Film fans have just been given a first-look at the spine-chilling trailer for the upcoming blockbuster Jurassic World: Rebirth, which hints at a nightmarish new beast.
Set to hit UK screens in July, this latest instalment arrives three years after the Jurassic World trilogy’s climax and features a screenplay by the original Jurassic Park writer, David Koepp.
The plot centres on an ‘extraction team’ tasked with retrieving dinosaur DNA that harbours the potential to revolutionise human healthcare. Hollywood A-lister Scarlett Johansson takes on the role of the stealthy Zora Bennett, while Bridgerton and Wicked star Jonathan Bailey appears as the palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis.
The film’s summary reveals: “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 across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”
The plot takes a dramatic turn when the team encounters a family whose boat has been overturned by aquatic dinosaurs, leaving them stranded on an island that once hosted a secret research facility for the doomed Jurassic Park. The island is inhabited by a variety of dinosaurs, including some mutant species left to fend for themselves.
Here, the team “come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades,”reports the Mirror.
Jurassic World: Rebirth takes place five years after Jurassic World Dominion, which explored the coexistence of dinosaurs and humans. Despite being promoted as the final film in the Jurassic World trilogy, producer Frank Marshall described it as the “start of a new era.”
This new era seems to feature large, mutant dinosaurs.
As shown in the trailer released today (February 5), there’s a colossal adversary resembling one of the Xenomorphs from Alien – and this is no coincidence. According to Rebirth’s director, Gareth Edwards, his inspiration came from the Alien franchise, Star Wars, and naturally, the original ferocious giants of Jurassic Park.
Edwards revealed to Vanity Fair: “When you make a creature, you get a big, massive pot and you pour in your favourite monsters from other films and books,” adding: ““Some Rancor went in there, some H.R. Giger went in there, a little T. rex went in there.”
Jurassic World: Rebirth releases in cinemas July 2