Filmmaker David Leitch is in talks to direct the next installment in the Jurassic World franchise, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Universal Pictures announced Monday that it plans to release the film July 2, 2025. THR broke the news last month that David Koepp, who penned Steven Spielberg’s original 1993 blockbuster Jurassic Park and its 1997 sequel Jurassic Park: The Lost World, is writing the follow-up to 2022’s Jurassic World Dominion.
Spielberg is set to executive produce the new film through his Amblin Entertainment. Fellow Jurassic Park vets Frank Marshall and Patrick Crowley will also serve as producers, alongside Leitch and Kelly McCormick of 87North.
Universal executive vp production development Sara Scott and creative executive of production development Jacqueline Garell will oversee the film on the studio side.
Sources previously told THR that the forthcoming film is set to launch a “new Jurassic era,” seemingly suggesting that the characters played by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard that originated in Colin Trevorrow’s 2015 Jurassic World would not be involved. The characters played by Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum in the original Jurassic Park saga are also unlikely to be involved.
Leitch’s latest film is Universal’s The Fall Guy, which stars recent Oscar nominees Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt and hits theaters May 3. Leitch, who is known for action-packed films with witty dialogue, previously helmed Bullet Train, Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw, Deadpool 2 and Atomic Blonde.
The Jurassic films launched in 1993 with Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park, adapting Michael Crichton’s best-selling novel of the same name. The franchise that hails from Universal and Amblin comprises six films that have together surpassed $6 billion worldwide.
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