Screenwriter David Koepp, who co-wrote the original "Jurassic Park," talks EW through pulling from lost material.

Director Gareth Edwards on set with a large camera rig for Jurassic World Rebirth (2025). By the end of 2024, Edwards had started post production on Rebirth with his long-time editor Jabez Olssen. Asked what it was like to get a notes call from Spielberg,

David Koepp - screenwriter of the original 'Jurassic Park' - returns decades later with a new film that strives to return the franchise to its scary thrill-ride roots, and to be less, well, goofy: "I wanted to make dinosaurs special again.

While far from an uneven franchise’s worst, “Jurassic World Rebirth” has a peculiar sense of pacing and a grim endurance-test tone.

I don’t think I’d be surprising anyone who knows me by saying that I’m a Jurassic franchise superfan. I’m even someone who enthusiastically enjoyed both of the previous sequels to Jurassic World. But I can agree with everyone that 1993’s Jurassic Park is the high bar of the series,