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Originally Posted by webz

Having read the first JP book 112 times (yes, it's my favorite.. so sue me) I don't get the "outgoing" part. Grant in the book is very reserved. Sure he opens up to the kids, but that's because how can someone, who's job demands imagination, not like kids? But he is a very careful, thoughtful man, and not as animated or eccentric as Bakker. Bakker got his JP moment in JP2 as the inspiration for the scientist who gets eaten in the cave.




Like James Bond, Jurassic Park could easily be modernized yet still be extremely faithful. Less "theme park" and more like Jaws. Jaws was a marvel of character development, and Spielberg totally dropped the ball in favor of a Universal Studios theme park ride. Develop the characters so we feel for them. I loved all the characters of Jurassic Park. Yes, they were all various shades of ugly, but that was Crichton's point... scientific greed ends badly.

The dinosaurs, easy enough, could be updated to the latest understandings...

Velociraptors would be the size of a German Shepherd, covered in feathers.

Dilophosaur would be 18ft long, no frill, and have the unique dentition.

Triceratops wouldn't be eating stones, and would have quill-like spines along its back and rump.

Apatosaurus instead of Giraffatitan for the first full reveal

Young T-rex would be partially feathered (head, neck, chest and spine)

Actors I'd love to see in a reboot of JP:
Alan Grant- Mark Ruffalo (want Grant to look older, more "professor" than "Indiana Jones")
Ellie Sattler - Ellen Page (Grant's grad student/assistant, not a love interest - And Page is convincing as a smart girl)
John Hammond- John Malkovich (crazy and charismatic... can do the sweettalk at the beginning and the ranting at the end)
Ed Regis - Dustin Diamond (nerdy looking PR guy. limited role)
Donald Gennaro - Greg Kinnear (Lawyer who has a major role towards the end of the book)
Robert Muldoon - Tom Hardy (not book accurate, but can look the part of a white game hunter)
Ian Malcolm - Jim Parsons (From Texas, like Malcolm, and thanks to Big Bang Theory, has proven he can irritate without resorting to stuttering, has to be cutting-edge mathematics, and therefore young).
Dennis Nedry - Nick Frost (a little grease in the hair, and he'd make Wayne Knight cringe!)
Henry Wu - B.D. Wong (he did excellent in JP 1, bring him back!)

I like it and I could see these actors for these parts as well:
Dr. Gerry Harding - Nick Offerman (Chief vet on the island and Sarah Harding's (Lost World) father. I think Offerman would lend so much to the character.)
Dr. Martin "Marty" Guitierrez - Ruben Blades (A small but memorable role in in both books.)
Dr. Lewis Dodgson - Tom Hiddleston (The main villain if you will.)
John Arnold - Sam Jackson (Same thing you said about BD)