UPDATE: The official title for the next installment of the Jurassic World franchise is Jurassic World: Rebirth!
Synopsis: The film will be set five years following the events of Jurassic World Dominion, when the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
Scarlett Johansson plays a covert ops expert named Zora Bennett, who has been hired to lead the team extracting DNA from the three most gargantuan dinosaur species left alive. Mahershala Ali plays Zora’s partner, Duncan Kincaid; Jonathan Bailey plays a paleontologist named Dr. Henry Loomis; and Rupert Friend plays Martin Krebs, the representative of the drug conglomerate funding the expedition. Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF) and Ed Skrein (Rebel Moon) make up the rest of Zora’s team.
The team will eventually encounter a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos. They all get stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.
Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the family that’s been shipwrecked, which includes Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs. Lopez).
Jurassic World: Rebirth is set to hit theaters on July 2, 2025.
SOURCE: Variety
UPDATE: Oscar winner Mahershala Ali (Leave the World Behind) is in talks to join Scarlett Johansson in the new Jurassic World movie.
The latest installment in the Jurassic franchise will also star Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), Rupert Friend (Rebel Moon) and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (A Man Called Otto).
SOURCE: THR
UPDATE: Actress Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) is in talks to headline Gareth Edwards’ new Jurassic World movie.
SOURCE: Deadline
UPDATE: David Leitch is officially out of the running as Gareth Edwards has signed on to direct the new Jurassic World movie.
After negotiations fell through with Leitch, Universal Pictures quickly moved on to Edwards, who is best known for directing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Godzilla (2014).
The new film will be a completely fresh take as none of the stars from the previous installments are expected to return.
Steven Spielberg will serve as executive producer through Amblin Entertainment with Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley producing through Kennedy-Marshall.
SOURCE: Deadline
A new Jurassic World movie is officially in the works at Universal Pictures with David Leitch (Bullet Train, Deadpool 2) in talks to direct.
David Koepp, the original screenwriter of Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, is on-board to write the script for the film. Steven Spielberg will executive produce through Amblin Entertainment. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley will produce along with David Leitch and Kelly McCormick via 87North.
No words yet on if any of the previous cast members of the franchise will return. The untitled project is targeted to hit theaters on July 2, 2025.
SOURCE: Variety