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Since life finds a way, Jurassic Park 4 was eventually made under the title Jurassic World. But many ideas floated around beforehand...
Although Jurassic Park III made less money than The Lost World: Jurassic Park - which itself had made less money than the original Jurassic Park - there was never much doubt that Universal wanted another dino-stuffed movie from Steven Spielberg's Michael Crichton-inspired film franchise. The problem was working out exactly how to do this, after the sequels had failed to live up to the financial success and audience adoration of the first film.
Eventually, we got the box office-smashing Jurassic World and Chris Pratt in a natty waistcoat. But before that, tonnes of ideas came and went as Universal attempted to nail down the best way to resurrect the series without the help of ancient mosquituoes...
Early ideas stage
The long and winding...
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Since life finds a way, Jurassic Park 4 was eventually made under the title Jurassic World. But many ideas floated around beforehand...
Although Jurassic Park III made less money than The Lost World: Jurassic Park - which itself had made less money than the original Jurassic Park - there was never much doubt that Universal wanted another dino-stuffed movie from Steven Spielberg's Michael Crichton-inspired film franchise. The problem was working out exactly how to do this, after the sequels had failed to live up to the financial success and audience adoration of the first film.
Eventually, we got the box office-smashing Jurassic World and Chris Pratt in a natty waistcoat. But before that, tonnes of ideas came and went as Universal attempted to nail down the best way to resurrect the series without the help of ancient mosquituoes...
Early ideas stage
The long and winding...
- 6/27/2016
- Den of Geek
One of the biggest dangling threads in "Jurassic World" is the fate of Dr. Henry Wu. I thought it was fun casting to bring B.D. Wong back for "Jurassic World," but when I saw the film, I was surprised by just how much screen time they gave him and how clearly he's turned the corner from "bright guy hired by Hammond to do something fantastic and ethically questionable" to "mad scientist screwing his theme park bosses while coming up with some sinister applications for his work." What surprised me more was that they let him live. After all, "Jurassic World" is unafraid to kill even the most peripheral character in violent and preposterous manners, so why wouldn't they kill the man responsible for creating the just-plain-evil dinosaur that's running around eating everyone? The obvious answer is that they still need him, and sure enough, "Jurassic World" makes it clear that Dr.
- 7/23/2015
- by Drew McWeeny
- Hitfix
As Jurassic World bites a hole in our multiplexes, we compares its events to John Sayles' Jurassic Park IV script from a decade ago...
Nb: the following contains spoilers for Jurassic World.
For Universal, the success of Jurassic World is the $500m pay-off to a story which began well over a decade ago. Work on a third Jurassic Park sequel originally began after the release of Joe Johnston’s coolly-received Jurassic Park III way back in 2001, yet the film languished in a pre-production quagmire as writer after writer seemingly struggled to crack the story.
William Monahan (The Departed, Kingdom Of Heaven) was the first screenwriter to step up to the plate, announced at a time when Keira Knightley was reportedly in the running for a major role. Around that time, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough were also thought to be returning to their respective roles of Ian Malcom and John Hammond.
Nb: the following contains spoilers for Jurassic World.
For Universal, the success of Jurassic World is the $500m pay-off to a story which began well over a decade ago. Work on a third Jurassic Park sequel originally began after the release of Joe Johnston’s coolly-received Jurassic Park III way back in 2001, yet the film languished in a pre-production quagmire as writer after writer seemingly struggled to crack the story.
William Monahan (The Departed, Kingdom Of Heaven) was the first screenwriter to step up to the plate, announced at a time when Keira Knightley was reportedly in the running for a major role. Around that time, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough were also thought to be returning to their respective roles of Ian Malcom and John Hammond.
- 6/15/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
Nick Harris, a longtime literary agent who co-founded the Story Foundation, has died of cancer. He was 49. ICM Partners said Harris died May 22 at his home in Los Angeles. After graduating law school, Harris began his career at AP Watt in his native London. After moving to L.A., he joined Rws Literary Agency in 2006 and became a partner. In 2009, he left for Mosaic, where he became a manager with Jimmy Miller and represented writers and literary properties. A year later…...
- 5/27/2015
- Deadline
If purported production art is genuine, it's true that a fourth Jurassic Park film featuring human-dinosaur hybrids was canned
It's been more than a decade since 2001's Jurassic Park III, and dinosaur fans have had to content themselves with the odd rumbling from Steven Spielberg about the series' future (most notably at last year's Comic-Con). What's that you say? Nobody wants to see Laura Dern and Sam Neill inexplicably end up on either island again, with a convenient troupe of cute kids having spuriously come along for the ride? Well, what if I told you that the original screenwriters on Jurassic Park IV felt exactly the same way?
There have long been rumours of an abandoned "dinos with guns" take on the fourth instalment in the series. Back in 2007, the Ain't It Cool blog published a script review of an utterly freaky screenplay. Now, for the first time, we can...
It's been more than a decade since 2001's Jurassic Park III, and dinosaur fans have had to content themselves with the odd rumbling from Steven Spielberg about the series' future (most notably at last year's Comic-Con). What's that you say? Nobody wants to see Laura Dern and Sam Neill inexplicably end up on either island again, with a convenient troupe of cute kids having spuriously come along for the ride? Well, what if I told you that the original screenwriters on Jurassic Park IV felt exactly the same way?
There have long been rumours of an abandoned "dinos with guns" take on the fourth instalment in the series. Back in 2007, the Ain't It Cool blog published a script review of an utterly freaky screenplay. Now, for the first time, we can...
- 10/12/2012
- by Ben Child
- The Guardian - Film News
Steven Spielberg has been talking about developing a fourth "Jurassic Park" installment ever since the third film hit theaters. But despite the many scripts that were written, all of them have been rejected. Including the one that had dinosaurs carrying guns. That script, by John Sayles (The Spiderwick Chronicles), got far into development, with Carlos Huante hired to create pieces of concept art for Spielberg. Hasbro was even brought on to create toys from all the new characters that were supposed to show up in the movie. But as soon as executives got a look at the concept art, they immediately ripped up the script and shut down production. The story would have revolved around Nick Harris, who was hired to train mercenary dinosaurs that were created using a mix of DNA from dinosaurs, humans and dogs. Check out the art below. Concept Art: (click to enlarge)...
- 10/10/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
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