Jurassic Park 4

Say you're a big time film company that's pretty much bled a franchise dry at the box-office, and you've also mined all of the ideas out of the base novels, what do you do?

If you're Amblin entertainment you go in a radically different direction. We've all see the shots of people looking and reacting to CGI dinosaurs in the first three Jurassic park movies, and from Moriartiy's review of the second draft of the script for Jurassic Park 4 at AICN, Amblin knows that.

As I said, they've decided to go in a different direction, think Theodore Rex meets Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

I'll let Moriarty explain:

I want to tread lightly on what happens over the course of the rest of the film on the off chance that Mary Parent or someone at Universal is seriously going to make this thing. There?s the eight-year-old-boy side of me that thinks that a DIRTY DOZEN-style mercenary team of hyper-smart dinosaurs in body armor killing drug dealers and rescuing kidnapped children will be impossible to resist. And then there?s the side of me that says... WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! Nick is put in charge of training these five dinosaurs, X1 through X5, and the first thing he does is name them. ?Any soldier worth his pay has a name to answer to, not a number,? he says. So we are introduced to Achilles, Hector, Perseus, Orestes, and Spartacus, each of them a specially created deinonychus, which is sort of like a miniature T-rex. They have super-sensitive smell and hearing, incredible strength and speed and pack-hunting instincts, and they have modified forelegs, lengthened and topped with more dexterous fingers, as well as dog DNA for increased obedience and human DNA so they can solve problems well. All of this is topped off with a drug-regulating implant that can dose them with adrenaline or serotonin as the situation demands.

So they're Dino-dog's who have the names of ancient warriors. Maybe if the do some more re-writes they can make it where they're trained to fight by a giant rat, and their enemies are a ninja in body armor and a sentient brain in a big android body. There might even be a place in there for Whoopi Goldberg.

Seriously though, Amblin, make this movie now! It's about time that the man in suit genre got brought into today's technology. They tried it with Warriors of Virtue, but didn't quite get there, this is the one baby!

I was just looking at the WOV IMDB entry and I find it interesting that the plot synopsis begins with "A young man, Ryan, suffering from a disability, wishes to join the other kids from his schools football team..." not "Giant Kung-Fu fighting Kangaroos beeeeeyotch!"