I don't care to see Jurassic Park 4. But I would like to see Jurassic 5 get back together.

Oh come on. Who did not want to see the genetically engineered super smart raptor special ops team??? Even if that sucked it would have to be awesome.

Oh, yeah. I really was. Not.

Talk about a franchise that really applies the Law of Diminishing Returns.

I love Jurassic Park - it is one of the first movies I remember seeing in my childhood (on VHS!) and really thinking, wow! this is different! (I hadn't seen too many films, I guess...)

That being said, I can't even really recall the plotline of 2 or 3. Besides the fact that dinosaurs come back and terrorize. And isn't Bill Macy in one? I say, let it go. Unless there's a really good script. With a plot and decent characters.

Yes.

I wish they'd just remake Lost World and base it on the book.

i personally would have liked to see a new movie in which someone (existing characters or not) went back to Isla Nublar. I always wondered what type of hijinks were still going on there.

Isla Nublar was bombed (by the military) in order to kill off the dinosaurs on the island after they wreaked such havoc. Hence, the "something has survived" slogan of "The Lost World." It is explained in the book that Site B served as a mass production area for InGen, with the very few successes being shipped to Nublar to present a 100% efficiency rate to the general public.

I'm not sure how I would feel. I mean, I would hope they wouldn't butcher it and maybe elaborate more on morality and put some interesting situations into play.

JP4 doesn't need to happen. Let it go.

Jurassic Park hit its low point. I actually cheered when I saw the headline. Nothing against Kennedy, Marshall, or Spielberg despite my violent disappointment for "Crystal Skull" I felt they took a great idea and (with the sequels) turned it into a generic, below average kid/family friendly film with two cheesy dumb scripts. I loved the first film.

I'm with you, david.

damn, I wanted a new JP :(

Sounds like a planted seed for a re-boot...

i was actually looking forward to a fourth installment...but ya i completely understand the situation, they should just honor Crichton by letting it go.

I agree with CartoonDude about JP4 happening back on Isla Nublar and see how bad the park looks since then. Or it could take place again on Isla Sorna and involve the Spinenorous with more screen time, possibly with the raptors or even Tex of-course. The fight between Spinenorous and T-rex was my fave part.

"No… I don’t know. You know, when Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s a sign that we don’t mess with it."....Thats a stupid excuse not to continue it...I mean, I'm not saying make a another stupid story up and put dinosaurs in it, but they shouldn't quit just cause Crichton died...It would be more of an honor to him by making a kickass story then putting badass dinosaurs, not quiting...

Your brain goes into a coma about 1/4th of the way in to the sequels. Possibly why you don't recall them very well.

I want more dinosaur movies (the ratio of dragon movies to dinosaur movies in the last 15 years is WAY off) and if it has the JP franchise tag and/or Spielberg's involvement, I'm all for it. It can be two hours of story-less dinosaur attacks on the mainland without an explanation and I would see it twice in theaters.

I want a fourth installment because the third one was such a disappointment (I liked most of Lost World). Give it some of the intellect that Crichton wrote into his books (that Spielberg put in the first two), make it as adult as it should be and give us Tyrannosaurus, for God's sake. Spinosaurus was such a producer-created idea; "what if we make a bigger, badder dinosaur?". Come on. Tyrannosaurus finally comes to the big screen (and looks unbelievably legit) after hundreds of years of anticipation and after two movies... we're done?

The loss of Crichton (though painful) shouldn't have any actual bearing on furthering the franchise (I get that Marshall might be suggesting it as a "sign" with some spiritual sort of motivation). There are dozens of amazing ideas and sequences from the two books that have not been represented in the films -- and they absolutely should be brought to the big screen. I also would not hate the idea of a full-length movie with dinosaurs on the mainland (seriously, anyone who doesn't want to see raptors mauling people in their neighborhood is a liar).

anyone think they could make it good by making vince vaughn a main character? (he was one of the main characters in "the lost world" )

