Jurassic Park IV
Maybe I shared this before, I don't know. But a few years ago, there was a leaked script going around for Jurassic Park IV. Like most people, I can hear the reaction. Really? We're flogging this dead horse again?
But, I'll give it this much, it's batshit insane.
So it begins with dinosaurs invading the mainland. Apparently inGen's containment failed (Newman!) and the dinosaurs are wrecking havoc all over the place. It's already a problem in Central America, but this is the first time it hit the States. Our protagonist this time is someone named Nick Harris, a mercenary who hears the news of the attacks and is offered a job by Hammond, the most sued man in the world at this point. InGen was wrestled away from him at some point, yet he feels responsible for the dinosaur invasion. He hatches a plan to create a breed of impotent dinosaurs and release them into the population, a "Judas Strain" to kill the invaders. But, apparently there's a problem. We can't breed dinosaurs anymore without the original genetic material. Which means...
We're going back to the island. Except we aren't there very long - Harris manages to find the can of Barbasol that Newman Nedry dropped before he was killed in the first movie. And at this point, you're thinking, okay kind of typical so far. Sounds like the setup for any other JP movie. And here's where things go crazy.
Harris is captured by security, courtesy of the Grendel Corporation. Grendel, a mysterious holding company, is the group that actually took the Park from Hammond. Harris is gassed and taken to their headquarters in a Transylvania-style castle in the Alps. When Harris recovers, he learns that Grendel is a lot more than it seems. They've been breeding dinosaurs of their own, cross-mutations, in hopes of making viable weapons out of them. And rather than kill Harris for interfering, Grendel offers the mercenary a job - train five weaponized velociraptors. Obedient as dogs, with modifed hands, enhanced smell, strength and speed, and kept docile by implants that inject them with drugs as needed to keep them stable.
That's all that was leaked out at that point. It's quite crazy. Yet, it almost works in a exploitative B-movie kind of way. When I look back on the previous movies, they are certainly more hammy than I remembered them as a little kid. And what little kid wouldn't want a dog-sized pet velociraptor anyway? Of course, this was over five years ago, so who knows whatever became of it. Crichton died a couple years back and it seemed like it was shelved. But Spielberg may be planning to test the waters with plans to re-release Jurassic Park in 3D in the near future.
They say nostalgia lags about 20 years, and we're certainly getting close to that for Jurassic Park.
Wow... we are, aren't we? Oy.
But, I'll give it this much, it's batshit insane.
So it begins with dinosaurs invading the mainland. Apparently inGen's containment failed (Newman!) and the dinosaurs are wrecking havoc all over the place. It's already a problem in Central America, but this is the first time it hit the States. Our protagonist this time is someone named Nick Harris, a mercenary who hears the news of the attacks and is offered a job by Hammond, the most sued man in the world at this point. InGen was wrestled away from him at some point, yet he feels responsible for the dinosaur invasion. He hatches a plan to create a breed of impotent dinosaurs and release them into the population, a "Judas Strain" to kill the invaders. But, apparently there's a problem. We can't breed dinosaurs anymore without the original genetic material. Which means...
We're going back to the island. Except we aren't there very long - Harris manages to find the can of Barbasol that Newman Nedry dropped before he was killed in the first movie. And at this point, you're thinking, okay kind of typical so far. Sounds like the setup for any other JP movie. And here's where things go crazy.
Harris is captured by security, courtesy of the Grendel Corporation. Grendel, a mysterious holding company, is the group that actually took the Park from Hammond. Harris is gassed and taken to their headquarters in a Transylvania-style castle in the Alps. When Harris recovers, he learns that Grendel is a lot more than it seems. They've been breeding dinosaurs of their own, cross-mutations, in hopes of making viable weapons out of them. And rather than kill Harris for interfering, Grendel offers the mercenary a job - train five weaponized velociraptors. Obedient as dogs, with modifed hands, enhanced smell, strength and speed, and kept docile by implants that inject them with drugs as needed to keep them stable.
That's all that was leaked out at that point. It's quite crazy. Yet, it almost works in a exploitative B-movie kind of way. When I look back on the previous movies, they are certainly more hammy than I remembered them as a little kid. And what little kid wouldn't want a dog-sized pet velociraptor anyway? Of course, this was over five years ago, so who knows whatever became of it. Crichton died a couple years back and it seemed like it was shelved. But Spielberg may be planning to test the waters with plans to re-release Jurassic Park in 3D in the near future.
They say nostalgia lags about 20 years, and we're certainly getting close to that for Jurassic Park.
Wow... we are, aren't we? Oy.