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From traveling museum exhibitions, to multiple educational books written by some of world’s leading scientists, and even donating nearly a million dollars of paleontological research through The Jurassic Foundation, Universal Pictures and Amblin have found many unique and inventive ways to utilize the Jurassic franchise to promote education through STEAM (an acronym for science, technology, engineering, art, and math.) Universal Destinations and Experiences now continues this trend with their latest student programing at Universal Orlando!
\n\n\n\nJurassic World VelociCoaster: Breaking Down the DNA is an all new educational youth program that allows student attendees to discover the the collaborative and innovative world of ride design! Developed in partnership with Universal Pictures, students will explore how a diverse Universal team with varied backgrounds and skills aligned to collectively transform an idea into a multi-award winning ride. They’ll discover how ride design is a complex collaborative process the combines creativity and problem-solving to create an innovative, story-driven attraction.
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The program is the latest in a series of STEAM centered events hosted at the parks that seek to engage students into exploring engineering, creativity, science, and teamwork. It’s also the latest way Universal has used the Jurassic franchise to promote education. Previously, in 2023, Universal Orlando hosted a STEAM Symposium themed around Jurassic Park’s 30th Anniversary, and Universal Orlando also offers a “Jurassic Paleobotany” program associated with their STEAM App Series, where students work together to describe the importance of understanding plants and environments of the past and present to create authentic, immersive, and themed environments.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPrograms at Universal are intended for groups of twenty or more students, and reservations must be made ahead of time. Tours will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis. Programs are subject to availability. More details and resources for educators interested can be found on Universal Orlando’s Youth Programing website.
\n","excerpt":"Universal continues to utilize the Jurassic franchise to inspire STEAM education.
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\n\n\nFrom Mattel, we have the first images of the Jurassic World Rebirth Super Colossal T. rex, Super Colossal Mosasaurus, Bite N’ Blast Mosasaurus, Tail Thrasher Spinosaurus, Power Devour T. rex, Titanosaurus, and Aerial Ambush Quetzalcoatlus:
\n\n\nThe Bite N’ Blast Mosasaurus is available to pre-order now at Mattel.com! More information is coming soon on these items and where to purchase starting June 1st.
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We also have our first look at the LEGO Jurassic World Rebirth Spinosaurus, Quetzalcoatlus, Titanosaurus, and Mosasaurus:
\n\n\nThe LEGO Spinosaurus is a real standout here, as well as the Titanosaurus. More information is coming soon on these items and where to purchase starting June 1st.
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Available to order on Amazon now and available at Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood beginning February 10th, a look at Jurassic World Rebirth clothing merchandise featuring the film’s logo, Spinosaurus, and Mosasaurus:
\n\n\nThe marketing and merchandise timeline for Jurassic World Rebirth has begun! What do you think of these new items so far, and will you be picking them up from stores as they release?
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe have our very first look at the toys, LEGO sets, and merchandise inspired by Jurassic World Rebirth! Coming officially from Universal Pictures and their brand partners, we can see what the first dinosaurs, vehicles, and clothing on shelves for this film will look like.
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\n\n\n\nThe long-awaited trailer for this year’s Jurassic Park sequel is here and in some ways, it appears that we’re getting Jurassic Park 4.
\n\n\n\nZora Bennett leads a team of skilled operatives to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park. Their mission is to secure genetic material from dinosaurs whose DNA can provide life-saving benefits to mankind. As the top-secret expedition becomes more and more risky, they soon make a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.
\n\n\n\nCheck out the gallery of over 70 high quality trailer stills below!
\n\n\nWe also broke down the trailer and examined the many details here:
\n\n\n\nShare your thoughts on the trailer below!
\n","excerpt":"“This island was the research facility for the original Jurassic Park” The long-awaited trailer for this year’s Jurassic Park sequel is here and in some ways, it appears that we’re getting Jurassic Park 4. Zora Bennett leads a team of skilled operatives to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the […]
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\n\n\n\nFirst Look: ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ goes for the jugular.
