What’s Up With Jurassic World Rebirth’s New Island? Ile Saint-Hubert Defined

This publish comprises spoilers for “Jurassic World Rebirth.”

With the discharge of director Gareth Edwards’ “Jurassic World Rebirth,” we at the moment are seven films into this long-running, dino-filled franchise, relationship again to Steven Spielberg’s unique blockbuster basic “Jurassic Park.” That film occurred largely on Isla Nublar off the coast of Costa Rica, the place John Hammond supposed to open his dinosaur theme park earlier than catastrophe struck and the thought was shuttered. The collection has since moved to completely different islands and sometimes returned to Isla Nublar, however “Rebirth” does one thing new by bringing us to a never-before-seen island. Particularly, Ile Saint-Hubert.

Within the first teaser trailer for “Jurassic World Rebirth,” Scarlett Johansson’s Zora Bennett explains that, “This island was the analysis facility for the unique Jurassic Park.” Whereas the film itself would not dive into the complete historical past of the island, we do be taught some key issues about its historical past and the way it components into the bigger “Jurassic” timeline. In brief, it was a key location for each Hammond’s unique park and Jurassic World.

The film’s opening scene flashes again 17 years, exhibiting us an incident that occurred on Ile Saint-Hubert whereas Jurassic World was up and working. The geneticists have been engaged on numerous hybrid dinosaurs that would assist hold the park extra attention-grabbing, which finally introduced us the Indominus Rex. Nonetheless, they first created the mutant Distortus Rex, aka the D-rex, which breaks containment because of, of all issues, a Snickers wrapper. A scientist is eaten. Issues go haywire.

From that time on, the power was apparently deserted, however most of the dinosaurs that have been created there managed to stay on, unbothered by humanity and left to fend for themselves. Because the film explains, most of the dinosaurs that had been roaming the planet because the finish of “Dominion” have been dying off, because the Earth is not hospitable to them. Those who stay can solely sustainably exist close to the Equator.

Not like Isla Nublar or Isla Sorna, aka Web site B as featured in “The Misplaced World” and “Jurassic Park III,” which have been positioned close to Costa Rica, Ile Saint-Hubert is positioned within the Caribbean close to Barbados. It’s located close to the Equator, that means that the dinosaurs there have been capable of exist comfortably. Not like the dinosaurs of Isla Nublar, who have been both faraway from the island or died on it in the course of the volcanic eruption that wiped it off the map in “Fallen Kingdom,” this island has been left largely untouched for almost twenty years.

Once more, the film leaves plenty of the island’s historical past up within the air, however the implication is that that is the island the place InGen cracked the code on recreating dinosaurs to make Hammond’s wild theme park a actuality. After the occasions of “The Misplaced World,” Simon Masrani and Masrani World bought InGen in 1998 and started hatching plans to open Jurassic World. The park finally opened in 2005. Masrani repurposed the island to conduct additional experiments for the park. Most notably, hybrid dinosaurs.

Other than the D-rex, the scientists on the island additionally crafted the Mutadons, which function prominently within the third act of “Rebirth” and have been created utilizing a mixture of Velociraptor and Pterosaur DNA. These animals by no means made it to the park as a result of they have been “too harmful.” As have been most of the different dinosaurs that Masrani and InGen left behind after the D-rex incident.

It is essential to level out that the entire dinosaurs we see in “Rebirth” are new not directly. This island has by no means been explored in any of the earlier “Jurassic” films, so regardless that we might seen a few of these similar species of dinosaurs we might seen beforehand, the precise ones we’re seeing on display are new. We have seen T-rexes earlier than, however even it is a completely different T-rex. Even the Spinosaurus we see is completely different from the one we met in “Jurassic Park III.” That is type of just like the island of misfit dinosaurs.

The film ends with the vast majority of the survivors getting off the island, save for Krebs (Rupert Buddy). Not like 2015’s “Jurassic World,” although, which clearly arrange a possible trilogy, this was extra of a standalone journey with no main free threads to tie up. It is a shut cousin to “Jurassic Park III” in that manner.

That begs the query: might Ile Saint-Hubert return sooner or later? Because it stands, Common hasn’t introduced any plans for an additional sequel, although “Rebirth” does appear poised to do fairly properly on the field workplace. As is all the time the case in Hollywood, if one thing is profitable, a sequel will in all probability observe. Whether or not or not that is a extra direct sequel to this film or one other journey with extra new characters stays to be seen. Edwards did depart issues fairly open-ended and did not field the studio into any particular story that wants telling.

There’s additionally the matter of the animated exhibits like “Jurassic World: Chaos Principle” on Netflix. Who is aware of? Perhaps these characters will make their option to Ile Saint-Hubert one way or the other. Perhaps the following film will lastly carry us again to Web site B in spite of everything these years, as that is largely been unexplored since “JP3.” There are alternatives for the longer term, however the mere existence of this new island suggests that there’s extra to discover, ought to Common determine that is the best factor to do. 

Even when the way forward for the franchise is not centered on Ile Saint-Hubert, its most vital contribution to the franchise was bringing one thing new to the desk that would open the door for extra down the road, be {that a} additional rationalization of this island or elsewhere totally. 

“Jurassic World Rebirth” is in theaters now.