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 are actually seven films into this long-running, dino-filled franchise, courting again to Steven Spielberg’s authentic blockbuster basic “Jurassic Park.” That film passed off 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 totally 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 does not dive into the complete historical past of the island, we do study some key issues about its historical past and the way it components into the bigger “Jurassic” timeline. Briefly, it was a key location for each Hammond’s authentic park and Jurassic World.

The film’s opening scene flashes again 17 years, displaying 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 maintain the park extra attention-grabbing, which ultimately introduced us the Indominus Rex. Nevertheless, 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 ability was apparently deserted, however most of the dinosaurs that have been created there managed to dwell 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 Website 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 through 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 lots 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 commenced hatching plans to open Jurassic World. The park ultimately opened in 2005. Masrani repurposed the island to conduct additional experiments for the park. Most notably, hybrid dinosaurs.

Apart from 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 vital to level out that the entire dinosaurs we see in “Rebirth” are new in a roundabout way. This island has by no means been explored in any of the earlier “Jurassic” films, so though we might seen a few of these identical species of dinosaurs we might seen beforehand, the particular ones we’re seeing on display are new. We have seen T-rexes earlier than, however even this can be a totally different T-rex. Even the Spinosaurus we see is totally 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 nearly all of the survivors getting off the island, save for Krebs (Rupert Pal). 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 approach.

That begs the query: might Ile Saint-Hubert return sooner or later? Because it stands, Common hasn’t introduced any plans for one more sequel, although “Rebirth” does appear poised to do fairly effectively on the field workplace. As is at all times the case in Hollywood, if one thing is profitable, a sequel will most likely 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 go away 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 reveals like “Jurassic World: Chaos Concept” on Netflix. Who is aware of? Perhaps these characters will make their method to Ile Saint-Hubert in some way. Perhaps the following film will lastly convey us again to Website B in spite of everything these years, as that is largely been unexplored since “JP3.” There are alternatives for the long run, however the mere existence of this new island suggests that there’s extra to discover, ought to Common resolve 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 clarification of this island or some place else fully. 

“Jurassic World Rebirth” is in theaters now.