Jurassic Park IV - Can It Save The Franchise?

[JabberJaw]

Not sure if this has been discussed as of yet. I just seen this is going to start production in 2007 with a release in 2008.

I dont know about anyone else but i thought JP III kind of killed off this franchise. Never thought they would keep it going. For me it will depend on the director they get for the project.

I just dont see a need for another sequel (see Jaws).. 1 & 2 were fine..

[Tyrone_Shoelaces]

I think the rationale for JP4 was "Mo' dinosaurs, mo' money."

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

I read some vague story description taht IV focused on an unintroduced character so far, that was hired to go to some facility to supervise or be put in charge of a special experiment or operation, which basically involved humans breeding dinosaurs, including raptors, as some kind of controlled 'weapon' similar possibly to the Company's use of the creatures from Alien movies, and that they were to be used by policing forces for certain uses or operations.

Then something goes wrong. It seemed to concentrate on the misuse or mistreatement of nature and such dangerous but still victimised creatures, also with the consequences of it.

I heard this description about a year or or more ago.

[havocSchultz]

Moriarty had a Jurassic Park 4 Script Review on the main page awhile back... not sure if this is the same they're using - or if some of it is the same... but take a look... from what i remember - sounds pretty crazy... in some good ways - and some bad ways...


and i thought the 3rd film kinda sucked...and i thought spielberg phones in most of the 2nd film...

[JabberJaw]

I read some vague story description taht IV focused on an unintroduced character so far, that was hired to go to some facility to supervise or be put in charge of a special experiment or operation, which basically involved humans breeding dinosaurs, including raptors, as some kind of controlled 'weapon' similar possibly to the Company's use of the creatures from Alien movies, and that they were to be used by policing forces for certain uses or operations.

Then something goes wrong. It seemed to concentrate on the misuse or mistreatement of nature and such dangerous but still victimised creatures, also with the consequences of it.

I heard this description about a year or or more ago.

Wow...they are scratching the bottom of the barrel to come up with a plot if they use this one

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

I thought it sounded pretty good! - Compared to the others at least.

It does become more Dino's going mad in civilisation kinda thing, which is what I wanted all along, a continuation of The Lost World's ending.

[Peven]

title should be "J4:milking the dinosaurs"

[havocSchultz]

Dino's going mad in civilisation kinda thing,

?????

[JabberJaw]

Moriarty had a Jurassic Park 4 Script Review on the main page awhile back... not sure if this is the same they're using - or if some of it is the same... but take a look... from what i remember - sounds pretty crazy... in some good ways - and some bad ways...


and i thought the 3rd film kinda sucked...and i thought spielberg phones in most of the 2nd film...

There are some interesting premises in the script. The opening sounded very cool. Who knows, maybe they can pull it off

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Dino's going mad in civilisation kinda thing,

?????

Goooord. Had to happen soon enough eh? As soon as I wrote it, I knew it would happen, I was gonna do one myself.

Talk about throwing a ball to someone's bat.

HEH, DON'T TALK TO ME ABOUT BATS!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, I thought JP3 was criminal. No need for that film at all. Not even as TV epsiode of a series.

[The Vicar]

title should be "J4:milking the dinosaurs"

Hollywood has pretty much grafted udders into anything that has a pulse these days.
Really, really lame.
At least it sounds like they're trying to do a little something different, plot wise.

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Moriarty had a Jurassic Park 4 Script Review on the main page awhile back... not sure if this is the same they're using - or if some of it is the same... but take a look... from what i remember - sounds pretty crazy... in some good ways - and some bad ways...


and i thought the 3rd film kinda sucked...and i thought spielberg phones in most of the 2nd film...

There are some interesting premises in the script. The opening sounded very cool. Who knows, maybe they can pull it off

Cheers Havoc! This is the script that I was vaguely describing and trying ot remember.

I think it is both ludicrous but hot and has potential for some exciting shit at the same time.

[havocSchultz]

Hollywood has pretty much grafted udders into anything that has a pulse these days.

[ZombieZoneSolutions]

Didn't they already did make Jurassic Park 4?

[Adam Balm]

Didn't they already did make Jurassic Park 4?

I knew someone was going to say it sooner or later...

[The Vicar]

Hollywood has pretty much grafted udders into anything that has a pulse these days.

Well, okay, except for that poor bastard.... ( identified as Police Academy X )

[ZombieZoneSolutions]

Didn't they already did make Jurassic Park 4?

I knew someone was going to say it sooner or later...

I'm sorry. I know its obvious, but I just couldn't resist.

[Nachokoolaid]

I liked JP3, until the climax of the film, where (apparently) the budget was depleted and the film ended so abruptly that you think "WTF?" I mean, I thought the military was going to show, and it was going to be a big ass showdown between them and all the dinos. But no, FADE TO BLACK.

