Jurassic World: Rebirth will grace movie theaters this coming July, and the sequel to the timeless dinosaur-themed series appears to promise quite a bit to fans. There is the appearance of Scarlett Johannsen, marking a famous new face's introduction to the franchise. Despite the new cast though, there is also an air of familiarity as well: the film's writer, David Koepp, is the original screenwriter of both 1993's original Jurassic Park as well as 1997's sequel, The Lost World. A returning writer and the Rebirth title begs the question: how does Rebirth connect to the original films and, specifically, to The Lost World?
The premise of Rebirth is that five years after the events of Jurassic World: Dominion, the dinosaurs are unable to adapt to a twenty-first-century climate, showing real artistic creativity by bringing the dinos into a modern-day dilemma. With climate change and the rapidly changing world of the modern era, how can pre-historic animals survive in a world so affected by humanity? Can humans and dinosaurs truly coexist, or must the dinosaurs remain only in climates in which they lived millions of years ago? Perhaps to find the answer, Rebirth will presumably take us back to Isla Sorna, the "lost world" where the dinosaurs were originally bred and researched before the construction of Jurassic Park. Isla Sorna is, of course, the center of action in The Lost World, where Jeff Goldblum's Ian Malcolm and others struggle to survive the ensuing chaos once their team arrives on the remote island.
Perhaps what truly makes this film exciting is not only the return to a familiar locale, but the fact that this story will go so much deeper with this locale. Not only is Isla Sorna the original breeding ground of the ancient lizards, but this island apparently contains a deeper secret than audiences knew of before. That secret may lie in a medical resource among the dinosaurs themselves, that could provide miracle healing for much of humanity. Not only do fans get to return to the chaotic island of the 1997 film, but they get to see a more intruiging part of this island never known before. And if indeed such a miracle drug exists on Isla Sorna, perhaps this will be a masterful coming full circle in the Jurassic franchise: although dinosaurs and humans cannot coexist, some good may come from the disaster of Jurassic Park after all - in the form of a medical miracle.
The trailer for Rebirth alludes to said medical breakthrough of some kind, albeit through combining the DNA of dinosaur species on the original manufacturing island. Who knows how the "mystery serum" or cure comes about, but considering that Dr. Wu wanted to study Maisie Lockwood's genes for similar reasons, the two might be connected. Maybe Wu replicates the elder Lockwood's cure for a genetic disorder but makes it usable on other diseases. The only catch is, they require the previously mentioned strands of DNA.
Jurassic World: Rebirth opens in theaters on July 2, 2025.