Hi guys. I’ve been reading your ideas and I liked most of them. But I think you’re missing something: ‘Jurassic Park’ sequels must revolve around one thing only: Jurassic Parks. Obvious, isn’t it? What I mean is that they should have kept making movies about parks which totally fail, because that’s what JP is: Parks that totally fail. No Venezuelan wild dinos, no terrorists, no dino zoos in a city… Only parks on islands. Taking this into account, this is what I would have liked to see:
-Jurassic Park II: They open a new park, which of course fails. The island would be close to Azores or maybe Guam (in the book, Hammond says he intended to open more parks in these places). But, what excuse do we have to make a second island fail? Well, in JP they almost don’t give any importance to the fact that the dinosaurs can reproduce. It’s almost an anecdote in the story. That’s fine, because that way they could have exploited this in depth in JPII: there’s no need for another sabotage - in the new island, dinosaurs outnumber people, go wild, and take control of the island by themselves. The story now would be about tourists, somehow like those Poseidon transatlantic adventures: how normal people survive the ‘attractions’.
-Jurassic Park III: InGen is falling. There will be no more parks, so now the company wants to get back their ‘products’. They have cleared the second island -where JPII took place- and now they send a special team to clear a THIRD ISLAND that was about to be opened when the second one failed (we are talking about a creepy abandoned amusement park with dinosaurs here). Marlboro men hunting dinosaurs again. But again, they underestimate nature and dinos totally own them. Lots of action, mercenaries, explosions, guns and stuff, but actually the guys who kick the bucket would be humans, not dinosaurs. As someone said already, I wouldn’t like to see dinosaurs dying. They are the main characters in JP.
-Jurassic World. I wouldn’t change much of the real Jurassic World movie. I would simply make it a good movie (I think JW sucked in terms of narrative, acting, and CGI. It also fails to provoke that feeling of magic JP had). But the excuse is fine: new management in the park. They blissfully ignore the history of previous parks and even go a step beyond creating a new dinosaur... It's a new and perfectly valid reason for a park to be shot to hell... again. I like it. And we finally get to the last movie:
-The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Now that we have used up all the ‘park plots’ ever possible, we turn to the lost world story at last. Because I do think it’s a good thing to let dinosaurs keep their island and live happily ever after in Sorna. So, we have the last chapter of the saga here. Of course, if InGen has fallen, then who goes there to plunder the island? Easy. We use the book. It’s Biosyn. Dodgson, the classical villain, the man that made the original Park fall, returns. Like Jurassic World, The Lost World was quite a bad movie in my opinion. I would remake it so that it looks better. But I almost wouldn’t change a thing apart from that. Maybe giving a main role to Tembo, yes.
At this point we have four awesome JP sequels with no terrorists, no dino soldiers, and no cheesy subplots. Real Jurassic Park stuff. No more sequels are needed. But maybe it’s prequel time! I haven’t thought about that yet. But maybe it would be cool to see a stubborn young Hammond losing control of Sorna back in the eighties. ‘No, no, no. I will prevail over this goddamn island!’. It would be later, in the original JP, when the old Hammond we all know finally learns the truth: life finds a way. Also the rivalry between Biosyn and InGen could be derived from some events of the prequel: the partner of Hammond gets fired and angrily promises to create his own JP like Bender in Futurama. Something like that.
I know I will never see this stuff in a movie, but I get excited every time I think about it. I write stories as a hobby, and I’m working in that JPII version of mine right now. (I write in Spanish, my mother tongue, so please don’t judge my writing skills by reading this post). The thing is I will write all these movies eventually. I know I don’t own a thing because I’m using copyrighted stuff, and that’s why I’ll post them online when I finish them.
