“Jurassic World: Rebirth” Recreates Novel Scene

Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” is considered one of the most successful novel-to-film adaptations of all time, resulting in a widely beloved movie that was well-received critically and a major commercial success. But as adaptations go it’s not hugely faithful to Michael Crichton’s acclaimed original novel which skewed darker and leant more into the horror. Whole […] The post “Jurassic World: Rebirth” Recreates Novel Scene appeared first on Dark Horizons.

Feb 5, 2025 - 04:02

“Jurassic World: Rebirth” Recreates Novel Scene

Steven Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park” is considered one of the most successful novel-to-film adaptations of all time, resulting in a widely beloved movie that was well-received critically and a major commercial success.

But as adaptations go it’s not hugely faithful to Michael Crichton’s acclaimed original novel which skewed darker and leant more into the horror. Whole sequences from the book weren’t adapted for the movie, but versions of them did pop up later such as the waterfall scene in “The Lost World” and the aviary scene in “Jurassic Park III”.

One big scene that was originally planned for the first film was a scene where the characters attempt to drift through a lagoon in a raft without waking a T-Rex – they don’t succeed and soon it starts chasing them in the water. The sequence was cut early in production, but it turns out it’s making a comeback for the new “Jurassic World: Rebirth”.

Vanity Fair has done a feature piece on the new film with producer Frank Marshall confirming the inclusion of that scene (albeit with this film’s characters).

David Koepp, who penned the original “Jurassic Park,” returns here and Marshall says ‘Rebirth’ is built on leaning into the tone of the original book and the original film’s darker side – bringing back the Spielbergian horror elements that seem to have been entirely forgotten in the last few films.

The story follows members of a recovery team who venture to an island near the equator that was once home to the first research lab of Jurassic Park. Their aim? To retrieve genetic material from three different dinosaurs in the aid of a cure for heart disease. Three decades later though, mistakes at that ruined facility have not gone away, they’ve endured – dinosaurs that ‘didn’t work,’ including some mutations.

The film will reportedly draw comparisons to “Jaws,” “Indiana Jones” and “Jurassic Park” according to director Gareth Edwards, while the film will boast a core trio similiar to “Jaws” with Scarlett Johansson as the Roy Scheider one, Jonathan Bailey as the Richard Dreyfuss one and Mahershala Ali as the Robert Shaw one.

Head over to Vanity Fair for the full report. “Jurassic World: Rebirth” will release its first trailer tomorrow with a spot also coming this Sunday on the Super Bowl.