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2011-11-16 08:48:08 PM
stupid indeed
 
2011-11-16 09:24:51 PM
Jurassic Park IV: Dinosaurs in SPACE!
 
2011-11-16 09:41:41 PM
Life... uh... finds a way.
 
2011-11-16 10:49:26 PM
Why is this stupid?
 
2011-11-16 10:51:46 PM
Haven't we been hearing rumors of this for years, ever since "Jurassic Park 3" was released? If I remenber correctly, there were even some fan-made "Jurassic Park 4" trailers on youtube.
 
2011-11-16 11:10:49 PM
TwistedIvory: Jurassic Park IV: Dinosaurs in SPACE!

I'll go and see it if we can get a few Jedi in there
 
2011-11-16 11:21:46 PM
eh.


I'll still watch it.

Not enough Dinosaur movies.
 
2011-11-17 12:32:23 AM
Bunnyhat: Not enough Dinosaur movies.

Too bad Terra Nova is such crap too. It's not even Lost with Dinosaurs. It's like an ABC Family production with bad CGI. So much wasted potential.
 
2011-11-17 12:37:15 AM
Seth'n'Spectrum: Bunnyhat: Not enough Dinosaur movies.

Too bad Terra Nova is such crap too. It's not even Lost with Dinosaurs. It's like an ABC Family production with bad CGI. So much wasted potential.


Yea, I really tried to like it, but couldn't.
I can not believe they managed to screw it up so completely.
Not Sci-fi enough for Sci-fi fans, too cheesy for the drama lovers, and too plain for everyone else.

This is what happens when you try to make a TV show by committee.
 
2011-11-17 12:42:59 AM
Dinosaurs clone humans from fossil DNA?
 
2011-11-17 12:48:04 AM
Bunnyhat: I can not believe they managed to screw it up so completely.

The worst part is that the major studios will now take this as further "proof" that high concept sci-fi shows don't work.
 
2011-11-17 01:20:48 AM
Rawr, said the 'saur with the tiny hands. Rawr, for 4.

Perhaps they'll combine two scripts and call it Nightmare at the Smithsonian and we get to see Jedediah become raptor snack.
 
2011-11-17 06:33:20 AM
"Comic-Con 2011: Spielberg Says 'Jurassic Park 4′ Is Underway"

Wtf? Did Comic-Con move to November?

"Friday, July 22 by Penn Collins"

Oh
 
2011-11-17 06:34:47 AM
Amos Quito: Dinosaurs clone humans from fossil DNA?

I think I saw that episode of Voyager
 
2011-11-17 06:40:03 AM
Smokey is the Dinosaur?
 
2011-11-17 06:40:06 AM
TwistedIvory: Jurassic Park IV: Dinosaurs in SPACE!

.. rushing through the galaxy (new window)
 
2011-11-17 06:50:04 AM
I wonder if this is going to be some type of awesome reboot to right the wrongs of JP2&3, or will it be the raptor police working with humans that I heard about a few years back?
 
2011-11-17 06:56:24 AM
Seth'n'Spectrum: Bunnyhat: Not enough Dinosaur movies.

Too bad Terra Nova is such crap too. It's not even Lost with Dinosaurs. It's like an ABC Family production with bad CGI. So much wasted potential.


Ya, i'm with you guys, i tried to like it, but the writing and stories are just so lame. It was obviously targeted towards family and young kids.
 
2011-11-17 06:56:57 AM
Better yet, maybe he should get to work making a big screen adaptation of this classic.

Link (new window, very NSFW)
 
2011-11-17 07:14:10 AM
Can we get George Lucas and Steven Spielberg involuntarily committed already?

Please?
 
2011-11-17 07:26:56 AM
Maybe they discover whatever happened to the Sinclairs

i187.photobucket.com

/man, i loved that show
 
2011-11-17 07:33:24 AM
Doctor Dinosaur movie. Now.
 
2011-11-17 07:38:02 AM
IamKaiserSoze!!!: Maybe they discover whatever happened to the Sinclairs.

Didn't they all die in the finale?
 
2011-11-17 07:41:54 AM
I've seen the script. The whole thing is Jeff Goldblum's character in a mental hospital, masturbating bitterly while waiting for the Science Channel to return his calls.
 
