Jurassic World Rebirth (Hindi)
2h 14m
July 1, 2025
Jurassic World Rebirth is a 2025 American science fiction thriller film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp. A standalone sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022), it is the fourth Jurassic World film and the seventh installment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise. The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey, Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, and Ed Skrein.
Work on the film began shortly after the release of Jurassic World Dominion, when executive producer Steven Spielberg recruited Koepp to help him develop a new installment in the series. Koepp previously co-wrote the original Jurassic Park film (1993) and wrote its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Development of Rebirth was first reported in January 2024. Edwards was hired as director a month later, and casting commenced shortly thereafter. Principal photography took place in Thailand, Malta, and the United Kingdom from June to September 2024.
Jurassic World Rebirth premiered on June 17, 2025, at Odeon Luxe Leicester Square in London, and was released in the United States and Canada by Universal Pictures on July 2. The film received mixed reviews from critics, with some deeming it an improvement over the previous entries. It has grossed over $318 million worldwide against a budget of $180 million, making it the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2025.
Plot
In 2010, five years before the Jurassic World incident, InGen uses a laboratory on the island of Ile Saint-Hubert in the Atlantic Ocean to create transgenetic mutated dinosaurs. One of these creations, a deformed six-limbed tyrannosaur dubbed “Distortus rex” escapes containment, kills an employee and wreaks havoc, forcing the facility personnel to abandon the island. Seventeen years later in 2027, the Earth‘s climate becomes inhospitable to sustain the de-extinct animals. They are forced to reside in areas around the equator, which resemble the Mesozoic climate, making them marked as no-travel zones.
Martin Krebs, an executive at pharmaceutical company ParkerGenix, recruits Zora Bennett, a former ex-military covert operative, to collaborate with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis on a top-secret mission to retrieve biomaterial samples from the three largest remaining prehistoric specimens, which hold the key to a new heart disease treatment. In a bar in Suriname, Zora recruits her longtime friend Duncan Kincaid to lead the expedition. He brings boat driver LeClerc, mercenary Nina, and the security chief Bobby Atwater.
They set out to Ile Saint-Hubert to extract samples from the aquatic Mosasaurus, terrestrial Titanosaurus, and avian Quetzalcoatlus. They track the Mosasaurus, which has shipwrecked a family sailing around the island: Reuben Delgado, his daughters Teresa and Isabella, and Teresa’s boyfriend Xavier. They rescue the family and Zora successfully extracts a sample from the mosasaur. However, it returns with a group of Spinosaurus and attacks the ship, killing Bobby and Nina. Martin prevents Teresa from radioing for help to protect the mission’s secrecy, then refuses to help her when she and the Delgados fall overboard. The mosasaur forces the ship aground, stranding the team on the island. Zora informs them that she employed a rescue helicopter to circle the island in 24 hours.
The team successfully extracts the second sample from a Titanosaurus and the third and final sample from a Quetzalcoatlus egg, although LeClerc is killed after being eaten by the Quetzalcoatlus. Meanwhile, the Delgados are stranded elsewhere and search for settlements. They encounter various dinosaurs including an Aquilops, whom Isabella adopts and names Dolores, a Dilophosaurus feeding on a Parasaurolophus corpse, and a Tyrannosaurus rex, which chases the Delgados down a river.
The two groups reunite at the abandoned laboratory for helicopter extraction, but are attacked by a pack of mutated raptor/pterosaur hybrids, dubbed “Mutadons“. Martin steals the samples from Zora and attempts to flee to the helipad. The helicopter arrives as Henry lights a flare but is destroyed by the Distortus rex, which later devours Martin. The survivors manage to find a boat connected to the facility via an underground runway. Duncan diverts the D. rex using a flare and later reunites with the group as they escape. With the samples in hand, Zora and Henry agree to distribute the new medication without a patent, making it open-source for the entire planet.
