JURASSIC WORLD 4: REBIRTH – Main Trailer (2025) Scarlett Johansson, Chris Pratt | Universal Pictures

While Jurassic World Rebirth aims to reboot the franchise, the upcoming outing is already repeating two of the Jurassic World trilogy’s biggest mistakes. The original Jurassic Park trilogy is far from perfect, and there is one major reason for this. Director Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Michael Crichton’s novel is a self-contained survival horror that didn't necessarily need a sequel, even if the legendary director was convinced to return for 1997’s humdrum follow-up, The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Jurassic Park’s ending ties together the story in narrative and thematic terms and doesn’t leave much room for a follow-up.

As such, the sequels couldn’t focus on a theme park overrun with dinosaurs but rather on rescue missions and asecret second island. In 2015, Jurassic World dodged this problem by focusing on a new, bigger, more successful theme park. Unlike the original movie’s titular attraction, Jurassic World was open to the public. This bigger, sillier take on the original movie’s story wasn’t perfect, but it did recapture Jurassic Park’s structure. However, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and particularly Jurassic World: Dominion’s ending completely derailed this storyline. These sequels set dinosaurs loose in the human world, irrevocably altering the franchise’s premise in the process.