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Director David Leitch is no longer headed to 'Jurassic World.' The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed talks between Universal and the filmmaker have fallen through. News that Leitch would direct a new 'Jurassic' movie came to light late last week, when Universal signaled the film was on the fast track by giving it a July 2nd, 2025 release date. The parting of ways is said to be due to a difference in vision and to be amicable.

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00:00Director David Leach is no longer headed to Jurassic World.

00:04The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed talks between Universal and the filmmaker have fallen through.

00:09News that Leach would direct a new Jurassic movie came to light late last week,

00:13when Universal signaled the film was on the fast track by giving it a July 2, 2025 release date.

00:19The parting of ways is said to be due to a difference in vision and to be amicable.

00:23THR broke the news last month that Universal was moving ahead with a new Jurassic World film.

00:27Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp is returning to write the film,

00:31after working on Steven Spielberg's 1993 original and his 1997 follow-up.

00:36The plan is to launch a new Jurassic era,

00:38which seems to suggest that the characters played by Jurassic World stars Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard will not return.

00:44The Jurassic franchise has spanned six features that have passed $6 billion worldwide.

00:50As for Leach, his previous films include Deadpool 2, Bullet Train, Fast and Furious Presents Hobbs & Shaw, and the upcoming Fall Guy.

00:56For more on this story, go to THR.com.

00:59This is The Hollywood Reporter News.

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