Joe Johnston Talks Jurassic Park 4 Story

I think a 3D version is in need. Now that would really bring out crowds!

personally, i love the jurassic park trilogy, it came to me as a shock when i found out that they might equip the dinosaurs with weapons, i mean, i know where headed for the future and all, but dinosaurs are dinosaurs, not robots, lets hope they stay that way

Reboot reboot reboot! ENOUGH OF REBOOT! I'm so sick of it, destroying original masterpiece's all to make a buck!. I suppose you want to remake Gond With the Wind, Grapes of Wrath, Birth of a Nation? Were have the purists disappeared to? Where the the original storytellers gone? To me, I think that all these Generation X & Yers better think of their own original story's and stop destroying the one's that the Greatest Generation, the Baby Boomers have already thought off and MADE!!! Get a life, try your own!

As much as ppl want to see a Jp4, it'd be much more satisfying to see them go back and reboot the series.. not in the sense of different direction as in different setting/story, but different feel to the original movie.. with the new filming technology out, (think Avatar), why not blow our minds with a re-do of the original Jurassic Park with this new technology while staying true to Michael Crichton's original Novel. Put us, (the audience), fully into the experience that we are actually in "Jurassic Park", and establish everything in the same depth as the novel describes, if not further. The original Jurassic Park film is truely one of a kind, and a personal favorite, but left so many things from the novel out, and can now be done like never before.

“Jurassic Park 4‐Dark Continent” Concept
Original Idea and artwork ©Morgan O’Brien
www.morganobrienart.com
Based upon the ‘Jurassic Park Series’
by Michael Crichton
© Universal City Studios and
Amblin Entertainment INC.

‘Jurassic Park 4’ will revive the JP franchise with a bang. The story opens on the African plains. We follow a pride of Lions hunting a herd of Wildebeest. It’s a long, detailed, beautiful series of shots drenched in the gritty reality of surviving the harsh African Outback. The scenes are fast, bloody and exhilarating. National Geographic in HD. As the matriarch closes in for the kill on its unfortunate victim the screen goes silent and we hear an all too familiar clicking noise. Cut to a large sinister Raptor eye in the background.

Bang! Roll the Opening Titles.

The premise for ‘Jurassic Park 4‐Dark Continent’ is simple. Dinosaurs from Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna have been secretly ‘acquired’ by a large European and Saudi Arabian conglomerate and transported to a massive nature reserve on the African Continent. The intention being to let life simply ‘find a way’. Given Africa’s diverse landscape the powers that be consider it a more than ideal location. By the time the scientific community find out it’s simply too late. The dinosaurs are scattered over millions of acres of African territory. We begin to witness the wonder and awe of tyrannosaurs hunting elephants, brachiosaurs mingling with giraffes, pachycephalosaurs, gazelle, parasaurolophus, zebra, and gallimimus travelling the plains together. The shots and set pieces are dripping in realism. The viewer soon forgets that what they are watching is in fact artificial. Think of it as ‘Walking with Dinosaurs’ on Acid. Africa’s diverse climate and habitats allow the story to interweave between desert, jungles, green fields and waterways. This movie would take current special effects technology to the next level, as JP did in the early 90’s.

World opinion is divided. Should the animals be culled, repurchased and transported home or let be. What begins as a moral conundrum soon becomes a matter of survival. On relocation the animals were treated with the appropriate antibodies to survive their new climate. However an unforeseen genetic mutation has caused the dinosaurs to become carriers of an extremely devastating virus. Although dormant for the time being, unless immunized the newly introduced specimens will not only infect all animal life but also human life as well. This virus is untreatable in humans and worldwide extinction is imminent if ALL released species are not treated. If they are left long enough to start breeding the ‘catch and treat’ task will become next to impossible.

Dr. Alan Grant, Dr.Ellie Sattler and Lex Murphy are working on a paeleontogy dig in Northern Africa when the news breaks. Alan and Ellie are coerced into offering their expertise. Lex however is young, energetic and willing to step up to the plate. A group of world leading scientists, palaeontologists and trackers are gathered to lend their expertise and create a plan of action. The technology is developed to ease the task at hand, but at the end of the day these animals especially the smaller predators like the Raptors and Dilophosaurs can only be tracked and captured on foot.

The movie will be super realistic, gritty and an adrenalin fuelled rollercoaster ride. Is the task impossible? What is to become of Africa? Regardless the course of evolution has been irreversibly altered. If humanity survives what kind of world will be left?