Cast
- Scarlett Johansson as Zora Bennett, a covert operation expert
- Mahershala Ali as Duncan Kincaid, Zora’s team leader
- Jonathan Bailey as Dr. Henry Loomis, a paleontologist
- Rupert Friend as Martin Krebs, a pharmaceutical representative
- Manuel Garcia-Rulfo as Reuben Delgado, the father of a shipwrecked civilian family
- Luna Blaise as Teresa Delgado, Reuben’s eldest daughter
- David Iacono as Xavier Dobbs, Teresa’s boyfriend
- Audrina Miranda as Isabella Delgado, Reuben’s youngest daughter
- Ed Skrein as Bobby Atwater, a member of Zora’s team
- Bechir Sylvain as LeClerc, a member of Zora’s team
- Philippine Velge as Nina, a member of Zora’s team
Background
David Koepp co-wrote the original film, Jurassic Park (1993); he shared screenplay credit with Michael Crichton, who authored the novels Jurassic Park (1990) and The Lost World (1995). Koepp returned as sole writer on the latter’s film adaptation The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Steven Spielberg directed both films and would return as an executive producer for future installments in the Jurassic Park franchise.
Koepp initially turned down the chance to write another film, believing he had nothing left to contribute to the series. He was still consulted for subsequent films and eventually did uncredited script work on Jurassic World Dominion (2022). Colin Trevorrow spent nine years working on the Jurassic World trilogy as a director and co-writer, and said he would likely not return for another film, except in a possible advisory role.
Development
Development on Jurassic World Rebirth began shortly after the release of Dominion, with an early story idea from Spielberg that features heavily in the final film. Spielberg had brought his idea to Koepp and asked him about writing a new film in the series, which led to an exchange of other ideas. Koepp took on the project upon learning how deeply involved Spielberg would be in crafting it. They worked closely to develop the screenplay over a six-month period, seeking to revive the tone of the original Jurassic Park trilogy, particularly the first film. Koepp also said, “We decided early on that, because the first and second trilogies have concluded their stories, let’s not restrict ourselves in any way – let’s have all-new characters in an all-new location.”
Koepp wanted to revisit the concept of humans in a dinosaur environment, whereas the two preceding films had shifted toward the animals living among people around the world, of which Koepp said, “I don’t know where else to go with that.” He felt this idea had been thoroughly explored, furthermore saying, “Once that happened, you can go anywhere in the world and you can have as many crazy dinosaur situations as you want. I was more limited. I find limitations freeing. […]. I think we actually had an easier time than the three Jurassic World movies because they got so big and that becomes hard to work with.”
Koepp and Spielberg devised a story involving a secret island facility, used for dinosaur research and development, then had to determine why characters would visit such a place. According to Koepp, “While doing research, I found that certain dinosaurs, larger ones in particular, did have extraordinarily long lifespans and the reason was they had remarkably low incidences of heart disease. That led to the idea that a drug could be synthesized from their DNA, because the greatest killer of humans is heart disease.” Ben Lamm, co-founder of Colossal Biosciences, said the premise is realistic: “There’s hidden cures and hidden data in all these species that we’re losing.” Initially, Koepp planned to feature the character Atwater more heavily, having him eventually partner with Krebs to betray the others.
Before writing the script, Koepp rewatched the preceding six films in the franchise. He also reread Crichton’s Jurassic Park novels, for the first time in nearly 30 years, incorporating concepts from both books. Rebirth includes a sequence from the first novel that was cut from its film adaptation, in which characters in a raft must escape from a Tyrannosaurus rex. A monologue by the character Henry Loomis was also pulled from the novel, and additionally includes an un-used line of dialogue that Koepp wrote for the character Ian Malcolm in an early draft of Jurassic Park.
Aside from the inclusion of dinosaurs, Koepp had no story requirements to follow in writing the script, although he did compile a list of rules for himself; among these was that the film be based on accurate science, that it not retcon any events from the previous films, and that humorous dialogue be included. He also sought to depict the non-mutant dinosaurs as animals rather than monsters, stating that their actions are driven by either hunger or territorial defense.
By September 2023, Koepp had begun writing the screenplay in earnest, turning in a draft three months later. Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, producers of the Jurassic World trilogy, would return for Rebirth. Although another installment was expected at some point, Marshall and Crowley were unaware that Spielberg was already working on the project until the first draft was turned in. With a mid-2025 release date being targeted, the producers were surprised by the limited amount of production time, but they soon determined it to be adequate.