— VANITY FAIR (@VanityFair) February 4, 2025
Take an extended look at the film—and read what Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey could reveal about their new characters: https://t.co/eIEZgKhPSE
In these new images we see Zora Bennett and Martin Krebs in a museum, approaching Dr. Henry Loomis as a very Jurassic dinosaur exhibit is being deconstructed, an excellent T. rex emerging from the grass as Luna Blaise looks on, Zora rappelling down the side of a steep cliff face, Philippine Velge being thrown over the edge of the boat’s railing and the jaws of a Spinosaurus, multiple Spinosaurs joining a Mosasaurus in surrounding the boat, Dr. Loomis looking with concern at a large egg with a syringe in hand, and Duncan Kincaid looking intrigued over a game of cards. The visual introductions to these dinosaurs, marine reptiles, and characters show off the warm cinematography and the very Jurassic look this movie is set to have. Even more exciting is what the cast and director of Rebirth had to say about the film.
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\n\n\n\nJurassic World Rebirth Goes for the Jugular: “There’s a Little Bit of Everything That’s Scary”
Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey reveal how the latest film in the blockbuster series brings new terror thanks to experiments gone awry.
“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear.” So raged the creature in Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein, but that line also now applies to one of the classical resurrection story’s modern descendants: Jurassic Park. In the latest film in the colossal blockbuster franchise, Jurassic World Rebirth, inhabitants of that world are not unlike moviegoers today: People have seen dinosaurs a lot over the years. They’ve seen them revived from extinction, they’ve seen them get loose and run amok, they’ve seen them so often that awe has been replaced by a shrug. Dinosaurs no longer inspire love.
So producer Frank Marshall and Steven Spielberg, who astonished audiences with the groundbreaking visual effects of the 1993 original, felt that Rebirth should lean into causing fear. After completing two trilogies of films, which collectively generated billions of dollars at the global box office, they believed a seventh film would have to escalate the risk to new levels. “I’ve always said that visual effects are great, CGI is a great tool, but it makes you lazy because you know you can do anything,” Marshall tells Vanity Fair for this exclusive early look. “It’s got to be dangerous.”
That became the mission of Rebirth: “You’re in a new place, you don’t know what’s around the corner. You’ve got a different jungle, you’ve got more water, you’ve got higher cliffs,” Marshall says. “There’s a little bit of everything that’s scary.” Add to that a new array of creatures literally engineered to trigger fight or flight.
The story follows members of a recovery team—led by Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey—as they venture to an island near the equator that was once home to the first Jurassic Park’s research lab. The squad is trying to retrieve genetic material that could lead to a medical breakthrough for humanity, but three decades later the mistakes made at that ruined facility have not gone away. They’ve endured—and only grown bigger. “These are the dinosaurs that didn’t work. There’s some mutations in there,” Marshall says. “They’re all based on real dinosaur research, but they look a little different.”
Imagine the nightmare version of the giant lizards that evolved naturally millions of years ago. Rebirth director Gareth Edwards, best known for the 2016 Star Wars tale Rogue One and 2023’s AI dystopia The Creator, drew upon classics that have curdled blood for generations. “When you make a creature, you get a big, massive pot and you pour in your favorite monsters from other films and books,” he says.
The filmmaker’s beastly bona fides are already well established. He made his breakthrough with 2010’s Monsters, about invasive alien titans who fall to Earth, and followed that up by tackling the granddaddy of globe-threatening kaiju with 2014’s Godzilla. Adding to his Rebirth dinosaur inspiration were a few other favorites: the skeletal Xenomorph from Alien, the dungeon behemoth from Return of the Jedi, and the original Big Bad from Spielberg’s first Jurassic Park movie. Those references turn up all in one particular twisted dinosaur that turns up in the trailer coming Wednesday. “Some Rancor went in there, some H.R. Giger went in there, a little T. rex went in there…” Edwards says.
The thing that scared Edwards the most was living up to Rebirth’s predecessor, which he feels has been disguised as family-friendly fare over the years. “Jurassic Park is a horror film in the witness protection program,” Edwards adds. “Most people don’t think of it like that. We all went to see it as kids. But I was scared shitless, to be honest, when I was at the cinema watching the T. rex attack. It’s one of the most well-directed scenes in cinema history, so the bar’s really high to come on board and try and do this.”
Screenwriter David Koepp (Death Becomes Her, 2002’s Spider-Man), who adapted the late Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel for the first movie, has gone back to the original source material to pull out a scene for the new movie that he had always hoped to use. Marshall has revealed that it’s a sequence in which Dr. Grant and the two children (who are not characters in this new movie) attempt to drift through a lagoon in a rubber raft without waking a slumbering Tyrannosaurus rex. They don’t succeed, and end up paddling for their lives. “The tyrannosaur was now chest-deep in the water, but it could hold its big head high above the surface,” Crichton wrote. “Then Grant realized the animal wasn’t swimming, it was walking, because moments later only the very top of the head—the eyes and nostrils—protruded above the surface. By then it looked like a crocodile, and it swam like a crocodile, swinging its big tail back and forth, so the water churned behind it.”
