News Franchises will find a way.....( Jurassic Park 7 planned)

[The Nth Doctor]

As one of the few of the Dominon defenders (it had a strong core premise that it quickly abandoned for the locust nonsense and Park Redux), I'm kind of eh on this. Gareth Roberts is a great director so I definitely give it a shot but my expectations are low. I had hoped they would explore the coexistence theme but I guess that was never going to happen. Oh, well.

 

[JD]

Somehow Nedry returned.

Did they ever find out he was the cause of the whole mess?

It's really not at all. There's a ton of stuff you could do with ideas about black market trading, invasive species (the compies alone would be a plague of biblical proportions if they existed in the real world), unfair distribution of dino-security resources, local governments refusing to admit dinosaurs actually exist in their area, 'harmless' herbivores and fish eaters being granted protected status but still competing with poor locals for food or being generally destructive, dinosaurs that are highly dangerous but also very difficult to track (velociraptor, mosasaurs, and so on), etc.

It may not be something that could fuel an endless series of films. But neither is always being trapped on an island with them. And you could absolutely make a great film out of the concept at least once and have it be fine to just continue it in the background beyond that.

This exactly the kind of stuff I was wanting. We got a lot of this kind of worldbuilding stuff in the lead up to Dominion, I think I remember page with fake reports of dinosaur encounters, and I definitely remember that they had maps showing what breeds of dinosaurs were in different parts of the world and you could even look up specific places and see what dinos were there.
I just remembered that we did get Battle at Big Rock, which is basically what I was expecting all of Dominion to be like.

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[Aragorn]

Of the six movies, I have Fallen Kingdom and Dominion at the bottom and it's not even close.

 

[Gaith]

There's a ton of stuff you could do with ideas about black market trading

The last two movies addressed that. It went meh.

invasive species [...] a plague of biblical proportions

The last movie addressed that. It went disastrously.


And, really, what is there to say about those topics? Being mean to animals in illegal, shady ways: bad. Carelessly disrupting ecosystems: also bad.

Sooner or later, it all boils down to dinos on the loose, and people running and screaming.

 

[Saul]

we've really only had 3 big live action dragon movies that I can think of, Dragonslayer, Dragonheart, and Reign of Fire.

I just found out recently Dragonheart had a bunch of direct to video sequels and prequels. Anyone recommend them?

Gareth Roberts is a great director so I definitely give it a shot but my expectations are low.

Gareth Roberts and the return of David Kopp (who wrote the first two Jurassic Park movies) give me some hope that this will be good and better than what the trailer showed.

I had hoped they would explore the coexistence theme but I guess that was never going to happen. Oh, well.

I had hoped they'd just go for an all out disaster movie with dinosaurs invading. We've had a taste of it in previous movies but I would love it if they went full out with Dinos destroying a city and the movie just focused on that story.

 

[Grendelsbayne]

The last two movies addressed that. It went meh.

Only barely. And the last two movies were horribly written. The cartoon shows have done much better with it, but its basically wide open territory for live action productions.

The last movie addressed that. It went disastrously.

Not at all. And still horribly written.

And, really, what is there to say about those topics? Being mean to animals in illegal, shady ways: bad. Carelessly disrupting ecosystems: also bad.

By that argument you could handwave away 99% of all movies ever made as pointless, but that doesn't make it so.

Besides, using these ideas doesn't automatically make them the *only* thing the movie is about. The original film isn't just about a terrifying theme park, cloning technology and corporate espionage, it's about humanity's arrogance towards nature and how easily that can destroy them. To give just one obvious and timely example of a deeper theme that could be carried by these ideas, it could be a movie about climate change and the social inequality of its effects (rich people in dino safe villas, poor communities overrun by millions of compies but with no money to buy the tools or hire the experts necessary to kill them, charlatans stealing money by pretending they can dino-proof your house, etc).

Sooner or later, it all boils down to dinos on the loose, and people running and screaming.

It does, and it still would whether you stay on the island or go to the mainland either way. That's not at all a reason to pick one option over the other. That's like saying all Star Wars movies boil down to people fighting in space therefore it's no different whatsoever whether you make a movie about jedi, bounty hunters or fighter pilots.

 

[JD]

And, really, what is there to say about those topics? Being mean to animals in illegal, shady ways: bad. Carelessly disrupting ecosystems: also bad.

With the way things are going right now, we really need to get those messages out a lot more often and a lot louder. They're probably two of the most important messages related to nature, and based off the kind of laws in the works in the US right now, it's apparently something people have forgotten.

I just found out recently Dragonheart had a bunch of direct to video sequels and prequels. Anyone recommend them?

I haven't watched any of them, but a few of them actually have fairly decent reviews, and got some surprisingly big names to voice the dragons, like Patrick Stewart and Helene Bonham Carter.

I had hoped they'd just go for an all out disaster movie with dinosaurs invading. We've had a taste of it in previous movies but I would love it if they went full out with Dinos destroying a city and the movie just focused on that story.

I don't know if a city setting would realistically work, but something more along the line of Tremors, with a small town suddenly being overrun by dinos could work better.

 

[Aragorn]

This is what IGN has become.

 

[The Nth Doctor]

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This does feel somewhat promising now that I'm accepting the reality of returning to a Lost World premise over my desired coexistence setting. I do love that they're mining sequences from the Crichton novels such as that memorable raft scene and hopefully they've utilized other unused material.

 

[JD]

Yeah, I felt the same way after watching this video. I seems like part of the reason they set it up with the dinosaurs being limited to such a small area now was in order to kind of take things back to the small, isolated setting that we had for the first three. Which I can kind of understand if they're trying to go back to the style of those earlier movies.

 

[Owain Taggart]

I'd lost interest in the Jurassic Park franchise since the first Jurassic World, but I have to say seeing the trailer recently in a theatre, this one might have reignited my interest. It looks quite intriguing, and already way more promising than the last few movies.

 

[Gaith]

What on Earth is going on with this tail?!

As Peter Parker might say... that tail does not obey the laws of physics.