Entertainment Weekly has run a new feature looking ahead to some of the biggest movies currently scheduled for release in 2025. Their latest piece is taking a closer look at a film we’re incredibly excited for, Jurassic World Rebirth which is currently slated to release in July 2025.
The trade has released four new images from the film alongside interview snippets with director Gareth Edwards who is finally beginning to open up about the secretive project.
“I’m allowed to say this now that we’re on the other side of it, but we shot in rivers and these mangrove swamps,” Edwards tells the trade. “When we were scouting them, we saw poisonous water snakes, massive ones that we had to catch. We kept it quiet from the actors as they spent a whole day wading through the same area. And there were giant spiders that were poisonous and stuff on the edge of the trees. You just wouldn’t point them out if you saw them. Just keep going!”
“It’s probably the last film I ever shoot in the ocean because it was very difficult,” he admits. “I’m glad we persevered, but I think everybody, all the actors, went through as crazy a journey as the characters in the film, these very physically demanding, sometimes near-death experiences that had these high-reward factors if you managed to succeed.”
Take a look at each of the new images below:
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.
