Jurassic World Rebirth promises lots of jump scares, goes back to the basics!

Marketing and promotion for Jurassic World Rebirth continues to ramp up as we approach the film's July 2nd release date! Empire Magazine have dropped a number of exclusive features as part of their preview for this summer's blockbuster! One such feature included an interview with director Gareth Edwards, screenwriter David Koepp and actors Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey, where they discussed how Rebirth embodies the aspects which made the first Jurassic Park so iconic and scary.

“It has that wonder and awe, while not being scared to re-inject the thrill and the fear.” Bailey plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis, sent on a perilous quest to a dinosaur-infested island to collect DNA samples from some of the most dangerous creatures time forgot – alongside Mahershala Ali’s Duncan Kincaid, and Scarlett Johannson’s covert ops expert Zora Bennett. “It hearkens back to the first one,” Johansson agrees. “It has a lot of good jump-scares, and the stakes are high.”

The result marks a subtle shift in direction from the previous World trilogy. “We wanted to recapture the idea that we are in the dinosaurs’ environment,” says returning screenwriter David Koepp, who wrote Jurassic Park and The Lost World. “The last few movies were exploring the idea of, ‘Hey, what would it be like if they were in our environment?’ They did that very well, and now we wanted to explore how it felt to go back to theirs.” Prepare to gasp at dinosaurs all over again. Just, not loudly enough to attract their attention, eh?

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