The final ingredient for the new film’s terror-factor, Edwards says, is supplied by the audience: the enduring instinctual fear of being chased and devoured. “There’s something very primal that’s buried deep inside everybody,” he says. “As mammals, we evolved [with] this fear of the bigger animal that’s going to come one day and maybe kill us or our family. The second we see it happening onscreen, you’re like, ‘I knew it…. We had it too good for too long.’”
Complacency was the biggest risk for early humans. Marshall credits Koepp, who returns to the Jurassic film franchise for the first time since the 1997 sequel The Lost World, for introducing the notion to Rebirth. “He came up with this idea that dinosaurs were passé now. People were tired of them. They were an inconvenience,” Marshall says. “People weren’t going to museums to see them or to petting zoos. They were just in the way. And the climate was not conducive to their survival, so they were starting to pass away and get sick. But there was one area around the equator that had the perfect climate and temperature and environment for them.”
That leads to a shot in Rebirth that evokes an iconic image from the first Jurassic Park, when the T. rex rips through the visitors center, battles some velociraptors, and roars as it topples a streaming sign that reads, “When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth.” In the new film, a similar image appears in the opening, but in a less majestic way. “Well, the banner’s coming down again,” Marshall says. “Jonny Bailey’s a scientist at a museum that’s closing up their dinosaur exhibit.”
Those who turn their backs on dinosaurs will live to regret it, though probably not for long.
Monster movies are only frightening if audiences care about the people in peril. Jurassic World Rebirth serves up a trio of central characters played by Johansson, Ali, and Bailey who have a genuinely altruistic mission and skills that might help them survive long enough to complete it. “A company that [Rupert Friend’s character] represents discovers a way to cure heart disease,” Marshall says, “but you need the DNA from the three largest dinosaurs on land, sea, and air. Those three dinosaurs exist on this island where they were first created, but it’s a no-go zone.”
Johansson leads the quest as Zora Bennett, the leader of the team doing the recovery. “She’s someone who she’s a special operative. She was in the armed forces for the entirety of her career. She probably worked for a private contractor for some time, and now she’s working for herself,” Johansson says. The actor has wanted to face down dinosaurs ever since she was a child and became obsessed with the first movie. “I was really crazy about the film, and I slept in a Jurassic Park pup tent in my bedroom I shared with my sister for a year,” she says. “Anytime the trades would report a new Jurassic movie, I would forward to my agents like, ‘Hey, I’m available.’”
The closest Johansson came was in 2020, when her work on reshoots for a Marvel movie took place on a British soundstage neighboring that of Jurassic World Dominion. “I was actually shooting Black Widow at Pinewood at the same time. I was like, ‘Show me the sets! I want to participate!’” Only later, when she had a general meeting with Spielberg to go over possible future projects did her dinosaur dream come true.
“I hadn’t really sat with him and talked about work, and we spent hours just catching up and chatting, and then at some point, many hours into it, he was like, ‘Wait, we’re supposed to talk about Jurassic. Do I hear you’re a huge superfan?’ I said, ‘It is actually true. I’m confirming. I’m a huge superfan.’” She didn’t tell him about the tent. “I was like, ‘He’s going to think I’m this weird stalker.’”
Now she regrets that. Johansson has had a lot of good memories of little girls dressed as Natasha Romanoff. “Obviously with all the Avengers stuff you meet so many fans who are profoundly moved by the characters and the world that you’re a part of,” she says. “I get it. It’s always wonderful to meet people like that. I probably should have just told him. But I was like, ‘Just be professional. Don’t seem desperate. Don’t mention the tent.’”
About a month after that, Johansson had Koepp’s script and was proposing her own touches for the character. “I just wanted to understand what the stakes were for her, and that she wasn’t just driven by money or power. You wanted it to feel personal for her,” she says. “You have to love the characters and you want to root for them. The movie can’t just stand on the dinosaurs alone.”
Zora evolved to be less of a mercenary. “She’s someone who’s dedicated herself to saving other people, and I think she’s at a professional crossroads. I think she’s burnt out,” Johannson says. If all goes well, this can be the job that allows the character to retire from danger zones. “Of course everything goes wrong, but that’s the fun part,” she says.
