July 01, 2025
Jurassic World Rebirth director Gareth Edwards hasn’t stopped his research on dinosaurs even as the movie hits cinemas tomorrow, July 2.
Edwards visited Colossal Labs, the biotechnology and genetic engineering company, which recently brought back the once-extinct dire wolves.
There, he met Ben Lamm, the founder and CEO of Colossal Bioscience.
"This is the real Jurassic Park, isn't it?" Edwards asked, per Entertainment Weekly.
"I think it's Jurassic Park with a conservation focus," replied Ben.
"You can't get dino DNA," he stated, debunking the concept mentioned in Michael Crichton's novels and the Jurassic World films.
"Amber, believe it or not, is very porous; it doesn't hold DNA," he explained.
However, Ben suggested that resurrecting dinosaurs could become possible with advanced tools.
"I think you'll have dinosaur equivalents in the next 100 years using these tools, just a more advanced version of these tools," he said.
Edwards noted that "the one that's gonna get all the tourists," is the Tyrannosaurus rex. "It's also gonna go very wrong," he quickly reminded.
In the latest addition to the franchise, which is being hailed by critics as one of the best yet, special ops Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson) leads a unit consisting of paleontologist Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) and ship captain Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) into an island where dinosaurs reside.
The team aims to get the DNA of the three most dangerous dinosaurs so the pharmaceutical industry can use it to make a life-saving drug.
Gareth Edwards’ Jurassic World Rebirth hits cinemas on July 2.