Weekly Ketchup: Jurassic Park 4 Gets Its Writers

Jurrasic Park 4? Can't say I'm too excited about it. The first is one of my favorite movies of all time, and yet how many times can you redo the premises of a bunch of people on an island getting chased by dinosaurs? The franchise was already feeling tired by the second film.

I'll give Shawn Levy credit he seems to be improving as a director, so I'm slightly optmistic about a Sesame Street movie.

I think Dreamworks suffers a lot from comparisons to Pixar. Granted, their films are rarely great, but other than a few missteps (Sinbad, Shark Tale, Bee Movie) they're usually a lot of lighthearted fun, and I'm expecting Happy Smekday to continue that trend (It'll almost certainly be a lot more fun than Rihanna's last alien invasion flick).

I have honestly never heard of Metal Men until know, so I can't say I'm excited to see a movie adaptation about them. They seem to be a little too outlandish to work filmwise.

I doubt they're going to reboot Twilight, not when Stephanie Meyer recently hinted that she may write more Twilight novels, just not anytime soon. Personally, I'm pretty much indfferent to the series. Don't hate it, but it pales in comparison to other young adult novels like Hunger Games and Divergent.

Jun 23 - 10:55 PM

Frisby 2007

Jurassic Park 4, & a Sesame Street movie are the ONLY interesting news this week. As for the Twilight reboot, as much as I liked Twilight, Eclipse, & Breaking Dawn Part 1 (New Moon SUCKED), a reboot at this early stage is a no, no! Plus, I really want to stop seeing all the moron haters throw a tantrum over them. Not to say all the haters are idiots, I only know less than 3% of Twilight haters who are actually smart/sane (only 1/2% if then are found on RT [and that percentage is only my friends on here]).

Jun 23 - 11:19 PM

Mister Vile

Hold on to your butts.

Jun 26 - 07:26 AM

Rated NCC-1701

I actually do hope that Twilight gets remade, over and over ad infinitum/nausem/vertisement. I need something culturally tangible to point at and scream "you brought this doom upon yourself, humanity!".

Jun 24 - 12:03 AM

Mitch Jones

Nothing like an "I told you so moment" to feel better about yourself. Bring on the Twilight.

Jun 24 - 10:41 AM

Billy Simpson

Fuck you, Jim Carrey.

Jun 24 - 10:56 AM

Chev Chelios

Too bad it's "Jurassic Park" not "Jurrasic Park". Morons.

Jun 24 - 07:32 PM

Janson Jinnistan

...giggle...

Jun 24 - 11:46 PM

Kadeem Stewart

We don't need a Twilight reboot! The series is ending. Breaking Dawn Part 2 comes out before Thanksgiving!

Jun 24 - 09:43 PM

Vardan Partamyan

I think there is just too much untapped material in literature to stick to remaking the same old crap over and over again. For example, I just read Philip K. Dick's Ubik and it's absolutely amazing in the vein of Inception and I think many people will agree that we need more movies like Inception. So the movie biz. execs should just get they heads out of the places that usually see no light and head over to the local library for an eternal source of new ideas and inspiration

Jun 25 - 03:25 AM

Janson Jinnistan

Unfortunately, there were a couple bombs that froze the Dick-rush in the last decade (Imposter and Paycheck being the worst, A Scanner Darkly being probably the most faithful Dick book on film but underperformed in theaters). Ubik would be awesome, with some minor modern tweaks. His best work remains open for adaptation: The Man in the High Castle, Flow My Tears the Policeman Said, and the VALIS triology. I would love to see pretty much all of this being explored.

Jun 25 - 02:57 PM

Vardan Partamyan

I second that and the fact that adapting Dick for the big screen is a tricky task as in most cases the screenwriters oversimplify and exclude the rich context of the author's works. Here's to hoping that someone who knows his way around the subtexts and hidden meanings (looking at you Mr. Nolan) will one day take up the task of adapting the sci fi great.

Jun 26 - 03:48 AM