As it charts a new course for the franchise, Jurassic World Rebirth also promises some other callbacks to the original Jurassic Park. Bailey hints that his paleontologist, Dr. Henry Loomis, has a history with Sam Neill’s intrepid character. “I’ve always wanted to make Dr. Alan Grant proud,” the actor says. “You’ll have to wait and see to see what sort of link there is between them.”
His professorial hero is a contrast to Bailey’s recent breakthrough role as Fiyero in Wicked, a less-than-intellectual character who scoffs at the library and kicks books aside in his signature song “Dancing Through Life.” Dr. Loomis would be aghast. Bailey says his Rebirth character “reinforces big, cerebral, and emotional arguments about the natural world and how we as humans live our lives.”
Unlike the others, he’s not combat-ready, however, which places him at extra risk on the Island of Misfit Dinosaurs. He may be a little too fascinated by them, and not guarded enough as he guides the team toward harvesting the dinosaurs’ genetic material. “His strengths are his compassion and enthusiasm and hunger for the natural world,” Bailey says. “That’s his brilliance and that’s also his downfall.”
Speaking of extracting DNA, the new film does this with Spielberg himself, who serves as an executive producer on Rebirth. “To me, it’s like a heist movie that meets all the films of Steven Spielberg I loved growing up,” Edwards says. “The three films we were orbiting were Jaws, Indiana Jones, and the awe and wonder of the original Jurassic.”
Bailey’s character channels Dr. Jones in one sequence set on a towering cliff, when he tries to extract fluid from the eggs of some flying dinosaurs who are said to be the size of fighter jets. The egg is about the same size as the golden idol from the opening sequence of Raiders of the Lost Ark (which was the first of many movies Marshall made with Spielberg.) “The original script just referenced the nest in a cliff and I really felt like we’re in Central America, and I like the idea that there was an old civilization here at one point,” Edwards said. Instead of a cave, he made the setting “an Inca-style old temple that had been abandoned hundreds of thousands of years ago. Inevitably, the second you do that, you’re suddenly going, ‘This is very Indiana Jones.’”
Bailey points out that the relationship between the three leads mirrors another monstrous Spielberg classic about a killer shark. “Much like in Jaws, you see how three people react to the same extreme level of survival,” he says. His Dr. Loomis is like Richard Dreyfuss’s bookish oceanographer; Johansson is the battle-hardened leader like Roy Scheider’s police chief, Martin Brody; and Ali’s Duncan Kincaid, a black-ops logistics expert who shepherds them into the island, has elements of Robert Shaw’s grizzled seafarer Quint.
“That is his impression, but I appreciate Jonny’s observation,” Ali says. “He’s a film buff, a movie head, and he’s always looking for the connections and pulling things apart and dissecting them.”
Ali may not have necessarily had Shaw’s antagonistic antihero in his head during the performance, but there are undeniable parallels. Each has a hardened exterior, while being somewhat wrecked inside. “Kincaid is a guy who at this point in his life has chosen to live off the grid,” Ali says. “He’s in Suriname, but he’s somebody who has been a good friend of Zora’s and is always willing to help out when she needs something handled covertly. He’s a good-spirited guy, but he’s definitely been through some tragedy in his life. All in all, he’s learned to live with his wounds, and he’s making the best of the life that he has.”
The key to making a memorable human in big-budget, visual-effects-heavy escapism is finding something intimate to put onscreen alongside the bravado, Ali adds. “Doing something this big is very new to me,” says the two-time Oscar winner for Moonlight and Green Book. “It’s a little bit of a test for me personally: Can I exist in a space this large, in something that is so much bigger than you and maybe your own specific talents? It’s just hard to pull it off. I think the bigger things are, the harder that can be. But there were people in Jaws and in Jurassic Park, in Star Wars and these huge tentpole films that resonated with authenticity and a certain truth and purpose that made those films worth watching again and again.”
His goal was to make Kincaid lovable to the audience. “I was really going into it hoping to bring something special and buoyant to that character, to really bring an energy and heart to him,” Ali says. “These big, blockbuster films, they’re not filmed in a way that’s necessarily going to set you up to feel that all the time because it’s so hard shooting these action sequences and running from a tennis ball and things of that nature.”
