How could that happen? On paper, Jurassic World 3: A New Age sounds like the ultimate film in the dinosaur franchise, which began in cinemas with Steven Spielberg’s 1993 masterpiece. We’ve had them ever since various formulations the basic premise experienced. Sometimes Jurassic Park opens its doors as a nostalgia event, sometimes it turns out to be a top-class action spectacle.
With its prologue, A New Age even went back to prehistoric times and showed us The Tree of Life version of the Jurassic franchise before the dinosaurs wreaked havoc all over the world. Ultimately, the film was very overloaded and disjointed. Not a worthy ending for the Jurassic World trilogy, let alone the entire saga. The next part has to do some things differently.
I want another Jurassic Park 3.
The new Jurassic Park film impresses with the choice of director and screenwriter
With Jurassic World 4, the next part of the series is already in development. We have been receiving news about the project since the beginning of the year. Apparently it is one another restart, which maintains the continuity of the previous films but dispenses with all the well-known characters. Universal wants to bring the project to cinemas in the summer of 2025 and has secured two special talents for this sporting venture.
You can watch the prologue to Jurassic World 3 here:
Jurassic World 3: Dominion – Prologue (English) HD
On the one hand, the commitment of David Koepp, one of the… influential Hollywood screenwriters. Without him, the blockbuster cinema of the 1990s and 2000s would look completely different. From Mission: Impossible to Spider-Man to War of the Worlds: Koepp is also very familiar with dinosaurs. He even wrote the screenplays for Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park films.
On the other hand, Rogue One mastermind Gareth Edwards has now also been confirmed as the director of the new Jurassic World film. Most recently he brought the strong sci-fi film The Creator to the cinema, which cost just $ 80 million, but in its production what a 200 million blockbuster looks like. Edwards’ previous films are ideal for a dinosaur adventure: Monsters and Godzilla.
Koepp and Edwards seem like the ideal combination, especially in view of a criticism that often comes up against Edwards: He is much better at telling his stories breathtaking images to capture it on the screen than to anchor it with words in the script. With Koepp, he has one of the most reliable blockbuster authors at his side. This could be a cracking fireworks display.
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Jurassic World 4 finally needs to feel like an exciting dinosaur blockbuster again
The emphasis is on crisp, because that’s not what the last Jurassic World film was at all. Part 3 of the sequel trilogy meanders haphazardly around the world, gets lost in the inflated returns of legacy characters and forgets what the series is really about: the dinosaurs. Who would have thought that a plague of locusts would take up a large part of the running time of this dull two and a half hour colossus?
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Jurassic Park III
Few mega-blockbusters have gotten as out of hand as Jurassic World 3: A New Age, catapulting a once-iconic film series into insignificance despite grossing billions. I want another Jurassic movie that feels like one wild rollercoaster ride feels and I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the third part of the first trilogy, which is often laughed at if not completely forgotten.
Jurassic World 3 was released in 2001 under the direction of Spielberg colleague Joe Johnston and initially buried the series with its weakest box office results to date. Critics and audiences were unimpressed by this 90 minute (!) survival trip to Islar Sorna, which feels more like a B-movie in horror territory than an event blockbuster that dominates the entire summer. But that is exactly the appeal of the film.
Johnson’s film is certainly not as perfect as Spielberg’s landmark film that changed Hollywood forever. I still wouldn’t dismiss it as an insignificant footnote. Especially compared to Jurassic World 3, Jurassic Park 3 seems like a uncompromising foray through dinosaur hell, where things are as hard as they are humorous, as T-rex and Spinosauraus meet in a western duel.
The Predator series has successfully shown how to ingeniously reinvent yourself despite franchise chaos
Basically, Jurassic Park 3 is what would be good for some franchises in particular: the film takes a step back to focus instead of delivering hollow spectacle. The Predator series has recently demonstrated this most impressively. After the disaster of Part 5, Predator – Upgrade, Prey turned out to be unexpected page entry into the familiar mythology surrounding the legendary space fighter.
Prey is set in 1719 in Comanche territory and tells the story of a young woman who has to assert herself against the traditions of her people and an alien warrior (!). A bold reinterpretation, which stays true to the Predator DNA while still feeling refreshing. I hope that Koepp and Edwards also take a step back with Jurassic World 4 and achieve a similar feat on a small scale.