As a huge fan of Jurassic Park and The Lost World, I think they would do good to the overall story if they took their time and create something wonderful. Bring something to us that hasnt been talked about in the other films. Sure mainland attacks would be kickass, but dont make that the whole movie... I feel it would just start to be like an awful Carnosaur/Zombie flick. Crichton, I'm sure, has some ideas or a journal floating around somewhere for another installment. Take his scientifical approach, David Koepps pen, and add Spielbergs famous character-based story telling... it should be like the first. DONT bring back an old character, maybe for a sec in the beginning, but add someone who would fit (not Shia, I like him but don't do that to the JP series) and carry the film. Jeff Goldblum was my favorite character from JP and to have him in TLW was awesome, although they messed with his characters nuances and background a bit too much to fit him in their story... at 12 years old when it came out, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I even remember going to Universal Studios just after JP came to theatres and it was like Universal changed into Jurassic Park. dinos everywhere, the tram went through the famous huge doors and passed some JP vehicles. It things like this that make great memories for a child. We need to keep that and really make something for the generation that doesnt remember JP, or doesnt know that was the biggest step in cgi ever (which i think the graphics in JP looked better than JP3).

That brings me to my final thought. Having seen JP when I was 8 and TLW I was only 12 inspired me to get into film. I bought up all the figures I could, grabbed my parents old 8mm cam and spent the summer/fall of '97 making 4 JP films myself. After that I just kept moving up and now have my own film studio, which I am quite proud of. So I guess I have a strange connection with this series.

Maybe I should show Spielberg and Koepp my movies...?

Good, part 3 was a sad return for the series. I sure by now the island should have been nuked.

"No… I don’t know. You know, when Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that’s it. Maybe that’s a sign that we don’t mess with it."

I find that quote especially odd considering how they trampled all over Crichton's work in The Lost World, even though he specifically wrote the novel in a cinematic fashion. Guess it was only okay to screw with his work while he was still alive...

Nooooo!! I love Crichton's books, and I thought the third movie was pretty good. They added some parts from the other two books into the third movie like the Pterosaur scene, and I think the scene with the phone and the poop also played a role (at least the dinosaur). I think they could do a really good fourth film with the right director and cast.

I'm a big Jurassic Park fan and this is a good thing I think personally. We all know that a 4th one would suck and they'd only do it for the money and no thought would be put into it. Sad though. Cos if it was possible to make a good 4th one it would be a great way to end it completely.

I'm with you on those fond VHS memories!

JP1 is one of my all-time favorite movies, and even though The Lost World was a mixed bag and JP3 outright sucked, I was still looking forward to a fourth installment.

I had heard the producers talk about returning to the source material and exploring scientific themes the way they (sorta) did in the first one, which had me excited. Too bad...

i was actually really looking forward to a fourth film. This is a bummer because i really wanted to see the series end on a good note instead of with that awful movie that was JP3

Best news ever.

You could show us your movies. Do you have a website?

Haha, they're hidden somewhere on old 8mm tapes. Not many people have seen them. You can search civilpython on youtube to see some of my personal non-studio works...

Amen. I'd rather a sequel to Arachnophobia. I remember seeing JP in the first session at the cinema on the day of its release. The DTS wasn't set up correctly and for 10 minutes all we got were the sound effects...no dialogue or music. Good Times.

Cool. Thanks, man.

thats so sick that you would make those! i'm adding you on youtube fo sho

Like LaMora, I too was inspired by the original Jurassic Park. Although my movies did get better over time, this is one (seriously cheesy) movie that was directly inspired and used a lot of trick shots I learned from watching JP documentaries:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7MBrJRQDsA

guess im one of the few that secretly liked the 3rd movie.the fight between the two big dinos was sweeeeet.but then again i loved dinos ever since i was a kid and special effect movies are one of my favorites so..i guess i just look pass some of the cheeseyness and bad story lines sometime.even if JP isnt going to be made,id love to see some type of dino movie made.you dont see to many of them.i guess everyone would just see it as a JP ripoff.some parts of king kong were slow but when they got to the island...o man.that fight between kong and those 3 rexes is classic!hell a kong 2 would be nice.with that said,the first JP will always be one of my favorite films..up there with the matrix because they were so ground breaking.