Jurassic Park 4 in its simplest terms is the film we fans want. Correction. Need! Too many movie franchises become ridiculous and predictable by their third or fourth outing. I don’t want the most pinnacle movie of my childhood destroyed by ‘genetically mutated dinosaur soldiers’. Or abandoned at such a pinnacle time in cinematic history. Michael Crichton the Master passed on. Don’t let the series do so as well. We are about to enter a decade of Comic Book movies. DC and Marvel are in full battle, if there’s any hope that today’s youths can learn to appreciate the beautiful world of dinosaurs it’s important that this movie gets made. It’s now or never. If we leave it too long they will just wait 15 years to re‐imagine and remake the whole concept again. I’m pleading with all the fans. If you like my concept, get behind it. Maybe just maybe we can get JP4 kick‐started. Hollywood is built on the projected flow of ticket and DVD sales. I would watch this movie; I would be standing in line opening weekend. I would buy the merchandise and buy the DVD! Would you? Steven, Amblin, Universal, if this film is created with the respect and due care it deserves we the fans will watch it. If the idea, script and photography are strong enough, non‐fans will love it! Take the risk. Dedicate it to Mr. Crichton. Sign the A‐list actors you need. Bring back Sam, Laura, David and Jeff. Get the cast, crew and fans excited again.

To the fans: Please Please get behind this idea. Spread the word. I want every JP fan site and Blog to have the image and plot up. I want it featured on every movie blog. I want this idea to reach the people at the top, reach the people who make the decisions and sign the cheques. I can’t do it but WE the movie going public can.

To the Studio Execs in Universal, Amblin and ILM: Listen to the fans. Take us seriously. We know the material and this is what we want. This movie could be BIG. This movie could make serious money!

“Jurassic Park 4‐Dark Continent” Concept
Original Idea and artwork ©Morgan O’Brien
www.morganobrienart.com
Based upon the ‘Jurassic Park Series’
by Michael Crichton
© Universal City Studios and
Amblin Entertainment INC.

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Seriously it could be very entertaining depending on how its appROACHed...

I believe for the 4th Jurassic they should have a clean up crew attempt to retake the 1st island.Almost like a clean up crew trying to salvage or reopen the park due to its original failure. All I know is that they shouldn't go away from the islands b/c thats the story of this trilogy. Like i said i think they should revist the 1st island with a new storyline.

Hold up your telling me they used more animatronics on screen in the 3rd one as opposed to the first JP? Dang my mistake I was basing that statement on seeing the movies years ago my bad. But that still doesn't excuse the 3rd movie suffering a sense of relapse and poor directing.

and we are going to get alot of x-men films so hell yeah. first class 1,2,and 3,magneto,wolverine2,and 3,deadpool,gambit,nightcrawler,mystique,new mutants,and x-men 4,and 5. all we need then would be district-x,and generation-x unless they use characters from genration-x in new mutants and new x-men characters like beak,tito bohusk,angel salvador,glob herman,rockslide,anole,chamber,and husk.those characters in a new mutants would be the most awesome x-men film ever. well maybe not ever but really close.x-men 2 is my all time favorite. if they would just focus on story and chacater like x-1,and x-2 instead of pure action the films would still be great.i think in first class sinister should be after cyclops and other strong mutants,and the sentinels should be the humans answer to the mutant threat in first class 2,or 3 or even the frist one.apocalypse should be magneto and charles villain in the magneto film since magneto does not turn to a villain himself till after first class because x-3 show him and charles building the x-men.sorry but it is called screen rant.anyways hell yeah jurassic park 4.

also who is going to be the villains in spiderman 4,5,and 6 i would love to see lizard,doc ock again,scorpion,carnage,kraven,and mysterio all have some part in the films.

i also hear that universal is doing a remake to the creature from the black lagoon does anyone have any new from this year?AND RESIDENT EVIL 4 IS BEING DONE BUT I HEAR THEY PLAN TO REMAKE it after part 4 more like the first game called resident evil begins.i also hear that steve altens the loch is being made to a film and underworld the begining hell yeah so many great movies. and x-4,and a sequel to hulk.any news on any of these films would be apprieciated and any news on killer animal films with good story and casting and effects.

hell yeah i just want to see some more dino action scary crap happening on the big screen. so if he does it like the first films cool if he want to go in a different direction great but lets see some plesiosaurs,and some more diloposaurs. a new trilogy would be pretty wicked cool.bring on JP4!!!!!

Jurassic park IV will be awesome!

YessssssssssssssssssSSS! Jurassic Park IV!

Come on Joe, Come on Spielberg, Come on Universal Studios make the best Jurassic Park movie. Welcome to Jurassic Park 4.

Now turn Official News.

Oh and Fenix, you need to watch the making of JP3. They used a ton of animatronix. T-Rex, Spino, and Raptors. More than in the first actually. Most of the Spino attack on the plane was all animatronix. The machanical Spino was the biggest animatronic puppet ever created until the ones used for the "Walking with Dinosaurs" live show...which I got so see by the way. It was awesome.
Anyway...get your facts straight.

I thought all three movies were great and they shouldn't have changed a thing. I think the best way to still involve the island without making it just another "survive getting off the island", is to have the dinos finally make it to the mainland of Costa Rica. In the original novel, the islands were 120 miles from the coast of Costa Rica and the story starts with Compy's attacking people in a small Costa Rican town. Have a large ship of some kind get caught in a storm and dock on the island till the storm passes, not realizing they are docked at the most dangerous island in the world. The dino's get aboard the ship and kill everyone and the auto pilot at some point returns the ship to Costa Rica, infesting the mainland with Dinos. Then the military can come to help fight off the Dino infestation. This time the dino's come to us instead of teh other way around. Characters from the first films could be brought in willingly or not so willingly to help the military. That's how I'd do it.

