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Jurassic World Rebirth is a 2025 science fiction action thriller directed by Gareth Edwards and written by David Koepp. It is a spin-off sequel of Jurassic World Dominion (2022) and the fourth installment of the Jurassic World series and the seventh in the Jurassic Park series. The cast includes Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey, among others.
In 2027, the planet's climate pushes dinosaurs into equatorial no-go zones, and a pharma CEO recruits ex-operative Zora Bennett and paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis to steal genetic samples from the world's last prehistoric animals. They are hired to bring back samples from the abandoned island of Île Saint-Hubert, which once contained a secret facility and now teems with dinosaurs.
Hand in hand with a tough expedition team, Zora's group is confronted by nature's dangers, mutated creatures, and internal betrayal. With fear escalating and monsters at their doorstep, the team must battle to survive and win in their mission, one which can redefine medicine and redemption indefinitely.
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As Jurassic World Rebirth goes its own way, it tips its hat to the franchise's history with clever references and visual winks to previous movies. From the retro flare stunts to dino-blasted encounters and creatively reimagined set pieces, the movie treats fans to experiences that are both new and old simultaneously.
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The T-Rex attack and 4 other Easter eggs and references in Jurassic World Rebirth
1) The flare returns
In Jurassic Park, chaos theory specialist Ian Malcolm employs a red flare to divert the T-Rex on the hunt and save Lex and Tim Murphy, John Hammond's grandchildren. The act was desperate but not necessarily well-thought-out.
Jurassic World Rebirth acknowledges this scene when Duncan Kincaid employs the same ruse to divert a D-Rex on the rampage.
Although the callback may feel slightly heavy-handed, especially with Duncan miraculously surviving the chase, it is a reminder that only so much can be done to believably distract a hungry dinosaur from its intended target.
As the D-Rex moves in on Zora, Loomis, and the Delgado crew, Duncan fires up the flare and places himself in jeopardy, a desperate attempt out of sorrow and remorse for his son's death. It is his redemption. While it appears to be a sacrifice, Duncan does not perish from it, which returns full circle to the emotional arc of the movie without duplicating Malcolm's close call.
2) Jurassic World Rebirth's dinosaur reveal mirrors Jurassic Park's iconic moment
Rebirth does add some new dinosaur species, but it also pays homage to the original 1993 movie by having fan-favorites such as the T-Rex, Velociraptor, and Dilophosaurus return on screen. Out of the three, only the T-Rex features significantly in the story, while the other two only appear briefly, more as Easter eggs than as significant characters in the plot.
In a direct nod to the wonder of the original, Rebirth also re-captures the wonder of the characters witnessing dinosaurs for the first time. Like Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler were left agog at the appearance of a Brachiosaurus herd in Jurassic Park, Zoora and Loomis are also left equally stunned when witnessing a group of hybrid Titanosauruses, a scene engineered to ride on the same tide of nostalgia-fueled wonder.
3) From Raptors to D-Rex: A deadly opening reimagined
Jurassic Park's opening is perfectly memorable, commencing with a series of events happening that put one in precisely the right frame of mind for what is to come. When Robert Muldoon and his colleagues are trying to transfer a Velociraptor to its holding pen within the park, their prey is clever enough to outwit them and get its talons on the gate-opening staff member.
The clever predator then brutally pulls its victim into its transport vehicle and proceeds to eat him alive. Here, a 17-year flashback in Rebirth illustrates how a discarded candy wrapper leads to a failure in the gate system at the InGen lab. This malfunction allows a mutant D-Rex to break into the research facility, triggering a chaotic and brutal chain of events.
4) Jurassic World Rebirth's spin on the T-Rex attack
The T-Rex attack sequence from Jurassic Park remains one of the most iconic scenes in the franchise and in modern film history. Rebirth references this moment by introducing its own variation. It presents a new scenario with a distinct twist while echoing the original's structure.
When a desperate Delgado family floats down a river on an inflatable raft, one of them is pursued by a T-Rex who tosses the raft, mirroring the chaos and terror as the same happened to its ancestor, who began flipping jeeps after escaping from its enclosure in Jurassic Park. Adding fuel to this is an innocent kid undergoing the entire extent of the trauma, reminiscent of the first movie.
5) Mutadons take flight
As Jurassic World Rebirth hastens towards its action-filled dino duel, a group of Mutadons, a flying hybrid of Pteranodons and Velociraptors, step into the position occupied by the raptors in the original.
Instead of trapping the characters in a visitor center kitchen, however, the Mutadons use an open convenience store as their vantage point for ambushing them. The setting shift gives the scene a fresh but familiar rhythm.
The entire sequence draws from the original, with even the Mutadons chasing them through a network of underground tunnels much like the raptors chased the Jurassic Park heroes through the air ducts in the visitor center.
Jurassic World Rebirth is now playing in theaters, bringing audiences back into a thrilling world of dinosaurs and unexpected surprises as the legacy of the Jurassic Park franchise continues to evolve.
