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July 14, 1997...
Word has it that development is underway and Crichton is
somewhere sweating over a hot word processor for the
third novel.
Dreamworks SKG may be
looking to purchase the right to do the third JP movie.
Spielberg apparently has stated that he will not direct
if Universal hangs onto the franchise and makes the
third installment, as after JP2 he is looking to spend
his energy only for his new studio, Dreamworks.
A couple of ideas are
already being bandied about for a story. First, it has
been heard that JP3 may be a prequel of sorts, but if
this is the case, where the story would fall in the
timeline of things is unknown.
It has also been
suggested that the third installment would deal with a
new Ice Age descending upon mankind and the dinos
reclaiming the mainland to pick up off the puny human
survivors. However, it has also been suggested that this
is absolute rubbish. [Scoop reported by 'widgett'.]
September 21,
1997... Crichton's rumored follow-up novel may
be titled 'Embryo'. In the story, dino embryos are
created on the mainland and then are set free in the
civilized world. 'Take out food' suddenly has a whole
new meaning. [Scoop handed in by 'Gralex.']
June 29, 1998...
Today Universal Pictures announced plans to unveil a
third Jurassic Park film, scheduled for release in the
summer of 2000. However, the director of the first two
Jurassic Park films, Steven Spielberg, will be involved
only in a producer role for the new film. Amblin
Entertainment, Spielberg's production company, will
produce the film. In the Universal press release
Spielberg said "We have an opportunity to build
on the experience and excitement that audiences have
come to expect from us. Michael Crichton knows how to
surprise and entertain audiences with themes and stories
that are smart and original. We've had great success
together and, along with Universal Pictures and my
colleagues at Amblin, look forward to continuing our
association with this next Jurassic Park film."
It should also be noted
that in Universal's press release, Jurassic Park
novelist Michael Crichton was mentioned as only
developing the new film's storyline and not
screenwriting it. "When I first wrote my novel
'Jurassic Park' I knew it was a potentially intriguing
concept developed from a base of scientific
possibilities," said Crichton in the Universal
press release, "but I could never have foreseen
how that would grow into a worldwide phenomenon. I'm
enormously pleased that after 65,000,000 years, the
fascination with dinosaurs seems here to stay, and I'm
delighted at this opportunity to collaborate again with
Steven."
[Something was
scooped by Joe Hanna, 'Mrbbblee', 'ScottNY914', 'Kevdo',
'samanmax', 'MPreston88', 'The Schank' and anonymously.]
July 11, 1998...
We've heard rumors from a number of scoopers over the
past year that a new 'prequel' book is forthcoming from
Crichton. According to the rumor, the book will
illustrate the story of how the first Jurassic Park
island was created and show us how the dinos were cloned
from million-year-old DNA. We here at CA aren't
holding our breath for the book; the alleged storyline
doesn't have any room for the action and suspense the
first two books/movies had. We know the dinos never
broke loose from their cages before the events of the
first film, so what point would a prequel serve?
But there's been
another rumor we keep hearing again and again, this time
about a sequel to The Lost World. The premise of this
storyline follows a new Ice Age overtaking the world and
how the dinosaurs let loose from Jurassic Park spread
across the globe. While we here at CA feel that
this too sounds just a bit too fanboy-ish for us to
swallow without seeing some sort of proof, nevertheless,
the rumor keeps coming back to our Inbox.
But there's yet another
piece of gossip we feel we should share. While this
scoop may not be linked to the other two rumors, it was
first reported to us four days after Universal Pictures
announced plans for a third Jurassic Park film. The
scooper just mentioned a subtitle linked to the new
project: 'Extinction'. [Submitted by 'Dennis_131'.]
Another scooper sent us
this email hours after Universal made their press
release. Please treat it, as as the rumor that appeared
before it, as highly speculative! (We we mean is: we
can't prove it's legit!)