Pre-production
The project was unveiled in late January 2024, when it was reported that a new Jurassic World film was in development by Universal Pictures. Like the previous Jurassic World films, the new installment would be produced by Marshall and Crowley through The Kennedy/Marshall Company, while Spielberg would executive produce through Amblin Entertainment. Development of the project had been underway for some time, with several drafts already written by Koepp. The producers had also done some pre-production work, including dinosaur designs, meaning that any creative input from the eventual director would be minimal. The position was reportedly described as being “more shooter than auteur“, as the producers sought to have more creative control than Jurassic World Dominion, which earned mostly negative reviews.
David Leitch, who previously served as a second unit director on Jurassic World, was briefly in talks to direct the film during early February 2024, but negotiations broke down after several days, as the project’s progress up to that point left little room for his creative input. Gareth Edwards was announced as director later that month, having been selected because of the visual style he used in his previous films, which was considered ideal for the Jurassic World series. His experience with computer-generated imagery (CGI) was also a factor in his selection. Furthermore, Spielberg enjoyed Edwards’ film Godzilla (2014) and Edwards is a fan of the original Jurassic Park.
After completing the film The Creator (2023), Edwards planned to take a break from studio filmmaking to focus on his own projects instead. He was busy writing a new film when he was offered the Jurassic World project, which he described as “the only movie that would make me drop everything like a stone and dive right in”. Feeling depleted after finishing The Creator, he hoped that Koepp’s draft would give him reason to turn down the directing job but was instead won over. He met with Marshall and subsequently Spielberg to discuss the project and possible changes, and was soon hired as director. Edwards had less than a year and a half to get the film finished, a process that he said would normally take two and a half years. Early on, he suggested delaying the film’s release, but this idea was immediately rejected. He credited Koepp’s script for the quick turnaround: “Everybody was pointing at that going, ‘Go make that; that’s what we want.’ And so it was just quite a relatively smooth ride”.
Edwards aimed to follow Koepp’s script by maintaining its balance of humor and horror elements, the latter being emphasized more so than in previous Jurassic World films. Koepp encouraged Edwards to make suggestions for improving the script. A scene involving a Quetzalcoatlus nest was among those modified by Edwards; originally written to take place in a cave, he changed the setting to an abandoned ancient temple. A sequence at a gas station mini mart was initially set in a different location, but was also changed by Edwards. He ultimately found the film’s shortened production time to be beneficial: “If you have too much time, you procrastinate, you try things that don’t work”.
Casting
Jurassic World Rebirth is the first film in the series to not include any returning actors from previous installments. Casting was underway in March 2024, and continued over the next three months.
The character of Zora was not written as a gender-specific role. Various actors were considered to play Zora, including Jennifer Lawrence, who turned down the role.Scarlett Johansson was already a fan of the franchise and hoped to join it for more than a decade. While Rebirth was in development, she arranged a meeting with Spielberg and pitched the idea of joining the cast in some capacity. Edwards, after signing on as director, learned of Johansson’s interest and immediately cast her as Zora. She worked with Koepp to further develop her character.
Jonathan Bailey would also be cast, at the suggestion of Universal executives who were impressed with his performance in the 2024 film Wicked. Edwards cast Manuel Garcia-Rulfo after seeing him in an episode of the television series The Lincoln Lawyer. Likewise, he cast Rupert Friend after being impressed by a performance he gave in an episode of Homeland. Friend worked with Koepp to make his character more dimensional.
Other actors cast in the film included Mahershala Ali, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, and Béchir Sylvain. Glen Powell, who voiced Dave in the animated series Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous (2020–2022), turned down a role.
Filming
John Mathieson served as the cinematographer. Edwards hoped to emulate Spielberg’s filmmaking style, and shot the project using 35mm film, his first time doing so, to harken back to the look of the first film. The production used cameras and anamorphic lenses from Panavision.
