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Quote from: ace3g on Jan 11, 2013, 10:52:32 PM Borys Kit @Borys_KitThis just in: Universal Pictures will release JURASSIC PARK 4 in 3D on June 13, 2014. Borys Kit @Borys_KitSpielberg is only producing JP4. No director on it at this time.
Quote from: The Son of Paragus on Jan 11, 2013, 11:42:05 PMPlease don't let this one fail O.o And be at least two hours and have a significant story towards the 1st movie. Maybe a return to isla nublar
QuoteI'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 bugf**k 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 f**k 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?
Quote from: Gate on Jan 11, 2013, 11:48:22 PMQuote from: The Son of Paragus on Jan 11, 2013, 11:42:05 PMPlease don't let this one fail O.o And be at least two hours and have a significant story towards the 1st movie. Maybe a return to isla nublarLol, Isla Nublar was leveled in both Novel and Film canon.
QuoteSpoilerThe end of the original Jurassic Park novel is very different from the movie. In the movie, Ian Malcolm survives the injuries caused by the T. rex and gets on the Helicopter along with the rest of the survivors. In the novel, he dies due to excessive blood loss (at least it seems, he is revealed to have survived in The Lost World), and John Hammond is attacked (and killed) by Procompsognathids while trying to reach the coast of the island to get to the helicopter.As Dr. Grant, Ellie Sattler, Tim and Lex reach the Costa Rican helicopter, they are met by Velociraptors, but the sound of the nearing helicopter scares them off. Once the remaining survivors board the helicopter, a Costa Rican military officer questions them about what happened on the island. After they finish their stories, the Coast Guard figures it too dangerous, and they fire 12.7 gallons of napalm all over Isla Nublar, destroying Jurassic Park and setting fire to the jungle, at which point Lex begins to cry. As they fly away from the island, a dying T. rex roars in terrifying pain and agony, which makes Lex even more upset.[close]The bombing is not mentioned in the films, although a deleted scene from The Lost World: Jurassic Park showed Peter Ludlow stating that all biological life had been eliminated on Isla Nublar. Steven Spielberg decided not to include this in the interest of creating future films that could take place on Isla Nublar.
QuoteIn the ending of Jurassic Park game, it can be argued that bombing was intervened and prevented by the U.S. military to do an experimental base on Isla Nublar in the comic series since the bombing is not seen. This only for fans who don't count the meeting scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.
Quote from: The Son of Paragus on Jan 12, 2013, 12:01:02 AMQuote from: Gate on Jan 11, 2013, 11:48:22 PMQuote from: The Son of Paragus on Jan 11, 2013, 11:42:05 PMPlease don't let this one fail O.o And be at least two hours and have a significant story towards the 1st movie. Maybe a return to isla nublarLol, Isla Nublar was leveled in both Novel and Film canon.Yeah, but you never know what kind of story they can think around it.Edit (Ill place spoiler tags in case someone didnt read, and still wants to read, the novel)QuoteSpoilerThe end of the original Jurassic Park novel is very different from the movie. In the movie, Ian Malcolm survives the injuries caused by the T. rex and gets on the Helicopter along with the rest of the survivors. In the novel, he dies due to excessive blood loss (at least it seems, he is revealed to have survived in The Lost World), and John Hammond is attacked (and killed) by Procompsognathids while trying to reach the coast of the island to get to the helicopter.As Dr. Grant, Ellie Sattler, Tim and Lex reach the Costa Rican helicopter, they are met by Velociraptors, but the sound of the nearing helicopter scares them off. Once the remaining survivors board the helicopter, a Costa Rican military officer questions them about what happened on the island. After they finish their stories, the Coast Guard figures it too dangerous, and they fire 12.7 gallons of napalm all over Isla Nublar, destroying Jurassic Park and setting fire to the jungle, at which point Lex begins to cry. As they fly away from the island, a dying T. rex roars in terrifying pain and agony, which makes Lex even more upset.[close]The bombing is not mentioned in the films, although a deleted scene from The Lost World: Jurassic Park showed Peter Ludlow stating that all biological life had been eliminated on Isla Nublar. Steven Spielberg decided not to include this in the interest of creating future films that could take place on Isla Nublar.Also:QuoteIn the ending of Jurassic Park game, it can be argued that bombing was intervened and prevented by the U.S. military to do an experimental base on Isla Nublar in the comic series since the bombing is not seen. This only for fans who don't count the meeting scene in The Lost World: Jurassic Park.Source: http://jurassicpark.wikia.com
