Overview
- Gareth Edwards left the planned follow-up to 2025’s Jurassic World Rebirth on Thursday, August 6, with multiple outlets reporting the split was over “creative differences.”
- Universal and Amblin issued a conciliatory statement praising Edwards and have opened a search for a new director to replace him.
- Screenwriter David Koepp and the film’s core cast — Scarlett Johansson, Mahershala Ali, and Jonathan Bailey — are still reported to be expected to return for the sequel.
- The studio hopes to begin shooting in 2027 but acknowledges that finding a new director could affect that timetable and the film’s creative direction.
- The change continues a pattern in the franchise of director turnover while producers Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall remain the series’ steady overseers, and Edwards is said to be refocusing on original projects.