This Franchise Just Grew Teeth—And the Popcorn’s Pregnant Now
Jurassic World Rebirth just dropped its new trailer—and fans are already trying to decide if they’re watching a sequel, a reboot, or a dinosaur fever dream. The good news? It’s better than the last trailer. The weird news? There’s a popcorn bucket shaped like a dinosaur embryo incubator and it’s giving off Alien energy. Regal is calling it the “Incubate Dual Container.” Twitter is calling it “cursed.”
The Trailer That Changed the Stakes (And the Species)
Gareth Edwards (Rogue One, The Creator) has officially taken the wheel, and it shows. Gone are the nostalgic callbacks and legacy cameos. In their place? ScarJo, Mahershala Ali, Jonathan Bailey—and something that looks like a Komodo dragon had a very bad night in a CRISPR lab.
Edwards isn’t just redirecting traffic—he’s rebuilding the road. Set five years after Dominion, Rebirth introduces a “semi-reboot” scenario: new characters, new dinosaurs, and a subtle genre shift from action-adventure to survival horror. Think The Lost World meets The Thing—with a budget big enough to buy an actual island.
Insane Detail: The new trailer reveals mutated dinosaur rejects. We’re not saying they’re sentient, but they definitely look like they’ve got a grudge.
Savage Comparison: It’s Jurassic Park by way of Frankenstein—if Frankenstein had a CGI budget and branding deals with Regal.
Mutation as Metaphor? Or Just Cool Monsters?
Here’s the thing no one’s saying out loud: Universal might be trying to do what The Batman did—scrap the canon, keep the IP, go darker. And Edwards, known for blending scale with humanity, might just be the guy to pull it off. A return to tension. To awe. To teeth-in-the-dark storytelling.
David Koepp—yes, the same guy who wrote the original Jurassic Park script—is back, which raises the stakes. And so is producer Frank Marshall, who’s been here since dino-day one. This isn’t a clean slate. It’s a selective extinction. Nostalgia’s been culled. What’s left is leaner. Meaner. Maybe smarter.
Even the damn popcorn bucket’s evolved. It’s not just a merch gimmick—it’s a mission statement. This franchise doesn’t want to be cute anymore. It wants to be creepy.
Would You Eat Out of a Baby Dino Tube? No Judgment (Lies—Lots of Judgment)
This trailer might not win back everyone burned by Dominion, but it’s not playing it safe either. Which is, ironically, the safest move right now. When Jurassic World: Rebirth stomps into theaters this July, it’ll be flanked by Superman and Fantastic Four. But only one of those movies has a bucket that looks like a prehistoric birthing chamber.
Genius or garbage? Fight in the comments.
