Jurassic Park IV - Part 1

[Wolfwood]

The first book said that the dinosaurs' diet had to be carefully regulated to keep them from getting ill. A movie could play off of that by having them develope some horrid virus akin to the Black Plague, reaching the mainland and spreading it.

The only hope for a cure is to return to Isla Nublar, where there was a stock of the antivirus kept. Along the way they run into a tarzan-esque Robert Muldoon (RIP his RL actor.).

I don't think Nublar was definitively destroyed in the movie universe.

That's probably the best plausible reason I've heard for going back to the island so far.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Or, you know, just start over.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

One : No reboots. No.

Two : yes, Nublar was "wiped out and destroyed, by Hurricane Clarissa"

 

[Thundercrack85]

One : No reboots. No.

Two : yes, Nublar was "wiped out and destroyed, by Hurricane Clarissa"

Then you will never have another good Jurassic Park movie.

 

[Airwings]

What is your opinion on the actors in the leads this time?
My vote goes to Laura Dern and Joseph Mazzello.
Also, it would have been great if Richard Attenborough and Samuel L Jackson returned and played big parts of the events as well.

Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum - I think we can do without them. No more than brief cameos.

 

[I'm Old Greg]

in the first book wasnt it mentioned there was another island, the first island where all the dinosaurs were made, it had colonies of families and workers living there,
why not do a prequel telling that story how the people ded and the families escaped for there lives from the dinosaurs. kinda like what happened in ALIENS the stuff they didnt show!

 

[ravn0s]

they've shown two islands in the movies. isla nublar in the first movie and isla sorna in the two sequels. i think there's a third island that they've never shown. anyone know for sure?

 

[Boom]

This article was just posted today. I'm assuming the interview is fairly recent (he discusses both War Horse and Tintin), so take this for what it's worth:

“I want to do another ‘Jurassic Park,’” he adds, “but in a new way. I think we’ve found a great way of telling a new story.”

SOURCE: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainme...ielbergs-double-feature-war-horse-tintin.html

 

[8wid]

Does Isla Sorna have a volcano on it, or any of the other islands? That could be a great reason for the dinosaurs on the chain to go extinct or to at least be threatened. Should they be preserved or shouldn't they is a good question for the conflict.

Dr. Grant returns to the islands wanting to save some species from destruction by putting them in highly secure preserves in South America for them to roam freely, while Dr. Malcolm returns absolutely against the idea and tries to sabotage their efforts and ensure the extinction of these dangerous beasts when the volcano erupts and cools the islands with its ash.

 

[chaseter]

they've shown two islands in the movies. isla nublar in the first movie and isla sorna in the two sequels. i think there's a third island that they've never shown. anyone know for sure?

There are only two islands. Isla Nublar was the island with the park on it and Isla Sorna was the island where all the real research and tests went on. Nublar was like the a Nike Store and Sorna was a Malaysian sweatshop.

Adding a third island would be contrived and silly. Oh look...a third island with dinosaurs! We must investigate. Oh look...a fourth island!

They need to reboot and follow the books, which are way different than the movies, or they need to go back to basics with the fourth movie and have it center around the characters more so than the dinosaurs like the third did.

 

[Wolf Boy]

Not sure where else to put this, but on another dinosaur themed topic of discussion, i just watched the famous WALKING WITH DINOSAURS doco. REALLY great stuff.

 

[SWAT]

I don't care about the large dino's.... I just want raptors.

 

[Thundercrack85]

How about a utah raptor, between a T. rex and Jurassic Park's take on the velociraptor.

 

[Carnotaur3]

This article was just posted today. I'm assuming the interview is fairly recent (he discusses both War Horse and Tintin), so take this for what it's worth:


SOURCE: http://www.suntimes.com/entertainme...ielbergs-double-feature-war-horse-tintin.html

I wonder if Spielberg wants to direct it.

 

[Victarion]

How about a utah raptor, between a T. rex and Jurassic Park's take on the velociraptor.

Real velociraptors stood at about three feet, so the movie already had Utah Raptors. I think that a Carnotaurus or two could add some suspense to the movie. In the novel, The Lost World, they can shift their skin patterns, camoflauging themselves like large, fast carnivorous chameleons.

Throw a couple of those in some mist/fog-shrouded ruins of an Ingen Lab/Resident Village for the lab personel, and you got a nice, tense sequence!

 

[mclay18]

Universal is trying the umpteenth time to get the film off the ground, so they hired the scribes from Rise of the Apes and its subsequent sequel -- Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver -- to pen Jurassic Park 4.

http://www.deadline.com/2012/06/uni...anet-of-the-apes-scribes-for-jurassic-park-4/

And Spielberg isn't directing this.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Why don't they just start over? It's been two decades since the original. Both sequels were widely panned.

Though it would be funny to open the film with "remember when they cloned dinosaurs in the early 90's?"

 

[Boom]

I like The Lost World .

 

[Maximum Carnage]

Then you will never have another good Jurassic Park movie.

Agreed. The books, if Universal can get those rights (if not already), would offer a new and exciting way to tell the story. I think that it's interesting and unique enough to be it's own movie. A modern, correct (scientifically .. and without stupid continuity mistakes on the set/story/actors/etc.) version of JP.

 

[Thundercrack85]

I like The Lost World .

It was a terrible film. And I have to wonder if the people who made it even saw the first film with the sound turned on.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Agreed. The books, if Universal can get those rights (if not already), would offer a new and exciting way to tell the story. I think that it's interesting and unique enough to be it's own movie. A modern, correct (scientifically .. and without stupid continuity mistakes on the set/story/actors/etc.) version of JP.

That would be too good to be true.

Though I think the real issue is, that you really can't recapture what the original film did. The original film at the time, had incredible effects, and captured living dinosaurs. Nowadays, that's not really that amazing.

But we can still do better than the two sequels.

 

[Marvolo]

So people are actually alright wwith a reboot of this franchise? Wouldnt that be like ignoring the original and scraping it? For me this would be like rebooting Indiana Jones or Star Wars or Die Hard. Either come up with a new story set after the original or don't make a new one.

 

[Thundercrack85]

So people are actually alright wwith a reboot of this franchise? Wouldnt that be like igboring the original and scraping it? For me this would be like rebooting Indiana Jones or Star Wars or Die Hard. Either come up with a new story or don't make a new one.

The sequel practically did that.

I have to disagree with those analogies though. Those films all had iconic characters (hell two were driven by their iconic characters). Do you think your average moviegoer today, can even name the characters from 1, let alone 2 or 3 (granted some did return)?

Well, maybe if you count the T. rex as a character.

 

[Maximum Carnage]

I'd like to think of it as rebooting Spider-Man. Or X-Men. Or something of that nature.

 

[Maximum Carnage]

Jurassic Park had source matierial.. BOOKS by Crichton. That were ignored for a lot of various reasons. Not saying it was bad, I LOVED it, but if you haven't seen the potential for the books .. re-read 'em.