Speaking with Vanity Fair, "Jurassic Park is a horror film in the witness protection program," Edwards said. "Most people don’t think of it like that. We all went to see it as kids. But I was scared shitless, to be honest, when I was at the cinema watching the T. rex attack. It’s one of the most well-directed scenes in cinema history, so the bar’s really high to come on board and try and do this."
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I love this quote because it has an intuition about what genre actually means and why we go to see movies like this one.
I think that strict adherence to genre is fine, but what I love about the Jurassic movies is that they have scares, they have adventure, they have excitement, there are real consequences inside them, but they focus on telling a story that you can get behind, even if those aren't usually the genres you embrace.
This new iteration promises the same.
The story takes place five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion. We follow Scarlett Johansson stars as Zora Bennett, a covert operations expert leading a team to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. After becoming stranded on an island with a shipwrecked civilian family, they uncover a shocking, long-hidden secret.
The film, described as a "rebirth" that will retread canon into uncharted territory, also stars Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, and Manuel Garcia Rulfo.
Jurassic World Rebirth will be released in theaters by Universal on July 2.
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