Costa Rica was strongly considered as a filming location to depict Ile Saint-Hubert, although other possible locations included the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, and Panama. Once Edwards was hired, he suggested shooting in Thailand, where he filmed The Creator. Spielberg and the producers immediately approved the idea, finding the country’s landscapes ideal for depicting Ile Saint-Hubert. Also filmed in Thailand, at a small fishing village, was a beach bar scene set in South America where Zora meets with Duncan. Edwards sought to do as much on-location filming as possible. James Clyne, production designer for The Creator, would join Edwards again for Jurassic World Rebirth. As filming began, Spielberg turned full creative control over to Edwards and was later impressed by the dailies.
Principal photography began in Thailand on June 13, 2024, under the working title Saga, with filming lasting a month in the country.ations included Khao Phanom Bencha National Park in Krabi, Ko Kradan at Hat Chao Mai National Park in Trang, and Ao Phang Nga National Park in Phang Nga. Sunset Beach on Ko Kradan was used for scenes in which the Delgado family arrives on Ile Saint-Hubert. The Titanosaurus sequence was shot on a field in Thab Prik, located in Krabi. Clyne’s team was unsuccessful in growing high grass for the scene, due to a drought, and instead hired a horticulturist from England to achieve this by installing an irrigation system. While in Thailand, the use of film presented a downside as the dailies had to be shipped to England for processing. According to executive producer Denis Stewart, “It was five days of wondering if that film was going to get there okay, wondering if we could move on and strike the set and let an actor leave or if we were going to need to reshoot a scene or let it go. But not a single problem arose.”
Filming moved to the Malta Film Studios in Kalkara, Malta in July 2024. Filming there included boat attack sequences involving a Mosasaurus. Some of the stunts were filmed in water tanks at the studio site, and ocean shooting took place on the nearby Mediterranean Sea. Edwards acknowledged that filming the sequence was a “very difficult” experience. For complex shots, boats were placed on large hydraulic gimbals in the tanks. Johansson said, “There was no escape from the sun. It was just baking every day. And you’re on this rig, 30 feet [9 meters] in the air or whatever it is, and it’s moving up and down and sideways, and there’s all this water being shot out of these cannons towards you. It was brutal.”
In August 2024, filming moved to London and Sky Studios Elstree in the United Kingdom. The InGen facility, including research rooms and a network of tunnels, was constructed on three sound stages at Sky Studios. An artificial jungle, the gas station mini mart, and the interiors of Zora’s boat and the ancient temple were among other sets constructed at Sky Studios. Also built there was a 70-foot (21 m) cliff wall for when Zora’s team rappels down to the temple. A waterfall was added to this scene through visual effects, using footage of a waterfall in India. A museum scene was shot at the U.K.’s Old Royal Naval College.
The start of the T. rex river chase was filmed at a flooded quarry in Thailand, while the remainder was shot in the U.K. at Lee Valley White Water Centre in Hertfordshire. On-set rocks and CGI landscaping would be used for the latter location. Garcia-Rulfo performed several of his own stunts, and he and Iacono learned scuba diving for the film’s aquatic scenes. Friend had to be suspended from a wire for the scene depicting the death of his character, Krebs. Ali’s character, Duncan, was originally written to have been killed by the Distortus rex. Once Ali was cast, Universal believed that due to his star status, the character should live. Edwards and Ali successfully pushed for Duncan to die as written, but were later told by Universal to film an additional scene while in Thailand to show that he survived, in the event that such an outcome should be chosen. Edwards ultimately decided to add this additional footage into the final film.
Koepp was on-set in London during the final weeks of filming, and made himself readily available to Edwards before then through text messaging. Edwards requested minor rewrites on several occasions, sometimes minutes before shooting a scene. Filming wrapped on September 27, 2024, although pick-up shots were made in New York City three weeks later.
Creatures on screen
Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) returned from previous installments to handle the CGI for dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals featured in the film. Because of its limited pre-production period, the Jurassic World Rebirth crew did not have time to make heavy usage of animatronics, marking a departure from the film’s two predecessors. However, on-set materials were still used to aid the actors. John Nolan returned from Jurassic World Dominion to build practical dinosaur parts, including heads, limbs and claws. These were primarily used as lighting and eyeline references, and would be replaced with CGI dinosaur models in post-production, as Edwards sought to maintain design consistency by avoiding an on-screen combination of production methods. Unlike previous films, ILM had only six weeks to finalize the dinosaur designs for Rebirth as a result of its truncated pre-production. Paleontologist Stephen L. Brusatte returned from Dominion as a dinosaur consultant.
