Jurassic World Rebirth director read the screenplay "wanting to hate it" because he needed a break, but did a 180 after finishing it: "It was an opportunity of a lifetime"

Jonathan Bailey in Jurassic World Rebirth
(Image credit: Universal)

Just when Gareth Edwards was out, dino🃏saurs pulled him b🌼ack in.

The Jurassic World Rebirth director may have 🐼been itching f𝓡or a break from filmmaking by the time the movie's script landed in his inbox, but his initial doubts about the project quickly evaporated.

"I read this screenplay wanting to hate it because I just wanted to have a break," Edwards says in the new issue of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine, which features Star Trek: Strange New Worlds on the cover and hi♈ts newsstands on Wednesday, June 18.

"I was all ready for the polite, 'No.' Like, 'Oh, it was really good, but I just want to do my own thing. Thank you for considering me.' I got ൩to the end of the screenplay and was like, 'Oh shit, it's good. Damn it.'"

Of the script, penned by long-time Steven Spielberg collaborator and Jurassic Park co-writer David Koepp, Edwards enth🌼used, "All the characters really popped out. It was just one of those things where it was like, I can't not do this. Also, it was all going to be done in about a year. It was just like, 'Okay, I’m not going to be able to do anything bu꧙t this.' But it was an opportunity of a lifetime, to some extent. I dove in, really. We're only just coming up for air."

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Jurassic World Park Rebirth, starring Scarlet Johansson, Jonathan Bailey, and Mahershala Ali, releases in cinemas on July 2. Read more in , which will be available from Wednesday, June 18. Here's the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds cover you need t💫o be looking out for on newsstands below...

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