Jurassic Park

This is one of those stories that just pops up every once in awhile because the prospect of continuing the Jurassic Park franchise is just that damn intriguing. We even posted about it a few months ago when Hasbro announced the revival of the toyline. Now AICN is reporting that Jurassic Park III director Joe Johnston, who’s next project is Marvel’s Captain America film, chatted with them about the film while on the set of the Wolfman ( his most recent film). “There is a great story for the fourth one that I would be interested in getting involved with and it’s nothing like ... Read Full Story

DIRECTOR Joe Johnston has expressed an interest in returning to the Jurassic Park franchise to create a new trilogy of dinosaur adventures. Earlier this year, producer Frank Marshall said a fourth movie was a long shot, following reservations about another film after the death of Michael Crichton in 2008. But Johnston - whose Jurassic Park 3 is widely regarded as the weakest in the series - said he would be prepared to revive the prehistoric predators once more. He told Ain't It Cool News : "There is a great story for the fourth one that I would be interested in getting involved with and ... Read Full Story

Jurassic Park IV ? Don't count it out yet, I guess. Director Joe Johnston , brought in by Universal to take over The Wolfman from Mark Romanek, helmed the third and least appealing Jurassic Park about a decade ago, and he tells Ain't It Cool News he would consider answering the bell again. Unless I missed something this year, the producers of the trilogy have not warmed to the idea yet, so this could be hypothetical. "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," Johnston says. "It ... Read Full Story

Prolific author Michael Crichton died this week. He practically invented the techno-thriller genre — scientifically complex stories tempered with strongly human characters (his last novel will be posthumously published next year). Our sister site SCI FI Wire has a good summary of his best and worst works here , and it reminded us of the prominent role that technology played in Crichton's stories. From Jurassic Park to Disclosure to The Andromeda Strain , Crichton always laced his stories with tech that was beyond the cutting edge . After the Continue jump, join us for a look at five amazing technologies from Crichton's stories that ... Read Full Story

SCIENCE FICTION fantasy films often present us with resurrected creatures from the past - such as in Jurassic Park and the movies it inspired like the Carnosaur series and the dreadful Sabretooth. Most recently, the prehistoric epic 10,000BC brought to life the mammoths, sabretooth tigers and giant predatory birds that once walked the Earth. Documentaries, too, such as Walking with Dinosaurs and its follow-ups (Walking with Beasts, Cavemen and Monsters) have all reconstructed long-gone species. But a lot of it is educated guesswork. We don't know what colour dinosaurs were, for instance. Or how exactly the sabretooth used its huge fangs. Theories and knowledge ... Read Full Story