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Important Updates: No Indiana Jones 5, No Weaponized Dinosaurs In Jurassic Park 4

by Jill Pantozzi | 11:46 am, July 27th, 2012


By a show of hands, who’s been waiting for another Indiana Jones film? Anyone? Anyone? Exactly. Well we’ve got some new, somewhat concrete, news on that front as well as some disappointing news on the Jurassic Park 4 front – no weaponized dinosaurs. But I wanted dinosaurs with lasers! Read on for all the info. 

Most of the news comes from an interview Crave did with producer Frank Marshall. He’s been doing the press rounds for his recent film, The Bourne Legacy, but everyone has been jumping at the opportunity to ask him about his long history with Steven Spielberg. They also talked about George Lucas and his progress on the long-rumored fifth Indiana Jones film.

“As far as I know he’s not writing a fifth Indy,” said Marshall. Interesting considering Spielberg as well as actor Harrison Ford have told the press he is. But he continued.

“I think he’s thinking about ideas but he’s certainly not writing one. We’d love to keep the series going but again it’s got to be a really good story. They’re hard to do.” Too right, especially when you consider lots of folks felt Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull wasn’t a really good story.

And one more thing. He previously told Collider, “I say, for me, [Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is] the last hurrah. I know that yes, we talk about it, but there’s no idea, there’s no MacGuffin… [Lucas] isn’t [hungry to do another Indiana Jones].”

Leaving Dr. Jones aside for now, Marshall also spoke a bit more about Jurassic Park 4. Just the other day we told you he said it should be on the big screen in about two years.

“It’s got new life. It’s in development,” he said. “I can tell you that that is moving forward.” But what about the rumors the fourth film would include dinosaurs weaponized by the government?

“No, no, that’s another rumor,” he said. “That’s not it.”

However, Marshall did previously put to rest the notion that there would be tons of CGI in JP4. “That’s what’s gonna be great about it, technology’s taken a leap now that we can really do some great things,” he said but added that practical dinosaurs help both the audience and the actors.

So, are you as disappointed as I am there won’t be any dinosaurs with lasers (I’m not really)? What about the Indy 5 news?

(via io9)

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  • http://twitter.com/maureenelsberry Maureen Elsberry

    Considering all the hoopla this year about the idea that Dinosaurs could be living as an intelligent species on another planet…I want to see the next Jurassic Park as such: Astronauts travel to another planet….land…DINOSAURS. But I guess the dinos would be equipped with space lasers in that case. As for Indiana Jones, I have been an incredibly huge fan since I was a wee tyke and no more…the last one hurt too much. 

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    …wait, what? What hoopla? 

  • http://facebook.com/DustBunnyMafia Dust Bunny Mafia

    I’ve got a brilliant idea: merge the two franchises! Indiana Jones and the Dinosaurs of the Lost World. This way you can expand the target market and make more money.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1101354435 Kate Renee Cochran

    No to Indy 5. The originals were so good. Let the memory of them rest in peace, untarnished by that last laughable failure (I don’t even consider 4 as part of the series. More like some odd cousin). As for weaponized dinosaurs, that’s also a relief. Too much of a stretch (wait, did I just say that about a movie in which dinosaurs are brought back from extinction to live on their own dino island?). 

  • Anonymous

    I’m so glad someone else posted this before I had to.

  • http://twitter.com/maureenelsberry Maureen Elsberry

    I guess it was just hoopla at my work there were quite a few articles about it across the space/science world:

    New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs–monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans–may be the life forms that evolved on other planets in the universe

    I believe this was largely involving ideas about Panspermia.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    I’m not even sure what my first reaction to this information is because I had so many at once. Giddiness? Maybe. That’s absolutely bonkers. I hope this is/isn’t true because meeting saucer aliens from space would be absolutely wonderful/horrifying.

  • Adam R. Charpentier

    Indiana Jones finding a lost land of dinosaurs doesn’t sound that far fetched considering the “space between spaces” horseshit we had to deal with in his last outing.

  • http://www.facebook.com/CommanderTaylor Dan Black

    I gotta say. After 11 years…I’m just glad they’re finally making this movie! And, if it does come out it 2 years, it would be 21 years since the first Jurassic Park hit theaters. Universal was really aiming for 2013 though…would’ve been nice…

  • Anonymous

    Honestly, I’d take another Indiana Jones movie over a Jurassic Park 4. I’m apparently one of the few who enjoyed Crystal Skull.

    While I love Jurassic Park, it doesn’t seem like a film that needs endless sequels. Seriously, who would be stupid enough to send people to a dinosaur-infested island chain…for the fourth time?

  • http://wrongsirwrong.blogspot.com/ Magic Xylophone

    “practical dinosaurs help both the audience and the actors.”

    Damn straight! I doubt they can come up with a story approaching the quality of the first film again, but seeing some life-sized, state-of-the-art animatronics might be worth the ticket price alone.

  • http://wrongsirwrong.blogspot.com/ Magic Xylophone

    Raptors. Why did it have to be raptors?

  • http://wrongsirwrong.blogspot.com/ Magic Xylophone

    Right. “New scientific research.” You mean this?
     http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/1978.jpg

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