Empire’s Jurassic World Rebirth Covers Revealed

The original Jurassic Park trilogy brought dinosaurs roaring to the gigantic screen, conjuring wide-eyed awe and pure terror like only Steven Spielberg can. Decades later, the Jurassic World trilogy evolved the saga by breaking out of the park, bringing dinosaurs to the mainland. Now, cinema’s ultimate dino-saga is about to evolve all over again in Jurassic World Rebirth – a fresh chapter from Rogue One director Gareth Edwards and original Park screenwriter David Koepp, that both takes the series back to its Spielbergian roots and enters all-new territory, boasting toothy terrors like you’ve never seen before. Hold onto your butts – a fresh era of Jurassic is dawning. The ultimate dinosaur adventure begins here.

The fresh issue of Empire features world-beating access to Jurassic World Rebirth, going on set with Edwards and his stars Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, Mahershala Ali, and Rupert Friend – getting up close and personal with the prehistoric mayhem. Inside, we discover how Rebirth hearkens back to the original spirit of Jurassic Park, talk to Koepp about his return to the series, learn why Edwards is the ultimate director to take on a Jurassic movie – and get a glimpse at Rebirth’s terrifying fresh mutant beasts lurking in the shadows. It’s packed with interviews, on-set details, never-before-seen images, and plenty more to sink your serrated teeth into.

This month’s newsstand cover sees Scarlett Johansson’s covert ops expert Zora Bennett facing off against the Quetzalcoatlus in one of Rebirth’s biggest blockbuster sequences.

And the subscriber cover, illustrated by Tim McDonagh, offers a tantalising tease of the mysterious and deadly Distortus Rex – peering out from blood-spattered foliage.

And that’s not all! Also inside this issue, we take a world-exclusive look at the first official still from Avatar: Fire And Ash; go on set of First Steps with the Fantastic Four themselves; venture to the Isle Of Berk with the live-action How To Train Your Dragon; sit down with Sydney Sweeney to talk the evolution of her career so far; get a stern upgrade with M3GAN 2.0; dig into the Harry Potter series casting, and much more.

It’s an issue not to be missed – and you don’t even have to venture to a deadly, dinosaur-infested island to pick it up. Find it on newsstands from 8 May. Pre-order a copy online here. Jurassic World Rebirth comes to UK cinemas from 2 July.