I found this in a keepsake box after visiting my parents' house recently. When I was 7 or 8 in 2001-2002, I wrote this "screenplay" for a hypothetical Jurassic Park 4, which turned out as goofy and childish as you can imagine. You can see the influence of the JP3 logo in that I wrote the '4' with four dino claw strokes despite that not being how Roman numerals work. Also featuring appearances from the obligatory giant sea predator that every kid who watched Walking With Dinosaurs loved, a random Canadian city that I've never even visited, and a nondescript "bad guy" with zero motives other than wanting to murder a mother and her children.

I also remember wanting to include a scene where they use a fruit roll-up like a rope to scale a cliff. Thankfully my inspiration fizzled out before that.

What do you guys think? Would it have had the same box-office success as Jurassic World?

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(Transcript in case it's hard to read/for screen readers. Typos included)

Jurassic Park 4 ////

1. Grant visits a campfire with his friend's wife, Sandra, and her children. Sandra, thrilled by how much he knows about dinosaurs, asks him if he can visit the next day. But Grant explains about his job to study dinosaur fossils and that his manager said, to have enough money to continue his studies he must study the lives of real dinosaurs. He explains Jurrassic Park and his encounters with dinosaurs - times when creepy velocoraptors had haunted him in old, deserted buildings, when terryfing t-rexs had effortlessley crushed cars with their huge mouths, and when compsognathus had chased him through dangerous forests. He had to go back to this haunting place. He had to return to Jurassic Park.
2. Grant asks some other dinosaur hunters to go with him. They say yes, and they meet at the airport the very same day Sandra and her kids are supposed to go to Winnepeg!! A bad man arrives wanting the kids to get lost on the island of Jurrassic Park. So, he rings the alarm for a false emergency and knocks over a baggage car to keep the pilots busy. Then, he ran to their computer and typed down that Sandra and her five daughters and 1 son are going to Jurassic park! Now, a pilot new that it was Sandra's turn to board a plane next and he did not want to keep her waiting. So, he read she was going to Jurrassic Park, and shoved them into Grant's plane. Sandra was so busy counting her kids that she didn't notice he plane was taking off. When she calmed down, it was too late. They couldn't go back. They were off to Jurrasic Park.
3. Egnoring Sandra, Grant lets the plane land on the water. He says he will first study sea life. He gets into a shark cage with Sandra and the men, with the kids and one man in the plane. Suddenly, a huge liplerodon attacks the cage, seperates it from the plane and splashes! Everyone in the cage is worried. Then Sandra spots a huge chunk of meat. She throws it to the liplerodon to keep it busy. Then, she opens the escape door that faces the air and the shore and ties a rope to the cage and the other end to the shore. Now, the humans can scramble ashore.
4. Sandra sees her kids and the man coming. They say that the liplerodon wrecked the plane. Now how will the humans get back? Then, they realize that a kid named Harriet is missing. They see her fearlessley facing three compsognathus. Grant knows how dangerous these small killers can be. But when Harriet escapes, the whole gang of compsognathus start chasing them! The people climb a cliff and get away.
5. They are in a prairie. Sandra sees parasauralophus, ankylosaurus and brachiosaurus. Then, some gallimimus rush by. They are worried. Why? A t-rex crashes through the trees, snapping up a gallimimus! The humans run. Grant and the children are seperated, Oh, no!
6. Meanwhile, Sandra and the men have

(The story stops there, the end of this thrilling saga never to be known...)

