Beyond a shadow of a doubt one of my favorite movie rumors of this past year was when word got out that Jurassic Park 4 as going to focus on the Dinosaurs becoming super intelligent and began carrying guns (assumably equipped by the government for military applications and then everything went horribly awry)!
Aside from that delicious story, not much has been heard about Jurassic Park 4 in quite a while. Many people, including myself starting thinking it just sort of slipped into the great movie abyss never to be heard from again. But according to the folks over at Moviehole, the producers are still working on it and still planning for a Jurassic Park 4 release date in 2009.
Producer Frank Marshall tells Coming Soon that as soon as the WGA strikes ends – if it ends – they’re going to continue working on the script. “There’s an idea and we just have to see if it shakes out.” The uber-producer – who’s also keen on doing a fourth “Bourne” film – says the plan is still to get the film into theatres by 2009.
The Jurassic Park franchise has been declining in quality with each film… but still… there is a certain “fun” factor to even the last 2 movies (any movie that has the monster actually GETTING the dog will always get my support). The series will never again capture that “Awe and Wonder” element that the first one gave us, but that’s ok. Give me a bag of popcorn and giant dinosaurs running amok through a contemporary metropolis and I’ll have a good Saturday afternoon.
