Scarlett Johansson in talks for new Jurassic World movie as film gears up for 2025 release date – with star set to replace Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard

Scarlett Johansson is in talks to star in the latest film in the Jurassic World franchise as it gears up for a 2025 release date.

Two years after the final film in the critically acclaimed dinosaur franchise – Jurassic World: Dominion – was savaged by critics and intended to bring down the curtain on the franchise, Universal Pictures is developing a new film with David Koepp, 60, writing the new screenplay . and Gareth Edwards, 48, directs.

Oscar nominee Johansson, 39, is tipped to lead the film’s coverage THRmarking her return to franchises after starring as Black Widow in Marvel films.

Universal is said to be “moving fast” with the film, which has a release date of July 2, 2025.

Koepp adapted the original 1993 film Jurassic Park and its 1997 sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park from Michael Crichton’s best-selling novels.

The original Jurassic Park films starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, while the Jurassic World trilogy starred Chris Pratt (pictured) and Bryce Dallas Howard.

However, he did not return for 2001’s Jurassic Park III or the new franchise films Jurassic World (2015), Fallen Kingdom (2018) and Dominion (2022).

The Hollywood Reporter reveals that the film’s script is in “likeable shape” and the studio speculates that it could have a 2025 release date.

Jurassic World trilogy producer Frank Marshall will once again produce alongside Patrick Crowley.

Jurassic Park and The Lost World director Steven Spielberg will executive produce through his Amblin Entertainment banner.

Sources tell the publication that the film will launch a “new Jurassic era” with a new storyline.

The original Jurassic Park films starred Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum, while the Jurassic World trilogy starred Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.

Film critics were outraged by Dominion, saying it was too packed with characters and action scenes that it forgot the dinosaurs that made it a hit.

Dominion followed the events of the past thirty years, with dinosaurs now roaming freely around the world while a biotechnology company unleashes genetically modified locusts that destroy the planet’s crops.

A new Jurassic World movie is in the works from Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp (pictured Sam Neill and Ariana Richards in 1993’s Jurassic Park)

Two years after the final film in the critically acclaimed dinosaur franchise – Jurassic World: Dominion – was savaged by critics and intended to bring down the curtain on the franchise, Universal Pictures is developing a new film with Koepp, 60, writing the new screenplay.

Koepp adapted the original 1993 film Jurassic Park and the 1997 sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park from Michael Crichton’s best-selling novels (pictured last week)

It brought the original stars of Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park film – Dern, Neill and Goldblum – to investigate the dying plants, while newer stars Pratt and Dallas Howard travel the world to save 14-year-old Maisie Lockwood – a genetic clone of a scientist whose DNA was altered to eliminate cancer.

Of course, at some point in the film, all the stars come together to fight against biotech giant BioSyn, led by Elon Musk/Jeff Bezos as Dr. Lewis Dodgson, who promised to keep the world’s dinosaurs safe in his billion-dollar camp.

“It’s not so much a movie as an extinction-level event for the franchise,” writes David Fear Rolling stone‘one in which the last vestiges of good will and investment in this particular intellectual property are extinguished, like so many unfortunate Stegosauruses.’

As Justin Chang writes for the Los Angeles Times: ‘You’ll spend much of the film’s 147-minute running time watching seven or eight co-main characters run around another mad scientist’s dinosaur farm, where bioethical boundaries are once again crossed and safety measures are once again doomed. fail.’

Stephanie Zacharek has also written about it Time magazine how “there’s so much plot, so many characters, so much damn Chris Pratt, that the dinosaurs ultimately take a backseat” and are “the desperate underdogs of their own movie,” as Johnny Oleksinski writes for the New York Post that the ‘terrible film is longer than the Cretaceous.’

Jurassic Park was Hollywood’s highest-grossing film upon its release in 1993. The film ran for nearly 500 days in theaters and grossed a total of $912 million worldwide.

Ultimately, he writes, “The sound you hear in the theater during Dominion is not the shocked gasp of the original, classic Jurassic Park – it’s a mocking giggle,” while Zacharek described the sound as “millions of disgruntled, long-dead dinosaurs roll into their fossilized graves.”

Jurassic Park was Hollywood’s highest-grossing film upon its release in 1993

The film ran for nearly 500 days in theaters and grossed a total of $912 million worldwide, captivating audiences around the world and launching the modern blockbuster franchise.