JURASSIC WORLD: REBIRTH Writer Teases the Film and Says It's More Akin to JURASSIC PARK
David Koepp, the writer of the original Jurassic Park, teamed back up with producer Steven Spielberg to develop the next installment of the franchise with Jurassic World: Rebirth.
Koepp recently talked about the movie and teased what fans can expect from it. When discussing the tone, he said that this one is more in line with the first film.
While a guest on The Discourse Podcast, Koepp said: “I hope people like the movie because the series tended to change after [Jurassic Park III], and it felt like, ‘Okay, so let’s change our tone.’
“Steven [Spielberg] and I were interested in a tone that was maybe more akin to the very first movie. I saw it early on as a mission movie. I like things that are driven by bottles, by containment.”
The mission he is talking about sees a team of people racing to secure DNA samples from the three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air.
Koepp adds: “Developing a limited team and a thing that they have to accomplish – that was all really fun. And it was just fun to return to that world of great adventure backed by real science and write some cool new characters.
“You don’t often get a chance to have a blank slate and say, ‘What do you want to do?’ There were no franchise expectations other than dinosaurs.”
Koepp shared that he even put together a list of “nine commandments” for the new Jurassic movie, “a list of things that we had to abide by.”
He revealed: “One was [that] the events of the previous six movies cannot be contradicted or denied, because I don’t like a retcon. Those are no fun.
“Two, humor is oxygen. Science must be real. You know, all the things that we wanted our movie to be. And I just had a great fun doing it with Steven and then with [director] Gareth [Edwards].”
The movie is set five years after the events of the last film, which saw dinosaurs roaming the Earth, “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 within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”
Scarlett Johansson (The Avengers) plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world’s three most massive dinosaurs.
When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that’s been hidden from the world for decades.
The movie also stars Mahershala Ali (Blade) as Zora’s most trusted team leader, Duncan Kincaid; Jonathan Bailey (Wicked) is paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi) is Martin Krebs, a rep for Big Pharma; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer) is Reuben Delgado, the father of the shipwrecked civilian family.
The cast includes Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs. Lopez) as Reuben’s family, with Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF) and Ed Skrein (Deadpool) as members of Zora and Krebs’ respective crews.
Jurassic World Rebirth is set to open in theaters July 2nd, 2025.