could contain the worst.”

Returning to Roots, Leaving the Familiar Behind

Jurassic World Rebirth is sure to include many of the franchise’s most enduring tropes, but it is also trying to reinvent itself for the future. Most notably, the use of the original Jurassic Park research island (with its complex of theme park rides) will surely be a nod to the franchise’s origins for longtime fans. As always, there are new monsters to look forward to in Rebirth, most notably a mosasaur and the introduction of new scenes of terror. Still, other familiar scenes of tension and terror, such as hiding out in the belly of a wrecked cruise ship, the film’s core nostalgia-tripping premise that dinosaurs will do something unexpected, and several scenes of classic dinosaur action, are expected.

In particular, Johansson will no doubt be expected to bring a harder edge to the classic “survive the dinos” franchise that’s been reset for Jurassic World Rebirth. While Jurassic Park was a vision of 1990s idealism gone awry and Jurassic World a dystopian take on corporate malfeasance in the early aughts, Rebirth looks to be a sci-fi spy thriller. The trailer’s action sequences are brimming with tension, from explosive chases through jungle brush to the quick-thinking about-faces needed to avoid dinosaur stomps. These early looks are packed with potential set pieces and hard-fought narrow escapes, and Johansson in particular will surely bring a much grittier edge to this traditionally more fantastical blockbuster fare.

Jurassic World Rebirth will be in theaters on July 2, 2025, just in time for the Fourth of July weekend release.