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Jurassic World Rebirth is set on the fictional Ile Saint-Hubert, a previously-unseen location in the iconic franchise, which gave the filmmakers the opportunity to reimagine the dinosaur-inhabited world. The producers looked at numerous locations, including the Dominican Republic, Mauritius, Panama, and Costa Rica, before settling on Krabi, Thailand, where director Gareth Edwards also shot 2023’s The Creator. The team combined real-world locations in Thailand with sets in Malta, New York City, and London to create the world.
Jurassic World Rebirth follows a team of operatives, including Zora Bennett (Scarlett Johansson), Dr. Henry Loomis (Jonathan Bailey), and Duncan Kincaid (Mahershala Ali), as they infiltrate the restricted Ile Saint-Hubert to acquire DNA samples from three dinosaur species. On the way, they encounter a shipwrecked family, led by single father Reuben Delgado (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), who get swept up in the action. Audiences get to see a significant portion of the island, which is home to a now-deserted InGen research facility that bred dinosaur hybrids.
“We wanted it to feel like the original film, but at the same time, we wanted to push the technology a little bit in this new facility,” production designer James Clyne says. “This island is more advanced and ahead of its time than some of the other islands we’ve seen. InGen put all their resources into funding it, so you get a more futuristic sense of the world.”
“We wanted it to feel like the original film, but at the same time, we wanted to push the technology a little bit in this new facility,” production designer James Clyne says of the new film’s setting.
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It was important to both Edwards and Clyne to take advantage of as many real locations as possible, although some of the interiors of the InGen facility were built at Sky Studios Elstree in London. There are many nods to Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film, as well as the filmmaker’s other movies, in the set design. Here, Clyne breaks down the key locations used to create Jurassic World Rebirth.