Jurassic World Rebirth Revives Long-Lost Jurassic Park 3 Plot Twist!

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In simpler terms, the concept behind “Jurassic World Rebirth” isn’t merely a catchphrase from the 2001 movie “Jurassic Park III”. Instead, it reflects the idea that only a tiny fraction of all species that ever lived on Earth still exist today. On the island where dinosaurs have survived for nearly two decades, Dr. Henry Loomis (played by Jonathan Bailey) points out that survival is rare, even in the unique oxygen-rich tropical climate of the research and development complex from the original Jurassic Park. This island is home to over two dozen species of dinosaurs, while many others have gone extinct in the five years since the events depicted in “Jurassic World Dominion” (2022).

In the story called “Rebirth”, Loomis was previously a postdoc under Dr. Alan Grant, a paleontologist who had a fear of children and was featured in the movies “Jurassic Park” (1993) and “Jurassic Park III” (2001), as well as the upcoming “Dominion”. Loomis now works as an advisor for Parker-Genix, a pharmaceutical engineering firm, where he assists in research on paleo-coronary health. Under the guidance of Martin Krebs, Parker-Genix is working on a new drug, Paleo-Dioxin, which Krebs claims could delay coronary disease by approximately 20 years and potentially eliminate heart disease altogether.

The team of scientists from Parker-Genix labs needs samples from living dinosaurs, so they hire Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) to assemble a group and collect DNA from three distinct types of dinosaurs: sea (Mosasaurus), land (Titanosaurus), and air (Quetzalcoatlus). While traveling to the island on Duncan Kincaid’s boat (Mahershala Ali), Bennett’s team encounters a distress signal coming from a sailboat overturned by a Mosasaur in the waters teeming with Spinosaurus near the island, turning their covert operation into a rescue mission.

The stranded Delgado family – father Ruben (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), teenage daughter Teresa (Luna Blaise), her boyfriend Xavier (David Iacono), and youngest daughter Isabella (Audrina Miranda) – are rescued from their shipwreck, only to find themselves embarking on a dangerous journey through a dinosaur-filled jungle. The jungle is inhabited by not just ordinary dinosaurs, but also genetically-engineered hybrid monstrous dinosaurs. To reach a village complex, they must endure this perilous trek as the mercenaries carry out their mission.

This idea bears resemblance to an unrealized screenplay for Jurassic Park III by Craig Rosenberg (The Boys), where a band of teenagers find themselves stranded on Isla Sorna, also known as InGen’s Site B, the very location chosen for Joe Johnston’s direction in the third installment.

In a 2001 interview with About (archived), Johnston shared that there were not one but two additional drafts of this tale. Specifically, they had penned, visualized, planned, and ultimately discarded not just one, but two complete versions of Jurassic Park III. Interestingly, only five weeks before filming began on the movie, they tossed out the script and started anew.

In 1999, two years following the release of Steven Spielberg’s sequel to Jurassic Park, titled The Lost World: Jurassic Park in 1997, Rosenberg penned a screenplay in June of that year. This screenplay featured a group of around five or six teenagers who found themselves stranded on the island. Johnston mentioned that although the script was not poorly written, it didn’t generate much enthusiasm, as he put it, “it was discouraging, despite not being a badly written script.

He went on to say, “It turned out alright given the circumstances, but I’m sure nobody was eager to watch that film. Interestingly, there was another project in the pipeline, one that had been storyboarded, scheduled, budgeted, and even locations were scouted for it. We even began building sets for some parts of it.

He explained that an alternative scenario shared some resemblance, but it wasn’t centered around a rescue. Instead, it delved into the story of Grant and his assistant Billy (played by Alessandro Nivola). In this version, they unintentionally crash-land on an island with a family and their child.

In a related plotline, there was an incident in Costa Rica involving dinosaurs reaching the mainland and causing havoc by attacking people. At first, they didn’t understand who, what, or why it was happening. Johnston later disclosed that the winged creatures responsible were Pteranodons.

In the first two Jurassic Park movies, Steven Spielberg intended to include flying carnivores, specifically Pteranodons, but they only had a significant role in Jurassic Park III. The Spinosaurus, another main dinosaur of the series, shared the screen with the Pteranodons in that film. Interestingly, the Kronosaurus, a marine reptile initially planned for an underwater scene in Jurassic Park III, was also left out. This water-dwelling dinosaur was also removed from 2015’s Jurassic World and replaced by the Mosasaurus. However, both the Spinosaurus and Mosasaurus will appear together again in the upcoming Jurassic World: Rebirth.

2001 saw Johnston revealing Steven Spielberg’s initial concept for the third “Jurassic Park” film to Movieline magazine. He shared, “Spielberg proposed that Dr. Alan Grant would be found living on the island. He had secretly returned after being barred from studying the dinosaurs, now surviving much like Robinson Crusoe. However, I struggled to envision this character wanting to return to an island with dinosaurs following the events of the first movie.

Eventually, the movie Jurassic Park III brought Neill’s character Alan Grant back to the island when the Kirbys (William H. Macy and Téa Leoni) hired an airplane for a flight over Isla Sorna, with Grant serving as their highly-compensated guide. However, upon landing on the island, it was revealed that the Kirbys were not just sightseeing; they were embarking on a rescue mission to find their lost son, 12-year-old Eric (Trevor Morgan), who had gone missing while parasailing off the coast eight weeks prior.

In Jurassic World Rebirth, it was David Koepp, known for his work on Jurassic Park and The Lost World: Jurassic Park, who initially proposed that Jurassic Park III should revolve around a rescue mission to save a stranded survivor on the island. This idea persisted throughout the screenplay’s development despite changes in the script.

Johnston shared that while each story was unique, Steven played a significant role in their creation. When David Koepp proposed the final rescue mission idea, everyone, including Steven, wholeheartedly agreed it was superior and decided unanimously to discard previous work and start anew.

Jurassic World Rebirth is now playing only in theaters.

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2025-07-07 05:40