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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

True, but he tends to act more like Bakker in the book, with a much more outgoing and childfriendly personality.
Horner is always more reserved, and strikes me that he tends to keep to himself more, like Grant in the movie. (Not to imply that Horner doesn't like kids, since Grant didn't)

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.

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

I don't think I would like that at all, a true to the book adaptation, that is. The book was ultra modern in the early eighties, but was massively outdated by the early ninties. And 20 years on, even the movie is pretty dated. The book is outright ancient.
Also, I personally don't like most of the characters in the book. Hammond is the biggest asshole imaginable who deserved to die. He was more reprehensable than Nedry. I personally think, save for Malcom (And it could be due to the fact I can't stand Jeff Goldbloom), that everyone is a much better character in the movie.
So, I read the book, not a fan.
Though if they used more better dinosaurs (Deinonychus instead of Velociraptors, so on and so forth), most current theories, I wouldn't mind an update using the book characters, even though I don't care for them.
Either way, the humans aren't the draw for me.

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!)