New ‘Jurassic World’ Film Could Be Based on ’90s Fighting Game, ‘Warpath: Jurassic Park’
According to reports, a new Jurassic World film is currently in early development at Universal Pictures, with Gareth Edwards and Scarlett Johansson both reportedly in negotiations to return.
But the question is no longer whether another film happens — after all, Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) grossed $869.1 million worldwide, so a sequel is inevitable — it’s what it would actually be about.
Rebirth walked the franchise back into familiar territory, undoing the bold global-dinosaur premise of earlier entries and returning focus to contained island survival storytelling. That decision has left the series creatively boxed in.
If another installment does move forward, it may need to push beyond dinosaurs entirely. It could include Ice Age megafauna such as mammoths and saber-toothed cats, or even the long-rumored human–dinosaur hybrid storyline that has lingered online for decades. But one of the strangest possibilities comes from an unexpected place: a forgotten video game from 1999.
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Warpath: Jurassic Park (1999) was a PlayStation fighting game where dinosaurs battled in arena-style environments using species like Tyrannosaurus rex, Spinosaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Velociraptor. It was heavily criticised at launch but has since developed a cult following.
Surprisingly, the franchise itself has been edging closer to that concept for years.
Jurassic Park III (2001), Jurassic World (2015), and Jurassic World Dominion (2022) each leaned heavily into dinosaur combat as spectacle, with the latter even introducing an underground black market in Malta where dinosaurs are pitted against each other for the amusement of dealers and clients.
It seems fitting that the next Jurassic film that follows Rebirth leans into this concept even harder, if not to move away from InGen islands and mutant dinosaurs, but to finally introduce something new and exciting into this long-running, and frankly, tired series.
For now, Universal has not confirmed any new Jurassic World film is in active production.
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