Jurassic World Rebirth director learns dinosaur de-extinction could come sooner than we think (exclusive)

Life, uh, finds a way…sooner than, uh, we think.

Colossal Labs, the biotechnology and genetic engineering company responsible for resurrecting the once-extinct dire wolves, met with Gareth Edwards, the director behind this summer’s Jurassic World Rebirth (in theaters Wednesday). As seen in Entertainment Weekly‘s exclusive look at Edwards’ visit to their headquarters, the filmmaker learns dinosaurs could be next on the docket.

“This is the real Jurassic Park, isn’t it?” Edwards asks in the video (shown above).

“I think it’s Jurassic Park with a conservation focus,” Ben Lamm, the founder and CEO of Colossal Biosciences, clarifies.

According to Lamm, “You can’t get dino DNA.” He debunks the fictionalized concept from Michael Crichton‘s novels, which inspired the Jurassic franchise. “Amber, believe it or not, is very porous; it doesn’t hold DNA,” he explains. However, he posits, “I think you’ll have dinosaur equivalents in the next 100 years using these tools, just a more advanced version of these tools.”

The dinosaur Edwards would like to see resurrected the most — “the one that’s gonna get all the tourists,” he says — is the Tyrannosaurus rex. “It’s also gonna go very wrong,” he quickly adds.

Any fan of the Jurassic Park movies will recite that famous line from Jeff Goldblum‘s Ian Malcolm (which is also referenced in the Colossal Labs video): “Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.” Jurassic World Rebirth is another reminder of that.

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