[Crazy Jetty]

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Originally Posted by webz

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!)

You lost me with "like james bond," then won me back really quickly.

I have no issues with that cast, though I would prefer Muldoon be modernized from big game hunter, to a cross between an animal adventurer (Like Steve Irwin or Jeff Corwin) and game reserve master.
And with the discovery of Yutyrannus, there's now reason to believe that tyrannosaurids kept their feathers as adults, also.
But neither of those things are here, nor there.
I could live with that movie.