The design of the Distortus rex was inspired by the xenomorphs in the Alien franchise and the rancors in the Star Wars franchise. With its bulbous head, ILM’s visual effects supervisor David Vickery said, “It’s as if another animal has been wrapped around the T-Rex. Gareth wanted us to feel sorry for it as well as terrified, because its deformities have caused it some pain, and there’s an encumbrance to it.” Edwards was heavily involved in the design of the Distortus rex, whose traits include gorilla-like arms and movements at his suggestion.
Another type of mutant animal, the flying Mutadons, are a combination of a pterosaur and Velociraptor. They were inspired by an encounter that Koepp had with a bat on his porch. Koepp described the Mutadons as a failed early attempt by InGen to create hybridized dinosaurs. The Mutadons underwent many design changes, some depicting the creature with multiple heads and varying limb configurations, as ILM sought to maintain a balance between science fiction and believability.The final design was selected around the end of 2024, after nine months.
The film includes the return of Spinosaurus, a dinosaur previously featured in the film Jurassic Park III (2001). For Rebirth, the Spinosaurus was redesigned to reflect newer research which determined the animal to be primarily semiaquatic. According to Vickery, “We’ve given it more powerful hind limbs, a much bigger, broader tail, webbing in between its feet, and the appearance of a shorter more powerful neck by adding fatty deposits and extra skin folds.” To determine the design and behavior of the Spinosaurus, ILM studied crocodiles and grizzly bears.
Other returning species include Apatosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Compsognathus, Dilophosaurus, Mosasaurus, Pteranodon, Quetzalcoatlus, Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptor, also sees the return of Parasaurolophus in the form of carcasses or murals. To establish it as a different individual than the ones depicted in the previous films, the Tyrannosaurus rex was redesigned to draw influence from the 1969 film The Valley of Gwangi. Edwards described it as “a healthier, heavier, more muscular, more bull-like” animal, while retaining the typical look of a Jurassic Park T. rex. The raft sequence proved challenging for ILM as the team had to determine how the animal would move while it is underwater. Like all previous installments, the film also features the return of Velociraptor, with a new design inspired by the raptors in Jurassic Park III.
Rebirth introduces new species such as Titanosaurus, and the pterosaur Anurognathus, the severed head of a Dunkleosteus is also shown, although it does not appear in its entirety, along with an unidentified extinct amphibian. Nature videos of giraffes and swans were studied for a scene depicting Titanosaurus mating rituals, and an elephant was brought on to walk through the grass field in Thailand as a reference for the CGI artists.
One of the primary dinosaurs, also new to the film series, is Aquilops. The production used three on-set animatronics, each measuring 18 inches in length and operated remotely by a team of puppeteers. The primary animatronic had numerous motors to simulate movements such as breathing, blinking, and tail wagging. This was used for close interactions with the cast, while another animatronic was used in scenes where characters pick the creature up, and a third was used for lighting reference. Because of their abundant use of 3D-printed parts, these puppets weighed less than typical animatronics.
Post-production
By the end of 2024, Edwards had finished his first cut of Jurassic World Rebirth. He wanted the film to be under two hours in length, and his cut was one minute below this mark, excluding the credits. Edwards removed five minutes to achieve this, but ultimately restored the footage at the request of Universal executives. Three other scenes are absent from the final theatrical cut, two of which Edwards was fine with removing. The third consisted of additional material for the gas station sequence; he described it as “a little bit more like being hunted. The tension of something coming.” It was cut because it slowed down the film’s third act, which was written to be fast-paced.
While in post-production, Edwards briefly considered the idea of having a T. rex show up in the ending to battle the Distortus rex and inadvertently save the humans. Other filmmakers on the project rejected this idea for lack of originality, noting that previous installments in the series already ended with a dinosaur battle. By March 2025, Edwards was working seven days a week with ILM and film editor Jabez Olssen to have the project finished in time for its release.