Could you picture Scarlett Johansson as Lara Croft fighting the Tyrannosaurus rex from the original Tomb Raider? Good news: Jurassic World Rebirth is for you, if the movie’s first trailer is any indication.
Both a proper sequel in the Jurassic Park/World continuity and a reboot away from the overstuffed locust-filled direction of 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion, Rebirth jumps ahead five years with a new cast, a shuffled set of talent behind the camera, and a scaled-down vision for what a Jurassic movie could be. According to the official synopsis, Earth’s ecology has “proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs” — convenient! — and the surviving creatures have populated areas around the equator. And it turns out — convenient! — three of the most gargantuan beasties possess dino DNA that could create a miracle drug for humans. So a bunch of knuckleheads have to return to where it all began.
Johansson leads the new cast as “covert operations expert Zora Bennett,” who seems defined by wearing sunglasses, shooting guns, and always being primed for adventure. The jungle setting imbues with her with greater Lara Croft energy. This is not a complaint. Lara Croft should fight dinosaurs in movies.
Joining Johansson in the film is Mahershala Ali (Green Book, eventually Blade) as Zora’s co-adventurer Duncan Kincaid; Jonathan Bailey (Wicked) as wailing paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi) as pharmaceutical magnate Martin Krebs; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer) as Reuben Delgado, a father whose family has been shipwrecked on the island full of dinosaurs. Inconvenient!
The trailer shows off a very classic take on Jurassic Park, from tropical vistas to rampaging dinosaurs of every breed. The movie comes from Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), who knows how to go big, with a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, who has promised that scenes from Michael Crichton’s original novel that were cut from Steven Spielberg’s first film have found a way into this sequel (crossing fingers for the river raft sequence). Let’s just hope it’s half as good as this:
Jurassic World Rebirth hits theaters on July 2.
Source：https://www.polygon.com/sci-fi/519214/jurassic-world-rebirth-trailer
