Jurassic World Rebirth Heads to Theaters This July 4 Weekend

Universal Pictures released the final trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth late last night, giving fans a last glimpse of the new film before it charges into theaters over the Fourth of July holiday. Jurassic World Rebirth opens nationwide on July 2, 2025, and promises a new start for the Jurassic World series by bringing back many of its classic elements, starting with the original Jurassic Park research island.

Jurassic World Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali and reunites them with 2014 Godzilla director Gareth Edwards, who will be at the helm for this latest entry in the Jurassic Park franchise. David Koepp, who wrote the original Jurassic Park and its sequel, The Lost World (1997), also makes a return to write the screenplay.

In the film, set five years after Jurassic World Dominion, dinosaur life on the planet has become less and less viable. Global ecosystems are shrinking and isolating dinosaurs to equatorial zones most similar to their prehistoric home. Inside one of these tropical biospheres live the three largest dinosaurs on land, sea, and air—and all three creatures have genetic material that could be used to unlock a revolutionary life-saving drug.

Scarlett Johansson stars as Zora Bennett, who is sent in to lead a team on a top-secret mission to extract the genetic material, only to find herself entangled with a family on a boating vacation. When the vacation is cut short by an attack from an aquatic dinosaur, the family survivors must band together to survive the island they’ve washed ashore on, not knowing its secrets may be even more deadly than the dinosaurs.

Meet the Team

Jurassic World Rebirth boasts an all-star cast, including but not limited to Johansson, Ali, Rupert Friend, Jonathan Bailey, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. Johansson plays covert operations expert Zora Bennett, who is called in to lead the mission to extract the crucial genetic code. Ali plays her contact in the mission’s science team, and Rupert Friend plays Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical company representative and suspected spy. Jonathan Bailey stars as Henry Loomis, an expert paleontologist on the team, while Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the family caught up in the mission’s events. Reuben’s children are played by Luna Blaise, David Iacano, and Audrina Miranda. Mission team member Bechir Sylvain also makes an appearance, while Ed Skrein and Philippine Velge are on the roster for undisclosed roles.

This new trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth recycles a good deal of footage from the first trailer released in February, making the most of some of the trailer’s best moments. The latest trailer opens in a lab with a lone employee in a hazmat suit who ends up getting cornered by an enormous and angry T Rex. He screams for help before it’s too late, and the trailer cuts to a jungle view of the dinosaur lumbering through the trees toward its next meal. From there, it’s full speed ahead into major, exploding dinosaur action.

The trailer highlights one of the film’s bigger action sequences, an attempted robbery of a pterosaur egg. It’s likely a Quetzalcoatlus northropi egg, since a character refers to it as “a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.” The trailer also makes time to show fans the return of some of the franchise’s most beloved monsters, including the raptors, and teases a new aquatic dinosaur—the mosasaur. Dialogue from the trailer confirms that this island was used to house some of the most volatile, volatile dinos: “We chose this island to contain the worst of the worst.”

Jurassic World Rebirth is being marketed as a reboot for the Jurassic World franchise that promises to bring new life to the dinosaur series with its action and science while still maintaining its essential themes of moral ambiguity and dinosaur havoc. Whether or not this latest entry truly restarts the franchise, fans will get to see a collection of the best elements of the past. There’s a crack team, there’s daring science, there’s no clear sense of right and wrong, and there are dinosaurs tearing everything up.

The trailer’s major selling points include tons of character escapes from multiple points of view, including dino-chases through dense jungle foliage, action under the sea in submerged ship wreckage, and attempts to outmaneuver apex predators with brains the size of walnuts. Johansson is also in many of the action sequences and looks to bring a grungier, more tactical element to what has been, to this point, a more traditional dinosaur survival story.

Jurassic World Rebirth arrives in theaters nationwide on July 2, 2025, just in time for some prehistoric fun over the holiday weekend.