here's a solution
Jurassic Park 4: DInoriders
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=i2bAmj5itbk
lol

i love the first two movies and loved the books michael crichton was a very good storyteller for this and i agree that the second movie wasnt up to par with the book but really i dont expect source material to be a very high concern for anyone when its being adapted uness by a fan of the material. but jurassic park has always been a favourite film series and i would still like to see more films come from it. stop giving me saw 6 and 7 and 8 and do this movie. but hey they arent going to stop draging that series out. it would have been nice to have michael crichton involved in this film to bring it back to par with the first one but sadly im sure i wont see it happen anytime soon

The San Diego sequence in TLW is bad because it wasn't in the book? It was the highlight of the film (to me, at least), who cares if it was or wasn't in the source material?
As for JPIV, let it go away. It would hardly be as exciting as the first two anyway.

If I get enough folks that really wanna see them, then I might dig them out and put them up somewhere. (mind you I was 12 when I made them.) lol, I can't believe I'm offering that...

Maybe they should just have Vince Vaughn and John Favreau walking around in suits on Isla Nublar talking about how "money" all the dinosaurs looks...

I'd pay to see that.

"what with Spielberg’s insistence at having a dinosaur terrorize the mainland (a plot element not found in Crichton’s original book)"

Actually that's not true, that was a plot element from the first book. A Procompsognathus escapes to the mainland and attacks children, Spielberg chose not to include this in the first film because it might be upsetting.

And if anyone has bothered to read "The Lost World", you'll probably realize that the entire concept kind of "took things off the rails" well before the movie was made. There was alot of pressure on Crichton to write a sequel, something he was initially opposed to doing, and it shows.

But if you don't think there are going to be any more Jurassic Park movies, you might as well pull your head out of the clouds. Money. Money. Money.

i wouldn't mind seeing another one if it was fun, just campy fun


first one stands on its own anyway

Never mind. Give it 10 more years and they'll 'reboot' the whole franchise for us (or whatever the term will be for cashing-in by then...).

Lets like the series die now. I thought number 3 wasn't great. It was cliché. We already knew who would live and who would die by seeing who got off the plane!

With ideas like a Dinosaur/Human hybrid running around for years, it's a blessing that this didn't get maid.
I assume that Chrichton was just collecting the checks towards the end.

We obviously need a 4th movie...

Think about it....Raptors with rockets launcher on their back.

Jurassic 5 rocks, they should get back together and do a movie about being trapped on an island with giant gangsta rappers trying to steal their awesomeness.

I didn't even read this article. I only read the title and felt a sense of relief and joy.

I was actually looking forward to the fourth movie, however I will admit the 2nd movie could've improved. The 3rd was pretty good, but if memory serves me right, it had minimal basing from TLW book, because I think that book had a Pterodactyl attack in it.

Anyway, they should complete the movie for this reason, at least: Crichton spent his last days apparently working on this movie, so it seems it would be dishonorable to leave his final work in vain. It's like Walt Disney. Disney died in the middle of his project, but everyone finished it how they thought he would like it.

this is sad news. If they do decide to go through with at least making this one, bring back David Koepp. Please.

I find it very sad that Crichton died, but this news makes my stomach turn. I was living up to a fourth movie, but reading that it will propably never come, it's frustrating. Any JP-lover knows what I'm talking about. The third movie was indeed a commercial one, with many lame things: a Spinosaurus instead of a T-Rex, 1,5 hour duration instead of 2 hours we were used to, maybe the lamest story ever and minor involvement of Spielberg and Crichton.
But I believe that if they put all the ingredients of the first movie(s) into it, then a propiate and final good movie can be made. By ingredients I mean, Neill, Goldblum, Dern, Attenborough, a good storie, produced by Steven Spielberg and less but not least.. music from John Williams. I know they're all aged, but that doesn't matter. A final tribute to Crichton's creation is my dream!