2011-11-17 07:44:49 AM
Seth'n'Spectrum: Bunnyhat: Not enough Dinosaur movies.

Too bad Terra Nova is such crap too. It's not even Lost with Dinosaurs. It's like an ABC Family production with bad CGI. So much wasted potential.


I tried too. I even still watch it if I'm doing absolutely nothing. I can forgive the bad FX, even though they should be better. I realize it's a TV show but the later Trek shows had movie quality FX. It's the people especially the kids that make it almost unwatchable.
 
2011-11-17 07:54:03 AM
Mr. Coffee Nerves: I've seen the script. The whole thing is Jeff Goldblum's character in a mental hospital, masturbating bitterly while waiting for the Science Channel to return his calls.

Good, I was hoping they put Goldblum back in.

Wha whaaa?
 
2011-11-17 07:56:07 AM
Fluorescent Testicle: IamKaiserSoze!!!: Maybe they discover whatever happened to the Sinclairs.

Didn't they all die in the finale?


from wiki

Series finale
The series finale of Dinosaurs depicts the irresponsible actions of the dinosaurs toward their environment, and the ensuing Ice Age which leads to their demise. The episode "Changing Nature" begins with the failure of a swarm of beetles to show up and devour a form of creeper vine. Charlene discovers that Wesayso has constructed a wax fruit factory on the swampland that serves as the beetles' breeding grounds, causing the extinction of the species (saved for one male named Stan). Fearing a public relations fiasco more than any environmental threat, Wesayso quickly puts Earl in charge of an attempt to destroy the vines, which have grown out of control without the beetles to keep them in check. Earl proposes spraying the planet with defoliant, which causes the destruction of the vines, but also kills off all plant life on the planet.

Richfield assumes that the creation of clouds will bring rain, allowing the plants to grow back, and so decides to create clouds by dropping bombs in the planet's volcanoes to cause eruptions and cloud cover. The dark clouds instead cause global cooling, in the form of a gigantic cloudcover (simulating the effects of what the viewer would recognize as nuclear winter) that scientists estimate would take "tens of thousands of years" to dissipate. Later, Earl apologizes to his family for his actions. The episode ends with Howard Handupme as he finishes his broadcast, grimly saying "Goodbye" to the audience.

The episode was a marked change from the series' normal humor. "Changing Nature" merited a special parental warning in TV Guide's listings during the week that it aired, cautioning that its subject matter might frighten or disturb younger viewers.
 
2011-11-17 07:58:35 AM
Jurassic Park 4, Armageddon!
 
2011-11-17 08:01:54 AM
Spielberg: 'Jurassic Park 4' is in the works

dittybopper: Unlike the other 3 films, will people be able to actually use a gun effectively in this one?
 
2011-11-17 08:11:51 AM
IamKaiserSoze!!!: Fluorescent Testicle: IamKaiserSoze!!!: Maybe they discover whatever happened to the Sinclairs.

Didn't they all die in the finale?

from wiki

Series finale
etc


What the episode writer may look like:

upload.wikimedia.org
 
2011-11-17 08:15:50 AM
I remember that some director that was supposedly going to work on Jurassic Park 4 said that there was no real hope for the franchise, so he was just going to put lasers on the dinosaurs.

I kind of like that idea, and I hope Spielberg hires him.
 
2011-11-17 08:18:01 AM
4.bp.blogspot.com
 
2011-11-17 08:32:27 AM
Dalek Caan's doomed mistress: I remember that some director that was supposedly going to work on Jurassic Park 4 said that there was no real hope for the franchise, so he was just going to put lasers on the dinosaurs.

I kind of like that idea, and I hope Spielberg hires him.


There are a lot of other species to use. Allosaurus hasn't been used, and it's kind of midway between the super-raptors and the T-rex size wise. Likewise Carnotaurus. Then you could go with Nanotyrannus, basically a down-sized Tyrannosaur. Lots of possibilities, though a theropod is a theropod.

Also, some of the herbivorous dinosaurs could be made to be more cantankerous. There are modern herbivores that are just as dangerous, if not more so, than the predators they live with, for example, the hippopotamus and the cape buffalo. Yeah, that Styracosaurus or Torosaurus isn't going *EAT* you, but it wants to stomp your guts just for being in it's territory. In the Jurassic Park films, the herbivores all seem to be mild mannered unless confined or attacked, which seems unlikely for some of the species. Why else would they have such lethal weaponry?

