Next ‘Jurassic Park’ Movie Could Officially Reset the Timeline After ‘Rebirth’ Backlash

Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) may have earned an impressive $869.1 million worldwide, but for many longtime fans, the film represented a breaking point for the franchise creatively.

Despite Jurassic World Dominion (2022) ending with dinosaurs spreading across the globe and integrating into modern ecosystems, Rebirth quickly abandons that premise altogether. The film reveals that Earth’s climate is now unsuitable for most dinosaurs, forcing them into isolated equatorial regions and dragging the series straight back to another island setting.

For many viewers, it felt like the franchise had erased years of setup just to repeat familiar ideas. The backlash also extended to the film’s increasingly exaggerated concepts, including mutant dinosaur hybrids and winged raptors, with some fans arguing the series has drifted too far from the grounded suspense and survival horror atmosphere of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park (1993).

As discussion around the future of the franchise continues online, comparisons to the Halloween series have started surfacing more frequently.

Both Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998) and Halloween (2018) famously ignored large portions of existing continuity, allowing the franchise to refocus on simpler, more character-driven storytelling connected directly to John Carpenter’s original 1978 film.

Jurassic Park could theoretically attempt something similar.

However, Universal Pictures is unlikely to abandon the hugely successful Jurassic World branding altogether, especially after the films have collectively generated billions at the global box office. Instead, the studio could allow multiple timelines or sub-franchises to coexist.

One possibility would be a separate series of films set during the Park era, exploring untapped stories tied to Isla Nublar, Site B, or InGen’s earliest dinosaur experiments without needing to acknowledge the increasingly messy Jurassic World continuity.

Universal is already revisiting that timeline with the upcoming video game Jurassic Park: Survival, which takes place immediately after the events of the 1993 film.

Whether the franchise eventually follows Halloween’s continuity-reset approach remains to be seen, but after Rebirth, many fans are clearly more interested in going backward than forward.