This 11-Year-Old Monsterverse Movie Is Exactly What Jurassic World Rebirth Needs To Be After Chris Pratt’s $3.9 Billion Trilogy

The soft reboot of the Jurassic World franchise will start with Jurassic World Rebirth, and director Gareth Edwards could look at one of his earlier movies for inspiration when it comes to the massive monsters he’ll have to play with. The fourth entry in the Jurassic World franchise and the seventh Jurassic Park movie overall, Jurassic World Rebirth is due to release in July 2025. The story will take place several years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, in a world where dinosaurs have settled into the warm equatorial territories where they are able to survive.

Plot details are limited, but it’s been revealed that the new sci-fi action blockbuster will feature Scarlett Johansson as the leader of a covert ops mission to secure DNA from the surviving dinosaurs on Earth. From the sound of it, the story may feature some of the most-beloved dinosaurs from the Jurassic Park franchise. However, director Gareth Edwards will be tasked with restoring the scariness to the dinosaurs that marked the franchise’s first three entries, and he could look to his own work in the Legendary Monsterverse to do so.

Godzilla (2014) Is The Scary Monster Blockbuster That Jurassic World Rebirth Needs To Be

Godzilla Restored The Majesty And Fear Factor Of The Giant Monster

Gareth Edwards was the man behind the movie that kicked off the Monsterverse, 2014’s Godzilla, and some of the keys to that movie’s success could be just as important for Jurassic World Rebirth. After Tristar’s disastrous 1998 adaptation of the radioactive lizard, Gareth Edwards managed to restore the size, power, and intimidation factor of Godzilla. He once again seemed like a very real threat to the world, and so did his opponents in that movie, the brand-new kaiju known as the MUTOs.

Edwards should take that same approach to the dinosaurs that will be the centerpiece of Jurassic World Rebirth. One of the biggest problems with the Chris Pratt-led Jurassic World movies is the fact that none of the dinosaurs were intimidating, or even all that fascinating to look at. The CGI-heavy approach to the dinosaurs’ creation left them looking flat and decidedly unscary, as opposed to Steven Spielberg’s practically-created dinosaurs. Edwards needs to make dinosaurs something to marvel at again, as he did with Godzilla.

The Jurassic World Trilogy Focused Too Much On The Action And Forgot To Be Scary

The CGI Dinosaurs Became So Commonplace That They Stopped Being Intimidating

The dinosaurs in the original Jurassic Park movies were legitimately breathtaking, and their appearances are among the most well-known and beloved scenes in science fiction. The first time the T. rex escapes his paddock provides an incredible introduction to the franchise’s most famous dinosaur, initially obscuring him before revealing his full majesty. Even the much-maligned Jurassic Park III brought in an intimidating new dinosaur in the spinosaurus; his final attack on the escaping boat in that movie is a legitimate horror movie scene, and even has direct references to Jaws.

The dinosaurs of Jurassic World have none of the same magnificence. They are overly-common plot drivers, helping to elevate the action sequences (like Chris Pratt driving a motorcycle alongside a herd of velociraptors), but there is no real emphasis on the reality of the threat that the powerful animals pose. There was even a focus on lab-created dinosaurs like the Indominus Rex and the Indoraptor, which were CGI monstrosities that acted as villains by sheer circumstance. As such, their appearances became so frequent and uninspired that they were lost to the action.

Will Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World Movie Be Similar To His Godzilla?

His Experience With Godzilla Will Almost Certainly Influence His New Movie

It seems fairly obvious that Edwards will pull some elements of Godzilla into Jurassic World Rebirth. We don’t yet know which species, but it feels fairly certain that there will be some sort of bipedal carnivore wreaking havoc in the movie, so there are some visual cues he can borrow to make the dinosaurs look intimidating. Edwards also had some memorable non-Godzilla-related moments in Godzilla that could be sampled for Rebirth, like the use of flares in the famous H.A.L.O. jump scene or the large-scale disaster elements of the tsunami that resulted from Godzilla making landfall.

Jurassic World Rebirth should have the same general feel as Godzilla, in the sense that both will still have plenty of action, but the stars will be non-human creatures. Godzilla did an incredible job of making human beings seem small and insignificant in the face of nature, represented by the massive Titan, and Edwards would do well to keep that dynamic intact for his dinosaurs. It won’t be obvious by design, but it seems likely that Jurassic World Rebirth could act as a spiritual successor to Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla.

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Five years after Jurassic World Dominion, Earth’s ecology confines dinosaurs to equatorial zones. Zora Bennett, a covert ops expert, leads a team to secure genetic material from massive dinosaurs for a life-saving drug.  However, stranded on their mission, they discover a devastating secret hidden for decades.

Release Date

July 2, 2025

Main Genre

Adventure

Cast

Scarlett Johansson
, Mahershala Ali
, Jonathan Bailey
, Rupert Friend
, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo
, Luna Blaise
, David Iacono
, Audrina Miranda
, Philippine Velge
, Bechir Sylvain
, Ed Skrein

Character(s)

Zora Bennett
, Duncan Kincaid
, Dr. Henry Loomis
, Martin Krebs
, Reuben Delgado

Director

Gareth Edwards

Writers

David Koepp
, Michael Crichton

Prequel(s)

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, Jurassic Park, Jurassic World: Dominion, Jurassic Park 3, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Jurassic World

Distributor(s)

Universal Pictures

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