There has been talk of a fourth film ever since 2002. While there has been talk for years, nothing has come from it. It's been 8 years since the third film and I think fans still want more dinosaurs. I've given some thought to this project over the years and he are a few ideas.
Story Ideas
There seem to be really only a few ways to make another Jurassic Park. One seems to be simple enough but hasn't been talked about, a prequel. A film that shows the dinosaurs being created at site B and whatever disasters that happened there. Perhaps another prequel idea is that still focusing on site B but what could have happened with all the dinosaurs running around between the events of Jurassic Park and Lost World. One of the more bizarre ideas involves the military using the dinosaurs as soldiers, strapping lasers on them.
One of my ideas involves modern pirates who want to take dinosaurs off the island to sell on the black market. The pirates and mercenaries could be funded by criminal organizations or a rival company of InGen. A team of InGen mercenaries, similar to the ones in Lost World are sent in to stop them. This could be a great way to bring back Jeff Goldblum and Sam Neill.
Director/Writer
Peter Jackson could be one of the only directors that could make this film a success. The only other directors I think could do this right is Ridley Scott or James Cameron. While Scott and Cameron are busy with many future projects. Jackson himself could take time between Tintinfilms to direct it. There is always the change Steven Speilberg could return to the franchise.
Oscar winning screenwriter William Monahan (Departed) apparently has written a draft for the film. Although, producers have been quoted as there isn't a script written. Monahan could adapt a great script from the unused material from the novels.
Pixar is taking steps it seems to start up more live-action features with films like John Carter of Mars. Disney having access to Marvel's lineup there are chances that we could see the lesser known characters being handled by Pixar. Since Marvel Studios will still have their plates full with Thor, Captain America, Avengers and Iron Man 3. It leaves it's lesser known characters open for adaptation by Pixar. Of course this doesn't mean Marvel will be shut out of the creative process. These are Marvel characters so I expect Marvel hired writers and cast to be involved. Pixar would be handling the direction and production aspects of the films. With Disney putting up the finaces and adverstising. Ant-Man: The story of Hank Pym is of a scienstic who is able to make himself many different superheroes. The script has already been written by Edgar Wright (Tintin, Shaun of The Dead), who more than likely won't be able to direct until Baby Driver is finished production. With an estimated release date of 2012, the same year as the release of Avengers. I hope thatbecause of Hank Pym's involvement with Avengers he'll be introduced in that film. So that if Pixar does end up handling it's production it will be live-action rather than a animated movie. While I expect this to be a Marvel Studios project in the end, I also could see Pixar taking it if Marvel is too busy.
Simon Pegg or Neil Patrick Harris (Starship Troopers, How I Met Your Mother) as Hank Pym
Kristen Wiig as Janet van Dyne aka Wasp.
Ka-Zar/The Savage Lands: There couldn't be a better property for Pixar to tackle than Ka-Zar and The Savage Lands. With their work on John Carter of Mars, I wouldn't doubt Pixar could be eying a Savage Lands film. A place where time forgot, it has dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals and humaniods roaming around. The lost world was created by aliens 200 million years in Antarctica, for hunting purposes. It would later become the headquarters for villains such as Magneto and Mr. Sinister. The world is rich and is a mix of Tarzan, Jurassic Park and John Carter.
Alexander Skarsgard as Ka-Zar
Reese Witherspoon as Shanna
Spielberg Going For Pirates Next
Thursday, August 27, 2009 9:14 AM | From Cinema Blend
Pirates: they're not just for Gore Verbinski and Johnny Depp anymore. Even Steven Spielberg, who keeps piling on the projects as if he's deliberately trying to never make his Lincoln biopic, is now heading to the high seas, with plans to adapt Michael Crichton's final novel Pirate Latitudes for the screen.
Spielberg, of course, adapted Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World in the 90s, and he's also bringing back the screenwriter for both of those films, David Koepp, to ...
Spielberg developing Pirate Latitudes
Thursday, August 27, 2009 3:42 AM | From Total Film
The last time Steven Spielberg worked from a Michael Crichton story, he brought us Jurassic Park and The Lost World and scored blockbuster successes.
So it makes sense that he's currently developing a movie based on Crichton's last published work - Pirate Latitudes, which is arriving on shelves after his death.
And to keep the old team together, Spielberg's roped in Jurassic scribe David Koepp to adapt the book.
According to DreamWorks, the book - which won't be for sale until November features "a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure."
"It's a mission movie, and we see it through the prism of what it might have been like to live on the island during that time," DreamWorks CEO Stacey Snider tells USA Today. "Anything that Michael wrote, Steven would be keenly interested to read. But without Michael knowing it, or even me knowing it, it turns out Steven always wanted to direct his own pirate film." (Nobody mention Hook, okay?)
