Jurassic Park 3D hits theaters this weekend and is sure to bring herds of moviegoers. Many local theaters will have a late night midnight showing for the most eager Jurassic Park fans. Why re-issue a movie 20 years later? To get everyone geared up for next year's Jurassic Park 4 offering, of course. And who doesn't want to see dinosaurs up close and personal?
The 1993 release of the original Jurassic Park blockbuster, directed by Steven Spielberg, pulled in $914 million. The remastered, state of-the-art 3D version is surely to be a hit, because even for its time, the computer-generated graphics were pretty impressive. Dinosaurs capture the imagination of all ages and dinosaurs in 3D are likely to mesmerize viewers.
We haven't seen another Jurassic Park movie since 2001's Jurassic Park 3. Following the record-breaking first installment was 1997's The Lost World: Jurassic Park. Following the sequence of what seemed to be one new dinosaur movie every four years, we should have seen another one in 2005, then 2009 and so on.
Jurassic Park 4 will have a whole new team: new writer, new special effects director and new director.
"One movie takes a lot of thinking on a subject, two movies takes an enormous amount, and I just didn't feel like I had enough fresh thinking. I'll be first in line to see it, though," screenwriter David Koepp, who worked on the first two Jurassic Park movies, said about returning for the next film.
What's known so far is that Jurassic Park 4 will be directed by Colin Trevorrow, who directed 2012's Safety Not Guaranteed, and produced by Patrick Crowley and Frank Marshall. The new release features screenwriters Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver. Steven Spielberg will be the executive producer and the movie is slated to be released on June 13, 2014.
