Jurassic World Rebirth is the latest installment in the long-running Jurassic Park franchise, this time introducing a whole roster of new characters and original dinosaurs to softly reboot the series into a new era. The story follows a team of skilled operatives who travel to an old research facility in search of dinosaur DNA to use as human medicine.
By the end of Jurassic World Rebirth, this goal is one step closer to happening. Zora Bennett and Dr. Henry Loomis plan to make the dinosaur DNA open-sourced so any cures that come will be widely available to the public. This should lead to plenty of research on the DNA of the Mosasaurus, Titanosaurus, and Quetzalcoatlus.
Assuming the dinosaurs lead to medical and scientific advancements, it would only be a matter of time before human trials begin to test exactly how well humans react to the dinosaur-aided cures. This could lead the franchise to finally do a big twist included in scrapped plans for Jurassic Park 4.
Jurassic Park 4 Was Going To Include Human Dinosaur Hybrids
Although Jurassic Park 4 never came to fruition, there were several concepts pitched by various writers that have since become popular among Jurassic Park fans. The most notorious of these pitched scripts came from John Sayles, the screenwriter behind Lone Star and Eight Men Out. His script featured a series of dinosaur-human hybrids that had been specifically bred for increased intelligence.
The prospective movie followed a soldier named Nick Harris who was tasked with eradicating a strain of pterosaurs who are wreaking havoc on the human population. After traveling to Isla Nublar to introduce a chemical agent into the ecosystem and wipe out the dinosaurs, Harris is picked up by a corporation looking to make a profit from the dinosaurs by injecting them with human DNA.
While the script seems fairly outlandish and goofy on the surface, there are actually some clear similarities with Jurassic World Rebirth. Not only does the story follow a group of original characters traveling back to the sites from the original movie, but the idea of injecting dinosaurs with human DNA is noticeably similar to Rebirth’s story of using dinosaur DNA as human medical research.
Ever since Sayles’ script was released to the public, Jurassic Park fans have wondered whether the franchise would ever be bold enough to go along with the dinosaur-human hybrids concept. It certainly seemed possible in Jurassic World, especially since much of the story centered around genetically modified dinosaurs, but even those sequels stopped short of achieving Sayles’ vision.
The original concept art for Jurassic Park 4’s hybrid dinosaurs looks exactly as one would imagine: bipedal creatures that are humanoid in appearance, but with additional features from Jurassic Park’s most beloved dinosaurs. Some have Velociraptor’s claws, others have the Tyrannosaurus’ stumpy arms, and others have the Dilophosaurus’ venomous neck frills.
These designs were created by Carlos Huante, who also reported that as soon as these concepts were shown to the executives at Amblin Entertainment, Sayles’ script was shut down entirely (via jurassicparkiv.org). And while there have been more mutant dinosaurs and even human clones introduced in the franchise, human-dinosaur hybrids have yet to be made.
Jurassic World 5 Could Include Human Dinosaur Hybrids At Last Now
The idea of using dinosaur DNA to treat human diseases feels like an accident waiting to happen, and the Jurassic Park franchise has a track record for the best-laid plans immediately going wrong.
Even the Jurassic World trilogy frequently touched on the idea of maintaining the natural order and not interfering with the biological state of the world. This is exactly what the protagonists are doing in Rebirth, and it’s yet to be shown exactly how the human body will respond to unknown dinosaur DNA.
Although a sequel to Jurassic World Rebirth has not yet been confirmed, it was initially reported that Gareth Edwards’ movie was intended to kickstart a new phase of the franchise following the underwhelming Jurassic World trilogy. This means there must have been some kind of plan for the series. The groundwork for this plan was probably subtly introduced in Rebirth.
Jurassic World has already played with concepts of cloning humans and genetically manufacturing new species of dinosaur, so it doesn’t seem too much of a stretch to assume that human-dinosaur hybrids are a possibility in this universe. It would be an effective way of sticking to the franchise’s overall theme of letting nature run its course without human intervention.
With a franchise like Jurassic Park, it’s not enough to simply keep making good movies – the sequels have to be bigger, bolder, and more exciting than the last to keep the series alive. After some of the heights that this franchise has reached in the past, it may seem difficult to go even bolder than Jurassic World Rebirth, but life finds a way.
- Release Date
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July 2, 2025
- Runtime
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134 minutes
- Director
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Gareth Edwards
