Amph Jurassic World, Fallen Kingdom, Dominion & Camp Cretaceous

Would be nice...but I think we'd be more likely to get that Disney/ABC Star Wars: Wraith Squadron live-action series long before Jurassic Park gets that type of treatment.


Though you know....a graphic novel would work.

 

Was quite disappointed that there wasn't a 3rd novel for Jurassic Park III

 

Technically there was....JP3 was basically all of the scenes in the novels that didn't make it into the first two movies.

 

Really, that's interesting

 

Yep.

Stealing eggs? That was the Dodgson's motivation for going to Isla Sorna in TLW.

The aviary/pterosaur attack? That happened in the first JP, with Grant and the kids.

Kid has bottles of rex urine? Scene from TLW in which the male rex decides to mark his territory by rubbing foamy urine all over the cars.

Military shows up to save the survivors? A toned down (aka. neutered) nod to the first JP novel's ending.

Ellie's family? Mentioned in both JP that she was engaged, and in TLW she's mentioned as married with 2 kids.

River attack? From JP, but involved Alan and the kids and the T-Rex. This is also where Muldoon tranq'd the rex, which then chased the kids behind the waterfall and then fell out from the tranq dart.

 

Ugh, a multi-film literal adaptation of Crichton's enjoyable, though definitively schlocky and mediocre novel is the very last thing pop-culture needs these days.

 

The boat appeared in the sequel to the Genesis game. It also included the Aviary.

But, truth be told, I don't think either game was ever actually completed before they were shipped to stores. Case in point....each game could be completed in less than a half hour. The first JP only had seven levels, while Rampage Edition had six. Rampage Edition also had the distinct feature of a map that let you choose what area you wanted to explore next....however, the map only consisted of the lower half of the island and only three levels to choose. The other two sites were the last levels....the map screen didn't bother scrolling up to see where they are.

That's all you got. See the cut-off sites at the top? You never saw anything more than that. The worst part is that none of the levels actually had an ending....you go for a while, and then the screen would instantly come back to the map and prompt you to choose a new level.


Also damning to Rampage Edition was that you had to collect canisters, DNA sequences, and fertilized eggs. (they're on the map screen as "Species Saved")
But there was no reason to collect these items. No bonus points, no power ups....they just are there because....Jurassic Park. You weren't trying to save dinosaurs, you were trying to get the hell off the island.


Though I will say it was neat to actually kill the dinosaurs....zap one with a taser and it would actually collapse into a pile of ashes.

 

The2ndQuest I'd love it if Lex and Tim came back. They're the right age like you said, and you damn well know Timmy went on to become the world's greatest archeologist

 

Defiantly would love to see the two back. I think Joseph M. would agree to come back but don't know about Ariana Richards.

 

She still acts occasionally..she was willing to come back as Mindy in Tremors 3 in 2001, per IMDB.

 

Timmy the professor would have a hard job trying to tell people how the Velociraptors are big smart scaly hunter-killers that jump through windows and open doors instead of turkey-sized feathered hunter-killers.

 

I just assume that since JP1 is set in about 1987/1988, they didn't know about the bigger Utahraptor species and assumed they had Velociraptors.

 

I'd venture a guess that if the characters are returning, they'll probably recast the roles.

 

I hope the movie is so terrible that in the climax, Robocop comes in riding on a unicorn and punches several dinosaurs in the face.

 

Utahraptor wasn't discovered until 1993, so there's a few years to play with.

 

But they can get Megan Fox to play adult Lex!

 

Actually when Crichton was writing it, Deinonychus had just been discovered in Montana, and was thought to be a new species of Velociraptor. Granted, it still wasn't as big as the creatures on film, but still larger than the raptors from Mongolia.


Hence Grant and Ellie's intro was in Montana, and Grant doesn't want to leave because "We just found a new skeleton".

 

That's...not right. Deinonychus was originally discovered in 1969 by John Ostrum; It was lumped into the Velociraptor genus for a period, but that's since been switched.

 

^ The guy in that chart seems to be saying, "Hi! I'm about to be mauled."

So we saw Jurassic Park 3D this past weekend. It was great, the 3D conversion may be the best one I've seen... very natural and realistic looking 3D that enhances the scenes without drawing attention away from the story. And it was truly a joy to get to hear a T-Rex and Velociraptors over a loud theater soundsystem again. My 6 year old son loved it, as predicted, but the surprise was that my 3 year old daughter really liked it too. We thought she might be pretty scared, but my wife wanted to see it too so we took a chance. I think my daughter was scared at times, but scared in a "fun" way... and she was too pulled in by the story to give up on it, so she ended up enjoying it.

 

Back on the subject of Lex and Tim... honestly I would rather exclude Lex because I don't think Ariana Richardson acts anymore and even if they could get her to come back (which I'm sure they could given how much money she'd make), would she be any good? Who knows. I mean I guess it's possible. But with Tim, we already know that Joe Mazzello is a good actor. If you've seen The Pacific or his brief stint on Justified you can see that he'd be fine as a lead for JP4. Personally I'd love to see that.