It’s Super Bowl week, and you know what that means: It’s time for Americans to come together and hate the Kansas City Chiefs, the modern-day Patriots who took the heel status of the Kraft-Belichick-Brady triumvirate and added a hefty dosage of advertising and media omnipresence to the mixture (please, State Farm, find other athletes and coaches), and watch a whole load of TV spots for this summer’s coming attractions. One of the bigger titles is Jurassic World Rebirth, which adds even more star wattage — Scarlett Johansson and Mahershala Ali — and puts Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, The Creator) in the director’s chair. Universal dropped the whole damn trailer online on Wednesday, and it’s… very quippy! Seriously. Tons of jokes in this one.
Peep it:
Get ready for a truly colossal synopsis:
“A new era is born. This summer, three years after the ‘Jurassic World’ trilogy concluded with each film surpassing $1 billion at the global box office, the enduring ‘Jurassic’ series evolves in an ingenious new direction with ‘Jurassic World Rebirth.’
Anchored by iconic action superstar Scarlett Johansson, Emmy and SAG nominee Jonathan Bailey and two-time Oscar winner Mahershala Ali, this action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park, inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind.
Also starring acclaimed international stars Rupert Friend and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, the film is directed by dynamic visualist Gareth Edwards (‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’) from a script by original ‘Jurassic Park’ screenwriter David Koepp.
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 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.”
Jurassic World Rebirth (man, it’s weird they abandoned the colon in these titles) will arrive in theaters on July 2.