The worse things get on the island, the more relatable Kincaid seems. “There comes this opportunity for him to evolve because they’re having this life-and-death experience. There are people around them that are passing away, and that provides some perspective shift.”
“Passing away” may be the most elegant euphemism for “devoured by giant lizards” that has ever been used.
“It’s my polite way of saying that in this kind of movie, people die, right?” Ali says. “There’s no draft of the film where everyone survives.”
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What great insights into the overall tone, characters, and story of Jurassic World Rebirth! It certainly feels like the start of a “new era”, and it is awesome to hear the folks involved share such strong passion for the film they were making and for Jurassic as a whole. You can watch our full breakdown of Vanity Fair’s reveals below.
\n\n\n\nThe trailer will be unleashed tomorrow and we’ll likely know so much more! Are you excited? Let us know in the comments below, and stay tuned to Jurassic Outpost and Jurassic World as we head towards July!
\n\n\n\nSurvival is a long shot. pic.twitter.com/4P9sFAazeZ
— Jurassic World (@JurassicWorld) February 4, 2025
Ahead of the Jurassic World Rebirth trailer’s release tomorrow, Vanity Fair has shared seven new images from the film along with interviews with director Gareth Edwards and the cast! These images look both gorgeous, intense, and sufficiently Jurassic. Read on for our most extensive look yet at Rebirth and what those involved in this film have to say about the seventh Jurassic installment.
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\n\n\n“Jurassic Park” writer David Koepp says he revisited Michael Crichton’s novels before writing “Jurassic World Rebirth.”
— Variety (@Variety) January 25, 2025
“There was a sequence from the first novel that we’d always wanted in the original, but didn’t have room for. We got to use that now.” https://t.co/V0yw4CpU1e pic.twitter.com/GUZh7Vjrad
You can read the full conversation here.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKoepp has proven himself to be one of Hollywood’s preeminent screenwriters since Steven Spielberg recruited him to pen “Jurassic Park” in his twenties. But between spectacle features, he has often returned to more contained settings, as with David Fincher’s home invasion thriller “Panic Room” or Soderbergh’s own tech-skeptic “Kimi,” released three years ago. But “Presence” put Koepp in a darker place than usual.
These movies don’t unfold in confined settings, but do you find a similar thrill in restrictions when you’re writing for an established property, like “Jurassic” or “Indiana Jones”?
Those are harder because of the lack of restrictions. The first “Jurassic” was at the dawn of CG. I asked Steven [Spielberg], “Well, what are my limitations here?” And he said, “Only your imagination.” I was like, “Okay, well, that’s a little hostile.” But we were making up whatever we felt like, then he was seeing if we could figure it out. Those are giant movies, so there’s a lot of expectations and there’s a lot of money. The level of tension and anxiety surrounding it is a lot higher. On this one, by virtue of the fact that its budget was a lot smaller and Steven was paying for it himself, there were whole levels of approval that just weren’t present.
You’ve returned to the “Jurassic” franchise to write “Jurassic World Rebirth,” which releases this summer. What was the impetus behind that homecoming?
The first two movies were two of my favorite experiences ever. And Steven said, “What about starting over? Let’s try something all new.” I said, “Oh, that’s a cool idea. What if blah, blah, blah,” and then I threw an idea back. That’s it. It caught. You do that all the time with your friends and collaborators: throw ideas back and forth. And sometimes they catch, usually they don’t. There is pressure because it’s going to cost a lot of money and there are going to be big expectations and blah, blah, blah. But there was no pressure at first — just the pursuit of our ideas.
There isn’t even a source novel you’re pulling from for this one, right?
No. I reread the two novels to get myself back in that mode though. We did take some things from them. There was a sequence from the first novel that we’d always wanted in the original movie, but didn’t have room for. We were like, “Hey, we get to use that now.” But just to get back in that head space 30 years later — is it still fun? And the answer is yes, it still really is. Dinosaurs are still fun.
The excitement continues to mount for Jurassic World Rebirth, thanks in no small part to David Koepp’s enthusiasm and passion. Great to hear about the blank slate he and Spielberg approached Rebirth with, and even better to hear they are adapting a sequence from Michael Crichton‘s original Jurassic Park novel! What do you think that sequence could be? There is so much material left to pull from in Crichton’s Jurassic works, which Koepp reread to prepare for his return to writing for the franchise. He’s just like us.
