Interview With "Jurassic World Rebirth" Director Gareth Edwards

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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"Jurassic World Rebirth" is a standalone sequel to "Jurassic World Dominion" (2022), the fourth "Jurassic World" film and the seventh installment overall in the "Jurassic Park franchise." With a whole new cast and shot on 35mm using anamorphic lenses, the film from director Gareth Edwards is an attempt to harken back to what thrilled audiences most about the original movie. Before the film's world premiere, Edwards was kind enough to speak with us about his work and experience making the film, which you can listen to below. Please be sure to check out the film, which is now playing in theaters nationwide from Universal Pictures. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast and this is my interview with the director for Jurassic World Rebirth, Gareth Edwards.
0:08.0	No, no, no, no!
0:10.0	Open the dress!
0:12.0	Please.
0:15.0	I'm sorry.
0:16.0	Please open the door for me.
0:25.5	On the island, we're headed to.
0:29.3	Two dozen species have survived there alone.
0:33.7	The theme park owners did experimental work.
0:36.2	Maybe we're only the worst ones here.
0:42.3	Gareth, thank you so much for joining me here to talk about your film Jurassic World Rebirth. Thank you. It's very surreal hearing the word Jurassic and your film in the same sentence.
0:47.3	I can only imagine. So take me back to 1993. You're 18 years old. You watch the film, I presume, in theaters, the first film.
0:55.0	Steven Spielberg comes to you and puts his hand on your shoulder and says,
0:59.0	not only are you going to make film someday, but you're going to make a Jurassic Park World film.
1:04.0	What would you tell him in that moment?
1:07.0	But I basically, it's a really weird thing in the, it's this double-edged sword where as a kid,
1:14.6	when you're young, you think you can do anything, right?
1:16.6	You're kind of like immortal and you're gonna take on the world and so I think probably as a little kid, I would have gone, yeah, I know, right?
1:24.6	And then as an adult, I was like, oh my god, like, it's not going to happen, is it?
1:31.3	Like, I'm deluded.
1:32.3	Like, this is really hard.
1:34.3	And so, yeah, I sort of, I sort of, you kind of trapped because you don't want to give up
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