For more than 30 years, the Jurassic Park franchise has survived extinction-level events of its own. From Steven Spielberg's groundbreaking 1993 original to the billion-dollar Jurassic World trilogy, the series has repeatedly reinvented itself to stay relevant with audiences.
But following the release of Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), the future of the franchise suddenly looks less certain.
While Gareth Edwards' sequel was a major box office success, grossing $869.1 million worldwide, it also proved deeply divisive among fans.
Much of that criticism centered on the film's decision to reverse one of the biggest developments in the entire Jurassic saga: dinosaurs living freely across the globe following Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022).
Instead, Rebirth revealed that most dinosaurs had died out, with surviving populations restricted to isolated equatorial regions. Now, that creative decision has become even more controversial in light of recent comments from screenwriter David Koepp.
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The Future of Jurassic World Is Uncertain
Speaking to Screen Rant, Koepp admitted he isn't sure how to continue the franchise from here, explaining that the challenge now is figuring out how to expand the story “in a logically and in a scientifically believable way.”
“You can't say trilogy. You got to make one good movie. So now what about another good movie? How would we do that?” he said of how to tackle a continuation to the 2025 film.
Then, he admitted that restricting the dinosaurs to an island again has created new challenges in moving forward, saying, “I think that the challenge of Rebirth was the franchises have become very big, very spread out. Let's make the dinosaurs special again by restricting them. So we restricted them to this thing, and then the challenge becomes, okay, now how do we logically and in a scientifically believable way expand? That would be the question. If somebody can answer that, I think you'll have a next movie.”
The comments are particularly striking because Rebirth was marketed as the beginning of “a new Jurassic era.” Yet despite reports suggesting another film could arrive in 2028, Koepp's remarks suggest there may not even be a clear roadmap in place.
Ironically, the writer previously revealed that he abandoned Dominion‘s “dinosaurs around the world” concept because he “didn't have a single idea” where to take it next. Now, after resetting the status quo once again, he appears to be facing a similar problem.
Universal has not officially announced a sequel, and for the moment, the only direct follow-up to Rebirth is the recently released Rebirth Expansion for Jurassic World Evolution 3.
There's no release date for the next Jurassic World film.
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