Original Jurassic Park (1993) director Steven Spielberg is back at the helm for the future of the series as an executive producer for Jurassic World Rebirth. For him, there’s no better way to bring his vision to life than with his OG partner, Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, who’s now writing for the new film.
“We wanted a film that felt like a fresh start while remaining in the world of the previous films,” says producer Frank Marshall, who has been the longtime producer of the franchise. “We continue to develop the idea that ‘life finds a way’ with a different kind of story that combines heist-movie adventure with creature-feature horror. We have new characters, a new setting, and new dinosaurs, some of which have gone very, very bad. At the same time, what I find exciting about Rebirth is that it finds a tone that harkens back to the original Jurassic Park. And that has a lot to do with the creative team we assembled for this one.”
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In Jurassic World Rebirth, It’s been five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, and the planet’s ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.
The premise behind Jurassic World Rebirth came from Koepp’s fascination with larger dinosaurs and their lifespans. “While doing research, I found that certain dinosaurs, larger ones in particular, did have extraordinarily long lifespans and the reason was they had remarkably low incidences of heart disease,” says Koepp. “That led to the idea that a drug could be synthesized from their DNA, because the greatest killer of humans is heart disease. The nice thing about that premise was that it was true to the core theme, ‘life finds a way.’ Life extension! Everyone can get onboard with that! To me, that seemed a valid reason—combined with the promise of a massive payday for the covert operations team—for smart, competent people to take the risk of going on an adventure into the most dangerous place in the world.”
Spielberg and Koepp also dug deep into their roots and made sure that they follow the nine rules that all Jurassic films should follow, and they’re willing to share a few of them: Jurassic films should embrace plausible science as much as possible; they must keep continuity with past films; and they should be funny. “Humor is oxygen for movies like these,” Koepp says. “Not in a self-conscious way, but in an utterly believable, character-oriented way. To me there’s nothing funnier in films like these where you have characters trying to stay calm in the face of extreme peril by understating it.”
The era of dinosaurs is back as Jurassic World Rebirth arrives in the Philippines on July 2. Follow Universal Pictures PH (FB), UniversalPicturesPH (IG), and UniversalPicsPH (TikTok) for the latest updates.
