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Credit: Inside the MagicThe Jurassic Park films have steadily escalated their spectacle, with each new entry asking audiences to suspend their disbelief even further. While Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 blockbuster was grounded in a believable reality — a key reason why it’s so great — subsequent films have increasingly pushed those boundaries into unbelievable territory.
The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) unleashed a T. rex into San Diego. It’s no longer the most egregious development in the series, but it did seem to set the stage for even weirder things to come, such as Jurassic Park III (2001) introducing the ferocious Spinosaurus and toying with surreal elements like a dream sequence involving a talking raptor.
Jurassic World Was Weird From the Get-go
The Jurassic World era ventured even further into crazy territory. Colin Trevorrow’s 2015 film of the same name introduced the franchise’s first dinosaur hybrid, the Indominus Rex, and even gave us a dino royal rumble, pitting the genetically engineered monster against the T. rex, Blue the raptor, and a Mosasaurus (the only thing missing was a commentator).
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), directed by JA Bayona, unapologetically added a laser-guided hybrid known as the Indoraptor, as well as a human clone, Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon). And Jurassic World Dominion (2022), which saw Colin Trevorrow return to close out the trilogy, spread dinosaurs across the planet while also unleashing a horde of giant, prehistoric super-locusts that threatened to end all life on earth as we know it.
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Mutant Dinosaurs Were a Step Too Far
This brings us to the newest installment, Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), which was released in theaters this summer and grossed over $860 million worldwide.
Directed by Gareth Edwards, the seventh film in the series introduced mutant dinosaurs like the Distortus Rex (a malformed Tyrannosaur) and winged raptors called the Mutadons, making a franchise that had already experimented with hybrids and human clones suddenly feel very ridiculous.
Now, reports suggest that Jurassic World Rebirth 2 is in development, with negotiations underway to bring back the original director and cast. That’s all the information we have, but could the next installment push the franchise into entirely new territory?
What about the infamous human-dino hybrids concept? Or, perhaps it’s time the series took a much-needed break from dinosaurs and introduced Ice Age creatures. But knowing screenwriter David Koepp, we’re probably going to see dinosaurs actually head into space.
Jurassic 8 Will Be the Most Bizarre Entry Yet
The trajectory of the Jurassic Park series so far makes one thing clear: whatever the next film holds, it will more than likely raise the bar for spectacle once again.
Each installment has leaned into bigger threats and more outlandish scenarios, and so there’s no reason to think that Rebirth 2 won’t continue that trend.
Jurassic World Rebirth stars Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Endgame), Jonathan Bailey (Bridgerton), Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer), Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Mahershala Ali (The Green Book), Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (Dead Boy Detectives), Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs Lopez), Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF), and Ed Skrein (Deadpool).
How would you feel about seeing human-dino hybrids or Ice Age beasts in the Jurassic franchise? Or maybe even dinosaurs in space? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below!