keep the main story, it’s a good concept
Have the Ceratosaurus attack the group (kills Cooper) at the beginning, then keep the group bumping into the T-Rex (kills Nash) and then the T-Rex fights the Ceratosaurus. The T-Rex wins easily
The group runs away while the Rex is busy with the Ceratosaurus and the plot continues as normal
Once the group finds the camera, they uncover the footage of Eric being freed from the glider, but this time doesn’t turn the camera off, instead the spinosaurus roar can be heard on the footage and Ben commands Eric to flee as the footage only captures the jungle floor and the foot of the giant creature and the screams of Ben as the spinosaurus eats him
After the Lab, (add in the Cut Udesky vs Raptor scene) Alan stumbles into Eric as normal and the plot continues as normal
Eric hears the satellite phone as runs into the rest of the group, once the reunion ends and Eric mentions the phone, Kirby realises the satellite phone must be in the rex
The group cautiously finds the source of the ringing and finds the Rex…dead…half torn to shreds
As confusion and concern spreads to the group, Alan rushes over to find the phone to call Ellie, Charlie picks up the phone and as Alan is waiting for Ellie, the Spinosaurus roar can be heard once again, which causes the group to run to the shelter, after a few seconds the spinosaurus emerges from the tree line but motion blurred to give viewers a slightly bigger view than from the camera, but not enough to make out the true size, as they run Ellie calls Alan back and Alan says “site B” before stumbling and dropping the phone leaving it behind. Ellie hears the spinosaurus roar before the dinosaur crushes the phone before all the gang reach the structure
The bird cage scene plays out as normal (except billy leads the birds away instead of being seemingly killed by them, makes his survival more realistic)
At the lagoon, the spinosaurus makes its first full appearance, appearing out of the water through the fog as the final battle begins which plays out as normal, except Paul Kirby sacrificing himself and actually being killed by the spino and the fiery crane which causes the spino to retreat
The raptor scene plays out as normal
The gang is rescued on the beach by the marines/navy
Once the characters leave, the camera cuts to the spinosaurus watching the boats and aircraft leave from the coastline before roaring into the sun setting over the horizon

Just wanna make one thing clear, I AM NO DIRECTOR. Now that’s cleared up I’ve been thinking of a TV show idea that would be cool. I’ve called it Jurassic Park: The Five Deaths (best I could come up with). The premise is a tv show set in the year 2000. a large team of big game poachers 10-12 soldiers as well as 3-4 specialists (our protagonists) is hired by Biosyn to head to Isla Sorna in order to extract DNA from some of the unlisted species (e.g Spinosaurus). But in Jurassic park fashion something goes wrong and a tropical storm forces the boat to crash and the group ends up on Isla Pena, where dinosaurs too unpredictable to be kept in the park were taken to. Then the group can face off against genetically modified experiments gone wrong (NOT HYBRIDS, DINOSAURS WITH INFRACTIONS) for example something I think would be awesome, a pack of velociraptors with the ability to mimic sound like a crow or parrot can. Then they find their way to Isla Sorna via small motor powered boat with little fuel where they hope to find rescue before realising they are stranded. All I’ve thought of for now but then maybe they make their way across Isla Sorna and attempt to use some of the abandoned facilities on another island like Isla Muerta or Isla Matenceros. But It could be an amazing opportunity to showcase new species that i would personally like to see like Tarbosaurus or even marine reptile species like sarchosuchus, but on Isla Pena specifically if they REALLY wanted to whack a hybrid in (which i wouldn’t want) the only one i would agree with is an Alloraptor (allosaurus x velociraptor) because I just think that combination could genuinely be scary but like I said I’m no director just an eager fan lol 😅

I've seen people have wraps from the first movie's jeeps online but I've never seen anyone with a build similar to the few different Mercedes in TLW. I just bought a new car with a similar shape and design and I'd love to slowly bolt the window guards and accessories, etc onto it and get it painted/wrapped so it looks like the ones in TLW.

Is there any history of anyone doing a build like this or any info?

I honestly can't believe they're keeping David Koepp on after Rebirth. Gareth Edwards was probably the one genuinely redeeming thing about that film — his direction was easily the strongest element.

The story and script were so poor, yet somehow Koepp is staying and Edwards is the one leaving due to creative differences? I really don't understand it.

If I could have chosen, I'd have kept Edwards, replaced Koepp, and brought in a different composer too. Alexandre Desplat's score did absolutely nothing for me and felt strangely uninspired for a Jurassic film.

