The NZA Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 1 was awesome, 2 was alright, 3...had pterodactyls, at least. blu-ray's a'comin! not enough dinosaurs in movies these days. here's more stuff! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Agreed, there needs to be more dinosaur movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aartemys Posted October 10, 2011 Share Posted October 10, 2011 Clevah girl! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thelogan Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Agreed, there needs to be more dinosaur movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lycaon Posted October 14, 2011 Share Posted October 14, 2011 Now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The NZA Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 Jurassic Park 4 Aiming For A Summer 2014 Release Steve got the chance to speak with Marshall in anticipation of the release of The Bourne Legacy, and the producer talked a bit about Jurassic Park 4, revealing that they plan on having it in theaters within two years. Hit the jump for more. During Steve’s interview with Marshall, he asked the producer for a status update on Jurassic Park 4, to which Marshall replied: “I would say that it will be on the screen within two years.” Marshall went on to reveal that they’re aiming for a summer release since it’s a “popcorn movie,” and confirmed that it’s definitely a sequel and not a reboot or remake. Spielberg confirmed earlier this year that he won’t be directing Jurassic Park 4, but he’s clearly heavily involved in the development of the film. Marshall cited the advances in visual effects as one of the exciting things to look forward to in JP4: “That’s what’s gonna be great about it, technology’s taken a leap now that we can really do some great things” That’s not to say that the filmmakers will be completely abandoning the practical effects and prosthetic work that was put to great use in the earlier films. Marshall added that using practical dinosaurs not only feels real to the audience, but aids the actors in their performances. If they are indeed looking at getting the film in front of screens within two years (which jibes with the timetable Spielberg laid out at last year’s Comic-Con), hopefully we’ll hear word about a director choice soon. There are a number of young, exciting filmmakers working today that could offer a fresh take on the franchise, and I’m eager to see who will take the reins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 This... this is the best news I've heard all week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 21, 2012 Author Share Posted July 21, 2012 yeah, i pretty much read this as "make sure you and panch do not die before summer '14" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the division of joy Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I should probably get around to watching these.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alive she cried Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Cool boola. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one, somewhat enjoyed the second and tried but failed to enjoy the third. Hopefully the long break will help the series. Also I'm a bit torn between hoping Goldblum and Neil come back, and hoping they just bring in new characters, because there's surely no logical way they can trick them to come back...again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Cool boola. I thoroughly enjoyed the first one, somewhat enjoyed the second and tried but failed to enjoy the third. Hopefully the long break will help the series. Also I'm a bit torn between hoping Goldblum and Neil come back, and hoping they just bring in new characters, because there's surely no logical way they can trick them to come back...again. Agree with all of this. The ONLY way I see them back at the Park is if Lex and Tim are involved (as adults, of course) and are in danger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Man piss on y'all 3 haters. And 2 had more goldblum than 1 which bumps it up nicely for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Oh man, there's no bigger JP fan than me. Still, part one is the only one that's worth a damn. I can admit it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 man, that took you like a decade and a half to get there panch axels - nah, minority-malcolm spawn ballerina dancing tiles as she shouldve falled into raptor-maws was bullshit and you know it! that's literally what i remember of 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 I'm mature now, Nick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted July 22, 2012 Author Share Posted July 22, 2012 but you still defend the later matrixeses~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Hasn't been the designated amount of tolerance years yet. Don't worry, I'll come around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 (edited) man, that took you like a decade and a half to get there panch axels - nah, minority-malcolm spawn ballerina dancing tiles as she shouldve falled into raptor-maws was bullshit and you know it! that's literally what i remember of 2. I can't argue with that... I didn't like that character one bit. However, I did like the whole trailer scene, the raptor attacks, and when that T-Rex fuckin steps on that screaming bastard and he sticks to his foot like a piece of gum. I get why folks don't like 3, but it had more dino action than the first 2 movies combined and that isn't a bad thing. You guys remember those toys for Jurassic Park? They started off normal enough- T-rex toys, Dilophosaurus that spits water and those jeeps. Then they went to crazy town with it, combining dinosaurs and making shit that didn't exist. Oh here: Chaos Effect spinosaurus+stegosaurus Deinonicanis--- Dire Wolf+Deinonychous part 4 here we come Edited July 22, 2012 by axel_napalm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panch Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 God, 3's computer animation was horrible, too. Nothing compared to the first two. The Spinosaurus looked fine, but that Spino/T-Rex fight.... Yeesh. The T-Rex looked so bad :/ Also, the scene that always makes me cringe? When they're traveling down the river and that Brachiosaurus bends its head down towards the boat. AHHHH! *shutter* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Can I just step out and say that, to whoever decided to have Spinosaurus be the new "mascot" dinosaur of the series and illustrate this by having him physically kill the old one: FUCK YOU! I don't care if it was the largest land predator ever, it looks fucking stupid! Also from that mutated toy line: someone's been reading my fan-fiction Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The NZA Posted October 10, 2012 Author Share Posted October 10, 2012 from here, article from AICN - the Jurassic Park 4 we almost got I’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 bugfuck 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 FUCK 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? Its kinda crazy how long it has been, that article went online in 2004. Anyways, if that wasn't fucking weird enough, check out the art that turned up in 2009: These were all uploaded by Carlos Huante to his personal gallery with no information other than they were from an abandoned JP4 attempt. It blew my mind that concept art was made for this idea.. I had always assumed it would have been thrown away before it got that far since it was so bat-shit crazy. Apparently it wasn't. And not only was some art made, but apparently.. ILM got involved: ILM, 2005. Crazy. Thats also after the script review went up, so at that time they were moving forward with the idea. Who knows how far it got before the idea got thrown away, but it blows my mind that any material was made for it. It also makes me wonder if there are any more pics floating around out there and just aren't labeled as Jurassic Park 4 art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keth Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Its like resident evil fucked jurassic park. I kinda like it though.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iambaytor Posted October 10, 2012 Share Posted October 10, 2012 Yeah on one hand it sounds fucking retarded, on the other, I probably would've watched that movie and it would've been better than Jurassic Park 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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