Jurassic Park IV, not coming soon

"Jurassic Park IV" is apparently quite a ways from happening. According to producer Frank Marshall, the fourth Indiana Jones movie is in the pipeline behind the third Bourne movie. After those two are under way, then there will be movement on JP4. No confirmations on the script, but it still includes William Monahan's name and people have mentioned dinosaur commandos. [Image found at Monsters and Critics.]


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JP4 news

For updated info on what's happening (or not happening) with Jurassic Park IV, check out Dan's JP3 Page - The World's Greatest JP Paper. Apparently, that crazy script for the movie, mentioned in my last post, is not made up. Sayles confirms it here and here. Despite this, all the latest news seems to show that Jurassic Park IV is on hold. And once a movie is "on hold" it rarely revives. Ah well.

More Jurassic Park IV news

Apparently, production on Jurassic Park IV is getting under way and the whole cast from the original film is returning, at least according to this article.
I wrote about some of the script details here. I can't imagine the story will actually be as crazy as reported.

Jurassic Park 4 news?

Apparently, Ain't It Cool News got its hands on a Jurassic Park 4 script written by William Monahan and John Sayles. Monahan is some young and upcoming writer who has three films in production. Sayles is the master independent filmmaker, but this is more in line with his early work on "Alligator" and "The Howling."
From the review, it sounds like the script veres off into really unexpected territory:

There’s the eight-year-old-boy side of me that thinks that a DIRTY DOZEN-style mercenary team of hyper-smart dinosaurs in body armor killing drug dealers and rescuing kidnapped children will be impossible to resist. And then there’s the side of me that says... WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

If there's any truth behind this thing, it could really be fascinating (or just screwed up), but it doesn't seem likely that Hollywood is going to produce it anyway. We'll have to wait and see.