Again, WTF?

[Shane]

I didn't care for the first one.

[HollywoodBabylon]

Perhaps in this one they extract the DNA from Dickie Attenborough because, God Knows, he'll be old enough by now to qualify as a dinosaur, perhaps a Attenboroclosarus..........

[The Vicar]

Perhaps in this one they extract the DNA from Dickie Attenborough because, God Knows, he'll be old enough by now to qualify as a dinosaur, perhaps a Attenboroclosarus..........

Attenboroughimplash!!!

That's sooo cold.
Still funny, though.
Fair trade.

[raasnio]

I didn't care for the first one.

Yeah, it was ok, but they go downhill from there. No reason to make more. Mediocrity through and through.

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Yeahm but there 3 fioms into the franchise and they have harldy touched on the rael potential story implications that this subject oculd have, they've just used it as an excuse to put eye canfdy on the screen, AND NOTHING MORE!!!!

I think that the story telling of this subject from 1 to 4 is just starting .

Cubnts!

[doglips]

All I want from another Jurassic Park is an underwater sequence involving a one-man submersible, Plesiosaurus, Mosasaurus and some fucking mind blowing effects.

Not too much to ask is it?

EDIT - That script on the main page is very odd, some good ideas to begin with but the idea of a 5 dinosaur and 1 man hit squad is totally ridiculous.

[AtomicHyperbole]

If handled well, the genetic mutation storyline could be ok... but it just sounds so cheesy. One thing, I'm tired of seeing the dinosaurs isolated on the island. I think the book The Lost World ended with dino's on the South American mainland. Man trying to handle a rampant predator that's taking hold of the countryside and tearing up villages, killing children on town outskirts, so and and so forth could be terrifying.

[doglips]

The second book had those chameleon like dinosaurs that they left out of the film - now that would be cool, that was a great sequence/chapter.

[AtomicHyperbole]

Yeah, that bit was great. If they'd had just stuck closer to the original novel, TLW would've been a much better film. As it stands they split its ideas over two movies.

[raasnio]

I agree on the potential of these films. As has been stated, there have been some great dinos and sequences left out. Underwater action would be nice. I just don't have faith in Spielberg. He wants to make family pictures, but he goes overboard with them.

As long as he's involved we won't be getting the Jurassic Park we want.

A little girl attacking raptors? With gymnastics? Ugh. Gymkata wanna be.

[austenandrews]

Am I the only one who assumed the "mutated dino assassins" thing was a joke?

[Adam Balm]

Am I the only one who assumed the "mutated dino assassins" thing was a joke?

"Hoped", "wished", maybe. Not assumed...

[Bob Samonkey]

Am I the only one who assumed the "mutated dino assassins" thing was a joke?

"Hoped", "wished", maybe. Not assumed...

So this movie opens the doors for the dino private eye. As in Eric Garcia's un-Matchstick Men books, Anonymous Rex, Casual Rex, and Hot and Sweaty Rex. Oh boy!

[Kingdaddy]

From the script review... DIRTY DOZEN-style mercenary team of hyper-smart dinosaurs in body armor killing drug dealers and rescuing kidnapped children...are you fucking kidding me? Are they gonna make this an R-rated Teenage Munant Ninja Raptors???

[brendonconnelly]

The reason that script review appealed to me was, simply, two words:

Joh Sayles.

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Wouldn't start taking the piss out of this story just yet. I bet if it's done in the right way, or with certain angles taken on this idea to make it not so obvious, it might just work. Plus you don't know what happens in the story after it all goes wrong.

[Bob Samonkey]

Wouldn't start taking the piss out of this story just yet. I bet if it's done in the right way, or with certain angles taken on this idea to make it not so obvious, it might just work. Plus you don't know what happens in the story after it all goes wrong.

No piss taken. I enjoy these books (Anonymous Rex, Casual Rex, and Hot and Sweaty Rex) just thought the SiFi movie was stupid. They are cheesy fun and hopfully this will be as well

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Those books are real!?!? Sorry, they do sound so silly I thought you was making them up, without me sounding like a hypocrit.

Well I like the the script description if for one thing, the unpredicatability it has in using this idea.

[unikrunk]

I heard that the Dino's could talk too, thanks to genetic modifications in the throat and chest.

/not kidding, yet very saddened.

edit - I think it will work, but only if the merc dinos wear ninja gear. Full, head to tail, ninja gear.

[JabberJaw]

I heard that the Dino's could talk too, thanks to genetic modifications in the throat and chest.

/not kidding, yet very saddened.

edit - I think it will work, but only if the merc dinos wear ninja gear. Full, head to tail, ninja gear.

