The Next ‘Jurassic Park’ Sequel Looks Even Worse Than ‘Rebirth’, Official Trailer Revealed

Jurassic World 5 is in early development, but it faces its first hurdle, as Gareth Edwards, who directed Jurassic World Rebirth (2025), recently exited the project over “creative differences.”

Now, the studio is searching for a new director. Meanwhile, actors Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey, who played Zora Bennett, Duncan Kincaid, and Henry Loomis in the latest film are expected to reprise their roles, with writer David Koepp once again penning the script. None of this is particularly promising, though, given how bad Rebirth was.

The film might have grossed $869.1 million worldwide, but it received negative reviews from longtime fans, audiences, and critics. And rightly so, because the seventh entry in the long-running series inexplicably and unashamedly reversed the franchise-defining efforts of its predecessors, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Jurassic World Dominion (2022), in favor of a been-there-done-that cat-and-mouse action thriller on yet another jungle island.

But there’s another Jurassic sequel officially in development: Jurassic Park: Survival.

First revealed at The Game Awards in December 2023, the project has been gestating for quite some time. Details have been infrequent, with IGN sharing an exclusive Q&A with the developers in the summer of 2024 and Saber itself sharing a behind-the-scenes video in August 2025.

Is Jurassic Park: Survival Ever Coming Out?

Since then, there have been no meaningful updates, although, fortunately, the developers recently confirmed that the project is still very much active. But will Survival be worth the wait?

Focusing strictly on the featurette and not the cinematic trailer, there are some positive takeaways, including the suspense and tension that helped make the 1993 film by Steven Spielberg a masterpiece, as well as the environments on offer such as the Visitor Center and the genetics labs, which have, according to Saber, been recreated in meticulous detail with the film in mind.

Jurassic World Project Executive Lisa St Amand explains in the video how no stone is being left unturned when it came to re-creating the film. “It’s really exciting to be able to translate this incredible film into a video game because you really have the opportunity to go much deeper into the film,” she says, adding, “We worked really closely with our partners and with Amblin and our filmmakers to make sure that we’re capturing the island and all the dinosaurs in really great detail.”

Then there’s the lead character, Dr. Maya Joshi, an InGen scientist left behind on Nublar who will be our eyes and ears in navigating both the familiar and unfamiliar. She’s played by Payal Mistry, who appears in the video performing motion capture.

“The actual journey, the arc of Maya, it’s incredible,” Mistry says. “She was personally recruited by Dr. Henry Wu to become an InGen scientist, to work at the park. [At] the start of Maya’s journey, she’s unable to escape Isla Nublar.”

Joshi certainly looks like a promising addition to the original Jurassic Park character lineup. But as for the dinosaurs, which include Velociraptor, Dilophosaurus, and T. rex, they leave a lot to be desired. Take note that we’re only going by what we’ve seen in the trailer and the BTS video, but, to echo the concern of many Jurassic fans, these appear to be the Jurassic World dinosaur models and not those from the original 1993 film, which is at odds with what Saber is promising.

There are two other concerns: the fact that the game is first-person is baffling. With “a fully realized Isla Nublar” on offer, per the official website, you’d think the developers would have chosen a third-person route, especially seeing as immersion is the ultimate goal here. While of course first-person can make survival horror more immersive, this still seems like an odd choice.

Then there’s the fact that this takes place just 24 hours after the events of the 1993 film. What is it with franchises being anchored to original films? Doesn’t Jurassic Park have any stories to tell that don’t involve leaning into nostalgia? Obviously, it will be very exciting to see the park in the immediate aftermath of the dinosaur breakout, but Isla Nublar is hardly uncharted territory.

“Return to Isla Nublar the day after the events of the beloved 1993 Jurassic Park film in an original adventure 65 million years in the making,” the synopsis for the game reads.

“Survive thrilling first-person action as InGen scientist Dr. Maya Joshi, who was unable to evacuate Isla Nublar, in this single-player action-adventure game and discover a never-before-told story. Through thrilling encounters, experience the wonder and danger of dinosaurs, each with their own distinct and adaptive behaviors brought to life by John Hammond’s vision.”

There’s no release date, but the game will be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC.

Jurassic World 5 also doesn’t have a confirmed release date.

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