I agree with the posts to explore new ideas with the franchise. Everything has been played out with the island. Def need to bring Sam Neil and Goldblum back and it would be nutty if they brought the two kids from the first one and showed them all grown up.

And I completely disagree with whoever said lost world was the worst. JP3 was BY FAR the worst of the three. Obviously Spielburg didn't helm that one but I just feel like it redid the formula that worked so well for the first two. But honestly if you go back and watch them now, JP 3 looks like an older movie compared to the other two. The CGI is subpar for the time and he doesn't use any animatronics like spielburg was known for in the first two. That is the key with this new one is bring back the mixing of animatronics with CGI to make a truly terrifying dinosaur experience. Also they should make it scarier and have it take place on manhattan. Raptors running amok in the subways, T-rex in times square.. could get intense!

The pre-historic world is vast, and like previously stated, there have been great advances in paleontology and cloning. The very idea of re-created extinct species sheds some very dark light on human civilization.

When they introduced the cane toads to australia to deal with the crop pests, the toads ate everything, they're now a plague. Imagine a pack of raptors find a daycare... uh scary.

There could be more development on pre-historic plants and insects, and some more different dinos, or even bring in early man.

Like in Iceman with Tim Hutton, the neanderthal in today's society wasn't exactly encino man. What if Sam Neil brought back cr0-magnon? or cover an entirely different era, like Pleistocene. Ice age animals and cavemen maybe?

There is an article in this month's National Geographic about Crocs in the ancient sahara that were so big, they ate dinos.

And has there been any sea dinos? ancient sharks? There are literally millions of years of material to work with here.

I can see it now, the dinosaurs will be done entirely in CGI, and it'll be filmed in 3D with dinosaurs popping out of the screen chomping at the audience...oh the tragedy

Well you know what they say by the fifth movie of a franchise, it's time to reboot.

Why not make the fourth and the fifth one tie together? In four make it about humanity goes to the islands to wipe them all out and the fifth rename as "Jurassic World." Advertising would go, Jurassic Park becomes Jurassic World.
The fifth story then is how the animals of Jurassic Park spread to the rest of the world. The sixth one reboots...

It's the time! Jurassic Park IV now! The world wiat for the sequel since 2001. What happend with dinossaurs? Everybody want knhows. Please start the production of JP4 soon.

Steven Spielberg... This your time of says something about develop of Jurassic Park IV.

WE WANT JURASSIC PARK IV!

I was going to say the same thing, Tin Man. I heard any plans for a fourth were canceled once Crichton died.

But if they do go through with this, it better not be anything I've read online. I don't want to spoil anything if it is, but in short, the scientists make the dinosaurs smarter.

I still cant believe Michael crichton is gone, one of the greatest sci fi writers of our generation.

I thought Jp4 was scrapped after Crichton died? Or have things changed?

I'm actually frankly surprised that you thought the 3rd was the worst. I had always considered that the 2nd was widely considered the worst of the three.

I agree with what everybody said about T-rex and the Raptors being crucial, but what really made Jurassic Park what it was is Sam Niel. He was (and could be) almost as iconic as a modern-day Indiana Jones. I think a new set of films, focusing around developing his character would be highly entertaining.

Joe Johnston

Hopefully he blows us away with The First Avenger so he can take the reigns and do The Avengers. I liked his work on Jurassic Park 3 and Star Wars so we'll see what this guy has up his sleeve.

@ Heath, I think the fourth was to be called "Extinction" as well for a while.


@ Paul,

They can still have the movie not based on the island but have a scene or part of the movie there to use the name. Jurassic Park(s) (or the islands) are where it all began afterall so even if they don't, they'll still explain for new viewers how the modern dinos originated

Were to big and not to begin. sorry about that.

You have to take in consideration the amount of change that happen in the palaeontologist world in the last fifteen years. Last time I watch a documentary on dinosaurs, the T-Rex what nothing like we saw in the first movie. Apparently the adult were to begin and clumsy to hunt for themselves, so they wait around the trees to chop something the kids were bringing, oh yeah and baby T-Rex were all cover in feathers.

To me the raptors were honestly the best thing about the jurassic park franchise. I cant see either how they can do another jurassic park movie and not focus on the island...to me it doesnt make sense. If I remember though...in the novel the raptors somehow made it onto costa rica and were stealing babies out of cribs (not pg material but maybe a step in the right direction). What if the Jurassic park animals somehow got stranded in some place like the congo or south america...maybe a plane crashed with the embryos still in tact and they hatched. You could possibly bring back some of the original cast. I dont know...just an idea though.

I think it would be cool if they decide to do a new Jurassic movie, althought my favorite it will always and best the first one Jurassic Park..!!