Scarlett Johansson is in talks to star in the newest film in the Jurassic World franchise as it prepares for a 2025 release date.
Two years after the last film in the acclaimed dinosaur franchise, Jurassic World: Dominion, was heavily criticized and intended to draw the curtain on the franchise, Universal Pictures is developing a new film with David Koepp, 60, writing the new script. and Gareth Edwards, 48, directing.
Johansson, 39, Oscar nominee, will lead film reports THRmarking her return to franchises after starring as Black Widow in the Marvel films.
Universal is said to be “moving quickly” on the film, which has a July 2, 2025 release date.
Koepp adapted the original 1993 film Jurassic Park and its 1997 sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park from Michael Crichton’s best-selling novels.
Scarlett Johansson is in talks to star in the newest film in the Jurassic World franchise as it prepares for a 2025 release date.
The original Jurassic Park films featured Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, while the Jurassic World trilogy starred Chris Pratt (pictured) and Bryce Dallas Howard.
However, he did not return for 2001’s Jurassic Park III or the franchise’s new films Jurassic World (2015), Fallen Kingdom (2018), and Dominion (2022).
The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the film’s script is in “good shape” and the studio speculates that it could have a 2025 release date.
Jurassic World trilogy producer Frank Marshall will once again produce alongside Patrick Crowley.
Jurassic Park and The Lost World director Steven Spielberg will executive produce through his company Amblin Entertainment.
Sources tell the publication that the film will launch a ‘new Jurassic era’ with a new story.
The original Jurassic Park films starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, while the Jurassic World trilogy starred Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.
Film critics criticized Dominion, saying it was too packed with characters and action sequences to forget about the dinosaurs that made it a hit.
Dominion followed the events of the past 30 years, with dinosaurs roaming free across the world while a biotech company releases genetically altered locusts that destroy the planet’s crops.
A new Jurassic World movie is in the works from Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp (pictured as Sam Neill and Ariana Richards in 1993’s Jurassic Park).
Two years after the last film in the acclaimed dinosaur franchise, Jurassic World: Dominion, was heavily criticized and intended to draw the curtain on the franchise, Universal Pictures is developing a new film with Koepp, 60, writing the new script. .
Koepp adapted the original 1993 film Jurassic Park and its 1997 sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park from the best-selling novels by Michael Crichton (pictured last week).
He brought in the original stars of Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park movie, Dern, Neill and Goldblum, to investigate the dying plants, while new stars Pratt and Dallas Howard travel around the world to save 14-year-old Maisie Lockwood, a genetic clone of a Scientist whose DNA was altered to eliminate cancer.
Of course, all the stars team up at some point in the film to fight biotech giant BioSyn, led by Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos as Dr. Lewis Dodgson, who vowed to keep the world’s dinosaurs safe in his camp. multimillionaire.
“It’s not so much a movie as it is an extinction-level event for the franchise,” writes David Fear for Rolling Stone“one in which the last remnants of goodwill and investment in this particular intellectual property become extinct, like so many unfortunate stegosaurs.”
As Justin Chang writes for the Los Angeles Times: “You’ll spend much of the film’s 147-minute running time watching seven or eight co-stars running around another mad scientist’s dinosaur farm, where bioethical boundaries are crossed once again and safety measures are once again doomed to fail. “.
Stephanie Zacharek also described for Time Magazine how “there’s so much plot, so many characters, so much Chris Pratt, that the dinosaurs end up taking a backseat” and are “the underdog underdogs of their own movie,” while Johnny Oleksinski writes for New York Post that the “horrible movie is longer than the Cretaceous Period.”
Jurassic Park was Hollywood’s highest-grossing film since its release in 1993. It was in theaters for almost 500 days and grossed a total of $912 million worldwide.
At the end, he writes, “The sound you hear in the theater during Dominion is not the shocked gasps of the original Jurassic Park classic, but mocking giggles,” while Zacharek described the sound as “millions of discontented, dead dinosaurs rolling around in their fossilized tombs.
Jurassic Park was Hollywood’s highest-grossing film since its release in 1993.
It ran in theaters for nearly 500 days and grossed a total of $912 million worldwide, captivating audiences around the world and launching the modern hit franchise.
