Ditched Jurassic Park 4 concept art will haunt your nightmares

As any keen dinosaur-specific cineastes will know, the question of whether or not a fourth Jurassic Park instalment would ever see the light of day has long been a burning one.

After all, 2001's third film did a good job of killing off any remaining Jurassic Park good will in audiences, what with its mobile-phone-swallowing dinos and, well, this:

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Spielberg himself has been alternately enthusiastic and coy on the matter, and yet a script was written around 2005 by William Monahan and John Sayles (and reviewed by Ain't It Cool News in '07) that focused on Nick Harris, a soldier of fortune who John Hammond hires to find Dennis Nedry's can of "shaving cream" from the original film.

From AICN's review:

"Nick Harris does indeed got to Isla Nublar, but he goes alone. He does indeed track down the shaving cream can that Nedry stole, but that’s a mere five pages later. And as soon as he finds it, he’s attacked not only by excavaraptors (think trapdoor spiders), but also by security rangers who work for Grendel Corporation, the mysterious Swiss holding company that took over Jurassic Park from Hammond. Seems they want those genetic samples for their own purposes... whatever those may be. Nick has to get off the island, evading his pursuers, human or otherwise. He manages to make it back to the mainland just long enough to hide the shaving cream can before the security team catches up with him and gasses him into unconsciousness.

"When Nick wakes up, he’s in the tower of a medieval castle in the Alps. Seriously. That’s the precise moment when the entire enterprise goes so over-the-top loony that you’ll either go along with it for the entire insane ride or reject it roundly as a big bag of ludicrous. Nick is introduced to Adrien Joyce, the major domo henchman of Baron von Drax, CEO of the Grendel Corporation. Joyce isn’t a moustache-twirling bad guy bent on torturing Nick into revealing where he hid the shaving cream can. Instead, he offers Nick a job, and in order to explain the job to him, he has to take him on a tour of the entire castle, which turns out to be a fairly sophisticated genetics lab where Grendel Corporation has been breeding some dinosaurs of their own design, cross-breeds that never existed in any era of nature with all sorts of custom modifications."

Sounds wacky, right?

Well, in proof that Reddit is good for something other than weirdos posting photos of women's bums in yoga pants, user sketchampm just posted a collection of concept art for the ditched sequel, featuring Grendel Corporation's hideous yet evidently super-smart human/dinosaur hybrids, which might just be the most terrifying things I have seen in ages.

Here's - presumably - a raptor-man:










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Watched Anchorman for the second time in as many days. Awesome film.

Apparently Taken 2 is awful.

Looking forward to Gangster Squad, Django Unchained, Looper and Skyfall.

American Reunion: if you came of age with these films, you'll love this, if you didn't maybe not so good.

I've been out on 'rent the DVD' duty by the missus... What should I get? She won't give me any ideas :lol:

I've been out on 'rent the DVD' duty by the missus... What should I get? She won't give me any ideas :lol:

I've been out on 'rent the DVD' duty by the missus... What should I get? She won't give me any ideas :lol:

I've been out on 'rent the DVD' duty by the missus... What should I get? She won't give me any ideas :lol:

The Expendables 2 was just WOW... Loved it so freaking much.

Some BRUUUUUUTAL kills in there.

Worst slump in a decade as Hollywood loses golden touch
DateSeptember 11, 2012 - 4:37PM

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Horror film The Possession was the highest earner last weekend, taking $US9.5 million.

Hollywood has suffered its worst weekend at the American box office since the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 terror attacks, with analysts blaming a surfeit of sequels and remakes for deterring audiences.

Initial estimates suggested the entire gross takings for cinemas in North America would be around $US65 million ($A62.8 million) last weekend, down 20 per cent from the same period a year ago.

In September 2001, takings on one weekend fell to just $US59.7 million ($A57.7 million).


The Words, which stars Bradley Cooper, was savaged by critics and disappointed at the box office.

The results were so bad that the best-performing movie in America, measured in terms of revenue per screen, was Raiders of the Lost Ark, first released in 1981. It was shown on re-release on 267 screens last weekend and took in $US1.7 million ($A1.6 million), at an average $US6460 ($A6244) per screen.

Advertisement No single film grossed more than $US10 million over the weekend. The nearest was The Possession, a horror story with no big stars, that took just $US9.5 million ($A9.18 million).

Other major releases also disappointed. The Words, starring Bradley Cooper, one of Hollywood's most in-demand leading men, was savaged by critics as "boring" and "turgid", while The Cold Light of Day, an action film starring the British actor Henry Cavill, Bruce Willis and Sigourney Weaver, also flopped badly after costing $US20 million ($A19.3 million) to make. It was described by The New York Times as a "catastrophe worth noting only for the presence of its name cast."


The Dark Knight Rises has been a rare success story for Hollywood.

The Labour Day weekend, which has just passed, is traditionally slow for cinemas, but this year attendances sank to levels which shocked studio executives.

It capped a disappointing season for Hollywood, which had expected its biggest ever summer. In a still troubled economy, executives were reluctant to take risks on original concepts and relied heavily on a series of big-budget action films and superhero sequels.

The result was the lowest summer movie attendance in 20 years. The number of tickets sold fell to 532 million, down 4 per cent from summer 2011.

Two films that were successful - The Avengers and The Dark Knight Rises, a Batman film - accounted for almost a quarter of the entire box office return in North America. Before the summer even began, the Disney studio had been forced to incur a $US200 million ($A193 million) writedown over its science-fiction flop, John Carter, in March.

Paul Dergarabedian, a box office analyst at Hollywood.com, said: "It is pretty scary when the top movie comes in at only $9.5 million. On paper, the summer of 2012 looked like a clear record-breaker. But the audience is what makes and breaks the summer, and they didn't come out in the numbers we expected for a lot of these films."

Factors contributing to the slump included the Olympics on TV. The mass shooting in which 12 people were killed at a screening of The Dark Knight Rises in Colorado in July also put people off. But neither factor was believed to have had a major impact on attendance.

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Yeah, I thought it was going to be cheesy action movie with the sole premise being Liam Neeson vs Wolves but I was pleasantly surprised. It's actually intense when you consider the way it addresses certain themes and deals with the notion/accepting of death

The Grey is fantastic, loved the ending