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Jurassic World Rebirth: How JAWS Influenced The Boat Scene

Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards says he was thinking about an iconic Steven Spielberg movie while setting up the boat attack.

Steven Spielberg has created some of the most iconic moments in blockbuster filmmaking ever. So anytime one of the projects he helped spearhead takes on new life, people are always trying to capture the magic Spielberg managed to capture that first time we saw the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park or when E.T. took flight. Spielberg's influence can be felt throughout all of blockbuster filmmaking, not that Jurassic World Rebirth wants to. This film isn't just a love letter to Jurassic Park; on some level, it's also a love letter to Spielberg himself. For director Gareth Edwards, it was the scene involving the Mosasaur and several Spinosauruses attacking the boat, and as he explained to Empire, only one movie came to mind while setting up the shot: Jaws.

"You can't put a fin in the water and have it be a threat to people on a boat without thinking of a particular film," Edwards said. "And I would feel really guilty about this, except for the fact that the screenplay was given to me by Steven Spielberg."

For Edwards, working with Spielberg in this way on Jurassic World Rebirth was another entry in a list of surreal moments he can't believe have happened in his career. Edwards said, "The only thing I can compare it to is having to show George Lucas around the set of a Star Wars film. I definitely believe I am in the Matrix and I chose 'film director' as my simulation, because this shouldn't really happen!" We know he had Jaws on his mind while filming the boat scene, so you have to wonder if we'll be able to see other touches from Spielberg's other films as well.

Jurassic World Rebirth: Summary, Cast List, Release Date

A new era is born.

Next summer, three years after the Jurassic World trilogy concluded, with each film surpassing $1 billion at the global box office, the enduring Jurassic series evolves in an ingenious new direction with Jurassic World Rebirth.

Anchored by iconic action superstar Scarlett Johansson, breakthrough talent Jonathan Bailey and two-time Oscar^® winner Mahershala Ali, this action-packed new chapter sees an intrepid team racing to secure DNA samples from the three most colossal creatures across land, sea and air. Also starring acclaimed international stars Rupert Friend and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, the film is directed by dynamic visualist Gareth Edwards (Rogue One: A Star Wars Story) from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp.

Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, the planet's ecology has proven largely inhospitable to dinosaurs. Those remaining exist in isolated equatorial environments with climates resembling the one in which they once thrived. The three most colossal creatures within that tropical biosphere hold the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.

Academy Award^® nominee Johansson plays skilled covert operations expert Zora Bennett, contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized by marauding aquatic dinos, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.

Ali is Duncan Kincaid, Zora's most trusted team leader; Emmy nominee and Olivier Award winner Jonathan Bailey (Wicked, Bridgerton) plays paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis; Emmy nominee Rupert Friend (Homeland, Obi-Wan Kenobi) appears as Big Pharma representative Martin Krebs and Manuel Garcia-Rulfo (The Lincoln Lawyer, Murder on the Orient Express) plays Reuben Delgado, the father of the shipwrecked civilian family.

The cast includes Luna Blaise (Manifest), David Iacono (The Summer I Turned Pretty) and Audrina Miranda (Lopez vs. Lopez) as Reuben's family. The film also features, as members of Zora and Krebs' crews, Philippine Velge (Station Eleven), Bechir Sylvain (BMF) and Ed Skrein (Deadpool).

Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by BAFTA winner Edwards from a script by Koepp (War of the Worlds), based on characters created by Michael Crichton. The film is produced by Oscar^® nominee Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, both longtime Jurassic franchise producers and of this summer's blockbuster, Twisters. The film is executive produced by Steven Spielberg, Denis L. Stewart and Jim Spencer. Jurassic World Rebirth will be released in theaters on July 2, 2025.

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