Dinosaurs run loose in the latest trailer for “Jurassic World: Rebirth.” Universal has released a second trailer for the upcoming dino action film starring Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey, which marks the seventh entry in the prehistoric franchise. The new installment, directed by Gareth Edwards, is written by David Koepp, who penned the screenplay for Spielberg’s 1993 “Jurassic Park.”
“Jurassic World: Rebirth” picks up five years after the events of “Jurassic World: Dominion,” when “the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs,” according to a synopsis. “Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”
Johansson will play Zora Bennett, a covert ops expert hired to lead a team extracting DNA from three of the largest dinosaur species alive. She’s joined by her partner Duncan Kincaid (Ali) and paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Bailey). Zora’s team is rounded out by drug conglomerate representative Rupert Friend (Martin Krebs) and additional characters played by Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain and Ed Skrein.
Zora and her crew end up encountering a civilian family “whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos,” and the entire group ends up “stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.”
“Jurassic World: Rebirth” stomps into theaters July 2. Watch the trailer below.