"Michael wrote a real page-turner that already seems suited for the big screen," The Beard himself adds.
"Michael and I have had almost two decades of solid collaborations. Whenever I made a film from a Michael Crichton book or screenplay, I knew I was in good hands. Michael felt the same, and we like to think he still does."
With DreamWorks now partnering with Disney, you might be thinking that the companies could be afraid of a clash with the Mouse House's own, slightly successful pirate franchise.
But Snider's quick to dispel the idea, pointing out that Latitudes would be based in reality. "We would only pursue this if it was wonderful in its own way, and didn't interfere with their films."
We'll also have to wait for it - with no script in place yet and Spielberg's development plate as busy as ever, it won't leave port for a while...
[Source: USA Today] Excited for a new collaboration? And is more pirate fare a good idea?
USA Today is reporting Steven Spielberg is developing a feature adaptation of Pirate Latitudes, an unpublished adventure story set off the coast of Jamaica in 1665 from the late Michael Crichton.
Spielberg, who directed adaptations of Crichtons Jurassic Park and The Lost World, plans to produce and is considering directing. Along with Park, Spielberg and Crichton also developed TV's ER together and the tornado movie Twister.
The novel, which HarperCollins will release on November 24, stars a pirate named Hunter who, together with the governor of Jamaica, plots to raid a Spanish galleon for its treasure. David Koepp, who wrote the screenplays for Jurassic Park and its sequel, will adapt Latitudes.
DreamWorks Studios describes the novel as the story of "a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure." The studio also says the movie will be more grounded in reality, as opposed to the supernatural fantasy of the Pirates of the Caribbean films.
The novel was discovered by Crichton's assistant after the author's death on one of his computers, along with another unfinished novel slated to be published in the fall of 2010.
Steven Spielberg Developing a Michael Crichton Adaptation!
Steven Spielberg might direct another Michael Crichton novel again like he did 16 years ago with Jurassic Park. USA Today reports that Spielberg is developing a film out of a posthumously published novel by the late Michael Crichton called Pirate Latitudes set to hit shelves November (Amazon). In addition to Spielberg coming on-board, screenwriter David Koepp, who adapted Crichton's Jurassic Park and The Lost World, and also wrote Mission: Impossible, Spider-Man, and War of the Worlds, is penning the screenplay. "Michael wrote a real page-turner that already seems suited for the big screen," Spielberg said.
Pirate Latitudes is an adventure story set off the coast of Jamaica in 1665. It's described as the story of "a daring plan to infiltrate Port Royal, one of the world's richest and most notorious cities, and raid a Spanish galleon filled with treasure." Oh no, yet another pirate movie? "Anything that Michael wrote, Steven would ...
Empire Fan Favourites This Month: Jurassic Park 2: The Lost World
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 4:56 PM | From Film Junk
The end of another month is almost upon us, which means that for moviegoers living in the Niagara Region, it's time for another installment of Empire Fan Favourites! This month's screening is Jurassic Park II: The Lost World starring Julianne Moore, Vince Vaughn and Jeff Goldblum. It's dino-tastic! The movie will be playing on both Friday and Saturday night.
Here is all the info you need:
Empire Fan Favourites: Jurassic Park II: The Lost World
Fri. Aug. 28th and Sat. Aug. 29th
11:30 pm start
Empire Theatres, Pen Centre, St. Catharines
Admission: $6.99
+ Regular Drink and Popcorn: $9.99
You can order tickets online here [1] and here [2]. For more info about future Fan Favourites screenings, join the Facebook Group [3], or contact Empire Theatres at 905-682-8843. Hope to see you there!
[1] https://www.empiretheatres.com/empire-express/UNI00273/96/8-28-2009/23:30
[2] https://www.empiretheatres.com/empire-express/UNI00273/96/8-29-2009/23:30
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MEG: HELLS AQUARIUM by Steve Alten (Variance, hc, 342 pp, $27.95) For this fourth novel in his blood-drenched MEG saga, Alten brings us not just one live Carcharodon megalodon, the giant, prehistoric antecedent of todays Great White Shark, but SEVEN of them: Angel, her ex-mate Scarface, their five daughters (Belle, Lizzy, Mary Kate, Ashley, Angelica). Thats one hungry horde. Alten also serves up a large cast of lunchable humansmany named after die-hard fans of his books who nabbed this honor in website contests by promising to promote Altens work. Thats marketing genius! However, a slight silliness does set in whenever Alten introduces a character and we get a graph recounting their (presumably true) backgroundand then they die two pages later or we otherwise never hear of them again.