Maybe bring in some non-dinosaur species, like a Dimetrodon. Think of a super-sized Komodo dragon with a sail on it's back.
 
2011-11-17 08:45:10 AM
I thought it died when the author of the books, Michael Crichton, passed away.

Guess I was wrong.
 
2011-11-17 08:46:07 AM
dittybopper: Dalek Caan's doomed mistress: I remember that some director that was supposedly going to work on Jurassic Park 4 said that there was no real hope for the franchise, so he was just going to put lasers on the dinosaurs.

I kind of like that idea, and I hope Spielberg hires him.

There are a lot of other species to use. Allosaurus hasn't been used, and it's kind of midway between the super-raptors and the T-rex size wise. Likewise Carnotaurus. Then you could go with Nanotyrannus, basically a down-sized Tyrannosaur. Lots of possibilities, though a theropod is a theropod.

Also, some of the herbivorous dinosaurs could be made to be more cantankerous. There are modern herbivores that are just as dangerous, if not more so, than the predators they live with, for example, the hippopotamus and the cape buffalo. Yeah, that Styracosaurus or Torosaurus isn't going *EAT* you, but it wants to stomp your guts just for being in it's territory. In the Jurassic Park films, the herbivores all seem to be mild mannered unless confined or attacked, which seems unlikely for some of the species. Why else would they have such lethal weaponry?

Maybe bring in some non-dinosaur species, like a Dimetrodon. Think of a super-sized Komodo dragon with a sail on it's back.


Yeah but it's not the type of dinosaur that's gonna breathe fresh life in to the franchise, it's the originality of the story they want to tell. This is just shuffling the deck chairs on the titanic. I mean really, dinosaurs are dinosaurs are just bloody dinosaurs.
 
2011-11-17 08:49:29 AM
Mugato: Why is this stupid?

1) Law of diminishing returns.

2) There's nothing story-wise or artistic to be gained by making more Jurassic Park movies. The only justification for more sequels is financial.

3) El Spielbergo doesn't need the money.

4) Continuing to milk Chriton's legacy this way is hypocritical, given all the things Spielberg said about the studio for making sequels to Jaws against his wishes.
 
2011-11-17 08:53:36 AM
yves0010: I thought it died when the author of the books, Michael Crichton, passed away.

Guess I was wrong.


They didn't follow the books all that much anyway. In fact, I only read the first one but since Malcom and Hammond die in the book, I don't know how he could have written the second book to fit with the second movie.

Speaking of the second movie, did it piss anyone else off that the "good guys" were the ones who released all the dinosaurs and caused all the death and destruction? Not that the narrative hook in the first one is much better. Malcom (especially in the book) goes on and on about chaos theory when it was just Newman leaving the figurative door unlocked that caused the mayhem.
 
2011-11-17 08:56:23 AM
Will it be in 3D?

/why bother even asking
 
2011-11-17 09:00:31 AM
dittybopper: Dalek Caan's doomed mistress: I remember that some director that was supposedly going to work on Jurassic Park 4 said that there was no real hope for the franchise, so he was just going to put lasers on the dinosaurs.

I kind of like that idea, and I hope Spielberg hires him.

There are a lot of other species to use. Allosaurus hasn't been used, and it's kind of midway between the super-raptors and the T-rex size wise. Likewise Carnotaurus. Then you could go with Nanotyrannus, basically a down-sized Tyrannosaur. Lots of possibilities, though a theropod is a theropod.

Also, some of the herbivorous dinosaurs could be made to be more cantankerous. There are modern herbivores that are just as dangerous, if not more so, than the predators they live with, for example, the hippopotamus and the cape buffalo. Yeah, that Styracosaurus or Torosaurus isn't going *EAT* you, but it wants to stomp your guts just for being in it's territory. In the Jurassic Park films, the herbivores all seem to be mild mannered unless confined or attacked, which seems unlikely for some of the species. Why else would they have such lethal weaponry?

Maybe bring in some non-dinosaur species, like a Dimetrodon. Think of a super-sized Komodo dragon with a sail on it's back.


Shush you. Like my job isn't hard enough with all the 7 year olds rattling off all the dinosaur names they can remember.

