Scarlett Johansson is being courted for the lead role in a new Jurassic World trilogy.
Jurassic Park is one of the most beloved movies of all time and is credited with ushering in a new era of impressive CGI which still holds up to this day.
That was followed by The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III.
In 2015, the franchise received a reboot with the enormously successful Jurassic World, which grossed almost $1.7 billion at the box office.
Though its sequels Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom and Jurassic World: Dominion did not receive as positive reviews, they both still grossed well over a billion dollars also.
Rogue One director Gareth Edwards is set to take over what is being described as a new era for the film series, which means it is unlikely that we will see characters from the previous movies played by Sam Neil, Laura Dern Jeff Goldblum, Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas-Howard.
David Leitch was previously in talks to direct, but negotiations fell through.
The Hollywood Reporter details that the studio and Edwards want Johansson to lead the franchise. She is currently the second highest-grossing movie star of all time behind Robert Downey Jr.
Jurassic World tempted Edwards out of career break
Edwards is best known for directing Rogue One: A Star Wars Story which received rave reviews from critics. His other credits include Monsters, Godzilla and The Creator.
He was planning on taking a break before his next project, but that was before Steven Spielberg and Frank Marshall approached him to take over the epic dinosaur series.
“I was about to take a break and I started writing my next idea for a film and this is the only movie that would make me drop everything like a stone and dive right in," Edwards told Collider.
"I love Jurassic Park. I think the first movie is a cinematic masterpiece…so this opportunity is like a dream to me. And to work with Frank Marshall and Universal and David Koepp, who's writing the script, I think they're all legends. So I'm just very excited.”
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