With the success of Universal’s latest Jurassic Park outing, where can the films go next?
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Whats more, its a film that Universal has no problems following up.
Already,Fast & Furious 8has been announced, and been given a release date.
Universal, too, is bound to press for a fairly quick follow-up toJurassic World.
But here, there are problems.
That makes for a very different film though, and a riskier one for Universal.
But Id argue its the step it has to take.
In part, Michael Crichton explored the miniature work in his final novel,Micro.
It also, on paper, sounds to me like a cracking idea for a further film.
Jurassic Worldwas quite open about the challenge that Universal in part faced.
Dinosaurs, it told us, were old news.
Visitors expected something bigger, something theyd never seen before.
They needed new spectacles.
Itd be a bold move forJurassic Park 4to suddenly put the emphasis on going tiny.
But it could make for one hell of an effective adventure if it did go the other way.
Thats a heavy risk, of course.
The other obvious path would be to follow the explored idea ofThe Lost World, Michael Crichtons follow-up novel.
Itd be fair to sayThe Lost World in spite of its merits is not Spielberg gold.
But the idea still could be.
What about the many who didnt work out as well?
Heck,Jurassic World 2could go allAlien: Resurrectionon us here.
Which, er, may not be a good thing.
The option I dearly hope Universal resists is to open a new theme park EuroJurassic?
and just run through a similar set-up again.
Opening another theme park, or even taking a D-Rex or T-Rex onto the mainland, has been done.
Plus: its not aJurassic Parkmovie then.
Lose the element of containment, and you lose one of the key facets of the series to date.
Thatd make story sense, but clearly runs the risk of being the same sort of film again.
The Marvel cinematic universe this is not.
Trevorrow did add, incidentally, that hes still keen to stay involved somewhere along the line.
Were not wagering againstMinionscoming along in a couple of weeks and repeating the trick.
