Jurassic World Rebirth first trailer: Fools rush in to dinosaur island
When will humans learn that we cannot control prehistoric beasts that are so, so, so much bigger than us? They are apex predators and our sacks of flesh and bones are so squishable.
That lesson probably won’t sink in until the Jurassic Park movie franchise stops making money. So, here we are. Number seven.
Jurassic World Rebirth is coming in July and the film dropped its first trailer today.
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Unsurprisingly, that answer is greed.
OK, technically, the stated reason is that the dinosaurs’ DNA may hold the key to “medical breakthroughs that could save countless lives”, but that line of dialogue is being spoken by Friend’s character, Martin Krebs, a Big Pharma guy.
The combo of his job and his name (you can thank Hans Gruber for setting that standard) tells you everything about what the real motives are.
Dr Henry Loomis (Bailey, vying for the title of sexiest palaeontologist) is recruited by Krebs to join a covert ops team led by Kincaid (Ali) and Zora (Johansson), who proclaims that they are the best at “moving things and people in out of places they shouldn’t be”.
Kincaid laughing that avoiding government patrols won’t be that hard because no one is “dumb enough” to go where they’re going doesn’t instil confidence in Loomis.
The destination is an island somewhere near Barbados which served as the research facility for the original Jurassic Park. Apparently, the creatures that remain there were considered too dangerous for the killer theme park.
Good luck to them — and the shipwrecked civilian family that has been dragged into this mess, because, you know, emotional stakes.
It’s curious that the franchise has returned to the isolated island template rather than go big with the threads left by three previous Jurassic World movies which laid out an Earth where humans and dinosaurs share the environment.
While not explicit in the trailer, in Jurassic World Rebirth, the planet’s ecology is mostly inhospitable to dinosaurs and now they live mostly in tropical regions.
The film is directed by Gareth Edwards, who’d previously made the 2014 Godzilla movie as well as Rogue One, with original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koep returning to the franchise for the first time since 1997’s The Lost World.
