JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Writer And Director Tease "Bigger, Meaner, Scarier" Mutant Dinosaurs Like The D-Rex

JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Writer And Director Tease "Bigger, Meaner, Scarier" Mutant Dinosaurs Like The D-Rex

Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards and writer David Koepp have talked more about the movie's mutant dinosaurs, with the D-Rex described as a cross between an H.R. Giger painting and a Rancor.

By JoshWilding - May 02, 2025 07:05 PM EST
Filed Under: Jurassic Park
Source: Empire (via SFFGazette.com)

Jurassic World Rebirth promises to take the beloved franchise back to its roots with an island setting and plenty of fan-favourite dinosaurs. Among them are the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Dilophosaurus, and the long-awaited return of Jurassic Park III's Spinosaurus.

However, filmmaker Gareth Edwards will also lean into the franchise's horror roots with mutant dinosaurs created on a third island by InGen's most twisted scientists. 

Among them will be the Distortus Rex, or "D-Rex." Talking to Empire Online (via SFFGazette.com), Edwards teased, "It’s kind of like if the T-Rex was designed by H.R. Giger, and then that whole thing had sex with a Rancor."

"It’s a design that I was really happy with," the director said of the six-limbed creature. "I'd like to buy the toy of it when it comes out."

ILM's David Vickery added, "Gareth wanted us to feel sorry for it as well as terrified, because its deformities have caused it some pain, and there’s an encumbrance to it." 

According to writer David Koepp, we'll also meet the winged Mutadons, "a combination of a pterosaur and a Raptor. Those came from my strange mind. We saw in some of the previous Jurassic World movies that their experiments made dinosaurs bigger, meaner, scarier, and it occurred to me and Steven [Spielberg] that those can’t all have gone well."

Seeing these hybrid dinosaurs in action has made Jurassic World Rebirth particularly intriguing. Combine that with the fact that this feels like a classic Jurassic adventure, and Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps will have a hard time overcoming this rampaging beast at the box office in July.

Some fans aren't on board with the idea of man-made mutant dinos, so it will be interesting to see how they and critics react to this one. 

Here's the official synopsis for Jurassic World Rebirth:

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, 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.

Academy Award nominee Scarlett Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure the genetic material.

When Zora’s operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on a forbidden island that had once housed an undisclosed research facility for Jurassic Park. There, in a terrain populated by dinosaurs of vastly different species, they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that has been hidden from the world for decades. 

The movie also stars Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Rupert Friend, and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. The supporting cast includes Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain, and Ed Skrein. Gareth Edwards directs from a script by David Koepp. 

Jurassic World Rebirth arrives in theaters on July 2.

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AllsGood
AllsGood - 5/2/2025, 7:13 PM
Jurassic World Rebirth

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JonAwesome
JonAwesome - 5/2/2025, 7:13 PM
Do they think THAT is the appeal of the Jurassic Park movies? Mutant Dinosaurs?!
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/2/2025, 7:26 PM
@JonAwesome - Its either that or we go back to dinosaurs signing up for the military, those are the only two options. The last resort will be to put them in space, which worked wonders for Dino Crisis.
Malatrova15
Malatrova15 - 5/2/2025, 8:18 PM
@JonAwesome - the appeal is ScarJo turning into a dinosaur
harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 5/2/2025, 7:18 PM
what does the D stand for?
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HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/2/2025, 7:21 PM
@harryba11zack - Dinosuar
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THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 5/2/2025, 7:24 PM
That’s really great.

Bigger and I presume scarier?

And the story, what’s that going to be like? Is it woke?

If the Dinasours are not mating or embracing the LGBTQ community

I’m not interested

For [frick]s Sake
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/2/2025, 7:31 PM
@THEKENDOMAN - Technically, all the OG dinosauars from the first film were female lesbians that "found a way" to get it on ..........I need to re-watch that film again with more open eyes.
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THEKENDOMAN
THEKENDOMAN - 5/2/2025, 8:06 PM
@HashTagSwagg - Well, [frick] me, bacon and eggs. How the [frick] did I miss that?