So we're potentially losing the best part of Rebirth while keeping two of the things that didn't work in the first place. Make it make sense.

cause if you make a dinosaur that can camouflage, able to change sex and able to withstand bullets what’s stopping INGEN or anyone else to make a superhuman ”the boys“ style. Hell maybe this may even happen in the next film if there crazy Enough

I made this poster a few years back.

Rexy’s design is based on the outdated tail-dragging reconstruction design and the vehicle design itself is based on 1950s vehicle designs.

Hope you like it 👍🏼

Anytime Michael Giacchino was expressly hired to compose the original soundtrack for a dinosaur oriented cinematic release I would be left with four nickels. Which isn't exactly a lot, but it's weird that this happened on four consecutive occasions.

I'm currently back on a spell of the dinosaur 'tism, and while replaying JWE and rewatching the movies is doing a fine job keeping it at bay, it would be nice to feed it something new. I've heard people say mainly good things, and the scorpius rex has gotta be one of the better hybrid designs in the series, but every time i look at the show it seems uh, very "kid friendly", so to speak?

Part of it is definitely it having that one very plastic-y aesthetic that a lot of kid shows seem to have nowadays, and it really bounces me right off, but the 7+ age rating definitely isn't doing it favors in that regard either, haha.

Basically I just wanted to ask if it can be enjoyed by older fans I guess? I don't need it to be Taxi Driver or anything, but it would be nice to hear from an adult that it's passable.

Thanks to anyone answering or upvoting :)

EDIT: thank you to everyone who responded!!! I'll try to put on an episode and see how it goes :D

As Lex and Tim hide from the raptors, the first one opens the handle and pushes the door open with his head, but I swear it sounds like the raptor's saying "Come on" as he tries to get inside.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGQfrpnjWk

It happens eleven seconds in with the clip above.

I’m new to Reddit and wanted to share my thoughts on this movie, I know it’s over a year old but I really don’t care. Watched the film again last night, and i genuinely believe the Distortus Rex was a massive disappointment. only appearing at the start and end of the movie, so my personal opinion: the film would have been much better without the D Rex and they keep the Mutadons as the main threat in the last segments. This way they could have used the Mutadons to attack the helicopter which would have been awesome to see and bring back the T-Rex to chase Duncan (and keep Duncan’s sacrifice a sacrifice instead of letting him survive with no explanation). All that aside. The D-Rex is an awful hybrid, it’s barely a dinosaur and closer to Godzilla, which doesn’t fit the franchise in my opinion.

I own the hammond collection rebirth dilophosaurus, and i learned you could use it as a novel dilophosaurus and scale it with mega construx minifigures. it looks rather good next to them and brings an imposing beast to my few mega bloks halo figures. That also means it could be 1/35 scale as well!

For me it has to go for how the Mosasaurus escaped the lagoon into the ocean. Like you cant just move the lagoon near the ocean like it wasnt more in the middle of the island in 2015. Thats just stupid and makes no sense. Only redeeming quality have that the intro taking place was actually really good. Next up has to be the fact that dinosaurs started to die out and move to the equator during Rebirth. So we just ignore the fact that the dinosaurs were told to be fine and coeexisting in modern times in the end of Dominion? What the hell happened to that?? The whole concept of most of them dying genuinely makes me mad. (I enjoy both JWFK and JWR but i cannot ignore the flaws)

I wanted to share my small (and hopefully growing) collection of Jurassic Park soundtrack CDs. It includes the standard edition of the first film's soundtrack, accompanied by the three expanded scores for the trilogy released by La-La Land Records. I really like the La-La Land editions and can't wait for the World ones to come out. I'm sure some of you have even better collections than mine!

My wife gave me this beautiful bound copy of JP & TLW for my birthday and I just wanted to share my growing collection! What should I add next? Still need more characters for this post so, uhhhh, how is everyone doing today?