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08Nov2009

'Jurassic Park III' Director Wants 'Jurassic Park IV'

DateSunday, November 8, 2009 at 5:15PM
Jurassic Park IV? Don't count it out yet, I guess.

Director Joe Johnston, brought in by Universal to take over The Wolfman from Mark Romanek, helmed the third and least appealing Jurassic Park about a decade ago, and he tells Ain't It Cool News he would consider answering the bell again. Unless I missed something this year, the producers of the trilogy have not warmed to the idea yet, so this could be hypothetical.

"There is a great story for the fourth one that I would be interested in getting involved with, and it’s nothing like the first three," Johnston says. "It sort of takes the franchise off in a completely different direction, which is the only way I would want to get involved.”

That different direction seems pretty obvious. “Why would anybody go back to that island," asks Johnston hypothetically. "It was hard enough to figure out the second and third reason for them to go, but it would take it off in a whole other trilogy basically, but when it gets to that level it’s sort of about studios and Steven’s thing and who knows."

As I mentioned earlier, there's year-old information from producer Kathleen Kennedy that there's no official interest from the people who would need to be involved. "You know, when Crichton passed away, I sorta felt maybe that's it," Kennedy commented last December. "Maybe that's a sign that we don't mess with it."

As always, advantage producers. So unless there's a major tune change from Kennedy, Spielberg, and Frank Marshall, Johnston probably won't get his chance.

AuthorColin Boyd | | in , | Print ArticlePrint Article | | Comment2 Comments |

Reader Comments (2)

Great!

Jurassic Park IV need to be make! Please Spielberg and Universal start the production of Jurassic Park IV now.

Sunday, November 8, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterDieter

yeah right

Monday, November 9, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterBah H-bug

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