Posted on 03/28/2005 7:51:35 AM PST by bedolido
September 17, 2004 - John Sayles may not be a household name, but the Hollywood writer-director has seen over thirty of his stories turned into films. His latest opus is the just-released political drama Silver City, which stars Chris Cooper and Richard Dreyfuss. What he's working on now, however, is something that promises to be bigger than any other job he's worked on: Steven Spielberg's new Jurassic Park film. Backstage.com spoke with Sayles about his current projects, including Jurassic Park IV. Sayles, who is re-writing the script originally turned in by William Monahan, said he is very much a cross-genre movie lover, and getting to write about man-eating dinosaurs is a fun opportunity.
"Dinosaurs are a nice addition. I'm a screenwriter for hire, and there's only a few genres I don't like; I'm not a big fan of slasher movies or vampire movies or hitmen movies, so I haven't done one of those. But pretty much every genre, there's movies I like within them. So my criteria for taking a job is: Is there a cool movie that could be made of this that I would like to see, and who are the people I'm dealing with?"
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Was there a Jurassic Park III?
Mark
Given how Speilberg screwed over Chrichton on JP2, causing Chrichton to bail on the series, there's really no reason to watch this one. All the real plot in 1 and 2 came from Chrichton, proven well because 3 had no plot at all. Of course I'm sure Speilberg will rake in fat cash anyway.
Yep. Made by the underrated Joe Johnston (Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, the Rocketeer, October Sky)
yup... it was the best of the lot (in my opinion). What canI say. I like the series.
"Was there a Jurassic Park III? "
Yes, and it was FAR superior to that farce "JPII - Lost World"....
Spielberg didn't make the third one.
Lost World was AWFUL.
It made back over twice its cost in the US!
I read the first and secoind books by Chriton. Hammon died in the first. The second JP was terrible.
That was my question. Iremembered there was a second one (which was pretty bad) but I don't remember a third one.
No but he did ruin 2, and stole Chrichton's idea for 3 and put it in the final 20 minutes of 2 (which he needed to do after he cut out almost everything interesting from the original plot leaving him with just over 1 hour of movie). 3 was supposed to be the dinos in San Diego.
:) cheap movie?
If i remeber correctly JP3 was closer to the Lost World (the book) then jp2 was
The book was pretty good, the movie was awful, they burned the plot.
Did JP I have a plot? I failed to notice. It did have an extended chase scene. I guess that is what passes for a plot these days.
I will watch thes movies for the special effects, but that gets old after a while. I would watch them more times if they abandoned the pretense of having a plot and just let the dinos run free.
As always with Speilberg most of the plot got edited out in the second draft, but they kept some of it, more than they kept with 2.
These kinds of movies annoy me. I can enjoy fantasy or science fiction, but I hate it when the technobabble isn't reviewed by scientists. The last monster movie with decent technobabble was "Them," done in 1958.
JP1 did the amber thing pretty well, but the spew on chaos theory was painful to watch.
My pet peave is the superhacker kid that can do anything to any computer with largely random keystrokes. It's gotten even more annoying lately because they always show the screen now and there's never any text on the screen, just where are these keystrokes going in a 100% GUI interface.
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