Jurassic World Rebirth Trailer Reaction

Are you as excited as me that a new Jurassic film is out this summer? Directed by Gareth Edwards, from a script by original Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, and stuffed full with amazing actors - there’s no better time to go back to where it all began. 

This is a mini episode going over the first trailer for the film and my initial thoughts. 

From the 9th April episodes will be dropping weekly starting with a deep dive of the original Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton so get reading now!!

If you want to be involved follow me @roadtorebirthpod on Instagram where I will posting book and film discussions and email me roadtorebirthpod@gmail.com if you have any topics that would be good to cover. 

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Transcript

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Hello and welcome to the first episode, mini episode of Road to Rebirth. My name's Roland, and for the past 10 years I've been running a YouTube channel where I look at the 501 must-see movies. I love films. I love dissecting them. I love reading about them. And the thing that set me off on this journey many years ago, the film that first made me realize what a film is, that it was constructed and the magic involved in making a film, it's Jurassic Park. I'm in my late 30s now, so I experienced Jurassic Park as at a very formative age. And so I've kind of grown up with those films and dinosaur films. And now we're entering a new era, as the trailer says. And for the first time in probably about 10 years, I'm really very, very excited to be a Jurassic Park fan. So on this first episode, I just thought I'd go through the trailer, give my first thoughts, including that variety piece that came out just before the trailer dropped, and kind of think about why there was quite so much information in it. Um so anyway, here we go. I'm gonna start the trailer and just give you my thoughts as we as we run through it.

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Dr.

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Henry Loomis, this is Zora Bennett, our mission specialist.

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So first off, we're introduced to that iconic scene from the end of the original Jurassic Park with the with the banner coming down. And for me, this this trailer is setting its stall. That's what trailers do. They're uh not specifically for the die hard Jurassic Park fans. There's there's stuff in there for us, but this is for the wider movie going public, and we're now in the seventh film, so why would we be interested in going to see um another Jurassic Park film? Well, the first shot is obviously calling back to that film, but it it lends itself to a different um idea that this film is actually packing away the stuff that you might have seen in the last three films and and maybe even the last six films. I think this trailer is all about saying we've got new things to say here.

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Dr.

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Henry Loomis, this is Zora Bennett.

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Um, introduced to Scarlet Your House who I can't I can't believe that this is the cast of medical breakfast. From Chicago. She comes from the largest planet. Oh my god. Jonathan Bailey there, fantastic. Longrass, David Kepp back as the original writer from Jurassic Park and The Lost World. And of course, there's a Longrass uh sequence in the trailer here. Jonathan Bailey in uh Dr. Grant's uh check shirt from Jurassic Park 3 and bag there. Fortunately for us And then we get our first shot of the Titanosaurs, and immediately the designs are are very different to what we've had in previous Jurassic Park films. They're just there's something organic about them, but and also fantasy, sci-fi, we're leaning into more of those territories now, I think, to the the Jurassic World films whereas they re-energise the franchise, definitely Jurassic World when that first came out was just so huge, and just the excitement for that film was was massive and slightly unexpected as well, um to be honest. But it's a franchise that people love, and um those films uh they were a bit uh clean, um that uh uh they just didn't have uh the aesthetic of obviously a 90s um film, and that kind of put me off, particularly as we went on to uh Jurassic World Dominion, which you know that was a troubled production, but it kind of looked like it was all uh shot in a computer, made in a computer. It just didn't have any uh didn't have any edge, didn't have any excitement, any beauty in the in the frame really for me at all. But this this shot is fantastic, and again, we're back to that Spielbergian perspective, you know, giving these animals their due um size and scale. It's fantastic. Plus, I will also mention that tail, that whipping tail, um, is very Gareth Edwards. Um he loves a tentacle, he loves anything monstrous that can, you know, fluidly move. And uh you'll see the designs of these animals. They they feel very organic and pulpy and fleshy, uh real, but also slightly dangerous, which again I love, anyway.

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All these species exist in one isolated place. Can you be ready tomorrow?

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I can guarantee your safety.

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More or less you've got to 12 in the spot. Why is that? Now, this is an interesting shot. The kind of danger, 10,000 volts. I think this is some sort of amber mine. It looks like a mining facility. Um, that's me going into full cannon mode and thinking about this in terms of what we've seen so far. This whole trailer is is also giving me vibes from the new Netflix series, which is a chaos theory, and I'm excited that that seemingly is influencing the series going forward.

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No one's dumb enough to go where we're going.

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This island was the research facility for the original Jurassic Park. Now, here we go. We've got uh a bit from Zora saying that this is the original facility, research facility for the original Jurassic Park. So we're on a new island, now the third or fourth island, with dinosaurs. We've got a two-headed raptor. I'm interested to see how they kind of tie this all in with because David Kepp has said in the past that his kind of rule for writing Rebirth was that he couldn't contradict the previous films or wouldn't rewrite them. Um, and I don't know whether that's just to kind of like placate us fans and then you know we walk into the see the film and it's just like, yeah, yeah, forget, forget the last three films even existed really. Um let's let's reset this, let's go back to 2001 and let's just deal with the original engined and the park and all that sort of stuff. So we'll we'll just have to wait and see. But all of this is very exciting.