/Just say no to T-rex
 
2011-11-17 09:05:11 AM
Cromulent User Name: I wonder if this is going to be some type of awesome reboot to right the wrongs of JP2&3, or will it be the raptor police working with humans that I heard about a few years back?

oh yeah, this idea. I don't think that would work...


\"Sir, the Taliban have us surrounded!"
\\"Alright then, send in the T-Rex!"
 
2011-11-17 09:07:30 AM
Maybe this one will be more original than most sequels. For instance, maybe they could have a T-Rex eat a lawyer sitting on the crapper. Or maybe, Velociraptors take over the internet infrastructure on the island and have a fire sale. We could find out the fat software engineer from the first movie didn't die and instead, become a doughy super-hero using Unix to combat the raptors.
 
2011-11-17 09:15:39 AM
Mugato: Why is this stupid?

It's not stupid, that is . . .

i232.photobucket.com

/I'll still go see it.
 
2011-11-17 09:22:15 AM
They should go full creation museum and have Jesus riding them.
 
2011-11-17 09:38:01 AM
Raptors in fridges?
 
2011-11-17 09:39:38 AM
skodabunny: IamKaiserSoze!!!: Fluorescent Testicle: IamKaiserSoze!!!: Maybe they discover whatever happened to the Sinclairs.

Didn't they all die in the finale?

from wiki

Series finale
etc

What the episode writer may look like:

[upload.wikimedia.org image 215x168]


I don't disagree.....

Why did they take a rather brilliant series and decide to turn their last episode into a political statement? Does anyone with a real job (ie-not hollywood, entertainment, or sports) ever decide to make a political statement as part of their day to day bidness?
 
2011-11-17 09:41:51 AM
They should have it on the island again, only this time Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, and the other Japanese monsters invade the island and it's an all out war!

I guarantee you that idea would be a lot more entertaining that what we'll actually get.
 
2011-11-17 09:45:14 AM
Wait there was a Jurassic Park 3? Who knew after the crapastic second one. All I remember from that turd was they were in a goddamn RV on the edge of the cliff for like half the movie. That and the stupid Godzilla moment. F that movie.
 
2011-11-17 09:48:23 AM
Dalek Caan's doomed mistress: I remember that some director that was supposedly going to work on Jurassic Park 4 said that there was no real hope for the franchise, so he was just going to put lasers on the dinosaurs.

I kind of like that idea, and I hope Spielberg hires him.



www.rubberslug.com

You were saying?
 
2011-11-17 09:53:32 AM
skodabunny: Yeah but it's not the type of dinosaur that's gonna breathe fresh life in to the franchise, it's the originality of the story they want to tell. This is just shuffling the deck chairs on the titanic. I mean really, dinosaurs are dinosaurs are just bloody dinosaurs.

Yeah, but over the years, there have been a bazillion dinosaur movies. Should they have stopped at the original "The Lost World"?

You've got two islands to work with, both with dinosaurs roaming freely. Plus, there were other entities interested in those embryos. You could surmise that perhaps there was more than one attempt to get viable embryos, or even just the complete genome of species on electronic media, and that they could be grown in secret by competitors of Ingen, perhaps with fewer controls and in an area that while isolated, provides a plausible mechanism for the animals to escape to more congested areas.
 
2011-11-17 09:54:11 AM
Mugato: yves0010: I thought it died when the author of the books, Michael Crichton, passed away.

Guess I was wrong.

They didn't follow the books all that much anyway. In fact, I only read the first one but since Malcom and Hammond die in the book, I don't know how he could have written the second book to fit with the second movie.

Speaking of the second movie, did it piss anyone else off that the "good guys" were the ones who released all the dinosaurs and caused all the death and destruction? Not that the narrative hook in the first one is much better. Malcom (especially in the book) goes on and on about chaos theory when it was just Newman leaving the figurative door unlocked that caused the mayhem.


Malcom didnt die in the book... They left that one open with a kinda sort of. But I love how Hammond died in the book. He was a total ass and deserved a fate as his. And I hated that they killed Muldoon in the movie. And was it me, or was Gennaro actually a good guy in the book? It seems to me he was really worried about the park and people and not about money, as he was in the movie (see Dinner Scene).
 
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