《Jurassic World》New film director changed: planned to start filming in 2027

A follow-up film to Jurassic World Resurrection is in the works, with director Gareth Edwards exiting the project.Edwards was expected to continue directing, but ultimately left due to creative differences and shifted his focus to other original projects.Universal Pictures and Amblin Entertainment have begun looking for a replacement. The film is still aiming to start shooting in 2027. The new adventure of the series will redefine the direction after the change of managers.

In its response, Universal affirmed the experience of cooperation between the two parties - Jurassic World: Rebirth - indicating that the breakup did not affect the film studio's evaluation of the production process of the previous film.The director's exit occurred before the sequel was officially shot, and the project still had time to adjust the visual scheme and production plan.After the new director takes over, he needs to quickly adjust with the existing screenwriters, the starring actors who are expected to return, and the long-term production system of the series.

Currently, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali are expected to continue starring.The three of them played covert operations expert Zora Bennett, paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis and Zora's most trusted teammate Duncan Kincaid in "Rebirth".The new combination has already completed an island mission, and the sequel can directly inherit their professional division of labor and mutual trust.

David Cape will continue to serve as screenwriter.He participated in the script creation of the first two Jurassic Park films, and wrote the story for Jurassic World: Rebirth, allowing the new film to maintain a creative continuity even when directors are changed.Cape is familiar with the balance between dinosaur spectacle, scientific ethics and survival adventure, and also understands how the series uses human desire to promote disaster.

《 Jurassic World: Rebirth 》 was released last year and grossed $869 million at the global box office.Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Rupert Friend, Luna Brace, Filipina Velez and David Iacono co-star, with Steven Spielberg serving as executive producer.

The previous story took place five years after the events of Jurassic World 3.Most of the earth's ecological environments are no longer able to sustain dinosaurs for a long time, and the remaining dinosaurs are concentrated in the equatorial region where the climate is close to their heyday.Three of the largest creatures on land, sea and sky carry critical genetic material, and a team is tasked with obtaining DNA samples in the hope of developing drugs that can save human lives.

When Zola led the team on a secret mission, the action accidentally involved a civilian family on a voyage to the sea.When aquatic dinosaurs destroy the ship, the two groups are stranded on an island and discover a secret that has been hidden for decades.The film uses this line to return to the island survival structure, allowing the dinosaurs to continue approaching in a narrow space, and also gradually revealing the true purpose behind the commercial mission.

Gareth Edwards, who previously directed Godzilla, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story and AI Creator, is good at putting giant creatures and characters on the same visual scale.The dinosaur scenes in 《Rebirth》 continue this sense of space and also bring the series back to a relatively straightforward survival adventure.After he exits, whether the new director chooses to retain this style or re-emphasize theme park-style spectacle will directly determine the look of the sequel.

The market performance of "Rebirth" proves that audiences are still willing to go to theaters for the dinosaur story, but the word-of-mouth feedback is obviously divided.Some reviews recognized the film's return to the adventure quality of Jurassic Park in 1993, and believed that the survival sequences were compact and the dinosaur scenes were effective; others believed that the character line was weak and that the series was repeating familiar formulas, and the new monsters and locations did not bring enough breakthroughs.

These differences will become creative pressures that the next director must face.The series has already used elements such as islands, experimental facilities, out-of-control creatures and profit-seeking corporations many times, and continuing to expand the number of dinosaurs will only provide short-term excitement.The new film needs to find clearer personal goals for the three returning characters, and also bring about real changes in the relationship between dinosaurs and the human world.

The goal of starting filming in 2027 leaves Universal with a window to find a director and perfect the script.Large-scale visual effects movies require planning scenes, motion capture, special effects assets, and location shooting in advance. The sooner the director is chosen, the easier it is to maintain a stable production process.If the casting and schedule remain unchanged, Scarlett Johansson and other leading actors will also have to coordinate other projects for the new shooting time.

The official title and release date of this sequel have not yet been announced. The core of what can be confirmed is that the original screenwriter will continue, the three leading actors are expected to return, and the director's seat is vacant.The series has reached a new fork in the road: the characters established in the previous film need to continue to grow, and the audience is also waiting for a surprise beyond repeated escapes.The new director took over not only a mature industrial system, but also a difficult problem of finding freshness for dinosaur movies.