RUMOR: JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Sequel Moving Forward With Scarlett Johansson Set To Return As Zora Bennett

RUMOR: JURASSIC WORLD REBIRTH Sequel Moving Forward With Scarlett Johansson Set To Return As Zora Bennett

Jurassic World Rebirth was the surprise hit of the summer, grossing just shy of $900 million at the worldwide box office. Now, a new rumour suggests a sequel starring Scarlett Johansson is in the works.

By JoshWilding - Sep 09, 2025 01:09 PM EST
Filed Under: Jurassic Park
Source: SFFGazette.com

Jurassic World Rebirth split the opinions of critics when it opened in theaters this July (literally; it has 50% on Rotten Tomatoes). Despite that, the movie managed to fend off competition from Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps to cement itself as the biggest hit of the summer. 

Grossing $861 million at the worldwide box office, the Gareth Edwards-helmed film served as a successful fresh start and proved that there's plenty of life still left in the long-running dinosaur franchise. 

Avengers: Endgame star Scarlett Johansson led the cast as the heroic Zora Bennett, and it seems we haven't seen the last of her. According to scooper Daniel Richtman (via SFFGazette.com), "A new Jurassic World movie with [Johansson] as the lead again is already in the works." 

We'd imagine Mahershala Ali and Jonathan Bailey will also return. The former was supposed to be killed off, but was saved by the intervention of Universal Pictures executives. Still, there's currently no word on them or Edwards' potential involvement. 

"This film, to me, really felt like it's singular. It's its own piece," Johansson said earlier this year. "And you hope that this film stands on its own without the support of the films that come before and that it doesn't need to extend beyond what it is."

"I mean, the film is called Rebirth, of course, but Gareth [Edwards, director], and I think Frank [Marshall, producer] and Steven [Spielberg, executive producer] and all the creatives on this project, wanted to establish this film as its own contained, standalone thing."

She added, "I'm a massive Jurassic universe fan, and there's certainly a lot of wonderful nostalgic winks or nods or Easter eggs or whatever you want to call them to Steven's movies and the Jurassic films that have been previous to this, I think the hope is that if you've never seen any of the other Jurassics, this is the one. That's the goal, anyway."

Jurassic World Rebirth might have been planned as a standalone movie, but grossing close to $900 million at a time when people are no longer flocking to theaters is an impressive feat, and all but guarantees this rumoured follow-up will happen. 

We'll see. In the meantime, Universal has yet to officially announce its plans for the Jurassic franchise moving forward. However, if this movie is being fast-tracked, we could see it as soon as 2027 or 2028. 

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. 

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harryba11zack
harryba11zack - 9/9/2025, 1:42 PM
the first one was great, glad they finally started doing human dino hybrids
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WalletsClosed
WalletsClosed - 9/9/2025, 1:43 PM
This slop making money leads to the death of cinema

Reboot the MCU and DCU
asherman93
asherman93 - 9/9/2025, 3:53 PM
@WalletsClosed - …the [frick] does this have to do with Marvel or DC?
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/9/2025, 4:27 PM
@asherman93 - he's just a moron, don't mind him
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/9/2025, 1:47 PM
Out of the Jurassic World movies, only the first one was good. The rest have been Trainwreck after Trainwreck
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 9/9/2025, 2:31 PM
@SonOfAGif - Yeah, I like the first Jurassic World. It's obviously not as good as Jurassic Park, but it's impossible to top.
TheRealMandarin
TheRealMandarin - 9/9/2025, 1:50 PM
@bkmeijer1 - perfect! Now expand, what are we doing with them? Adapting the cancelled trespasser 2 storyline? Are we finding out Kayla was a JP worker and Eric was an agent for Biosyn?
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/9/2025, 1:54 PM
@TheRealMandarin - honestly, yeah. If we divide the characters into groups, there are scientific, support and mercenary character.

