{"id":1115956,"date":"2026-01-30T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=519214"},"modified":"2026-01-30T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T14:39:24","slug":"jurassic-world-rebirth-gives-us-the-tomb-raider-dinosaurs-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/jurassic-world-rebirth-gives-us-the-tomb-raider-dinosaurs-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic World Rebirth gives us the Tomb Raider dinosaurs movie"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Could you picture Scarlett Johansson as Lara Croft fighting the Tyrannosaurus rex<\/em> from the original Tomb Raider<\/em>? Good news: Jurassic World Rebirth<\/em> is for you, if the movie\u2019s first trailer is any indication.<\/p>\n

Both a proper sequel in the Jurassic Park\/World continuity and a reboot away from the overstuffed locust-filled direction of 2022\u2019s Jurassic World Dominion<\/a>, Rebirth<\/em> jumps ahead five years with a new cast, a shuffled set of talent behind the camera, and a scaled-down vision for what a Jurassic movie could be. According to the official synopsis, Earth\u2019s ecology has \u201cproven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs\u201d \u2014 convenient! \u2014 and the surviving creatures have populated areas around the equator. And it turns out \u2014 convenient! \u2014 three of the most gargantuan beasties possess dino DNA that could create a miracle drug for humans. So a bunch of knuckleheads have to return to where it all began.<\/p>\n

Johansson leads the new cast as \u201ccovert operations expert Zora Bennett,\u201d who seems defined by wearing sunglasses, shooting guns, and always being primed for adventure. The jungle setting imbues with her with greater Lara Croft energy. This is not a complaint. Lara Croft should fight dinosaurs in movies.<\/p>\n

Joining Johansson in the film is Jonathan Bailey (Wicked<\/em>) as paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi<\/em>) as pharmaceutical magnate Martin Krebs; and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer<\/em>) as Reuben Delgado, a father whose family has been shipwrecked on the island full of dinosaurs. Inconvenient!<\/p>\n

The trailer shows off a very classic take on Jurassic Park, from tropical vistas to rampaging dinosaurs of every breed. The movie comes from Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story<\/em>), who knows how to go big, with a script by original Jurassic Park<\/em> screenwriter David Koepp, who has promised<\/a> that scenes from Michael Crichton\u2019s original novel that were cut from Steven Spielberg\u2019s first film have found a way into this sequel (crossing fingers for the river raft sequence<\/a>). Let\u2019s just hope it\u2019s half as good as this:<\/p>\n

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