Rise of the reboots From Jurassic World to Superman, Hollywood films are stuck on repeat

The director of the new Jurassic Park movie last week explained his aim for the seventh film in the series.

- Catherine Shoard

The director of the new Jurassic Park movie last week explained his aim for the seventh film in the series. Innovation it was not. Rather, said Gareth Edwards, it was karaoke. To prepare, he binged Steven Spielberg clips, hoping to accomplish genre cloning.

"I was trying," he told BBC's Front Row, "to make it feel nostalgic. The goal was that it should feel like Universal Studios went into their vaults and found a reel of film, brushed the dust off and it said: Jurassic World Rebirth.

"And they're like: 'What's this? We don't remember doing this!' I wanted it to feel like a film they'd discovered from the early 90s."

Time travellers from that period to the present day would be forgiven for wondering whether their DeLorean was on the blink. Not only are Oasis and Pulp soundtracking the summer with hits from Britpop's golden years, but film-makers, too, are - to paraphrase another mid-90s cultural touchstone, the Ferrero Rocher ads - really spoiling us.

In a fortnight, we return to the scene of the crime of 1997's ripe slasher sensation, I Know What You Did Last Summer, for a new movie boasting exactly the same title, as well as key cast Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr - whose very names act as a Smash Hits madeleine. The 2025 film continues the events of 1998's I Still Know What You Did Last Summer but - purists take note - ignores 2006's now non-canonical I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer. Mind your adverbs.

August brings The Naked Gun, with Liam Neeson slipping into the Swiss army shoes vacated by Leslie Nielsen's bumbling police lieutenant in 1994, as well as a remake of 1989's The War of the Roses. This time it's called The Roses, with Olivia Colman locked in marital battle with Benedict Cumberbatch.