\n\n\nDavid Koepp, screenwriter of the first Jurassic Park, returned for Jurassic World Rebirth and says it’s ‘a chance to start over’ while remaining in continuity. https://t.co/ueIgq8aPhR
— /Film (@slashfilm) January 28, 2025
Koepp also spoke with SlashFilm to discuss Presence and writing a brand new Jurassic story for Rebirth.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFor screenwriter David Koepp, 2025 might be best remembered as the year where he reunited with two guys named Steven. He’s currently on the press circuit promoting his script for Steven Soderbergh’s unconventional ghost story “Presence” after having worked with the director previously on 2022’s pandemic-era thriller “Kimi,” and this summer, audiences will see the fruits of Koepp’s reunion with another Steven — Mr. Spielberg, who is executive producing “Jurassic World Rebirth,” which just missed a slot on /Film’s Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 list.
See, Spielberg asked Koepp, who wrote the first two “Jurassic Park” movies back in the 1990s, if he was interested in taking a shot at cooking up a new direction for the “Jurassic” franchise in the aftermath of “Jurassic World Dominion,” a movie that made over a billion dollars but which was not beloved by critics or general audiences. With that question posed, Koepp made an observation about the franchise as a whole:
“When Steven [Spielberg] said, ‘Hey, do you want to try to come up with a new one?’, it had seemed to me that the tone and characters of the movies changed every three movies. So after the first three, it changed into ‘Jurassic World,’ which was a different tone and wholly different characters, and then that came, it seemed, to a logical conclusion. So [‘Jurassic World Rebirth’] seemed like a chance to say, ‘OK, what now?'”
According to the official synopsis from Universal, this new film takes the “Jurassic” movies “in an ingenious new direction.”
“We didn’t want to deny any events that occurred,” Koepp told me. “[The new film is set] in that world. But how might that world have changed in the last five years, and whose story is this now? So it was a chance to start over, and still play in this incredibly fun sandbox with the enthusiasm of a big studio behind you. It was the best of all possible worlds. And Steven and I got to do the absolute most fun part of filmmaking, which is, ‘Hey, what if…’ and then you just make up stuff.”
Some of the “stuff” they made up: In the five years since the events of “Dominion,” dinosaurs have learned that they can essentially only live in climates similar to the ones they operated in previously. The three biggest dinos on the planet “hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind,” and it’s up to skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) to snag the genetic material that can make that dream a reality. Mahershala Ali is on board as a team leader, there’s a stranded family that gets roped into the action, and the synopsis also teases “a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.” Color us intrigued.
Steven Spielberg and David Koepp “trying to come up with a new one” has to be music to Jurassic fans’ ears. His words about changing the tone and characters every three movies while not denying any events that have occurred bode well for what’s to come in his Rebirth story and the franchise as a whole. We can’t wait to see what Koepp and Spielberg have come up with for the seventh Jurassic Park film!
\n\n\n\nDavid Koepp revealed a sequence from Michael Crichton’s #JurassicPark novel will be realized for #JurassicWorldRebirth. Could we finally see the T-Rex at the lagoon scene? Watch the original storyboard video to see what this cut JP scene could be like! https://t.co/oBPUMb2i2X pic.twitter.com/KizAYLFX2b
— Jurassic Time (@JurassicMemoirs) January 26, 2025
What do you think about what Koepp had to say in these interviews? What Jurassic Park novel sequence would you like to see in Jurassic World Rebirth? Let us know in the comments, and watch our full breakdown below.
\n\n\n\nSince Jurassic World Rebirth’s announcement just over a year ago, those following the production have awaited insights from its writer and Jurassic legend David Koepp – and lately we have gotten just that.
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\n\n\n\nFrom March 14, 2025, through August 31, 2025 (*dates subject to change) Universal Studios Japan will be hosting Jurassic World Journey, a special limited time event during daytime park hours with unique show offerings, special food, interactive missions, and more!
\n\n\n\nUniversal Japan’s website states:
\n\n\n\n‘A new great adventure begins!
\n\n\n\nTake your family on a thrilling, new adventure to experience the dinosaurs from Jurassic World like never before! See the terrifying T. rex on a boat tour through the jungle. Meet and interact with adorable baby dinosaurs! And try not to scream during a tense encounter with a Raptor! You can also go on an all-new “”Mission Walk”” where you can explore the area while solving fun and exciting new puzzles along the way!’
So, lets break down exactly what guests can expect and experience during JW Journey!
