“Jurassic World Rebirth” has nods to the past even as it cuts a new future with new characters. It’s a sort of heist movie with monsters that’s set on the original decaying island research facility for the original, abandoned Jurassic Park.

As anticipation builds for Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Bailey's Jurassic World Rebirth, slated to release on July 4, one cannot help but revisit the legacy of Jurassic Park and the legacy it started three decades back.

John Hammond's great dinosaur theme park affront to God and man remains singular. Even Spielberg didn't even try to resurrect that exact mix of awe and terror in The Lost World, that film leaning far more into the scary nature of the flesh-eating dinosaurs as opposed to their grass-eating, foot-stomping wonder.