The Hollywood Reporter has revealed that director David Leitch is in talks to helm the upcoming Jurassic World movie. The dinosaur-themed film from Universal Pictures will be released on July 2, 2025, the company recently announced. The follow-up to 2022’s “Jurassic World Dominion” is being scripted by David Koepp, who wrote Jurassic World’s original 1993 blockbuster “Jurassic Park” and its 1997 sequel “Jurassic Park: The Lost World,” according to a THR report last month.
Spielberg’s company, Amblin Entertainment, has been tasked with executive producing the new film. Along with Leitch and Kelly McCormick of 87North, Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley, who worked on Jurassic Park, will produce as well. Sara Scott, executive vice president of production development at Universal, and Jacqueline Garell, creative executive of production development, will be in charge of the movie from the studio side. THR was previously informed by sources that the next movie will launch a “new Jurassic era,” which suggests that characters played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard in Colin Trevorrow’s 2015 Jurassic World won’t be featured. 2015 saw the release of “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom,.”
The characters played by Sam Neill, Laura Dern, and Jeff Goldblum in the original Jurassic Park franchise are unlikely to return in the fourth Jurassic World film. The three actors appeared alongside Pratt and Howard in the film Dominion.
Leitch, who established himself as a major action filmmaker with films like ‘Bullet Train’, ‘Deadpool 2’, and ‘Atomic Blonde’ has become a go-to for Universal. He helmed ‘Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw’ for the studio, and the negotiations take place as Universal prepares to release The Fall Guy, starring recent Oscar contenders Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt, on May 3.