Sounds like Gremlins 2

[Bob Samonkey]

Those books are real!?!? Sorry, they do sound so silly I thought you was making them up, without me sounding like a hypocrit.

Well I like the the script description if for one thing, the unpredicatability it has in using this idea.

[Dix_Mcgee]

The only thing I want to see less then this movie is possibly
Van Helsing 2
Ultra Violet 2
Ultra Violet 1
and of course
any movie by
Renny Harlin

[raasnio]

The only thing I want to see less then this movie is possibly
Van Helsing 2
Ultra Violet 2
Ultra Violet 1
and of course
any movie by
Renny Harlin

LOL. Yeah....

[Tubbs Tattsyrup]

The reason that script review appealed to me was, simply, two words:

Joh Sayles.

Well, Alexander Payne wrote JP3, but it was nowhere near being Sideways, now was it?

Anyway: I might be talking to Sam Neill in a few weeks' time. Is there anywhing that you guys want me to try to ask him about JP4?

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

Ask him just what the final script is going to be. Who's making it. What kind of action sequences are we gonna see. Is it gonna be about Dino's in civilisation.

Also ask, how many times have people gone up to him and said, "Kneel Sam Neill. I said Kneel Sam. Sam! - Knnnneeeyeeeeeelll. Kneeeyeeeeeeel before Sam!!! Kneeeyeeeeeel before Sam Neill. Kneel before Sam. SAAAAAAAAMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!"

[Tubbs Tattsyrup]

Also ask, how many times have people gone up to him and said, "Kneel Sam Neill. I said Kneel Sam. Sam! - Knnnneeeyeeeeeelll. Kneeeyeeeeeeel before Sam!!! Kneeeyeeeeeel before Sam Neill. Kneel before Sam. SAAAAAAAAMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Well, OK. But I'll probably have to kneel.

Jesus, it's a good thing he's not a knight. Can you imagine the confusion if he was told "Rise, Sir Neill"?

[Cpt Kirks 2pay]

I imagine he'd get into a lot of fights with Kings 'n' stuff when they said this.

"What do you want me to do? Rise, or kneel? Make your mind up?"

Could be a major scrap and fight going on in the court that day I tell you. You see, this is where it'd be a good thing for the Dino Mercs to come in.

[papalazeru]

I have one question for Sam concerning JP4...

Why?

Crichton does the same old shit rehashed. Westworld, Futureworld, Jurrasic Park.

Why would Sam Neil do this after some fantastic performances in other films and stage.

Rememer in the mouth of maddness?

[buster00]

(*into cel phone, moving 90 MPH along the Santa Monica Freeway*)

"You find me a way to get those dinosaurs into SPACE, you hear me? I don't give a FUCK what that son of a bitch says, you tell Crichton we're gonna make him more money than any author's ever seen in his entire LIFE!

"What are you talkin' about, it's a bad idea? DINOSAURS! In SPACE!! Preteens are gonna swallow this bullshit like tittie milk. Now listen. As soon as I hang up, you get Mattel on the fuckin' phone and start getting me prototypes. I wanna see Dino-Fighter Spaceship designs by the end of July.

I'M NOT WORRIED about the SCRIPT, you goddamn IDIOT! Since when was this fucking franchise EVER about the SCRIPT? Start thinking with your wallet. And get that logo in motion. Let's MOVE on this! We can have a trailer up on the Super Bowl if you'll get your head outta yer ass and start thinking DINOSAURS IN SPACE.

Fantastic. Love ya, Stevie. Keep me posted."

[busby]

Jurassis Park IV - Dinosaurs on a Plane

Now that I would pay to see

[buster00]

HAHAHA!! YES!!

(And I would pay 7.00 to watch your avatar all day, busby! Welcome!)

[doglips]

(*into cel phone, moving 90 MPH along the Santa Monica Freeway*)

"You find me a way to get those dinosaurs into SPACE, you hear me? I don't give a FUCK what that son of a bitch says, you tell Crichton we're gonna make him more money than any author's ever seen in his entire LIFE!

"What are you talkin' about, it's a bad idea? DINOSAURS! In SPACE!! Preteens are gonna swallow this bullshit like tittie milk. Now listen. As soon as I hang up, you get Mattel on the fuckin' phone and start getting me prototypes. I wanna see Dino-Fighter Spaceship designs by the end of July.

I'M NOT WORRIED about the SCRIPT, you goddamn IDIOT! Since when was this fucking franchise EVER about the SCRIPT? Start thinking with your wallet. And get that logo in motion. Let's MOVE on this! We can have a trailer up on the Super Bowl if you'll get your head outta yer ass and start thinking DINOSAURS IN SPACE.

Fantastic. Love ya, Stevie. Keep me posted."

Ipampilash!