Whelp, Universal couldn’t leave it alone. In 2025, there will officially be more Jurassic World movies than there were Jurassic Park movies, as the studio introduces Jurassic World Rebirth, the fourth in the resurrected series.
One might wonder at first how a fourth Jurassic World can be possible when the third movie already took everything to its final logical step — a literal Jurassic World where man and dinosaur coexist. Well, here’s how they’re writing themselves out of that one: most of the dinos died off between that movie and this one, as the ecosystem was just too different to support them. This actually makes sense. The Earth of 65 million years ago was very different from the Earth of today. Plus, we doubt the dinos could stand breathing in so much plastic.
But there are places on Earth where dinosaurs managed to stabilize and thrive: equatorial islands that best resemble their original environment. Sounds like The Lost World again. Entering this lost world is Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johannson), a covert operations expert who’s been assigned with a team to land on one of these islands and extract dino DNA, a plot point I don’t understand since we made these things and we should have the DNA already.
I’ve only seen the first Jurassic World — I got what I wanted; I got a nostalgic return to the dinosaur theme park, and that’s all I needed. I don’t know who keeps paying for the rest of them, but they keep going on in the background while my interests lie elsewhere. If this is your jam, then jam away.
At least Jurassic World Dominion appears to have been the last Pratt movie, but then again, you can’t count on that — my money is on him showing up once more in #5 or #6, outstretched palm and all. Jurassic World Rebirth will be released in July of next year.
