A new Jurassic World movie is due next summer, having gone from 'just announced' to production to post in less than a year. The trick? Original Jurassic Park writer David Koepp had secretly scrapped a script. Gareth Edwards (Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) is directing and ready to talk a little about the process of shooting in natural environments.
Entertainment every week is currently previewing the upcoming 2025 films, including, of course, Universal's Jurassic World and Amblin: Rebirth. While the powers that be still refuse to show us dinosaurs (and other prehistoric creatures) until the first trailer arrives, we already know a lot about the adventurers and some of the dangers which they will have… and also face in real life.
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“When we were scouring them, we saw poisonous water snakes, big ones that we had to catch. We kept quiet from the actors as they spent a whole day walking through the same area. And there were spiders there were big ones that were poisonous and stuff on the edge of the trees,” Edwards admitted. We've known for a while that production was mostly done in the natural locations of Thailand and Malta, and of course, that usually involves getting dirty hands and wet feet. Well, it seems that the cast and crew also had to avoid animal dangers that are real.
All of this added to the overall vibe the director and screenwriter were going for, which was “a bit of an adventurous odyssey across this island, a survival story, really”. Looking back at the recent Jurassic World trilogy shepherded by Colin Trevorrow (who has now stepped back), the long-running film series saw a mean- became necessary and doubled down on the sci-fi angle that actually felt very faithful to Michael Crichton's original novels. That said, much of the execution could have been better, so Universal and Amblin's return to basics with this one was somewhat predictable. All in all, it's like a more interesting version of Jurassic Park 3, a fun but hollow island adventure flick that had little to say about the dangers of rampant capitalism and mankind clashing with nature.
“The three most popular dinosaurs of land, sea and air within this biosphere hold valuable genetic material for a pharmaceutical company that hopes to use the dino DNA to create a life-saving drug for humanity.” That is part of the main premise of Rebirth, which seems to run with a simple plot and structure, but recognizes the state of the world after the events of Fallen Kingdom and Dominion, which saw dinosaurs and other creatures that disappeared reaching the mainland and being. created by all kinds of big companies and not-so-good people. Now, these animals are “dying out” in most regions of the world except the tropics, so expect to see even more jungle-like environments in the future although not repeated.
The full interview It's well worth reading, because it digs a little into the main cast, led by Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali, and the angle Edwards is shooting. Expect proper marketing to begin in the coming weeks. The film will rip and enter theaters worldwide on July 2, 2025.
