The seventh installment in the Jurassic Park series is set for release on July 2
Scarlett Johansson shows off her dinosaur-fighting moves in the latest trailer for Jurassic World: Rebirth. The movie marks the seventh installment of the popular film franchise and is set five years after the events of 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion.
As covert operation expert Zora Bennett, Johansson leads a team comprised of combat expert Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) and paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) on a top-secret mission to a remote island where the few surviving dinosaur species inhabit the land. The island is also the site of the research facility from the original Jurassic Park. “The theme park owners did experimental work, leaving only the worst ones here,” Bennett says in the trailer.
Bennett and her team aren’t wading into dangerous, uncharted territory for the thrill of fighting giant reptiles; they’re after the creatures’ DNA, which holds vital biomaterials that would aid in making a revolutionary drug. In the trailer, Dr. Henry Loomis holds up a giant dinosaur egg and says, “If we get this DNA, millions of lives are saved.”
But nothing about the mission will be quick or easy. To make matters even worse, Bennett and her crew encounter the Delgados, a civilian family on a boating expedition near the island.
At one point, Dr. Loomis says, “We put ourselves in a place where we don’t belong. Survival is a long shot,” before Bennett takes it as a challenge. “That’s kind of our speciality,” she responds.
Bennett, her team, and the family face off against several roaring dinosaurs through dark forests. They almost capsize their boat as they try to outrun a Mosasaurus. At one point, Bennett even uses herself as bait so the others can escape safely.
Directed by Gareth Edwards, Jurassic World Rebirth will hit theaters on July 2. David Koepp wrote the script, and Steven Spielberg executive-produced.