And they should dare kill off some of the characters too.
bkmeijer1
bkmeijer1 - 9/9/2025, 1:48 PM
Make it a two-parter and bring back every main character that isn't the OG three, any of the mandatory family members or Claire & Owen (so just Sarah, Nick, Billy, Barry, Franklin, Zia, Ramsey and Kayla).
BlackStar25
BlackStar25 - 9/9/2025, 1:49 PM
Shocker...
MisterBones
MisterBones - 9/9/2025, 1:50 PM
They need to lean into the horror and also scale it down a bit.

Something like a Traveling Dinosaur circus gets overturned near a small community town and the townsfolk need to survive during a blizzard and Dino rampage. Simple.

narrow290
narrow290 - 9/9/2025, 2:44 PM
@MisterBones - that actually sounds legit.
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 9/9/2025, 4:58 PM
@MisterBones - fr. I’d watch the f—k out of that movie. I’m already getting 30 days of night vibes.
SonOfAGif
SonOfAGif - 9/9/2025, 5:11 PM
@MisterBones - Or even a group of Urban Explorers break into an abandoned amusement park but don't know it's now the home of a carnivorous fully grown Dilophosaurus.

Jjudice
Jjudice - 9/9/2025, 1:56 PM
For the love of God, put back Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum as the leads! When the focus was off of them, the franchise really hasn't felt the same...
MCUKnight11
MCUKnight11 - 9/9/2025, 2:07 PM
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Be scary, more new species please.
Usernametaken
Usernametaken - 9/9/2025, 2:35 PM
I do hope Gareth Edwards gets a new shot at directing, this time he came so late into the project that he didn't get to really put his mark on it.

I think he can do much better next time by being there from the start of pre-production.

As for writing though, this series need a fresh take from a new writer.
TrentCrimm
TrentCrimm - 9/9/2025, 2:40 PM
@Usernametaken -

It's hard for directors of big IPs like this regardless is the problem, with a franchise this big, the studio is ALWAYS going to steer the movie to be what they want, that's why we hear so often about directors leaving due to "creative differences". If they want more of something, less of something, or really want any change at all, they'll get it.
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 9/9/2025, 2:36 PM
Whyyyyyyyy!!! Let this shit due! [frick] these dinosaurs
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 9/9/2025, 2:37 PM
@TheJester187 - ^die
Wahhvacado
Wahhvacado - 9/9/2025, 2:40 PM
Getting closer and closer to Tom Cardy's Jurrasic Park song

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TrentCrimm
TrentCrimm - 9/9/2025, 2:55 PM
Reboot it all at this point .

Put it on streaming and give us a faithful adaption of the books over 2-3 seasons.

Imo it's about the only way to make the franchise feel fresh at this point. The JW writers turned the franchise into an absolute mess story wise.
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 9/9/2025, 2:57 PM
Was a huge fan of the original 3, Hated 3 at first but I've since grown hate the second and appreciate what was attempted with 3. Gave up watching these after the first Jurassic World film though. They don't feel at all like the original trilogy, just hope that one day they make the mistake of accidentally hiring a competent for one of these films at some point.
JacobsLadder
JacobsLadder - 9/9/2025, 3:40 PM
That movie was so terrible. how did it make that money? shameful.
eagc1995
eagc1995 - 9/9/2025, 4:07 PM
@JacobsLadder - People like seeing Dinosaurs eat people
SuperiorHeckler
SuperiorHeckler - 9/9/2025, 3:44 PM
Early rumors are that the next one will feature dinosaurs chasing people. 😐
asherman93
asherman93 - 9/9/2025, 3:54 PM
Huh, turns out people like dinosaurs.
Waifuslayer2
Waifuslayer2 - 9/9/2025, 4:11 PM
She's the reason I skipped this one. Guess I'll skip the next one too 😒
SATW42
SATW42 - 9/9/2025, 4:30 PM
I didn't hate the last one, I'm just trying to figure out how Scarlett's character would play into a sequel
LenSpiderman
LenSpiderman - 9/9/2025, 5:00 PM
They made the last one in about a week, so the next one should be out by Christmas, I imagine.

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