The first trailer is out for, "Jurassic World: Rebirth." It is the latest movie in what has grown into a big epic continuity of Jurassic Park/World. This latest movie follows the earlier ones while also offering a bit of a clean slate. The dinosaurs that flooded into the rest of our world have retreated to a small number of islands near the Equator (so much for the cool imagery of dinosaurs around the planet) and have mostly been forgotten. However, if a group of scientists and mercenaries can get the blood of three massive dinosaurs it provides medical data or something, I don't know, it sounds silly. There is one aspect I noticed that has some potential, however. Specifically, a hint of body horror.
The Jurassic Park/World franchise has been flailing about for ideas lately. It showed a little weird promise with, "Fallen Kingdom," when it turned into a strange, "Monster in a Mansion," movie for the second half with a genetically altered raptor, but then, "Dominion," was a bit of a slog. The director of this latest flick is Gareth Edwards, however, and he excels at big monsters (he did some Godzilla work) and has done some horror flicks too, so I wonder if some glimpses in the previews of deformed dinosaurs (two-headed raptors, a weird pseudo-T-Rex) hint that this flick could get a little strange, in a good way. I'm all for, "Jurassic World," getting a bit weird as the whole, "Dinosaurs on an island hunt humans," plot point needs some tweaks to stay fresh. Deformed or monstrous dinosaurs stalking humans at least sounds a bit creepy and bizarre.
I don't know how heavily, "Jurassic World: Rebirth," will lean into being horror-styled, but even all the way back in the first, "Jurassic Park," some of the best scenes were the scary ones (I adore the intensity of when Laura Dern is trying to turn on the electricity and gets attacked by Raptors). The idea that the seventh(!) movie in this series could try something new is at least a little encouraging.
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