"Thr truth of
these rumors are entirely speculative but do to Godzilla
this summer it looks like JP has some competition. The
next and perhaps the final installment to the 'dino's
eat free at the human buffet' will be called either 'the
final rampage' or 'the final extinction'. The plot takes
place long after the second in a scenario on the
mainland. nature takes course through a storm or
earthquake freeing the beasts onto the streets of an
overpopulated city full of humans. The movie is said to
be more for adults with more gore and fear and most of
all dinos. ILM source states: 'There are supposed to be
numerous stampedes through rush hour traffic and up to
five t-rexs forming a family. one raptor shot in the
sewer has as many as 139 lizards in a massive cave-like
structure'. as far as the cast is concerned Jeff may be
back with a list of other names in speculation: Ed
Harris, Kevin Spacey, Chris O'Donnell, and Halle Berry
to name a few. these sources are not confirmed truths
but are as factual as possible." ['J-Rok'
the digital anthropologist.]
August 18, 1998...
We've been scooped that Director of Photography Dean
Semler (Waterworld, Gone Fishin' and the upcoming The
Bone Collector) will be attached to this project on
August 17, 1999 -- one whole year from now. [Scooped
by 'Leon the Milk Drinker'.]
September 24,
1998... Some info regarding Crichton's new book:
"My friend's first cousin works at Universal
Studios, and therefore, I've come across the following
information:
Michael Chrichton is
currently writing, and almost done with a follow up
novel (to the Lost World) called "Embryo".
Steven Spielberg is very interested in adapting this
novel (possibly before it's completed) into a
screenplay, for which a treatment has already been
written, however he has no interest in directing it and
would want to be executive producer. The movie
would either be called, "The Final Rampage" or
"The Final Return." I can tell you
what i know of the screenplay treatment. The film
starts out in a totally destroyed New York, where great
chunks of buildings, like the Empire State Building, lie
on their sides, trampled over T-Rexes, the only visible
life left, who hunt after each other. We also
glimpse other famous cities, in the course of about 10
minutes, such as Paris, Chicago, London, and San
Francisco, who are also, seeminly, consisting of only
dinasours. The film then goes back to the 21st
century to explain how this catastrophe, or
"triumph" occured. Apparently, during
the T-Rex, who rampaged through San Francisco, in the
lost world, also managed to lay a few dozen eggs.
Unfortunately, these eggs were somehow mistaken for
fossils and placed in a museum. 2 years later, Dr.
Alan Grant is visiting the museum with his 2 kids from
his first marraige. When he takes them to see
dinasour egg exibit, he realizes that 3 of the
cracked-open shells look less like fossils and more like
recently hatched eggs. A museum curator
notes that there was an issue of a small family of
lizards living in the museum, a few years back, but that
they no longer lived there. Dr. Grant quickly
informs Malcolm of the incident, and for a while, the
film goes into Dr. Grant's family issues. Later in
the film, there is a series of strange, horrible animal
attacks in Yosemite, all of them fatal.
When experts note that the attacks
look an awful lot like they were made by T-Rex's, Dr.
Grant and Malcolm head to Yosemite, along with a small
military team, being that nobody knows for sure these
are dinasours. The rest of the film takes place
over a course of 2 days, where, in Yosemite they
encounter 3 T-Rexes, who kill a large majority of the
crew, as well as some Yosemitee park vacationers.
In the end, the dinasours are dead. Of course, no
one knows about the other nine eggs, hatched in
different museums. At the end of the film, there
is a shot of hundreds of other dinasours living in a
remote forest. [Scoop provided by 'Markk']
August 5, 1999... Today the deals were
announced. Director Joe Johnston (The Rocketeer, Jumanji)
got the gig to direct the next Jurassic Park
flick. Screenwriter Craig Rosenberg (who wrote and
directed Hotel de Love...hey, anyone every hear
of this guy before today?) is said to be writing the
script with Johnston and Spielberg as a close
collaborators. It's unknown how story creator Michael
Crichton fits in right now, but he'll at least wind up
with some kind of credit on the new film.
