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Original Jurassic Park screenwriter returns for new Jurassic World movie

The Jurassic Park/World franchise has made over $6 billion since the first movie in 1993. Of COURSE there's another movie coming.

By Dan Selcke

Stars of the JURASSIC WORLD films Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and BD Wong reprise their roles as Owen Grady, Claire Dearing and Dr. Henry Wu, bringing their characters from the silver screen to Universal Studios Hollywood’s much anticipated mega attraction, “Jurassic World—The Ride,” opening this summer.
Stars of the JURASSIC WORLD films Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard and BD Wong reprise their roles as Owen Grady, Claire Dearing and Dr. Henry Wu, bringing their characters from the silver screen to Universal Studios Hollywood’s much anticipated mega attraction, “Jurassic World—The Ride,” opening this summer. /
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Jurassic Park came out in 1993. Directed by Steven Spielberg based on Michael Crichton's novel, the movie set new benchmarks for special effects, bringing to life the dreams and nightmares of children everywhere as lifelike dinosaurs ran across the screen, majestically grazing the tall trees and eating lawyers from right off the toilet. The movie helped usher in our current age of CGI-heavy blockbusters. More to the point, the franchise has made over $6 billion at the box office for Universal Studios, so it should come as no surprise that a new movie is on the way.

This comes from The Hollywood Reporter, which says that David Koepp — the screenwriter who wrote the first Jurassic Park movie as well as its 1997 sequel The Lost World — is coming back to pen a new Jurassic World movie. Notice that it's "World" and not "Park." What does that mean? I don't know. Apparently the movie will take the franchise into a “new Jurassic era,” which might be an oxymoron. In any case, that makes it sound like the movie will feature neither the cast of the Jurassic Park trilogy — which included Sam Neill, Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum — nor the cast of the newer Jurassic World trilogy, which was led by Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard.

How far into the future will this "new Jurassic era" take us? Will we be in the far future, when dinosaurs have evolved intelligence and set up their own societies? Maybe the idiots who keep reviving dinosaurs for tourists to come gawk at will set up a park in outer space; no chance that'll blow up in everyone's faces. Also, what about calling the new series Jurassic Universe or something? Go big!

Whatever the specifics, the new Jurassic World script is fairly far along, and Universal is confident enough that they're whispering about a 2025 release date. We may know more soon.

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