The New Jurassic World: Rebirth Trailer Finally Has Teeth

At this point, there’s something oddly comforting about the return of dinosaurs every few years. No matter what’s happening in the world—pandemics, AI wars, Instagram collapsing under its own weight—you can count on Universal to resurrect a few scaly beasts and let them loose on humans who really should know better by now.

But when Jurassic World: Dominion limped onto our screens in 2022, the franchise was starting to feel like a fossil. A billion-dollar-earning, nostalgia-milking fossil, sure, but still. And now, it feels like it has finally evolved.

The newly dropped trailer for Jurassic World: Rebirth—the seventh instalment in the dino-saga and the first to properly cut the umbilical cord from the OG characters—looks, well, alive. There’s a pulse again. It’s thumping to the sound of distant stomps and one hell of a hybrid beast. It’s got everything you’d want in a summer blockbuster: dinosaurs with wings, dinosaurs with fins, dinosaurs that look like they were designed by someone who watched Alien and thought, “but what if this had six limbs and a corporate backstory?”

Directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, Godzilla), Rebirth swaps out Chris Pratt’s cowboy-cum-ranger routine for something sharper: Scarlett Johansson leading a covert ops squad, Mahershala Ali as her hard-as-nails partner, and Jonathan Bailey playing the one man in the room who actually knows what a dinosaur is. Throw in a sinister pharma bro (Rupert Friend), a marooned family, and a rogue island teeming with nightmare-fuel creatures, and you’ve got the ingredients for the first Jurassic film in years that feels like it might actually have teeth.

Mahershala Ali in the "Jurassic World: Rebirth" (2025) trailerIMDb

The movie picks up five years after Dominion left us in a messy human-dino cohabitation phase. Only now, the planet’s not too kind to our prehistoric friends. They’ve been pushed into steamy equatorial zones where only the worst of the worst still roam. But inside three of the biggest beasts—land, sea, and air—lies the DNA code to medical miracles.

Naturally, Big Pharma wants a piece.

Scarlett Johansson stars as Zora Bennett, a covert ops specialist with a sharp jawline and a moral compass, leading a biotech-backed mission to extract DNA from three mega-dinos. Mahershala Ali plays her partner Duncan Kincaid, and Jonathan Bailey rounds out the trio as a palaeontologist who probably regrets leaving the lab.

Their goal is to harvest genetic code that could unlock life-saving cures for humanity. However, things go south quickly. There’s a family stranded, a conspiracy unearthed, and something called the D-Rex.

You know how every Jurassic film needs a new Big Bad? This time, it’s the Distortus Rex. A grotesque lab-born hybrid with six limbs, endless teeth, and serious “what have we done?” energy. Director Gareth Edwards describes it as “if a T-Rex had a child with a Rancor and H.R. Giger was the godfather.”

Scarlett Johansson in the "Jurassic World: Rebirth" (2025)IMDb

Also lurking in the foliage are the Mutadons—raptor-pterosaur hybrids that glide, claw, and scream like banshees. And, of course, the classics are back too: T-Rex, Mosasaur, and the Quetzalcoatlus all cameo in between explosions.

There are no appearances from franchise alumni here—no Goldblum, no Dern, no Sam Neill dropping in for an awkward wink at the camera. And honestly? Maybe that’s good. Rebirth finally feels like it’s done playing the greatest hits and is ready to write some new ones.

But the trailer looks sleek. It’s got that slightly gritty, scale-and-mud aesthetic he brought to Rogue One, and with Koepp back on the script, there’s hope this might actually say something about science, greed, and playing god.

Whether Rebirth becomes the shot of adrenaline this fossilised franchise needs remains to be seen. But if the trailer is anything to go by, we’re in for a good ride.

Jurassic World: Rebirth hits theatres July 2. And you know you’ll find me there, probably digging my nails into the arm rest.