Steven Spielberg Wants To Reboot Jurassic Park

Steven Spielberg Wants To Reboot Jurassic Park

The director of the first two JP films is reportedly brain storming ideas for a reboot of the franchise, instead of continuing from 2001's JP3...

By PaulRom - Jun 16, 2011 05:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Jurassic Park
Source: THR


Take this with a grain of salt, but The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that Steven Spielberg - who directed the first two Jurassic Park films and produced the third - is in talks with screenwriter Mark Protosevich to think of ideas on rebooting the franchise. Recently, star Sam Neil - who played Alan Grant in the first and third films - stated that Jurassic Park 4 was dead, and this recent news of Spielberg wanting to reboot seems to add to the likelihood that the film really is dead.

Steven Spielberg has dinosaurs back on the brain lately. In addition to the impending launch of the television series Terra Nova on Fox in the fall, Spielberg has been meeting with screenwriter Mark Protosevich to kick around ideas for how to re-boot the Jurassic Park franchise.


Do you think that they should go ahead with the ever-common reboot? Or do you want to see the story continued with a fourth film? Sound off your thoughts below.

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Destroyer14
Destroyer14 - 6/16/2011, 5:37 AM
I would rather see the story continued, bring them to the city.
dancingmonkey08
dancingmonkey08 - 6/16/2011, 5:44 AM
I would rather see Hollywood use new ideas, and forget about the [frick]ing JP franchise but nooooooooo
ThreeBigTacos
ThreeBigTacos - 6/16/2011, 8:09 AM
meh ... if its kinda like dinosaurs taking over or some thing along the lines of Rise of Planet of the apes, like people getting [frick]ed up by raptors in their homes, then maybe. I rather see some sort of continuation, or something.
Denn1s
Denn1s - 6/16/2011, 8:18 AM
continue with new cast and characters. why reboot the same old characters? after all we only watch them just to see people be torn apart by giant jaws (pun unintended?)....
Talontd
Talontd - 6/16/2011, 9:41 AM
If they reboot it, they better bring back the best actor of this generation.....Jeff Goldblum!!!!
Spectre94
Spectre94 - 6/16/2011, 10:49 AM
I thought Spielberg was heavily opposed to remaking or rebooting his own stuff? but if this is true, I'm up for some more dino action
Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon - 6/16/2011, 10:57 AM
I've also seen articles using the exact same news to say that they're talking about a Jurassic Park 4 -- a continuation of the series.

Just because one sole dumbassed reporter used the word "re-boot" in his article (which in this case could easily also mean "revive") doesn't mean they're actually going to start from scratch.
mrbill
mrbill - 6/16/2011, 11:08 AM
Spielberg took a great story, candy-coated/sugarized it, and made a Disney movie out of it. I'd like to 'reboot' his head...
Curmudgeon
Curmudgeon - 6/16/2011, 11:19 AM
The article he sources to is titled "Steven Spielberg Brainstorming 'Jurassic Park 4' with Writer Mark Protosevich"

And the very next paragraph after the one he quotes says: "That film ran into rights problems and didn't come to fruition, but Spielberg, who directed the first two Jurassic Park films and was an executive producer on the third, has since met twice with Protosevich to fashion a story for a potential fourth film in the franchise."

I'm sorry man, but I really think you're just reading too much into one word of the article and not looking at the overall context.
comicdude
comicdude - 6/17/2011, 1:33 PM
I would rather see Turok made into a movie.
Maffy
Maffy - 7/10/2011, 11:52 PM
I have heard somewhere that, if dinosaurs were brought into today's world, they would be extremely vulnerable to disease. My idea (Jurassic Park IV: Extinction) is:
Dinosaurs on both islands have a deadly disease that threatens to wipe them out again. A team of experts are split into two groups and sent to Isla Nublar (with dinosaurs no longer isolated by fences) and Isla Sorna. On their way there, they encounter a large group of escaped pterasaurs heading in the opposite direction. They are sent to investigate the cause of the deaths on the island/s and resscue the animals, some of which have not been affected (these dinosaurs now threaten both teams).It quickly becomes a fight for survival for both the team and the dinosaurs.
Meanwhile, the escaped pterasaurs wreak havoc in the cities near the islands and the teams are called to help, but are trapped by the dinosaurs on the islands. With no way of getting off the island, they must find whatever resources they can and survive as best they can, while still trying to find out what's wrong with the animals.
The pterasaurs begin to breed and kill people to feed their young. A group of pleisiosaurs kill beach goers along the coasts.
With the skies and the coast now danger zones, the military gets involved to try and control the problem.
They are sent to rescue the teams and successfully bring most of them them back alive. The team tries to help, while a group of compsognathus (escaped on the boats and helicopters sent to rescue the team) start to also terrorize the city. Velociraptors also get off the large boat/ship, unknown to anyone. The pterasaurs and pleisiosaurs are contained, but a new problem has arisen...

That's all I can think of so far, but there needs to be an allosaurus in it somewhere on Isla Sorna as the big predator (seeing as the T-Rex was killed in the third movie).

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