ROTTEN TOMATOES: Dern Says "Jurassic Park IV" Is On

Dern Says "Jurassic Park IV" Is On

by Fred Topel | April 07, 2007

Laura Dern confirmed that she has been approached for "Jurassic Park IV," the secretly developing sequel. "I'm told it's happening and I'm told that they're calling me," Dern revealed. "I'm told Ellie Sattler is involved in it."

She all but name dropped executive producer Steven Spielberg. "A certain fella is the one that called me and It's hard to say no to him because he's always got something totally genius up his sleeve so we'll see what they have in mind, but I don't know anything about it at this point."

"JPIV" may call on Dern's services soon, as they intend to release next year. "I think within the year. They want to release it in '08 so maybe, I don't know."

Dern did not know which of her original Jurassic buddies would also be asked back. "Actually, I just oddly talked to Sam Neill but we didn't speak about that. It's always an awkward thing because sometimes one person's in it and another person isn't and who knows who's going to do it or not do it so it's the unspoken dinosaur date. We'll see."

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arendr writes:
on Apr 07 2007 01:21 PM

i'm hoping that the dinosaurs will unanimously refuse to perform in this movie. their brains are at least large enough to know that this will be terrible.

this movie needs michael caine.

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Akira762 writes:
on Apr 07 2007 03:41 PM

say what?

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lrm8 writes:
on Apr 07 2007 04:11 PM

no speilberg, no movie

racist stegosaurs?

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Mavtactic writes:
on Apr 07 2007 04:40 PM

LOL!!!

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Xhrix writes:
on Apr 07 2007 05:06 PM

Jurassic Park was groundbreaking cinema 15 years ago.... but now I think the Raptors and T-Rex 15 minutes are up

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antarianzan writes:
on Apr 07 2007 05:27 PM

If this were being helmed by Spielberg, I'd be excited. But Jurassic Park 3 broke my heart :(

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TheAnswerMVP2001 writes:
on Apr 07 2007 06:16 PM

RT still has Keira Knightly on the cast list, any confirmation of that? I have heard nothing to back it up and seeing that they also have Sam Neil on the cast list it's probably not true.

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Wallcloud writes:
on Apr 07 2007 07:16 PM

It could be interesting still if they made the dinos act more natural like in JP instead of in JP3 when all they did was run and bite. And talking about how they act is cool like in JP when Dr. Grant scared that kid by telling him how raptors hunt.

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killermonkey8822 writes:
on Apr 07 2007 08:15 PM

In reply to this comment (#860547)
they have had keira knightly on their for a really long while now and no they haven't mentioned a thing so i wouldn't believe it............. overall i am not excited for this.

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bsideleau writes:
on Apr 08 2007 02:19 AM

They should have ended it after the first one.....unless a REALLY good story came around. At this point it's nothing more than a monster movie with mindless Dinos eating people. Has anyone ever thought that, just MAYBe a T-Rex would not be interested in a human when he has much larger and more satisfying prey on the menu. JP3 was just completely unrealistic.....a Dinosaur would not interupt it's meal simply to "chase humans"...especially when it had a much larger and more satisfying meal in front of it. I would like to see one of these movies with more realsim and amped up gore......I think the only Dino (in JP atleast) that would be interested in a human as prey would be the Raptors.

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red_wine writes:
on Apr 08 2007 02:30 AM

Another franchise being sucked dry and bloodless, albeit one that has alreday run its last mile. II was mediocre, III was bullshit.

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ck100 writes:
on Apr 08 2007 09:54 AM

This movie series has ran its course. Frankly they should have stopped after the second one. There is really no creative reason for this franchise to continue. How can you make it fresh after three movies anyways? There's really nowhere left to go and nothing to do. If a fourth movie is made it will just end up some cash-in sequel with big dinosaurs eating cardboard characters left and right.

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Shipwack writes:
on Apr 08 2007 11:59 AM

[b]To the naysayers, I have 3 words for you...[/b]
"Dinosaurs with guns".

http://www.newkadia.com/index.php?ipg=1157

That is all.

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CannibalPenguins writes:
on Apr 08 2007 01:05 PM

I hope the movie never comes out.
7 years ago I would've said "OH MY GOD I CAN'T WAIT".

But it has been a long time since the 3rd film, and after seeing it numerous times you can tell how much it SUCKED compared to the first.

(Imo JP2 was absolute garbage)

JP > JP3 > JP2 >JP4

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See-Jay 420 writes:
on Apr 08 2007 05:58 PM

If this is anything like JP3 then I'm not seeing it.

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Kaleli writes:
on Apr 08 2007 10:54 PM

Plot line :

Dinosaurs that left prior to the iceage on their spaceships return to find remnants of their prior civilization, captured and secluded on a solitary island and commence obliteration of the human species....only to be run-afoul by a random sneeze and the germs it contains.

The end.

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Baccus83 writes:
on Apr 09 2007 07:51 AM

Well, you know, they have to keep that Jurassic Park theme park area at Islands of Adventure from growing stale.

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Mike_Oxsmall writes:
on May 12 2007 05:19 PM

Crime fighting dinosaurs... I smell an OSCAR! Wait... that's not what it smells like...

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screwhead100 writes:
on May 29 2007 09:36 PM

i think somehow they will have dinosaurs come into the U.S. or some other random country............that is the only thing fresh i can think of, and they already kind of touched on that in jurassic park 2 with the T-rex running around..........

but maybe it would be different if it was alot of dinos running around the neighborhood........

god i cant think of any good, fresh plot line...............Lol

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Uradik Smoke writes:
on Aug 12 2007 10:44 AM

The only remotely interesting plot line i have heard about is that on the Islands a prehistoric virus has broke out amongst the dinos ( Why i am not sure and it didnt say) But this new and prehistoric virus is deadly to humans . Some other large corporation is attempting to take dinos off the Island and once again bring them to main land USA which essentially would mean the extinction of mankind ...

So thats all that was there , so i am sure that at some point someone from one of the first 3 ( Ellie ) will be involved in trying to stop and cre this virus from killing everyone , I am sure it will take place on the Islands and many dinos wll be sick and more than likly a Raptor or T-rex will hold the antibodies to cure the disease so they have to capture this dino ( Thos are just my thoughts on what could happen)

If it is done properly like JP and JP2 i think it could be alright , aything like JP3 and i am running the other way ...

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