With 2024 coming to an end in the coming weeks sights are beginning to turn to what lies ahead in 2025. The final issue of Empire Magazine for 2024 is laying out an embarrassment of riches due to hit our screens in the coming year, including one rather exciting release from one of our favourite Universal Pictures franchises.
In July 2025 we return to a world of dinosaurs as director Gareth Edwards debuts Jurassic World: Rebirth kicking off a whole new era for the long-running franchise. For their 2025 preview Edwards has spoken with Empire teasing what’s to come alongside a brand new image of star Scarlett Johansson in action.
“It goes back to what I loved about the original,” says Edwards on his plans for the franchise,“with an embarrassment of riches of different set-piece-type scenarios and tense, fun action moments. There were a lot of opportunities as a filmmaker to have a lot of fun and try and play games with the audience.”
The director also touched on Johansson’s character saying “She’s looking for meaning in her life after leaving the military, and this opportunity comes along where [after it] basically she’d never have to work again. But through that journey, she starts to question the ethical rights and wrongs of what they’re doing.”
Here’s a full look at the brand new image:
Set five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, 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 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 based on a script by David Koepp, Jurassic World: Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey and Rupert Friend. Also starring are Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain and Ed Skrein.
Universal Pictures presents Jurassic World: Rebirth in UK cinemas from July 2025.
