Jurassic World Rebirth is an upcoming American science fiction action film directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp. A standalone sequel to Jurassic World Dominion (2022), it is the fourth Jurassic World film and the seventh installment overall in the Jurassic Park franchise. The film will star a new ensemble cast led by Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey. Development of the film was reported in January 2024, and had been underway for some time. Edwards was hired as director a month later, and casting commenced shortly thereafter. Principal photography took place in Thailand, Malta, and the United Kingdom from June to September 2024. Koepp previously co-wrote the original Jurassic Park film (1993) and wrote its sequel, The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997). Jurassic World Rebirth is scheduled to be released in the United States on July 2, 2025, by Universal Pictures. Premise Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, Earth's environment has largely proven inhospitable to dinosaurs. The surviving creatures now reside in remote, tropical locales, reminiscent of the environments where they once flourished. Zora Bennett, a covert operative, is recruited by a pharmaceutical company to collaborate with paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis and team leader Duncan Kincaid on a top-secret mission. Their objective is to infiltrate a forbidden island—once the site of the original research facility for Jurassic Park—and locate the three largest remaining prehistoric species from land, sea, and air. The DNA of these creatures holds the key to a revolutionary drug capable of saving countless human lives. Along the way, the team encounters a civilian family, who survived a shipwrecking after an attack by marauding aquatic animals, and both groups find themselves stranded. They discover that the island is home to mutated, failed dinosaur experiments that have thrived in isolation for decades