Hey folks, Harry here... and ya know. I have to say that I'm about twice as excited about Joe Johnston doing the third JURASSIC PARK movie, than I would be if Spielberg was doing it. Why? Because... While I had fun with THE LOST WORLD... It seems, in a lot of ways... As if Spielberg was a little bored with the film. It seemed he was on auto-pilot. Joe Johnston on the otherhand... well after his fantastic OCTOBER SKY... and the spirit of adventure he gave us in THE ROCKETEER... I'm hoping for something that will really blow me away... that won't be based on the latest out of the printer, Crichton novel. Don't get me wrong... I love the original JURASSIC PARK novel to death... But we don't need rehashing. Instead we need someone new to just RUN with it. And as Joe says below... the addition of ALOT of FLYING DINOSAURS... well that suits me just fine. Now... let's put real characters that we care about in the mix... and see this baby really take off.
Here is a Pretty interesting scoop about JP3 From a Danish News Paper who interviewed Joe Johnston for October Sky I found this at Spielberg-Dreamworks.Com here is what they had to say and exerpts from the article:
Danish Newspaper interviewed director Joe Johnston a while ago when his last film October Sky Premiered at the Venice Film Festival. The interview was published last week and 'Lindgaard' was kind enough to send the translation along on the details never before released. The budget of this film is around $83 million and will go under production in the coming months and will hit theatres summer of 2001. Thanks to 'T. Lindgaard' for the translation and the scoop.
the Danish newspaper "Politikken" did an interview with the director Joe Johnston when his film "October Sky" had its premiere at the Venice Film Festival in 99. In connecting with the Danish premiere of "October Sky" in January the newspaper printed the interview with Johnston on January the 7th. Johnston revealed some very interesting facts about Jurassic Park 3. (The following is a translation of the interview)
"…I am very happy for this assignment…There will be a lot of special effects, but most importen for me, would be the story. The story is the key to a good movie. Steven Spielberg has given me "carthe blanche". He has said that I shall make my own movie, all though the plot in the movie is based on idea by Steven. He has strongly pointed out that I shouldn't try to copy him. Since our collaboration with the "Indiana Jones trilogy" we have talked about a joined project…I loved the two first movies and all though the audience will compare my movie with Steven Spielberg´s, it doesn't scare me at all. I cannot disclose the plot yet. We are so to speak still in the "development phase" (at that time in summer 1999), but there will be new persons and new dinosaurs. We want to create a feeling of something exceptional, as we know from the two first movies. A sort of a returning to the first one. Maybe there will be two characters we already know from the two first ones, but in the end rather unknown characters will appear."
…( Jurassic Park is considered as a milestone in special effects. Will the third one be the same?) " Since "Jurassic Park" and "Lost World" the evolution within FX has gone fast, and I will of course, use a lot of the new techniques that has been invented in the latest Star Wars Episode I. I see for me a lot of flying reptiles. I look forward to start filming. The budget is set to be 83 millions dollars."
There ya go Harry. now we wonder if Grant and Ellie will be back as though two characters or Malcom...who knows...and who in the hell is doing the score?
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