Jurassic World Rebirthis a reboot forthe long-running franchiseafterJurassic World: Dominion offered not only a conclusive finalefor the World duo ofOwen Grady and Claire Dearing (Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard), but also brought back the legacy characters from Park to give them a send-off. However, while the characters are new, it’s still the same dinosaurs who walked the Earth 64 million years ago.
Alongside the new faces of Jonathan Bailey and Scarlett Johansson, plenty of our scaly CGI friends are returning. Most of the Jurassic Park movies introduce new breeds, either thus far unexplored from real history or invented by the movies themselves, but one of the most brutal creatures was very real, and will return in Rebirth.
Jurassic World Rebirth Reveals New Look At Mosasaurus
In Jurassic World, the mosasaurus is one of the entertainment exhibits, putting on a show similar to the killer whales in our real-life Sea World. Trained by dangling food, the creature would leap from the water to eat and splash down, soaking the gathered humans. But when the park starts to break down (they really never learn in this series), the mosasaurus is featured in the most graphic death the series has ever known.
Zara Young, assistant to protagonist Claire, is plucked from the promenade by a herd of flying pteranodon. While the pteranodon sinks its claws into Zara and begins to eat her with its razor-sharp beak, it flies above the mosasaurus tank, right where it has been trained to jump for food. As you may recall (or have predicted), the mosasaurus leaps from the water, biting down on Zara and the pteranodon both, crushing them in its bloody jaws. It probably made Zara’s death mercifully faster, but also far more graphic.
Despite this scene occuring in the fourth movie, Zara was the first named woman to die on screen. And it’s because of this that her death is so brutal. When Katie McGrath, who plays Zara (and is best known for her role as Lena Luthor in Supergirl), discovered she would be the first woman to die, she wanted it to be spectacular, and asked the producers and director to make it as violent as they possibly could. It seems they succeeded in following her wishes.
Jurassic World Rebirth is set five years after Dominion, and sees the dinosaurs willingly retreat to remote islands where they can thrive, having rejected the freedom to roam the Earth we saw arrive at the end of Fallen Kingdom. But, with mankind never able to leave well enough alone, a pharmaceutical company contracts covert ops specialist Zora Bennett (Johansson) and paleontologist Dr Henry Loomis (Bailey) to head to the island and recover valuable samples, disturbing the peace the dinosaurs have made for themselves.
You can see how that shakes out, and if anyone gets a more brutal death than Zara, when Jurassic World Rebirth arrives in cinemas on July 2.
