Credit: Inside the MagicSpeculation around the next Jurassic film is gaining traction following a new rumor that Universal is preparing to announce a sequel to last year’s Jurassic World Rebirth (2025).
Jurassic World Rebirth Was One Big Pile of Dino Poop
Directed by Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story), the seventh installment in the long-running series marked the beginning of “a new Jurassic era” by severing ties with the World trilogy and introducing an all-new cast led by Scarlett Johansson (Avengers: Endgame) and Jonathan Bailey (Wicked). The film also drops the dinosaurs-gone-global concept and takes place on a third InGen island named Ile Saint-Hubert, where mutant dinosaurs like the Distortus Rex and the Mutadons have long been left to their own devices.
Commercially, Rebirth was a success, grossing $869.1 million worldwide, which all but guaranteed another film. Creatively, however, it is bankrupt. Not only does this bare-bones “mission” movie involve a group of two-dimensional characters on yet another island, the fact that it resorted to mutant dinosaurs of all things when the first two Jurassic World films swiftly exhausted hybrid dinosaurs, is proof alone this series is now running on fumes.
A New Jurassic World Sequel Is Reportedly Underway
According to the reports, Edwards and Johansson are in negotiations to return for the next film. While Universal hasn’t announced anything whatsoever, a new report from industry insider Daniel Richtman (@DanielRPK) claims a sequel is being lined up for a production start in the fall, with a potential July 2028 release window.
There are also reports that an official reveal of some kind at CinemaCon (running from today, April 13, through April 16, 2026) is likely. Either way, another film is inevitable, and given the success of all four previouis World films, it will probably fall under that banner again as opposed to Park, which is now in the rearview where the big screen is concerned.
What Will It Be About?
The real question on everyone’s mind is where things can go from here. We’ve seen everything from the re-opening of the park to dino-hybrids, trained raptors to global threats, and, most recently, actual mutant dinosaurs. What next? Ice Age beasts would certainly breathe some fresh air into the franchise. Or maybe the next film will drop oxygen altogether and take things into outer space. But there is the most obvious route: human-dino hybrids.
Related: How ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Sets Up Human-Dino Hybrids in Upcoming Sequel
Human-Dino Hybrids Will Happen (They Already Have)
Long-time Jurassic fans will remember the human-dinosaur hybrid concept from an early draft for Jurassic Park 4, written in the early 2000s. That script featured militarized human-raptor hybrids, a pitch so bizarre it was swiftly abandoned. Eventually, Jurassic Park 4 became Jurassic World (2015), which obviously didn’t feature dino-human hybrids.
With that said, it did feature trained raptors and dinosaur-hybrids. At first glance, you might not have noticed that its sequel, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018), even introduced a human-dino hybrid into the mix. In other words, this franchise is no stranger to salvaging unused material. To quote The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), “something has survived.”
Fallen Kingdom Features a Human-Dino Hybrid
In the 2018 sequel, the deadly Indoraptor is revealed to be made from “the two most dangerous creatures that ever walked the Earth”. From this, many fans surmised that it’s a mix of both the Indominus Rex from the 2015 film and a Velociraptor. While the former is confirmed, the latter isn’t.
Not only that, but the “half-raptor” scenario makes no sense, because the Indominus is already revealed to be part-raptor in 2015’s Jurassic World. The Indoraptor is only so-named because it is basically a scaled-down and more refined version of the Indominus Rex.
So, what’s the second most dangerous species on the planet? Humans, of course. And this couldn’t be truer than in the Jurassic franchise, where man is always the root cause of chaos.
While this remains unconfirmed, there are many clues throughout Fallen Kingdom that suggest the Indoraptor is half-human, from visual references to classic horrors such as Wolf Man, Frankenstein, and Nosferatu (all of which feature a half-man, half-beast, get it?) to many parallels between the dinosaur and human clone Maisie Lockwood (Isabella Sermon).
How Rebirth 2 Could Officially Introduce Them
Moving back to Jurassic World Rebirth, that film also perfectly sets the stage for half-man, half-dinos. The film’s closing sequence sees Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), her teammate Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), and paleontologist Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), escaping Ile Saint-Hubert with the Delgado family and a baby Aquilops.
However, the Aquilops (nicknamed Dolores) is a mutant dinosaur like all the others that inhabit InGen’s third island. Could she unleash a virus upon the human race that transforms people into hybrid creatures? And if not her, then perhaps the DNA linked to a cure for heart disease Zora and Loomis now possess, which is also derived from mutant dinosaurs?
Once a truly bizarre concept no fan ever thought would see the light of day, it’s fair to say that the human-dino hybrid concept now feels as inevitable as another Jurassic World film.
Jurassic World Rebirth Is Now Streaming
Jurassic World Rebirth is now available to stream across all major platforms.
The film stars Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer), Rupert Friend (Obi-Wan Kenobi), Mahershala Ali (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).
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