HELLS AQUARIUM has three intertwined storylines. James & Terry Taylor (heroes of previous books) are coping with their Megs outgrowing the tank facilities at the Tanaka Oceanographic Institute, a combination Sea World and MIT in picturesque Monterey, CA. At the same time, a fanatic organization dubbed R.A.W. (Return Animals to the Wild) is using protests and media ops to force the freeing of the Taylors younger Megs from aquarium captivitynot the smartest of notions when the killer supersharks in question are apex predators all too ready to bite the hand (or the head off) that feeds them. Meanwhile, 21-year-old family heir David Taylor heads to Dubai to train submersible pilots for that countrys JURASSIC PARK take on Marineland. The pilots deep, deep water mission is to search a Pellucidar-like ocean for more living, prehistoric sea monsters and help bring em back alive (to stock the Dubai parks giant aquariums).
It may all sound pretty preposterouseven for an SF-flavored smash-up of JAWS 3-D, THE LOST WORLD: JURASSIC PARK, DEEP BLUE SEA, GRAY LADY DOWN and HATARI!but it works like gangbusters, almost non-stop excitement. Whenever theres a lull in the action (or a cliff to hang from), Alten simply switches to another setting and its dire dangers. His narrative is in PRESENT tense (not past), which initially is a bit disconcerting, but does make it seem like all this is happening RIGHT NOW! This VERY minute! Or this NEXT one!
With lotsa characters and seven Megs, there are plenty of people to comprise the sharks Happy Meals as well as a few Megs leftover to be potential sushi treats for other toothy critters swimming out of the sea that time forgot. Pleiosaurs, call your agents! After all, in these JAWS-inspired books and flicks, the appeal has always been who eats who. Food chain! Its also a struggle of man against the wildand a challenge for the writer to find new ways for creatures to chomp down on scenery and extras. The wildlife isnt actually evil, thats just their nature.
This Alten epic includes an unlikely, extended cameo by actress Lana Wood (Plenty OToole in DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER), who gets signed up to be R.A.W.s spokescelebrity. Theres other barbed satire hidden among the scientific mumbo-jumbo and dazzling action sequences. Kudos to Alten for at least two unexpected plot twists, shocking developments which remain unrevealed here. Overall, HELLS AQUARIUM is supremely entertaining. Readers will be happy to know Alten is already at work on NIGHT STALKERS, his FIFTH novel of MEG mayhem. Dont worry. Carnage is no doubt included.
Snag This: Dinosaur Hunters: Secrets of the Gobi Desert
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 2:35 PM | From Cinematical
When real scientists watch Will Ferrell taunting dinosaurs in the trailers for Land of the Lost, I wonder who they're rooting for? Speaking of real scientists, SnagFilms has made a doc available that provides a pretty good look at the trials and tribulations of a true-life field expedition.
Dinosaur Hunters: Secrets of the Gobi Desert follows scientists from the American Museum of Natural History in New York as they head to the "sun-scorched badlands" of the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. They are retracing the steps of a famed expedition led by American paleontologist Roy Chapman Andrews in 1922, who made a discovery that "stunned the world": fossilized dinosaur eggs. Of perhaps even more interest to movie fans, he discovered the first evidence of a dinosaur he called an ovoraptor, later and more popularly known as velociraptor. (Hello, Jurassic Park!) Andrews became a national hero.
I was 13 years old in the summer of 1997. I don't know if it's my favorite movie summer, but I do know that it was seminal -- at least in the sense that it was the first summer when I made a concerted effort to keep up with Hollywood's weekly output and see as much of it as I could. Already, I was jotting down my thoughts on everything I saw, fancying myself a budding film critic. The following year, I would start my own website on the now-defunct Geocities, and the rest would be history.
But, 1997. I didn't see everything (so I won't try to cover everything), and there's a lot I haven't caught up with. Still, looking back, I can see the beginnings of my current tastes and predilections. And amazingly, I can still remember the circumstances under which I saw some of these movies. Here are some of my memories.
May 23
The Lost World: Jurassic Park: I remember the talk about whether The Lost World would join the exclusive $200 million club, which just seems so darn quaint now. (It did, by the way.) I also remember the hype about it being the largest opening ever (3,281 screens). I saw the actual movie while visiting family friends in Tennessee. I loved it. Arguably, it began my love affair with Steven Spielberg (I had not, at the time, seen Raiders of the Lost Ark, though I believe I had seen E.T.)
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When real scientists watch Will Ferrell taunting dinosaurs in the trailers for Land of the Lost, I wonder who they're rooting for? Speaking of real scientists, SnagFilms has made a doc available that provides a pretty good look at the trials and tribulations of a true-life field expedition.
