- Jurassic World Rebirth hits cinemas in July 2025
- The first trailer arrived in early February
- Where does this new sequel take place?
After its first trailer dropped in early February, fans have been left wondering what island Jurassic World Rebirth takes place on.
Directed by Monsters filmmaker Gareth Edwards, this new instalment picks up five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion. At the end of that movie, humans and dinosaurs were required to co-exist, with the survival of each left in a delicate balance.
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Now, a lot has changed. According to the film’s synopsis, much of the world’s artificial dinosaur population has died out, with the surviving few confined to remote jungle habitats.
It’s here where Jurassic World Rebirth will take audiences. Scarlett Johansson’s crack operations expert Zora Bennett will be our guide, with Jonathan Bailey’s bespectacled palaeontologist Dr Henry Loomis helping her to extract some much-needed dino DNA.
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As for where exactly they’re heading? Well, that question has left many fans scratching their heads. Perhaps it’s time we figured out everything we know about which island Jurassic World Rebirth takes place on.
What island does Jurassic World Rebirth take place on?
As revealed in its new trailer and official synopsis, Jurassic World Rebirth will take place on a new island that hasn’t previously been featured in any other Jurassic World or Jurassic Park movie. This was confirmed by Empire.
“This action-packed new chapter sees an extraction team race to the most dangerous place on Earth, an island research facility for the original Jurassic Park,” explains the film’s plotline.
It continues to add that this new island is “inhabited by the worst of the worst that were left behind.” This makes sense, especially considering that Edwards’ new trailer teased a monstrous new creation lurking in its shadows.
This new island doesn’t currently have a name just yet. However, some movie sites have started referring to it as Site B.
Why? Well, read on and you’ll find out.
What islands have featured in the Jurassic World franchise?
The original park featured in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park was based on Isla Nublar. This location wasn’t revisited for the director’s 1997 follow up The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Instead, Spielberg set this film on Isla Sorna, a place where Jurassic Park’s dinosaurs were birthed and nurtured before behind shipped over to the main park on Isla Nublar once they were fully grown.
This island was known as Site B.
The franchise stayed away from Isla Nublar once again in director Joe Johnston’s 2001 threequel Jurassic Park 3. This too was set on Isla Sorna’s Site B.
Sam Neill’s Dr Alan Grant even comments on this fact part way through the film when he tells the people who tricked him into coming face-to-face with dinosaurs again that he “has never been on this island.”
Colin Trevorrow’s Jurassic World finally returned us to Isla Nublar where we found a newly-restored Jurassic Park. Sadly, it didn’t stay operational for long.
The last we saw of Isla Nublar was in the opening segment of director J.A. Bayona’s Jurassic World: Fallen Kindom. That said, it was quickly destroyed by an active volcano.
