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Jurassic Park 4 might be made

Would you watch Jurassic Park 4?

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It's been 10 years since the last "Jurassic Park" movie hit theaters, but Steven Spielberg and screenwriter Mark Protosevich are now brainstorming a Jurassic Park 4, reports Heat Vision.

Spielberg, who directed the first two films and was an executive producer on the third, has met Protosevich twice to think of a story for a potential fourth film in the franchise, the trade says.

Universal Pictures, which released the trilogy, and Spielberg's representatives are saying that a writer has not been hired and that the discussions have been "purely exploratory."
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http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=78691

If they actually do this, let's hope Spielberg is the director again.
 
Well, if I payed money to see JP3, after the shitfest that was "The Lost World" (0/10 for stealing the title from the A.C. Doyle novel)... Yeah, I'd watch JP4, but without any expectations.
 
I am all for a Jurassic Park 4, if they use the crazy John Sayles script from a few years ago.

I’m pleased to report that this second Sayles draft of JURASSIC PARK 4 sees him working in full exploitation mode. I’ve talked to a number of people about this draft, and it seems to radically divide them in terms of reaction. Some people adore the premise and get excited as soon as they hear it. Some people (including the person who gave it to me) are convinced it’s the worst thing they’ve ever read and a signpost on the road to Hollywood Hell. Personally, I think it’s well-written and certainly inventive, but I also think it just might be the single most bugfuck crazy franchise sequel I’ve ever read, and I’m not sure we’re ever going to see this thing onscreen. It just doesn’t seem possible that Universal would make something this vigorously whacked out.

I spent the entire first act of the script thinking I had it figured out. I knew where it was going. Problem was, every time I thought I had it figured out, something happened that seemed to change the entire premise of the movie.

The script starts at a Little League game somewhere in America, an idyllic scene that quickly goes bad when pterosaurs attack the kids and their parents. It’s a cool scene, and I couldn’t help but immediately anticipate what might lay ahead. Dinosaurs in America. All-out warfare on home soil. This should be fun. In a series of television clips, we learn that this is the first attack on North American ground following months of this sort of thing in Central America and Mexico. The UN has created a task force to exterminate the dinosaurs. Awesome, I thought. A bad-ass heavily-armed United Nations task force versus the dinosaurs. Bring it on! But then the script throws its first major curve ball, introducing Nick Harris, an unemployed soldier of fortune. Nick’s the lead in the movie. Not Alan Grant. Not Ian Malcolm. Despite all the rumors to the contrary, those characters are not back for this film. Instead, we meet Nick as he watches those same reports on TV that we are. He’s approached by an ex-commander of his and offered a meeting about a job. He’s warned that the guy he’d be working for is a little bit strange...

... which brings us to John Hammond. It’s a great cameo role for Richard Attenborough, and he’s said several times that he is looking forward to it. In the script’s single wittiest scene, we catch up with the eccentric ex-billionaire who is now the most-sued man in history according to the Guiness Book Of World Records. He’s been declared incompetent by his heirs and his company has been taken over by other corporations. Technically, Jurassic Park isn’t even his problem anymore, but he still feels responsible for the dinosaurs and the damage they do. Hammond’s got a big idea: breed some new dinosaurs that can’t reproduce and introduce them into the wild population. A Judas strain that will kill off the dinosaurs within one generation. Easy enough, except the UN has outlawed any breeding of new dinosaurs by anyone and they’ve prohibited the sale, mining, or possession of amber worldwide. Hammond’s got scientists ready and waiting to go, but he needs genetic material to work with. As soon as Hammond mentions where that material might come from, I thought for sure that I was ahead of the script again. Oh, of course! The shaving cream can that Nedry stole. He’s going to hire this guy to put together a team of mercenaries, and they’re going to spend the whole film on Isla Nublar getting picked off one-by-one while trying to find the samples.

After all, the first three films are all pretty much carbon copies of each other, excuses to turn people loose on the island. I almost set the script down at that point, disappointed that they’d do something so predictable again after all this talk about how they were going to turn things upside down. Page sixteen, and I was sure I knew the rest of the script without even reading it.

But I was wrong... again.

Nick Harris does indeed got to Isla Nublar, but he goes alone. He does indeed track down the shaving cream can that Nedry stole, but that’s a mere five pages later. And as soon as he finds it, he’s attacked not only by excavaraptors (think trapdoor spiders), but also by security rangers who work for Grendel Corporation, the mysterious Swiss holding company that took over Jurassic Park from Hammond. Seems they want those genetic samples for their own purposes... whatever those may be. Nick has to get off the island, evading his pursuers, human or otherwise. He manages to make it back to the mainland just long enough to hide the shaving cream can before the security team catches up with him and gasses him into unconsciousness.

All of that happens by page 39, at which point I realized I had no idea where this thing was going, and I quit trying to guess. It kept confounding my expectations. It certainly didn’t feel like it was just another rehash of the same formula. When Nick wakes up, he’s in the tower of a medieval castle in the Alps. Seriously. That’s the precise moment when the entire enterprise goes so over-the-top loony that you’ll either go along with it for the entire insane ride or reject it roundly as a big bag of ludicrous. Nick is introduced to Adrien Joyce, the major domo henchman of Baron von Drax, CEO of the Grendel Corporation. Joyce isn’t a moustache-twirling bad guy bent on torturing Nick into revealing where he hid the shaving cream can. Instead, he offers Nick a job, and in order to explain the job to him, he has to take him on a tour of the entire castle, which turns out to be a fairly sophisticated genetics lab where Grendel Corporation has been breeding some dinosaurs of their own design, cross-breeds that never existed in any era of nature with all sorts of custom modifications.