Doesn't explain the Dennis Nedry death scene though.

Wait, hold on?

Do you think the Dilophosaurus was giving him head in the jeep. Spitting the venom, sucking and all that?

What the [frick] I’m I writing here 🤦🏾‍♂️

For [frick]s Sake
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 5/2/2025, 9:36 PM
@THEKENDOMAN - Very likely, most definitely, possibly even confirmed.
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 5/2/2025, 7:50 PM
I don’t get why some people are upset about the mutant hybrids.

The very first movie mentions from the get go that these are not accurate representations of the real dinosaurs that lived 64 million years ago.

These were mutations from the very start, approximations of what they real ones looked liked, but mutations nonetheless.

Irá only logical that they would have created some malformed and dangerous ones along the way.
I think it’s a brilliant idea to have INGEN get an Island where they dumped all their unwanted creations.
StSteven
StSteven - 5/2/2025, 7:56 PM
@MisterDoctor217 - Yep, just like the space underneath my stairs 😉.
DocSpock
DocSpock - 5/2/2025, 7:59 PM
@StSteven -

I'm getting sick of this. When will you let me out?
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 5/2/2025, 9:07 PM
@StSteven -


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StSteven
StSteven - 5/2/2025, 9:28 PM
@DocSpock - When you learn to obey! C'mon, you know the drill. It puts the lotion on! It puts the lotion on!!!
StSteven
StSteven - 5/2/2025, 9:30 PM
@MisterDoctor217 - Ask him: @DocSpock (be careful, I'm listening...)
MisterDoctor217
MisterDoctor217 - 5/2/2025, 10:53 PM
@StSteven -
I’m so lost 👀
StSteven
StSteven - 5/3/2025, 2:20 AM
@MisterDoctor217 - Oh, sorry, @DocSpock and I were just having some fun with my "underneath the stairs" comment. So basically I was making a joke upon a joke upon a joke starting with your comment about INGEN dumping their unwanted dinos "where they dumped all their unwanted creations." (like where I'd lock up my unwanted kids). The Doc took it to an unexpected level, and, well, we're where we're at now.

FWIW, he's staying under the stairs until he hands over his tequila and burritos. Don't make me unleash the hounds Doc! 😉
Spiderfan2226
Spiderfan2226 - 5/2/2025, 8:04 PM
So dumb.

Once you have something the size of a trex, no one is going to be more interested because you introduced another one that is slightly bigger. Especially if that one wasn’t even a real Dino. Jurassic park (both the real life franchise and the theme park in the movie) was supposed to be the magic of brining real extinct animals to life. What are we doing with mutant dinosaurs?
Floke
Floke - 5/3/2025, 3:05 AM
@Spiderfan2226 - Yeah, I mean, if a a T-Rex would kill me instantly,it is not like a slighlty bigger monster would kill me slightly more.

It is like being run over by a 10-ton truck or a 20-ton truck. The outcome is the same.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 5/2/2025, 8:38 PM
This is gonna be bad.
mountainman
mountainman - 5/2/2025, 8:42 PM
@McMurdo - But can be somehow be worse than Fallen Kingdom and Dominion is the real question.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 5/2/2025, 8:57 PM
@mountainman - don't get me wrong I'm desperate for this to be good but the marvel esque dialogue. A 6 legged rancor, mutant flying raptor birds.......
mountainman
mountainman - 5/2/2025, 11:56 PM
@McMurdo - I don’t have faith in it, but it seems a bit more back to formula than the last two. Definitely won’t be seeing it in theaters and I don’t expect it to be good.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 5/2/2025, 9:20 PM
Just hope it's not some overblown action flick like the last one. This franchise was better when the horror/thriller elements were more prevalent.
Arthorious
Arthorious - 5/2/2025, 9:36 PM
I’m just hoping the stakes are high and even the main cast could potentially die. All the stakes were completely gone in the last movie
Sinner
Sinner - 5/3/2025, 2:16 AM
The bigger and scarier “D-Rex” you know. Is this a porno? 😂

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