The new trailer for Jurassic World Rebirth has been released and it promises an absolutely insane adventure packed full of monster fun. It also promises to take the franchise back to its darker, thriller-esque roots with a plot and some visuals that genuinely suggest that - to quote Jonathan Bailey's Dr. Henry Loomis - survival is a longshot.
The fourth film in the Jurassic World sub-franchise but the seventh in the overall Jurassic Park franchise, the Scarlett Johansson-led Rebirth is currently set as a standalone sequel, but there is clearly a lot of potential for future storylines in this saga for one simple reason - it's starting a new chapter with new characters and new motivations. If we've learned anything from these movies, Jurassics come in threes.
But Rebirth does look like it plans on living up to that title, as it approaches dinosaurs like they are indeed actually dinosaurs - not theme park attractions designed for family entertainment. If you need more proof of that, the second trailer has just surfaced and it's a real thriller. Check it out below:
Jurassic World Rebirth makes dinosaurs scary again
There is a lot to digest from that new Jurassic World Rebirth trailer and the ironic thing is that it only showcased a few specific scenes from the movie - scenes that it already showcased in the previous trailer. But it goes to show you how marketing is everything, because while the first teaser approached the film like an action-adventure - which it admittedly is going to be - the second leaned into the horror element, proving that dinosaurs are still extremely scary seven movies in.
This is a real throwback to the original Jurassic Park, which arrived in theaters in 1993. While that was the movie responsible for introducing us to the franchise that would go on to become a favorite among families, it also features one of the most terrifying scenes in film history: The moment where the T-Rex makes his first appearance, tearing through the fence and attacking the nearby car.
One of the ways that the Jurassic World Rebirth trailer - and, by extension, the movie itself - effectively manages to accomplish this is how director Gareth Edwards shot the dinosaur scenes. A veteran of monster movies who brought us the visually-stunning Godzilla in 2014, Edwards knows how to make creatures actually look the size that they are supposed to be, pulling this off by shooting scenes from low angles, particularly the human angle. Therefore, we actually know how it would feel to look up at such giant creatures, and that perspective really brings the visuals to life.
This is particularly noticeable in the T-Rex river raft scene. The T-Rex looks larger than any of the dinosaurs have in any of the recent Jurassic World movies and Edwards pulls this off via perspective. We've seen multiple T-Rexes in this franchise before - heck, the Jurassic World movies brought back Jurassic Park's "Rexy" - but it's only here that we actually get a shot that captures how large these creatures are supposed to be.
The same can be said for the scenes which showcase the new genetically-modified dinosaur, the Distorus Rex. Cloaked in shadow and with a forehead resembling that of Alien's Xenomorph, it's impossible to look at this one and not feel fear, trepidation, and uncertainty when it comes to what the film might actually deliver during those full scenes. And a large part of that feeling stems from the absolutely insane way that Edwards has shot these scenes.
Jurassic World Rebirth will undoubtedly feature a lot of nostalgic, family-friendly moments like all of the Jurassic movies have thus far, but it also looks like it's going to remind us that dinosaurs are actually larger-than-life creatures that are far from extinct in the movies. And if it can make us feel something new (or maybe old) for these monsters that we have gotten used to seeing over the years, then Edwards has done his job very, very well.
Jurassic World Rebirth arrives in movie theaters on July 2, 2025.