I want to tread lightly on what happens over the course of the rest of the film on the off chance that Mary Parent or someone at Universal is seriously going to make this thing. There’s the eight-year-old-boy side of me that thinks that a DIRTY DOZEN-style mercenary team of hyper-smart dinosaurs in body armor killing drug dealers and rescuing kidnapped children will be impossible to resist. And then there’s the side of me that says... WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! Nick is put in charge of training these five dinosaurs, X1 through X5, and the first thing he does is name them. “Any soldier worth his pay has a name to answer to, not a number,” he says. So we are introduced to Achilles, Hector, Perseus, Orestes, and Spartacus, each of them a specially created deinonychus, which is sort of like a miniature T-rex. They have super-sensitive smell and hearing, incredible strength and speed and pack-hunting instincts, and they have modified forelegs, lengthened and topped with more dextrous fingers, as well as dog DNA for increased obedience and human DNA so they can solve problems well. All of this is topped off with a drug-regulating implant that can dose them with adrenaline or serotonin as the situation demands.

And go ahead. Look at the calendar. We’re a long, long way from April 1st right now.

By the end of the film, there are set pieces that are much, much bigger than anything we’ve seen in the other films, and much crazier. They’re all well-written, and there’s a glee to the bloodletting that you have to admire. There’s also a blatant set-up for a JURASSIC PARK 5 that is just too good for the studio to pass up. That is, of course, if they actually decide to make this one.

In the end, this represents an enormous gamble for Universal and Amblin’, and I admire them for at least exploring this as a possibility. They’ve thrown some damn good writers at it so far. If they make it, it’s anyone’s guess how fans of the series so far are going to react. This is no-holds-barred SF/horror/action with none of the staring-up-at-a-special-effect-in-awe tone of the first three films. This is a drive-in movie, slightly unhinged from page one, with some truly hissable human villains and some outrageous monster characters. Will it work? Will we ever see it onscreen to find out?
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I don't see anything that wild getting made, but Protosevich's script for Thor was supposedly amazing, and far superior to the film we got. So maybe they have the right guy taking a crack at the franchise.
 
I voted 'Yes', but I haven't seen either of the Jurassic Park sequels yet. :lol:
 
^ I only saw the first two, mainly because Spielberg directed them. I heard the third movie was pretty bad... :rommie:
 
The second film could've been better had they stuck with the original ending, which had an extended Raptor sequence, pterandoons and the death of the John Hammond character. Instead we got the silly San Diego T-rex rampage stuff and Disneyesque happy ending.


Regarding the third, it had a lot of production problems, I think. Plus I don't the FX were as good as the first. The animatronics were better, but the CG was lacking. It helped that in the first two, most of the action was at night, which helped hide any FX problems, whereas JP3 was largely a 'day' movie. Plus there were many rumors of trouble on set, especially with William H. Macy who was clearly out of his element.

This renewed interest in the franchise might have something to do with the upcoming video game (Which takes place during the original film, and also, like the JP4 script, deals with the shaving cream.)
 
I enjoyed them all, although I found Julianne Moore incredibly annoying and the IQ of most of the characters in the second movie well below average.
 
I also think they changed Malcolm's character too much. Instead of the rock star/nerd from JP, he seemed just depressed for most of the film, and we get very little of what made the character likeable in the first film.


As for Grant in the third, he fares better but it's a shame they pretty much unraveled a lot of his character development from Jurassic Park by having Ellie marry some other guy just for a deus ex machina at the end.

BTW this might also have a lot to do with the JP blu-ray release this Fall/Winter, maybe they'll have some JP4 content.
 
I consider the second movie a guilty pleasure. I wouldn't call it good necessarily, and the way the good guys always impossibly evade certain death was ridiculous, but I always enjoyed the better dinosaurs compared to the first movie. The first will always be the landmark film though, and the better movie.
And the third one was just crap from what I remember. I remember it being boring and having a lot less actual dinosaurs and a lot less actual story.

Sure, make another. I wouldn't watch it in the cinema (but I don't watch any movies at the cinema), but I'm interested to see another dinosaur movie, if done right.
 
the book was better. but I love dino's so I will see jp4 if it gets made. now jp3 was bad with the exception of the dino's especially that big one. I don't recall the name of it. but don't forget we still have TERRA NOVA coming this fall.
 
They're all just eye-candy popcorn flicks, and I like them all on that level.
Another one would be welcome.
 
Sam Neil said that he won't do another JP film, so hopefully they can get Jeff Goldblum. It wouldn't be Jurassic Park without at least one of the original characters. Though I'd still see it anyway.
 
Both the second and third movies sucked, but for opposite reasons. The second one had a very messy plot and a really stupid scene at the end, but was kept some of the wonder of Dinosaurs of the original and a little bit of the arrogance of man theme. The third one had a much better plot, but was basically just a movie where they were chased by a monster while trying to get off an island.

I'd probably watch a fourth one because dinosaurs on the big screen are fun (especially if they add new ones - the Carnotaurs from The Lost World novel still haven't been added). However, I'm not expecting a great movie. I'm trying to remember which long hiatus movies have turned out good. Rocky Balboa was solid, Predators was a cool movie (not sure if it counts, since there were the AVP movies), Indiana Jones was somewhat ok, although pissed a lot of people off. Any others to choose from?
 
That's probably the dumbest script idea I've ever read. I read it once before, and both times I was pretty much lost at excavaraptors. Also, a Deinonychus is NOT like a miniature T-Rex, it's like a large Velociraptor. Ugh...if they do make JP4, they'd better use a better idea.
 
I just want to see an army of pterodactyls attacking something and causing tremendous explosions.
 
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