Written by Brian Gallagher Dailymail.com
01:48 06 February 2024, 02:08 02 Updated February 2024
Universal Pictures is moving into the next Jurassic era, with a new reboot of Jurassic World scheduled for July 2, 2025.
According to Deadline, the studio had previously claimed the rights to an “event film” to this date, which will be the latest project.
The currently untitled film has no other films released on that day, but it is scheduled to be released nine days earlier than Warner Bros. ” Superman: Legacy.
The new Jurassic project was first reported two weeks ago and will be written by David Leitch (Atomic Blonde) from a screenplay by David Koepp, who wrote the original 1993 Jurassic Park film directed by Steven Spielberg. ) was to be supervised.
Plot details are being kept under wraps, but the project will focus on a “new Jurassic era” and will not feature actors from the previous six movies.
Steven Spielberg, director of the original Jurassic Park, will serve as executive producer.
Kennedy Marshall’s Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley will also produce through 87North, along with Leach and Kelly McCormick.
The original Jurassic Park, directed by Cope and adapted from Michael Crichton’s 1990 novel of the same name, became one of the biggest blockbusters of all time.
It grossed $357 million domestically and $978 million worldwide, dethroning E.T. as the highest-grossing film of all time.
However, that record only stood for four years, with Titanic becoming the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide, a feat that Jurassic Park almost achieved.
The huge success led to the 1997 sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park, which still did well but failed to recapture the success of the original.
It grossed $229 million domestically and $618.6 million worldwide, but Steven Spielberg did not return to direct the third film, 2001’s Jurassic Park III, and Joe Johnston was cast as director. took over as director, and grossed only $181 million domestically and $384.1 million worldwide.
The series lay dormant for 14 years until director Colin Trevorrow renewed it with 2015’s Jurassic World, which returned the series to its previous box office heights.
It grossed an astonishing $653 million domestically and $1.67 billion worldwide, creating a new trilogy.
2018’s Jurassic World stumbled a bit, but still managed to gross $417 million domestically and $1.31 billion worldwide.
The previous film, 2022’s Jurassic World: Dominion, earned about half of Jurassic World’s domestic box office revenue ($376 million), but its worldwide box office revenue was still just over $1 billion. was.
It is currently unknown when production or casting will begin on this new Jurassic reboot project.
