Joe Johnston Talks Jurassic Park 4 Story
Harry Knowles at
Ain’t It Cool News put up an interview from a while back on the set of
The Wolfman with director Joe Johnston. In the interview they discussed a bunch of his previous works and a bit about
Jurassic Park 4 for which he is attached to helm.
This was before it was announced that Johnston would be directing
The First Avenger: Captain America so unfortunately, that topic does not come up.
In the interview, the topic of special effects (the right mix of practical and digital) came up and Johnston gave the example of the first
Jurassic Park and how it still holds up today as something special in that regard. Shortly thereafter, Harry brought the conversation back to
Jurassic Park to ask some questions about the widely speculated fourth installment of the franchise. Joe Johnston of course, directed
Jurassic Park 3.
“Well, 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. It sort of takesthe franchise off in a completely different direction, which is the only way I would want to get involved.”
Harry then asked if it would be again about a group of folks trying to survive against the dinos and Johnston responded,
“We’ve done that and it’s been done three times…”
Following that, Harry emulated the feelings of many fans and said to stay away from the island.
“Why would anybody go back to that island? 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. I think we are at that point where we are due for another one if we are going to do it. They had what four years between them? 1992… 1996 or 1997, and then 2001, so we are past due. I don’t know, but we will see.”
Johnston’s
Jurassic Park 3 was sadly was the worst of the trilogy for me and they definitely need to do something new and completely different for it to work or potentially kick-startthe franchise with a new set of films.
Universal has no official schedule set for
Jurassic Park 4.
The Wolfman finally hits theaters February 10, 2010 and T
he First Avenger: Captain America will hopefully not be delayed and open July 22, 2011.
Source:
Screenrant