Jurassic World Rebirth is a reboot of the Jurassic franchise that features multiple references, jokes, and callbacks to the movie that started the series.
Jurassic Park hit screens in the summer of 1993, and quickly became a box office sensation, so-much-so that by the end of that summer it was the most successful film of all-time.
Sequels inevitably followed, courtesy of The Lost World and Jurassic Park III, while more recently audiences flocked to the Jurassic World trilogy, which helped the franchise gross more than $5 billion worldwide.
Rebirth is a reboot that features all-new characters, but the film is written by original Jurassic Park scribe David Koepp, and he’s smuggled in multiple nods to the Jurassic past. SPOILERS ahead…
Objects in the rear-view mirror
‘Objects in the Rearview Mirror May Appear Closer Than They Are’ isn’t just a song by Meat Loaf, it’s also a gag in the 1993 Jurassic Park movie.
When Ian Malcolm is speeding away from the Tyranosaurus rex in a Jeep, the gigantic T-rex can be glimpsed in the wing-mirror, above the words ‘objects in the rearview mirror are closer than they appear.’
In Jurassic World Rebirth, Martin Klebs (Rupert Friend) is introduced in much the same way, the businessman first glimpsed in a wing-mirror above that very same phrase.
Duncan’s flare
During that memorable Tyranosaurus rex sequence in the original Jurassic Park, Lex and Tim are in danger of being eaten by the beast.
Chaos theory merchant Ian Malcolm won’t stand for that, so he selflessly attracts the dinosaur’s attention using a flare, and encourages the T-rex to chase him instead.
In Rebirth, Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali) does exactly the same thing, using a flare to catch the eye of the Distortus rex, so the rest of his team have time to escape on a boat.
Henry Loomis = Alan Grant
Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey) is Rebirth’s version of Jurassic Park’s Dr. Alan Grant, being a charming paleontologist, who transforms into an absolute badass when required.
In Jurassic Park, Grant loses his sh*t when he first sees prehistoric creatures in the wild, and Loomis has a similarly emotional reaction when he first rests his hand on a dinosaur.
Over the course of the movie, we learn that Loomis studied under Grant, and in the film’s production notes, it’s revealed that he even uses Alan’s trowel. “To carry forward the baton of Alan Grant is special,” says Baliey. “And to play Henry, who embodies the love of nature and our best curiosities about it, was great fun.”
And if you consider the Jurassic films to be horror movies, the name Loomis also has a long and storied history in the genre, popping up in Psycho and Scream, and most memorably being the name of the doctor that Donald Pleasance plays in Halloween.
When dinosaurs ruled the earth!
Jurassic Park ends with the T-rex taking out a couple of Velociraptors, then roaring as a banner saying ‘When dinosaurs ruled the earth’ falls to the ground behind it.
That same sign is seen falling near the start of Rebirth, when Dr. Henry Loomis is packing up the dinosaur exhibition at the museum where he works.
It’s a fun callback, but also representative of the fact that some 30 years on from the prehistoric creatures’ return, the public has lost interest in them.
Gas station = kitchen
One of the most memorable scenes in Jurassic Park occur when the Velociraptors chase Lex and Tim through a kitchen.
During the unbearably tense sequence, the dinosaurs slide around the room, tap their claws on the floor, crash into pots and pans, and become confused by a mirrored surface.
There’s a near-identical scene in Rebirth, though the dinosaurs are chasing a kid around an abandoned gas station, smashing into shelves as they career around the aisles, and also becoming confused by their own reflection.
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