Jurassic World Rebirth’s Final Trailer Teases Thrills and Terror

Universal Pictures released the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth earlier this week, providing one last glimpse of the upcoming film ahead of its Fourth of July weekend release. Jurassic World Rebirth, which will open on July 2, 2025, features a new beginning for the Jurassic World series while also providing a more literal callback to the franchise’s roots.

Featuring Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali, the return to the Jurassic Park island, and an operation that mixes spy thriller thrills with dinosaur terror, Rebirth could become the high watermark for the entire series if it hits the same nostalgic sweet spot for fans as the rest of the Jurassic World movies.

Jurassic World Rebirth is the fourth film in the Jurassic World series and the seventh film in the Jurassic Park franchise, which began in 1993 with the Steven Spielberg-directed Jurassic Park. Jurassic World Rebirth will be directed by Gareth Edwards, who is also known for directing 2014’s Godzilla. David Koepp, who also wrote the original Jurassic Park and its 1997 sequel, The Lost World, wrote the script for Rebirth.

In the official synopsis, the film’s plot begins five years after the conclusion of Jurassic World Dominion. Dinosaurs are dying out due to the world’s evolving ecosystems being inhospitable to them. As such, the last dinosaurs have been pushed into isolated ecosystems at the equator that most closely resemble their prehistoric environments. These ecosystems, or biospheres as they are called in the film, include the three largest dinosaurs by type: one on land, one in the water, and one in the air. Each of these three creatures has genetic material that could be used to create a new, life-saving drug.

Scarlett Johansson plays Zora Bennett, a secretive covert operations specialist leading an unknown group of people on a mission to one of the biospheres to steal that genetic material. However, things go sideways when their mission intersects with a boating family out for a day on the water. The predators are lurking in the water, so when their vacation is cut short by a dinosaur attack on their boat, the family members who survive are marooned on an island with more than just dinosaurs. The trailer promises secrets buried in the past on the island that are worse than the dinosaurs.

Prominent New Characters, Familiar Monsters

The film’s major characters, in addition to Johansson and Ali, include Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative with an agenda of his own; Jonathan Bailey as paleontologist Henry Loomis; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, a father whose family becomes stranded. Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda play his children, and Bechir Sylvain is a member of Zora’s team. Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge also star in the film, but in as-yet-unspecified roles.

It reuses footage from the first trailer released in February, so a lot of this trailer is a refresher, but with added music and a few revealing visual cues. For example, a familiar shot from the first trailer that features a character in a hazmat suit in a laboratory shows more of that scene, where it’s clear that they are working alone with a T-Rex in the same room. He pleads for someone to help him, but his calls for assistance are a little late.

The trailer is less a teaser than an invitation to brace yourself for top-to-bottom action. With no dialogue, the trailer is largely made up of a grab bag of set pieces, including a high-speed chase on water and at one point even on dinosaurs. Characters are shown in a series of close calls and several gory dinosaur chases. The trailer also teases one of the film’s most exciting set pieces, an attempted heist of a pterosaur egg—most likely a Quetzalcoatlus northropi. This creature is referred to in the trailer as “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” As for familiar creatures from the franchise, the movie still has the iconic raptors, as well as a new addition: the mosasaur, an aquatic predator that makes its big-screen debut here. Dialogue in the trailer reveals that the island was initially chosen to “contain the worst of the worst,” a reference to dinosaurs believed to be too volatile or a danger to human life and therefore given their own little Jurassic Park on the island.

The Jurassic World films have largely been continued retreads with slight variations on the tried-and-true formula. Rebirth is intended as a new beginning for the franchise, but it still dips into some of the most famous—and nostalgic—elements of the past Jurassic Park films, like the island that originally hosted Jurassic Park’s ill-fated research team and new, old villains to keep things fresh. The new beginning is literal but also an attempt to shake up the Jurassic World brand and approach a new spin on some classic moves.

As in past trailers, Rebirth is a gory affair with several scenes that will leave you on the edge of your seat as characters make their way through prehistoric ecosystems looking to outsmart ravenous carnivores. Johansson, in particular, looks set to add a grittier, more tactical espionage feel to the blockbuster survival narrative.

Jurassic World Rebirth opens in theaters nationwide on July 2, 2025.