Pre-production on the new dino film could begin as
soon as early next year. Right now no details about the
storyline that Rosenberg is writing have surfaced. [Scooped
by 'Angel', 'Mojo', Dan Siemens, 'Chiusano', 'Mr. Boy',
'MirclMax', 'Raptorbait', a reader named Scott and
'BJP3E'.]
January 18, 2000... Dark Horizons broke
the story first yesterday but we're going to report
about it today. The Danish newspaper Politikken
recently conducted an interview with Jurassic Park 3
director Joe Johnston for the occasion of the premiere
of his film October Sky at the Venice Film
Festival back in 1999. The Politikken interview
ran on the 7th of this month, and it featured some
insight as to what we can expect to see in the next JP
movie...
Johnson: "I am very happy for this
assignment...There will be alot of special effects, but
most important to me would be the story. The story is
the key to a good movie. Steven Spielberg has given me
'carte blanche'. He has said that I shall make my own
movie, all though the plot in the movie is based on the
idea by Steven. He has strongly pointed out that I
shouldn't try to copy him. Since our collaboration with
the Indiana Jones trilogy, we have talked about a joined
project...I loved the two first movies and all though
the audience will compare my movie with Steven
Spielberg's, it doesn't scare me at all. I cannot
disclose the plot yet. We are so to speak still in the
'development phase', [at that time in the summer of
1999], but there will be new characters and new
dinosaurs. We want to create a feeling of something
exceptional, as we know from the first two movies. A
sort of returning to the first one. Maybe there will be
two characters we already know from the two first
[movies], but in the end rather unknown characters will
appear."
Question: Jurassic Park is considered as a
milestone in special effects. Will the third one be the
same?
Johnson: "Since Jurassic Park and The
Lost World, the evolution within FX has gone fast,
and I will of course use a lot of the new techniques
that has been invented in the latest Star Wars
Episode I. I see for me a lot of flying reptiles. I
look forward to start filming. The budget is set to be
83 million dollars."
[Translated by Cory.]
March 28, 2000... Alright, so far we know the
director and screenwriter for the third Jurassic Park
film, but lately there hasn't been much news to report
about the project. Is the first draft of the screenplay
done? Is Johnston looking at locations, stars, effects
houses? What's happening??
If the report that our latest scooper has turned in
turns out to be correct, Johnston is in the
pre-production stages of producing a teaser trailer for
the film. Likely such a trailer would be seen sometime
this year, most likely during the summer season.
Here's 'Quince' with a look at the first Jurassic
Park 3 trailer:
"I work at a post-production house in London,
England. Over the weekend I came across a package from
Los Angeles inscribed with 'Teaser: JP'. Inside was a
storyboard for what seemed to be a movie trailer for the
new Jurassic Park sequel. The sketches and screen
directions were as followed:
"The camera pulls out from behind a tree to
reveal a beach and exotic flora (Much like the intro to
the second JP). The camera slowly track-pans 45 degrees
until it hangs over the water. Behind the deep plants
two slim, long reptilian tails can be seen bobbing and
swinging about. The storyboard indicates that we can
only hear the dinosaurs 'squawking', we don't actually
see them whole. The camera tracks backwards, slowly
pushing back from the playful dinos, creeping steadily
out to sea. Our attention is still locked firmly on the
tails.
"Suddenly a massive Loch Ness monster type head
(I think it's meant to be plesiosaurs but aren't sure)
bursts out of the water and swallows the camera. I guess
that this effect is meant to startle you because it says
underneath 'Swallows with extreme force and anger'. The
title JP burns on to the screen.
"I'm not sure whether other special effects
houses in London or America have been sent the same
storyboard because last year we got sent the Sleepy
Hollow storyboard but some other company ended up
doing the teaser. I'll try and keep you posted on future
developments."
['Quince' likes prehistoric animals.]
April 5, 2000... Remember our rumor from last
month, that a teaser trailer for Jurassic Park 3
was being worked on? One of our known operatives working
in Hollywood seems to have heard some news that would
confirm its a'comin'!
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