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ENTERTAINMENT OFFERINGS
\n\n\n\nThere will be three “new” shows offered during the Jurassic World Journey event that will bring guests closer than ever to the park’s dinosaurs! Universal Japan has proven time and again that they love experimenting with live performance to showcase dinosaurs in their Jurassic Park area. Universal Japan has been the stage for a variety of Jurassic shows through the years since the 00’s, showcasing many different dinosaurs with each iteration (one of which even had a Spinosaurus!)
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In “Dino Encounter” guests will be able to see some of the park’s herbivorous dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Stegosaurus, and will also have opportunities to pet and even feed the animals!
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Complimenting the experience with the herbivores will be the “Baby Dino Adventure,” guests will experience the awe and wonder of interacting with a baby dinosaur and learn some fun new facts about the incredible species from its handler! You can even take a commemorative photo to have as a keepsake of this truly unforgettable and heartwarming moment!
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Be careful though, because while the island is home to many magnificent and wonderful animals, danger also lurks around every corner! In “Raptor Alert” you find out that several raptors have escaped from their enclosures and have been spotted in the area! Be sure to take caution as you move throughout the area! Get ready to experience the thrill of a lifetime as you try to avoid being trapped by the Raptor pack!
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUniversal is also planning the “ultimate adventure” for the whole family to enjoy with the Jurassic World “Mission Walk!” After picking up your mission booklet at Jurassic Outfitters (each guest can obtain one mission booklet per day), guests will explore the jungles of Jurassic World and complete their exciting missions throughout the Park! As you complete the various missions you’ll also encounter various dinosaurs hidden in the jungle. Every participant who completes all of the missions will receive an exclusive sticker as a gift!
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PHOTO OP
\n\n\n\nOn top of the new entertainment offerings, there will also be a special photo op location where guests can get a commemorative photo with a Jurassic World gyrosphere!
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFOOD OFFERINGS
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Universal never misses an opportunity to come up with unique and special foods for their parks as well, and during Jurassic World Journey the park will be offering multiple new edible dishes.
\n\n\n\nThere will be five new meals offered- the massive T. rex Burger Meal, the Raptor Burger Meal, the Pteranodon Burger meal (which looks to be a crispy chicken sandwich,) the Mosasaurus Burger Meal (a breaded fish sandwich,) and the bite sized Triceratops Burger Meal for kids. To pair with the meal there will also be a unique drink, a salty lemon and lychee soda mix named the Ancient Sea.
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And don’t forget desert! Offerings like a pteranodon topped chocolate and strawberry cupcake (made to look like Mt. Sibo erupting,) and the Jurassic Chocolate Lemon Churritos are sure to satisfy your sweet tooth.
\n\n\n\nImages on Universal Japan’s website suggest that there may be even more food and treat options available as well during the event, like a delectable multi-layered dessert dish of some kind and Jurassic themed macarons.
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhile there has been no news of new or special merchandise (other than the sticker awarded at the end of the Mission Walk,) the Blue and Gyrosphere popcorn bucket will finally be making its way to Universal Japan!
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd don’t forget to ride that ever flowing river with the newly refurbished Jurassic Park The Ride, and fly alongside pterosaurs on the rollercoaster The Flying Dinosaur.
\n\n\n\nWalt Disney World News Today reported in their article reporting on the special event that Universal Japan has said that there will be “enhancements” added to the rides for the event, but we could not find any information on Universal Japan’s website (or elsewhere) corroborating this. It is not without precedent though, as other parks like Universal Hollywood and Orlando have made minor tweaks to their respective Jurassic rides in the past for special events like Halloween Horror Nights. So perhaps we will see a few added details, props, or dinosaurs in the coming months!
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Universal Destinations and Resorts around the world have had many different special Jurassic offerings over the years. For instance, for Jurassic Park‘s 30th Anniversary Universal Orlando had a special tribute store, and in 2018 Universal Singapore had the short show Jurassic World ROAR! in honor of the release of Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom. While none of the other Universal’s other resorts have announced any special events or offerings accompanying the release Jurassic World Rebirth as of yet, we can hope that perhaps Universal Japan is just leading the way and maybe some of the other destinations will soon follow suit with some dino-sized surprises for guests this year!
\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat would you like to see come to Universal Parks around the globe? More special Jurassic events? More unique shows with dinosaurs? New rides? Let us know in the comments below.
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