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We need DNA from the three biggest dinosaurs. Do we have to get a sample from an egg? Okay, I suppose we could try and get it from the parent, but they're a flying carnivore the size of an F-16.

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Maybe we should make it c and what I will say uh for the entirety of this trailer is the fact that I can hear David Kepp's voice and the way that he writes dialogue. It's it's again that 90s sarcasm coming through. Um it doesn't feel like the last three films, the dialogue, even in this. I'm quite excited about that, that it's not it's not that I I can't even really describe it. It's uh superficial. Oh god, that sounds very brutal, but uh I feel like a lot of modern action films they love the visuals, the visuals sometimes are amazing. And actually Frank Marshall talks about this in the Variety report that he says that you know visual effects uh is amazing, it gives you such a such a great tool to be able to show and do absolutely anything, but actually at the cost sometimes of the story and the script and the characters, and we have definable characters here in this two-minute trailer. Um and even though we're getting quite a lot of story that they're telling us, I I don't mind. I enjoy I'm enjoying being with these people, and I think that is as much as what they're trying to prove to the audience that we've got good things to show you, and we've got good people to take you on this adventure.

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It's uh these dinosaurs be too dangerous for the original part.

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And then again, another callback to Jurassic Park with those raptors in the kitchen. Now, my question is are these raptors gonna have two heads, or are the two dinosaurs that seem to be untouched, sort of in their design, are the maybe gonna be the raptors and the T-Rex. The T-Rex doesn't look really any different, but the rest are quite quite different, the worst of the worst. And then that foot coming down, and this is this is Godzilla 2014, and immediately that's what that's what I'm saying, that this they are setting out all of this information for us to let us know that this film is different, and even though it might be treading on things like the Indominus Rex from Jurassic World, and kind of that whole idea that was born in Jurassic World, really, the fact that people are getting bored of dinosaurs, Jurassic World had been open for 10 years, nobody was interested in dinosaurs anymore, so they kind of had to go against nature and create something that was horrific. Um, but actually, the Indominus Rex just looked like a dinosaur. Um, and I think they've thought about that. If we want a monster, let's actually make a bloody monster. We're left here, and that thing is Dilophosaurus raising its, and of course, the Dilophosaurus, you know, was a almost a Spielberg invention from the from from the film. The the fact of the f frill, the size of it. Um, you know, he's had in numerous interviews at the time that he's kind of you know fudged the science and made the Dilophosaurus, so it it's no surprise that it looks the same in this film. The Lagoon sequence, which is something that when you read the original novel, there are certain points just stand out. The the the T-Rex Attack on the car, the Avery sequence, and the Lagoon sequence. And I remember when I listened to it originally, that that sequence stayed with me. And to actually see this, to be able to sit down in a cinema this summer and to watch that sequence play out, seemingly because that seek that sequence starts with the Dilophosaurus in the book. So the fact that we're gonna see that as well, that's just yeah, it it this bit is for the fans, I think. This is to prove to the fans that David Kepp has gone back and he's looked at those original books and he's gone, right? Let's take as much as we can from Michael Crichton's original.

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Survival is a long shot.

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Survival is a long shot. That's a perfect David Kepp line, I think. Feels straight out of Lost World. What the hell are those?

SPEAKER_01 13:00

I think what you just said is good.

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And then we get the middle of the Jurassic Party. Um, anyway, that's just my quick breeze through um Jurassic World Rebirth. I think that that is them setting out their stall, giving letting us know that there's gonna be a big monster in this film. Um show us all the great actors that they've got in it. Show off Gareth Edwards and his ability to take these huge mammoth stories. I mean, I absolutely love Godzilla 2014. Uh it was it, I feel like it's the closest a film has got to Jurassic since the original Jurassic Park. You know, those first three films anyway, and then 2014, the shots of the helicopter, the just just everything about it felt mammoth. The bit where Godzilla's foot comes down in the airport, and you're just like, oh my god, this thing is huge. And you buy into it, and I think that's the that's the power of Michael Crichton. If you ever read any of his books, not just Jurassic uh and Lost World, he makes you believe some of the most ridiculous things. Um, but anyway, I'm getting ahead of myself. I d what I want to do is to let you know that the 9th of April is when the first proper episode of Road to Rebirth drops. That will be me looking at the original Jurassic Park novel by Michael Crichton. So if you want to get on board, read read the books, and then an episode will be coming out weekly for 12 weeks from the 9th of April leading up to Jurassic World Rebirth. And if you want to get involved, please go over to Instagram at Road2Rebirth Pod. Follow me there. I'll be posting things, hopefully. Um some of some old pictures of me maybe playing with dinosaurs when the first film came out. Um we'll see how many lessons I get first. Um anyway, and if you want to be involved, if you're a paleontologist, if you're a a lover of Jurassic, all things Jurassic, all things Gareth Edwards, all things sci-fi, all things films, get in touch with me. Um it's uh road2rebirthpod at gmail.com. And I just hope you're as all excited as I am. Um I my uh Jurassic Park excitement is is peaking. I can feel it. I can feel it coming, and I just I have a sense that um this won't just be a retread of the Jurassic World experience 10 years ago. I think we're in for something quite special. But anyway, that'll do for now. Thank you very much for listening, and I'll see you in a couple of months. Goodbye.