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Jurassic Park IV
Directed byTo be announced (TBA)
Written byMichael Crichton (characters)
William Monahan
John Sayles
Produced byKathleen Kennedy
Frank Marshall
Steven Spielberg (executive)
StarringTBA
Distributed byUniversal Pictures
Amblin Entertainment
Release date
Summer 2008
Running time
TBA
LanguageEnglish
BudgetTBA

Jurassic Park IV is a motion picture sequel to Jurassic Park III, The Lost World: Jurassic Park and the highly successful original Jurassic Park. It is currently in the early stages of pre-production although full production will begin as soon as Indiana Jones 4 is completed and is expected to be released during the summer of 2008.[1]

In a February 2006 London Free Press article Frank Marshall announced that Jurassic Park IV "has a good script now, so we should have that one up and running next year for release in 2008."[2] Steven Spielberg, who directed the first two films in the series, was executive producer for Jurassic Park III and is slated to do so for Jurassic Park IV.

No director for Jurassic Park IV has been confirmed as of March 2, 2006 although Spielberg will not direct. [3] On February 22, 2006, WENN reported that shooting is expected to begin in 2007, and it will likely be about Lex Murphy, who appeared in the first two movies.[4]

Many Jurassic Park online communities are not confident Jurassic Park IV will ever be filmed or released as news reports on the film’s status have been rather "on-again"/"off-again" in nature. Some fans hope Jurassic Park IV will be strongly linked to the original film, perhaps bringing back the characters played by Richard Attenborough, Sam Neill, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Ariana Richards. Recently, Popular Science Magazine has reported a summer 2006 release, but this seems unlikely.

Speculations

  • The movie may not take place on an island.
  • Some dinosaurs may have feathers, in particular the velociraptors (if featured).
  • Spielberg recently released information concerning scenes to be included in the film. One such scene will incorporate humans on motorcycles attempting to escape pursuing velociraptors. Spielberg has confirmed this and said he would use his favorite scenes from the novels much like he did with The Lost World: Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park III.[5]
  • More creatures may appear in the film, including Allosaurus, Baryonyx and other non-dinosaurs including Mosasaurus, Elasmosaurus, Deinosuchus and Quetzalcoatlus.

Tyrannosaurus vs. Spinosaurus 2 : The Revenge Of The Tyrant-lizard King

It has been widely rumored that the Tyrannosaurus might return, after the much-debated fight that took place in Jurassic Park 3. In that movie, a Tyrannosaurus had its neck snapped and was defeated by a Spinosaurus after putting up a very short fight. Paleontologist Jack Horner had said that Tyrannosaurus rex wasn’t a predator but a scavenger, explaining that you cannot calculate the "ferocity" of an extinct animal. However, Horner said that the Spinosaurus was the largest carnivore ever to walk the Earth (a fact now supported by scientific studies and descriptions of new specimens by dal Sasso and others), and by calculating its size, Spinosaurus would be "stronger". Similarly, it is also debatable as to what the Spinosaurus would use its long narrow jaw for (speculations include fishing). Some scientists now claim to have found proof that Tyrannosaurus did have to hunt in order to survive, including healed-over bite marks on bones of Triceratops and Edmontosaurus that indicate these individuals were attacked by a tyrannosaur and survived.

In 1997, paleontologist Keith Rigby of Notre Dame University discovered what might be the biggest tyrannosaur ever. Rigby claimed to have found a pubis bone, one of three bones in the pelvis, that measured at least 52 inches, compared with 48 inches as is seen in the Tyrannosaur Sue. According to scientists, only a couple of dozen Tyrannosaurus specimens are known and the largest size keeps changing, and Rigby cannot be too certain about his findings as the femurs, or thigh bones, which paleontologists normally use to estimate the size of dinosaurs, are still unexcavated. It is also not even certain if the fossil found were of a Tyrannosaurus or another member of its family. The largest known tyrannosaur specimen, even larger than Rigby's, is Jack Horner's "Celeste" or "C-Rex", estimated to be 42 feet long and 9 tons[6].

The leaked screenplay

A Jurassic Park IV screenplay supposedly written by William Monahan and John Sayles and referred to by Spielberg as the "mother of all ideas" was leaked to Ain't It Cool News in August 2004. The script was reviewed by AICN reviewer Moriarty, who called it "the single most bugfuck crazy franchise sequel" he had ever read.[7] In a March 2005 New York Observer interview, Sayles confirmed that the reviewed script was indeed legitimate. Sayles reported that a computer hacker had intercepted Spielberg's email to obtain the script, which was allegedly an early draft. Sayles further stated "It amazes me that people are that obsessed with reading Steven Spielberg’s mail."[8]

Rather than another island of dinosaurs, the screenplay tells a story wherein the dinosaurs have escaped from the islands and are making their presence known on the mainland. This holds true with the end of the original novel, but diverges wildly from there. Initially the plot seems to revolve around John Hammond's attempts to introduce a "Judas strain" into the wild dinosaur population that will help to cull them out. This is quickly dismissed as the main character, Nick Harris, is kidnapped by the supercorporation Grendel Corporation, and made to lead a team of genetically engineered super-dinosaur crime fighters.

Reaction to the leaked screenplay has been understandably polarized. Some have suggested that it was only leaked to test the waters for either a genuine sequel or an entirely different movie altogether. Few can deny that it would be a surprising turn for the vehicle after two retreads of the original's formula. In any case, a November 2005 AICN interview with Harold Ramis confirmed that some of the script has been rewritten. Ramis quotes Spielberg as saying "I don't like the early script reviews."[9]

References

  1. ^ http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=1413
  2. ^ http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Today/Entertainment/2006/02/17/pf-1447760.html
  3. ^ http://www.spielbergfilms.com/jp4/18
  4. ^ http://imdb.com/news/wenn/2006-02-22
  5. ^ http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=21804
  6. ^ http://dml.cmnh.org/2003Jul/msg00355.html
  7. ^ http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=18166
  8. ^ http://www.defamer.com/hollywood/movies/hacking-steven-spielberg-104943.php
  9. ^ http://www.aintitcool.com/display.cgi?id=21858
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