JP Blu-Ray
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=5739
Well looks like we're finally getting a JP Blue-ray.
I know the JP4 shooting board was supposedly debunked, but with this announcement I still think there is hope for my idea that they were shooting a very small teaser for the disc when it comes out. Regardless of anything I'm excited that Jurassic Park seems to finally be getting the respect it deserves with this new game, the comic series , and now the Blue-ray.
Well looks like we're finally getting a JP Blue-ray.
I know the JP4 shooting board was supposedly debunked, but with this announcement I still think there is hope for my idea that they were shooting a very small teaser for the disc when it comes out. Regardless of anything I'm excited that Jurassic Park seems to finally be getting the respect it deserves with this new game, the comic series , and now the Blue-ray.
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You know, I'm not going to lie at all...it's probably just going to be a cheap blu-ray and have the same special features the DVD had..so..with that said, meh.
But I doubt it
They did it for BTTF, even MJF who isn't in the greatest shape at the moment.
BTW, having been active in the JP online community for years, this is like, the fourth or fifth time we've had major rumors or evidence that that films are coming out on Blu-Ray or a new format...I'll wait for the official announcement before I start saving up!
http://www.play.com/DVD/Blu-ray/0-/Search.html?searchtype=BLU&searchsource=0&searchstring=jurassic%20park&source=9593&_$ja=tsid:11853|prd:85386
If I may use the occasion to the quote Gene Wilder from the classic comedy "Silver Streak":
YAAAAAAAY! (claps hands together in the broadest and most ridiculous way possible). :eek::D
As has been mentioned already though - I hate how so often they re-release movies not that long after the first release and include more bonus stuff and such.
I always feel wary about buying the first release of anything.
Woo hoo!
That'll teach me for living in such a small, out of the way consumer market!
You are not wrong, he said that. And I'm sure: If Spielberg says "something special", then he means "something special".;)
Given Spielberg's attention to the JP series over the past decade, it'll probably be a two-hour video of him farting into the camera and spitting on a big JP logo and laughing!
Its kinda a sad say thing, but JP was mainly a money-maker to sustain Schindler's List (released the same year), a film which he decided not to take a single penny from.
He does that "double release" thing a lot: The same year he releases two films. One more personal and a blockbuster.
However, that doesn't mean that Spielberg didn't have fun directing JP and put a lot of heart on it. On the contrary, I'm sure he remembers as a positive experience. But while I consider JP my favorite film of all times, I know its a flawed film and that Spielberg has made better films.
My two complicated cents.
And Spielberg has stated more than once the only reason he made TLW was as a "substitute" for a sequel that people had been asking for for years but he would never make as he didn't want to mar one of his "personal, important" films: ET 2.
With JP3, they just gave up and rushed a film into theaters without a script, and with JP4, they spend so much time trying to get the script right that the movie never made it to theaters...
So, uh...there it is.
Well, I think I can give some light on this stuff...
First, Spielberg actually left Jurassic Park. But he left it after filming was finished and handed post-production duties to George Lucas. Yes, it's true. You can even read on the credits.
Second, Spielberg only directed TLW to end a three-movie directorial deal with Universal. Joe Johnston really wanted to direct it originally, so then he got JPIII as a sort of compensation. Also, he handed most of the post-production to the writer of the film, David Koepp.
With JPIII, Spielberg himself originally made a storyline about a group of teenagers who were stranded on one of the islands and found Grant living there. It's true.
And with JPIV, I think it was Spielberg who suggested the "dinos with guns" plot. You can notice with this how little Spielberg actually cares for the franchise. He spent many years saying how they had a great plot that didn't involve an island, or something of that sort. They even hired John Sayles (Piranha) and William Monahan (The Departed) to write the script. I remember and interview with Monahan saying how the thing was just a big joke for him and that he wrote script as that: A joke.
When they saw the negative reaction this plot had, they backed out and postponed the whole thing to development hell.
Johnston said last year that he's hoping to do it after he's done with Captain America, and he also said that they have a great plot (he even said it's not the "dinos with guns" one) that doesn't focus on the islands. Who knows what that means...
You're right in that the fans' histrionics helped kill JP4, as they screeched about a script they hadn't even read....Spielberg, who has never been able to counter criticism, got scared and ran away.
I personally loved the story of JP4 as written by Sayles and Monahan, (yes, even the dino bio-weapons in a Swiss castle), but I think I'm the only one.
As far as I'm aware, the dinosaurs in JP4 never "had guns"...this was a sarcastic simplification of the script that the fans created as short-hand for how "bad" JP4 would undoubtedly be.
Also, I don't want JP4 on an island again, so I'm glad they were going in this direction.
I'm aware of the JP3 "Teenagers finding Grant living in a tree" plot as well...it was the original screenplay written by Craig Rosenberg, in late 1999/early 2000. He was a little-know writer with not much to his name other than something called "Hotel Love". Glad to see Johnston had enough on the ball to toss that idea right out the window!
And it's enough with the park idea, we've seen it three times. If you want a park, watch JP 1,2 and 3.
It makes sense that eventually someone would think to breed dinosaurs as bio-weapons and sell them on the black market. Every scientific innovation has been turned into a weapon, or vice versa. Someone invented the wheel, someone else stuck it on a chariot; Einstein split the atom, Oppenheimer invented the atom bomb; SUV's and the Internet were developed for military purposes, then later made available to the general public, and so on.
It makes sense that some weapons designer would look at the events on Islas Nublar and Sorna and San Diego and go, "Hm, every time Man and dinosaur encounter each other, it doesn't work out too well for Man".
http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=6573&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
Let's hope this is true. Here you have a picture of the box with the T-Rex figure.
http://bjc.uol.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/jp_gift.jpg
O M G!!!
I want it! I want it so much! When it will be possible to pre-order?
The T-Rex figure is badly photoshopped, and the case/discs are exactly the same as the trilogies Adventure Pack.
If that picture is real or not, the release is on its way:
http://thedigitalbits.com/#mytwocents
I hope they have done a proper restoration transfer, cause the DVD transfers are pretty awful.
http://www.joblo.com/digital/index.php?id=9054
I know what I'll want Santa to bring ME this year
Thanks guys! That news is great and I cant wait to get the one with the T.Rex that comes with it. Plus it has an interview with Crichton, im starting up my BluRay already!