Welcome back, to Jurassic Park!

[Tev]

Jurassic Park 4 is in pre-production! And they've finally named the director.

Welcome to Jurassic Park, Colin Trevorrow. The indie director behind "Safety Not Guaranteed" has been hired to direct "Jurassic Park 4" according to Deadline.com. Trevorrow takes over the franchise for Joe Johnston, who directed "Jurassic Park III" in 2001; Steven Spielberg, a producer on "Jurassic Park 4," directed the first two installments in the blockbuster franchise.

Trevorrow's hiring comes on the heels of mass speculation that Spielberg himself would return for "Jurassic Park 4." HitFix film writer Drew McWeeny offered up the idea that Spielberg was a potential spoiler for the job, noting that the identity of the "Jurassic Park 4" director was still secret despite the film being in pre-production.

Trevorrow has to hustle to get "Jurassic Park 4" ready: The film is already set for release on June 13, 2014. What this means for Trevorrow's other big, post-"Safety Not Guaranteed" project, a remake of "The Flight of the Navigator," is unclear.

Also, Flight of the Navigator remake? That won't possibly be as good as the original...

Anyway, we're going back to dino island! Though, I have to wonder, in a world where this has been tried and failed three times before with horrific consequences all around, where does one get a government permit to open a giant lizard zoo? You'd think a "No cloning dinosaurs this time....we really mean it!" bill would have been pushed through congress after the T-Rex ran amok through a major U.S. city.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

How are they going to handle the science in this one? I mean, Jurassic Park 1 is 20 years old at this point. That's the same difference in age between that film (1993) and films like The Land that Time Forgot (1975) and Planet of the Dinosaurs (1978). That's the difference between dinosaurs that look like this:







And this:





Our understanding of dinosaurs have changed since then and while I understand a desire to stick to continuity, I feel that completely ignoring new information is a tremendous disservice, especially considering how public perceptions of dinosaurs are still largely stalled out.

The first Jurassic Park was a massive step in at least partially reinvigorating our view of dinosaurs when it first came out, and I would like to see a future film that attempts to do the same as well.

[phil_]

Well, we set the next one in the present, which is the future for the first three, and say that the cloning tech has advanced to where they don't need frogs anymore/need less frog, resulting in new dinosaurs more similar to their ancient ancestors. It's not too hard to hand-wave when we've already (in the book at least) got the "not dinosaurs but theme-park monsters" line.

Now, what I want to know is whether they'll continue the tradition of implanting the brain of a serial killer into each dinosaur.

[Tev]

What if, in this installment, they militarize dinosaurs to fight terrorists?

[Melfice]

Originally Posted by Tev

What if, in this installment, they militarize dinosaurs to fight terrorists?

Might as well go ahead and make a Dino Riders film then.
And NOT have them fight terrorists while we're at it.

[PyrosNine]

Man, Tev called it before I got a chance to! I totally expected JP4 to literally be about terrorists ceasing/hijacking the park's control over dinosaurs and holding people hostage, forcing the government to recruit expert Dinologist Bear Handed Mcfossiltouch to brave the wilds and and kill feathered VelociBirdChickens and HumanoSaurian genetic creations with his can do attitude and knowledge of the Jurassic era, which is where dinosaurs are from.

Along the way he'll meet a spunky girl who isn't just a pretty face but will still need to be rescued, everyone who was rude or disagreed with him will be eaten by Dinosaurs/or Shot by terrorists, and the head Terrorist will be eaten by a giant Alligator/Crocodile thing that's supposed to be the ancestor to the T-Rex. Or a Pleiosaur.

And then they'll rip an audio quote from Trespasser and have the ghost of Hammond read "Ozymandias" while looking over the scenic tropical beauty of the park.

[mauve]

Apparently this April they'll be re-releasing the original Jurassic Park in 3D in theaters. So at least if JP4 totally sucks, we'll at least have ONE good Dinosaur Adventure Movie in theaters.

[tacticslion]

Originally Posted by Melfice

Might as well go ahead and make a Dino Riders film then.
And NOT have them fight terrorists while we're at it.

Man, I loved that show! And this is the second time this week someone's mentioned it!

[Azisien]

To date I think Jurassic Park is one of my favourite movies. I got the Blu-Ray trilogy set (and promptly burned JP3) and I've already watched it 5 or 6 times in a year.

It didn't pass my ultra-critical watch-while-blazed test though. Jurassic Park is only a disaster because Hammond is a deranged, if charismatic, psychopath.

Anyway, there is but one correct way to bring back Jurassic Park.

[Bells]

Mandatory...



Also, yeah... considering every movie that came after the first, this seems like a bad move. I mean... for all the franchises the could get a reboot, one with "updated" knowledge of Dinos this seems like it would fit right in. Sounds WAY better than anything that follows AFTER Jurassic partk 3....