“Jurassic World Rebirth” partial poster featuring Scarlett Johansson.
Jurassic World Rebirth, starring Scarlett Johansson, is new in theaters. Read on to find out how the film ends and if you should stick around for the end credits, as well as what the next possible steps may be for the franchise.
Also starring Jonathan Bailey and Mahershala Ali, Jurassic World Rebirth opened in theaters everywhere on Wednesday. The official summary for Jurassic World Rebirth reads, “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 across land, sea and air within that tropical biosphere hold, in their DNA, the key to a drug that will bring miraculous life-saving benefits to humankind.”
Jurassic World Rebirth is directed by Gareth Edwards. The film also stars Rupert Friend, Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono, Audrina Miranda, Philippine Velge, Bechir Sylvain and Ed Skrein.
Note: Major spoilers for “Jurassic World Rebirth” are revealed throughout the rest of the article.
How Does ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ End?
In Jurassic World Rebirth, Rupert Friend stars as Martin Krebs, who pays big money to mercenaries Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) and Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), as well as a paleontologist, Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), to go on an illegal expedition to obtain DNA from three distinctly different dinosaurs.
If the mission is successful, the DNA extracted from the dinosaurs will provide the means for the company Krebs works for — ParkerGenix — to create a groundbreaking treatment that will cure heart disease and will save millions of people.
Loomis, however, believes that it is morally wrong for a company to make trillions of dollars from the cure. He even suggests at one point to Bennett the idea of not helping Krebs secure the DNA because the pharmaceutical exec is doing something that should benefit everyone. Bennett, however, shuts Loomis’ idea down.
Once Krebs, the mercenaries and the paleontologist embark on the mission, they are sidetracked by rescuing a stranded family out in the ocean, played by Manuel Garcia-Rulfo, Luna Blaise, David Iacono and Audrina Miranda.
Once they rescue the family and get back on course, Bennett, Kincaid and Loomis are surprised to learn that the dinosaurs live on a secret island where scientists were experimenting on the creatures by splicing their DNA together — making them even more dangerous than originally thought.
Even though Bennett, Kincaide and Loomis manage to secure the sample from the three different dinosaurs, their mission isn’t truly complete until they can escape the island. While the group comes under an intense attack from the mutated dinosaurs while trying to get to a helicopter — and then a boat — to escape, Krebs falls victim to one of the massive creatures.
Luckily, the case holding the DNA samples handcuffed to Krebs’ wrist falls to the ground (along with his severed forearm). At that point, Loomis asks Bennett who the life-saving dinosaur DNA should go to and she answers that it should be given to everyone so that not one sole company benefits.
The last shot of Jurassic World Rebirth shows Bennett, Kincaid and Loomis, along with the family they rescued, driving the rescue boat into the vast ocean and ultimately, a destination to make the world a better place – for everyone.
Scarlett Johansson and Jonathan Bailey in “Jurassic World Rebirth.”
Does ‘Jurassic World Rebirth’ Have An End Or Post-Credits Scene And Will It Get A Sequel?
End credits and post-credits scenes generally serve one of two functions or both: Either they wrap up loose ends from a scene earlier in the film or they tease a potential sequel.
However, there is neither an end credits nor a post-credits scene for Jurassic World Rebirth. Fans shouldn’t worry about this being the last Jurassic World film, though, since Rebirth is the seventh film in the Jurassic Park/Jurassic World franchise, which has made more than $6 billion worldwide to date.
Since the film features a new setting and a whole new cast of characters, it’s clear that Universal Pictures is rebooting the franchise with Jurassic World Rebirth. As such, the studio never would have given the green light to a new Jurassic World film if there wasn’t potential for the movie to be a massive financial hit like its predecessors.
Like any studio releasing a blockbuster movie these days, Universal Pictures now must enter a wait-and-see phase to see how money Jurassic World Rebirth will make in theaters domestically and internationally to determine whether that amount justifies another film in the franchise.
Jurassic World Rebirth, according to The Numbers, had a production budget of $180 million before prints and advertising. The good news for Universal is that the film is projected by The Hollywood Reporter to earn $250 million worldwide in its first five days, while Deadline projects it could earn as much as $260 million.
Either number which is a positive indicator that audiences still have an appetite for dinosaur movies and will provide Universal with a huge incentive to start thinking about more.
Rated PG-13, Jurassic World Rebirth is now in theaters.
