Take a look at the long and winding road to Jurassic World, exploring the various failed attempts to bring a fourth Jurassic Park film to life.
Jurassic World was trapped in development hell for more than a decade - but it wasn't for lack of trying on the studios part. It's strange to look back now and think that the Jurassic Park movie franchise took a 14-year break. This gap was partly due to Jurassic Park III's reception because, while it made money, it was critiqued for its paper-thin narrative and focus on action over character.
It would be unthinkable for a studio to let such a valuable property sit and gather dust for that long now, but the gap only heightened anticipation for Jurassic World when it finally arrived. Despite the horrid reviews the most recent entry Dominion received, the series is stronger than ever, and the upcoming Jurassic World: Rebirth will take the saga in a new direction. Audiences will likely never have another decade-plus gap between installments, with Jurassic World's slow arrival being due to constant script issues. Before Jurassic Park III entered theaters, a fourth film was placed in development. While the threequel didn't do much to set up another film, Universal and producer Steven Spielberg were still keen to keep the franchise moving. Writers like William Monahan and John Sayles took cracks at penning a screenplay for part four, with the sequel set to enter production in 2004 for a potential 2005 release. Of course, none of that happened, with Jurassic World being pushed back constantly in the years that followed. Steven Spielberg and producer Kathleen Kennedy refused to push Jurassic Park 4 forward until they found a screenplay that brought something fresh. This was wise since another sequel where a luckless group of characters gets chased around Isla Sorna just wasn't going to cut it. William Monahan worked for a while on Jurassic Park 4 and came up with a concept that made Spielberg, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill very excited. Speaking with IGN back in 2002, Neill stated of this unmade sequel that 'Out of all the concepts that have been created for these movies, this is possibly my favorite.' Sadly, exactly what happened in this version has never been revealed. Rumors suggest Monahan's Jurassic Park 4 may have paired Neill's Grant and Goldblum's Malcolm as they tried to stop the spread of dinosaurs breeding uncontrolled on a Costa Rican island. The Dino-Human hybrid concept for Jurassic Park 4 is by far the most well-known - and mocked. This radically different take was penned by Sayles and involved a mercenary named Nick, who is hired by Richard Attenborough's Hammond to retrieve some dinosaur DNA from Isla Nublar. Through a bizarre sequence of events, Nick is then tasked with training these dino/human hybrids armed with guns for combat missions. Sayles is a master at crafting great B-movie screenplays (including Pirahna and Alligator), but after the concept was largely met with scorn, it was quickly dropped. In 2012 Jurassic Park 4 eventually found the perfect hook. The poor response to the Sayles script took the wind of Jurassic Park 4's sails for many years. Jurassic Park III director Joe Johnston was attached for a time before exiting production, while I Am Legend writer Mark Protosevich tried and failed to get Spielberg excited with his take. Finally in 2012, husband and wife screenwriting team Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver worked on a draft that combined many concepts from previous scripts, including the notion of a fully functioning theme park and a hybrid dinosaur that escapes and starts eating the guests. Colin Trevorrow was later hired to direct and heavily revised the Jaffa/Silver screenplay. Jurassic World was criticized for its various plot holes - and the weirdly mean-spirited death of a supporting character - but it still earned 72% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossed an unbelievable $1.6 billion worldwide. This proves that despite the long development and various failed pitches, Spielberg and company were right to take their time with the sequel. Trevorrow would go on to write Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (which J. A. Bayona directed) before returning to helm Dominion
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