Mahershala Ali in Jurassic World Rebirth. Image courtesy Universal Pictures.

Surprise! The killer dinosaurs are back.

Of course, it’s not much of a surprise that Jurassic World Rebirth exists, let alone that the plot involves dealing with the giant and deadly dinosaurs that escaped from an amusement park in one of the previous films.

According to an official summary, the 7th film in the 31-year-old franchise is set five years following the events of Jurassic World Dominion, when “the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs.”

“Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived,” the synopsis continues. “The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”

Directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One), Jurassic World: Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson as covert operations expert Zora Bennett, who heads a team on a covert mission to obtain genetic material from the three biggest dinosaurs on earth. Her mission, on the heels of the global dinosaur infestation last seen in Dominion, shows that the planet’s ecology is now inhospitable to the dinosaurs that escaped confinement in 2018’s Fallen Kingdom.

Jonathan Bailey and Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World: Rebirth. Image courtesy Universal Pictures.

First-look photos released by Universal Pictures see Johansson and Bailey laying low in a field of tall vegetation as well as Ali screaming at an unseen threat while holding a burning flare.

Jonathan Bailey plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis and Mahershala Ali plays Bennett’s team leader Duncan Kincaid. Others in the cast include Rupert Friend as Big Pharma rep Martin Krebs and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo plays Reuben Delgado, the father of a shipwrecked civilian family who gets caught up in the dino-madness.

Jurassic World Rebirth will be delivered to theaters on July 2nd, 2025.